Dennis Christopher
- Teen actor
Dennis Christopher (born Dennis Carrelli on December 2, 1955) is an American actor. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for playing Dave Stoller in Breaking Away and tragic film buff psychopath Eric Binford in Fade to Black.
His Golden Globe-nominated breakthrough role was as Dave Stohler in the coming-of-age classic Breaking Away (1979). Other roles include American track star Charlie Paddock in Chariots of Fire, and Fade to Black, science fiction movies like Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II. He has appeared in nearly 40 movies and made-for-TV movies since 1975. Television roles include "Jack of All Trades" in the Profiler TV series, Eddie Kaspbrak in Stephen King's It, Desmond Floyd in Jake Speed, and in the HBO series Deadwood.
Christopher has guest starred in two Star Trek episodes: the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Search (Part II)" and the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Detained". He also guest-starred as the demon-sorcerer Cyvus Vail in three episodes of Angel. Christopher had a reunion with Breaking Away "father" Paul Dooley, again as his son, in an episode of TV's Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The two had first played father and son in Robert Altman's A Wedding.
In December 2006 he played Dr. Martin Ruber in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries The Lost Room.
Acted in
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
as Self
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021
as Himself
Graves
2016
as Martin Treadwell
Battle at Versailles
2016
Prisoners
2013
as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Django Unchained
2012
as Leonide Moguy
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2012
as Self
Perception
2012
as Fred Gorman
Jobriath A.D.
2012
as Himself
Unforgettable
2011
as Lukas Emminger
Queen of the Lot
2010
as Odin Johannessen
Inside the Lost Room
2007
as Self
The Lost Room
2006
as Dr. Martin Ruber
Dangerous Isolation
2006
as Adrien
Criminal Minds
2005
as Abner Merriman
Nine Lives
2004
as Mikey
Deadwood
2004
as Bellegarde
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Roger Coffman
Star Trek: Enterprise
2001
as Danik
Crossing Jordan
2001
as Charles Rutledge
Six Feet Under
2001
as Kevin Lamb
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
as Homeless Guy
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
as Richard Dorsey
FreakyLinks
2000
as Vince J. Elsing
Roswell
1999
as Bobby Dupree
Angel
1999
as Cyvus Vail
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999
as Self
Skeletons
1997
as Jim Norton
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
as Philip D'Arnot
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
as Paul D’Arnot
The Silencers
1996
as Comdor
It's My Party
1996
as Jack Allen
The Sentinel
1996
as Anthony Bates
Pacific Blue
1996
as Mortimer T. Anton
Mind Rage
1996
as Steve
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
1995
as Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp
The Watcher
1995
Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995
as Victor Varenkov
Boys Life
1994
as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
New York Undercover
1994
as Dr. Royce
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1994
as Leech
The Disco Years
1994
as Mr. Reese
Necronomicon
1993
as Dale Porkel
NYPD Blue
1993
as Gerard prosser
Moon Over Miami
1993
seaQuest DSV
1993
as Ambassador Dillington
Doppelganger
1993
as Doctor Heller
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
as Borath
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1992
as Randy
False Arrest
1991
as Wally Roberts
Dead Women in Lingerie
1991
as Lapin
It
1990
as Eddie Kaspbrak
Circuitry Man
1990
as Leech
A Sinful Life
1989
as Nathan Flowers
Friends
1987
as John
Alien Predators
1986
as Damon
Jake Speed
1986
as Desmond Floyd
Matlock
1986
Flight of the Spruce Goose
1986
as Stan
The Equalizer
1985
as Father Nicholas Kostmayer
Moonlighting
1985
as Benjamin Wylie
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Dr. Henry Carlson
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Lyman Taggart
Jack and the Beanstalk
1983
as Jack
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Jack
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1982
as Brian Anderson
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Chariots of Fire
1981
as Charles Paddock
Fade to Black
1980
as Eric Binford
The Last Word
1979
as Ben Travis
Breaking Away
1979
as Dave Stoller
California Dreaming
1979
as T.T.
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Killer
Elvis
1979
as Nick Adams
A Wedding
1978
as Hughie Brenner
September 30, 1955
1977
as Eugene
3 Women
1977
as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976
as Charley
Roma
1972
as The Hippie (uncredited)
The Young Graduates
1971
as Pan
Blood and Lace
1971
as Pete
Didn’t You Hear?
1970
as Kevin