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.
Dennis Christopher Biography / Wiki
| Name | Dennis Christopher |
| Also Know | Dennis Carrelli |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1955-12-02 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 66 |
| Deathday |
Dennis Christopher Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Fade to Black | Eric Binford | 1980-10-14 | Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting … |
| The Falling | Damon | 1985-01-01 | Three young friends who are on vacation in Spain and a NASA scientist must join forces to save themselves and the rest of the world from an alien mena… |
| Didn’t You Hear? | Kevin | 1970-12-16 | Kevin is wandering through the confused haze that most college students pass through at one time or another: lectures that make little – if any – sens… |
| Don’t Cry, It’s Only Thunder | Brian Anderson | 1982-05-03 | During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson, a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathetic and self-serving, he eventually has his heart … |
| Friends | John | 1988-05-06 | John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream is interrupted when a model plane crashes through … |
| California Dreaming | T.T. | 1979-04-01 | Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes “California-ized,” while learning about love and life in the Golden… |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | Jack | 1983-09-08 | Imaginative and creative Jack seeks adventure while trying to provide for himself and his mother. Will he ever solve the mystery of how his father die… |
| Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows | Self | 1999-01-11 | The life of legendary actor Anthony Perkins is recounted by friends and family, colleagues and co-stars, revealing the man underneath Norman Bates…. |
| The Silencers | Comdor | 1996-04-23 | U.S. Senator is assassinated by Men in Black, mysterious organization which suppresses all knowledge about UFOs. Agent Rafferty from the U.S. Secret … |
| Dangerous Isolation | Adrien | 2006-09-13 | A top software engineer and her daughter are kidnapped. The kidnappers want her to decrypt sensitive government information, and they are threatening … |
| A Sinful Life | Nathan Flowers | 1989-06-30 | A former ‘Sonny and Cher’ dancer tries to pull her life together when social services threaten to take her daughter away from her…. |
| Jake Speed | Desmond Floyd | 1986-05-30 | Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves live… |
| Flight of the Spruce Goose | Stan | 1986-01-17 | Drama starring Karen Black, Betsy Blair and Dennis Christopher… |
| Nine Lives | Mikey | 2004-08-13 | Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a l… |
| Mind Rage | Steve | 1997-06-01 | A serial killer’s trail of dead bodies leads to the haunting past of two brothers and one woman’s love for both men. The fact this features some fairl… |
| Jobriath A.D. | Himself | 2012-01-01 | Called “The American Bowie,” “The True Fairy of Rock & Roll” and “Hype of the Year,” Jobriath’s reign as the first openly gay rock star was brief … |
| The Disco Years | Mr. Reese | 1994-01-01 | Tom Peters looks back to 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet. Tom’s mom is both sweet and intrusive, urging him to take out g… |
| Inside the Lost Room | Self | 2007-04-03 | Making of ‘The Lost Room’… |
| Breaking Away | Dave Stoller | 1979-05-24 | Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, … |
| Circuitry Man II: Plughead Rewired | Leech | 1994-04-01 | In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum in order to coerce him into helping her… |
| Doppelganger | Doctor Heller | 1993-03-01 | A woman moves from NYC to LA after a murder, in which she is implicated. She is followed by what is apparently her evil alter- ego. She moves into a r… |
| Dead Women in Lingerie | Lapin | 1991-01-01 | A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims…. |
| The Last Word | Ben Travis | 1979-01-01 | When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to take matters into his own hands. He takes a police office… |
| Pennywise: The Story of IT | Himself | 2022-07-26 | Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries “IT” and its infamous villain Pennywise live on in the minds of horror fans aroun… |
| Circuitry Man | Leech | 1990-05-01 | In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips… |
| Bernice Bobs Her Hair | Charley | 1976-10-06 | Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Be… |
| False Arrest | Wally Roberts | 1991-11-03 | A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal trip… |
| The Young Graduates | 1971-06-02 | Spunky and precocious high school senior Mindy Evans spurns her decent, but frustrated boyfriend Bill and has a fling with hunky married nice guy teac… | |
| Aurora: Operation Intercept | Victor Varenkov | 1995-01-01 | There have been two mysterious plane crashes in only 48 hours. The aircraft suddenly lose control and crash, killing everyone aboard. A woman of Russi… |
| Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution | Self | 2012-09-07 | In an era known for protests and sit-ins, the 1973 Grand Divertissement at Versailles, made a statement of its own – a fashion statement. The legendar… |
| Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare | Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp | 1995-02-28 | When Bees attack an isolated country house, a family must stick together to survive…. |
| Django Unchained | Leonide Moguy | 2012-12-25 | With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner…. |
| Boys Life | Mr. Reese (The Disco Years) | 1994-09-30 | Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In “Pool Days,” Justin is a 17-year old Bethe… |
| The Ballad of Lucy Whipple | Joshua ‘Carrots’ Beale | 2001-01-20 | The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s…. |
| September 30, 1955 | Eugene | 1977-08-19 | A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies in a car crash…. |
| Blood and Lace | Pete | 1971-03-17 | After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage…… |
| Queen of the Lot | Odin Johannessen | 2010-11-19 | An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren’t about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two thing… |
| Chariots of Fire | Charles Paddock | 1981-05-15 | In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a d… |
| ICON: The Robert Englund Story | Since first donning a tattered fedora and a glove of eviscerating blades in 1984, Robert Englund has become one of our generation’s most beloved horro… | ||
| Necronomicon | Dale Porkel | 1993-11-01 | H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: “The Library” which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft’s research into the Book of … |
| Roma | The Hippie (uncredited) | 1972-03-16 | A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens…. |
| Battle at Versailles | 2016-05-05 | M2M’s first original long-form documentary, Battle at Versailles, follows an event in 1973 at Palace of Versailles where top French designers such as… | |
| 3 Women | Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited) | 1977-04-10 | Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates…. |
| It’s My Party | Jack Allen | 1996-03-22 | Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function … |
| Skeletons | Jim Norton | 1997-04-04 | A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case… |
| A Wedding | Hughie Brenner | 1978-08-29 | Muffin’s wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn’t too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as… |
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