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.

Django Unchained

8.2

Prisoners

8.1

Criminal Minds

8.3

It

6.9

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

7.6

Six Feet Under

8.1

Chariots of Fire

6.8

Angel

7.9

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

7.9

Star Trek: Enterprise

7.6

Deadwood

8.1

Roswell

7.7

The Lost Room

7.7

Murder, She Wrote

7.5

Moonlighting

7.5

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

7.6

Roma

7.2

Unforgettable

7.2

3 Women

7.2

Breaking Away

7.1

Perception

7.2

Necronomicon

6.0

NYPD Blue

7.0

Crossing Jordan

7.2

seaQuest DSV

7.0

Elvis

6.8

Matlock

7.1

Pacific Blue

5.4

Doppelganger

5.0

Fade to Black

5.6

The Sentinel

7.1

Cagney & Lacey

6.9

The Equalizer

7.1

A Wedding

6.3

Tales of the Unexpected

6.7

Alien Predators

5.2

It's My Party

6.3

New York Undercover

7.1

Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare

4.7

Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’

7.6

Circuitry Man

4.9

Blood and Lace

5.9

Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II

3.5

Graves

5.0

Faerie Tale Theatre

8.2

Celebrity Ghost Stories

7.3

The Silencers

4.4

California Dreaming

4.6

Jake Speed

4.4

Boys Life

4.8

Jobriath A.D.

7.1

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

5.6

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

5.3

Skeletons

4.8

September 30, 1955

6.6

Nine Lives

4.9

The Disco Years

5.1

Aurora: Operation Intercept

4.9

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

6.1

FreakyLinks

6.2

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

4.7

Dangerous Isolation

4.7

The Young Graduates

6.6

Queen of the Lot

3.5

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

6.2

False Arrest

4.7

Moon Over Miami

7.0

Dead Women in Lingerie

5.0

Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder

5.0

Friends

9.5

Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story

6.0

Jack and the Beanstalk

5.0

Mind Rage

2.0

Didn’t You Hear?

7.0

The Last Word

4.0

Battle at Versailles

10.0

Inside the Lost Room

4.0

The Watcher

6.0

A Sinful Life

0.0

Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows

0.0

Flight of the Spruce Goose

0.0

Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution

0.0