Dennis Christopher
Born: 1950-12-02 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2021
- Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ as Himself
2016
- Graves as Martin Treadwell
- Battle at Versailles
2013
- Prisoners as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
2012
- Django Unchained as Leonide Moguy
- Perception as Fred Gorman
- Jobriath A.D. as Himself
- Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution as Self
2011
- Unforgettable as Lukas Emminger
2010
- Queen of the Lot as Odin Johannessen
2009
- Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
2006
- The Lost Room as Dr. Martin Ruber
- Dangerous Isolation as Adrien
2005
- Criminal Minds as Abner Merriman
2004
- Deadwood as Bellegarde
- Nine Lives as Mikey
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Roger Coffman
- Star Trek: Enterprise as Danik
- Six Feet Under as Kevin Lamb
- Crossing Jordan as Charles Rutledge
- The Ballad of Lucy Whipple as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
2000
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Homeless Guy
- FreakyLinks as Vince J. Elsing
1999
- Angel as Cyvus Vail
- Roswell as Bobby Dupree
- Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows as Self
1997
- Skeletons as Jim Norton
1996
- The Sentinel as Anthony Bates
- Profiler as Jack of All Trades
- Pacific Blue as Mortimer T. Anton
- Tarzan: The Epic Adventures as Paul D’Arnot
- It's My Party as Douglas Reedy
- The Silencers as Comdor
- Tarzan: The Epic Adventures as Philip D'Arnot
- Mind Rage as Steve
1995
- The Watcher
- Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare as Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp
- Aurora: Operation Intercept as Victor Varenkov
1994
- New York Undercover as Dr. Royce
- Boys Life as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
- Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II as Leech
- The Disco Years as Mr. Reese
1993
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Borath
- NYPD Blue as Gerard prosser
- seaQuest DSV as Ambassador Dillington
- Necronomicon as Dale Porkel
- Moon Over Miami
- Doppelganger as Doctor Heller
1992
1991
- Dead Women in Lingerie as Lapin
- False Arrest as Wally Roberts
1990
- It as Eddie Kaspbrak
- Circuitry Man as Leech
1989
- A Sinful Life as Nathan Flowers
1988
- Monsters as Laurence Bauer
1987
- Friends as John
1986
- Matlock as Noel Bishop
- Jake Speed as Desmond Floyd
- The Falling as Damon
- Flight of the Spruce Goose as Stan
1985
- The Equalizer as Father Nicholas Kostmayer
- Moonlighting as Benjamin Wylie
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Dr. Henry Carlson
1983
- Jack and the Beanstalk as Jack
1982
- Cagney & Lacey
- Faerie Tale Theatre as Jack
- Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder as Brian Anderson
1981
- Chariots of Fire as Charles Paddock
1980
- Fade to Black as Eric Binford
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Killer
- Breaking Away as Dave Stoller
- Elvis as Nick Adams
- The Last Word as Ben Travis
- California Dreaming as T.T.
1978
- A Wedding as Hughie Brenner
1977
- 3 Women as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- September 30, 1955 as Eugene
1976
- Bernice Bobs Her Hair as Charley
1972
- Roma as The Hippie (uncredited)
1971
- Blood and Lace as Pete
- The Young Graduates as Pan
1970
- Didn’t You Hear? as Kevin