Dennis Christopher

Known for ActingBorn 1950-12-02 (age 75)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Battle at Versailles

Criminal Minds

Django Unchained

Prisoners

Deadwood

Six Feet Under

Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows

Faerie Tale Theatre

Flight of the Spruce Goose

Angel

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The Lost Room

Roswell

Moon Over Miami

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Star Trek: Enterprise

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Murder, She Wrote

Moonlighting

Unforgettable

Perception

New York Undercover

Crossing Jordan

The Sentinel

NYPD Blue

seaQuest DSV

Matlock

Breaking Away

The Equalizer

Monsters

Profiler

The Watcher

Roma

3 Women

It

Cagney & Lacey

Jobriath A.D.

Didn’t You Hear?

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

Chariots of Fire

FreakyLinks

Elvis

Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

September 30, 1955

Tales of the Unexpected