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