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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 2, 1950
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Dennis Carrelli
Dennis Christopher
1.6 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.4
Self
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
7.4
Himself
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021
5.0
Martin Treadwell
Graves
2016
10.0
Battle at Versailles
2016
8.1
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Prisoners
2013
8.2
Leonide Moguy
Django Unchained
2012
0.0
Self
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2012
7.2
Fred Gorman
Perception
2012
6.6
Himself
Jobriath A.D.
2012
7.2
Lukas Emminger
Unforgettable
2011
Credits
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
as Self
2022
6.4
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
as Himself
2021
7.4
Graves
as Martin Treadwell
2016
5.0
Battle at Versailles
2016
10.0
Prisoners
as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
2013
8.1
Django Unchained
as Leonide Moguy
2012
8.2
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
as Self
2012
0.0
Perception
as Fred Gorman
2012
7.2
Jobriath A.D.
as Himself
2012
6.6
Unforgettable
as Lukas Emminger
2011
7.2
Queen of the Lot
as Odin Johannessen
2010
2.6
Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Self
2009
7.3
🎬
Inside the Lost Room
as Self
2007
4.0
The Lost Room
as Dr. Martin Ruber
2006
7.8
Dangerous Isolation
as Adrien
2006
4.2
Criminal Minds
as Abner Merriman
2005
8.3
Nine Lives
as Mikey
2004
4.3
Deadwood
as Bellegarde
2004
8.1
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Roger Coffman
2001
7.6
Star Trek: Enterprise
as Danik
2001
7.5
Crossing Jordan
as Charles Rutledge
2001
7.2
Six Feet Under
as Kevin Lamb
2001
8.1
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
2001
5.3
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Homeless Guy
2000
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Richard Dorsey
2000
7.6
FreakyLinks
as Vince J. Elsing
2000
6.2
Roswell
as Bobby Dupree
1999
7.7
Angel
as Cyvus Vail
1999
7.9
🎬
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
as Self
1999
0.0
Skeletons
as Jim Norton
1997
3.9
Profiler
as Jack of All Trades
1996
7.0
Profiler
as Sheriff Ed Post
1996
7.0
Profiler
as Sheriff Ed Post / Jack of All Trades
1996
7.0
Profiler
as Jack of All Trades / Albert Newquay
1996
7.0
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
as Paul D’Arnot
1996
4.7
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
as Philip D'Arnot
1996
6.2
The Silencers
as Comdor
1996
4.4
It's My Party
as Douglas Reedy
1996
6.1
The Sentinel
as Anthony Bates
1996
7.1
Pacific Blue
as Mortimer T. Anton
1996
5.3
Mind Rage
as Steve
1996
1.8
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
as Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp
1995
4.7
🎬
The Watcher
1995
6.0
Aurora: Operation Intercept
as Victor Varenkov
1995
4.9
Boys Life
as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
1994
4.6
New York Undercover
as Dr. Royce
1994
7.2
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
as Leech
1994
3.3
The Disco Years
as Mr. Reese
1994
5.0
Necronomicon
as Dale Porkel
1993
6.0
NYPD Blue
as Gerard prosser
1993
7.0
Moon Over Miami
1993
7.0
seaQuest DSV
as Ambassador Dillington
1993
7.0
Doppelganger
as Doctor Heller
1993
4.9
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
as Borath
1993
7.9
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
as Randy
1992
6.0
False Arrest
as Wally Roberts
1991
5.1
Dead Women in Lingerie
as Lapin
1991
2.7
It
as Eddie Kaspbrak
1990
6.9
Circuitry Man
as Leech
1990
4.9
A Sinful Life
as Nathan Flowers
1989
1.0
Friends
as John
1987
5.3
The Falling
as Damon
1986
4.9
Jake Speed
as Desmond Floyd
1986
4.4
Matlock
as Noel Bishop
1986
7.1
Flight of the Spruce Goose
as Stan
1986
0.0
The Equalizer
as Father Nicholas Kostmayer
1985
7.1
Moonlighting
as Benjamin Wylie
1985
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Dr. Henry Carlson
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Lyman Taggart
1984
7.5
Jack and the Beanstalk
as Jack
1983
5.0
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Jack
1982
8.1
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
as Brian Anderson
1982
5.0
Cagney & Lacey
1982
7.0
Chariots of Fire
as Charles Paddock
1981
6.8
Fade to Black
as Eric Binford
1980
5.6
The Last Word
as Ben Travis
1979
4.0
Breaking Away
as Dave Stoller
1979
7.1
California Dreaming
as T.T.
1979
4.4
Tales of the Unexpected
as Killer
1979
6.7
Elvis
as Nick Adams
1979
6.8
A Wedding
as Hughie Brenner
1978
6.2
September 30, 1955
as Eugene
1977
6.4
3 Women
as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1977
7.1
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
as Charley
1976
5.2
Roma
as The Hippie (uncredited)
1972
7.2
The Young Graduates
as Pan
1971
5.7
Blood and Lace
as Pete
1971
5.6
Didn’t You Hear?
as Kevin
1970
7.0