Dennis Christopher

Actor Dec 2 (age 75) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 1970–2022 (52 year career)

6.1 avg rating

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 Rewire…

Known For

Film

Django Unchained

Leonide Moguy

Film

Prisoners

Mr. Jones (uncredited)

Film

It

Eddie Kaspbrak

Film

The Lost Room

Dr. Martin Ruber

Film

Chariots of Fire

Charles Paddock

Film

Roma

The Hippie (uncredited)

Film

3 Women

Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)

Film

Breaking Away

Dave Stoller

Filmography

Acting (84)

Movies (51)

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

2022

as Self

6.4

Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’

as Himself

Battle at Versailles

Prisoners

as Mr. Jones (uncredited)

Django Unchained

as Leonide Moguy

Jobriath A.D.

as Himself

Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution

2012

as Self

Queen of the Lot

as Odin Johannessen

Inside the Lost Room

as Self

Dangerous Isolation

as Adrien

Nine Lives

as Mikey

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

2001

as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale

5.3

Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows

1999

as Self

Skeletons

as Jim Norton

It's My Party

as Douglas Reedy

Mind Rage

as Steve

The Silencers

as Comdor

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

1996

as Philip D'Arnot

6.2

Aurora: Operation Intercept

1995

as Victor Varenkov

4.9

Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare

1995

as Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp

4.7

Boys Life

1994

as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)

4.6

Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II

as Leech

The Disco Years

as Mr. Reese

Necronomicon

as Dale Porkel

Doppelganger

as Doctor Heller

Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story

as Randy

False Arrest

as Wally Roberts

Dead Women in Lingerie

as Lapin

Circuitry Man

as Leech

A Sinful Life

as Nathan Flowers

Friends

as John

The Falling

as Damon

Jake Speed

as Desmond Floyd

Flight of the Spruce Goose

1986

as Stan

Jack and the Beanstalk

1983

as Jack

5.0

Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder

as Brian Anderson

Chariots of Fire

as Charles Paddock

Fade to Black

as Eric Binford

The Last Word

as Ben Travis

Elvis

as Nick Adams

Breaking Away

as Dave Stoller

California Dreaming

as T.T.

A Wedding

as Hughie Brenner

3 Women

as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)

7.1

September 30, 1955

1977

as Eugene

6.4

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

1976

as Charley

5.2

Roma

1972

as The Hippie (uncredited)

The Young Graduates

as Pan

Blood and Lace

as Pete

Didn’t You Hear?

as Kevin

SILENCERS

as Comdor

Television (33)

Graves

as Martin Treadwell

Perception

as Fred Gorman

Unforgettable

as Lukas Emminger

Celebrity Ghost Stories

as Self

The Lost Room

as Dr. Martin Ruber

Criminal Minds

as Abner Merriman

Deadwood

as Bellegarde

Crossing Jordan

as Charles Rutledge

Star Trek: Enterprise

2001

as Danik

7.5

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Roger Coffman

Six Feet Under

as Kevin Lamb

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Homeless Guy

FreakyLinks

as Vince J. Elsing

Angel

as Cyvus Vail

Roswell

as Bobby Dupree

Pacific Blue

as Mortimer T. Anton

Profiler

as Jack of All Trades

7.0

The Sentinel

1996

as Anthony Bates

7.1

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

as Paul D’Arnot

The Watcher

New York Undercover

as Dr. Royce

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

as Borath

NYPD Blue

as Gerard prosser

seaQuest DSV

as Ambassador Dillington

Moon Over Miami

as Eddie Kaspbrak

Matlock

as Noel Bishop

The Equalizer

as Father Nicholas Kostmayer

Moonlighting

as Benjamin Wylie

Murder, She Wrote

as Dr. Henry Carlson

Cagney & Lacey

Faerie Tale Theatre

as Jack

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as Killer

6.7