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.

Filmography

• 2016Battle at Versailles
• Graves — Martin Treadwell
• 2013Prisoners — Mr. Jones (uncredited)
• 2012Django Unchained — Leonide Moguy
• Perception — Fred Gorman
• Unforgettable — Lukas Emminger
• 2010Queen of the Lot — Odin Johannessen
• 2006Dangerous Isolation — Adrien
• The Lost Room — Dr. Martin Ruber
• Criminal Minds — Abner Merriman
• Deadwood — Bellegarde
• 2004Nine Lives — Mikey
• Crossing Jordan — Charles Rutledge
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Roger Coffman
• Six Feet Under — Kevin Lamb
• Star Trek: Enterprise — Danik
• 2001The Ballad of Lucy Whipple — Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Homeless Guy, Richard Dorsey
• FreakyLinks — Vince J. Elsing
• Angel — Cyvus Vail
• Roswell — Bobby Dupree
• 1997Skeletons — Jim Norton
• 1996It's My Party — Douglas Reedy
• 1996Mind Rage — Steve
• Pacific Blue — Mortimer T. Anton
• Profiler — Jack of All Trades, Sheriff Ed Post, Sheriff Ed Post / Jack of All Trades, Jack of All Trades / Albert Newquay
• 1996Tarzan: The Epic Adventures — Philip D'Arnot
• Tarzan: The Epic Adventures — Paul D’Arnot
• The Sentinel — Anthony Bates
• 1996The Silencers — Comdor
• 1995Aurora: Operation Intercept — Victor Varenkov
• 1995Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare — Beauchamp
• The Watcher
• 1994Boys Life — Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
• New York Undercover — Dr. Royce
• 1994Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II — Leech
• 1994The Disco Years — Mr. Reese
• 1993Curaçao — Friedrich (uncredited)
• 1993Doppelganger — Doctor Heller
• Moon Over Miami
• NYPD Blue — Gerard prosser
• 1993Necronomicon — Dale Porkel
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Borath
• seaQuest DSV — Ambassador Dillington
• 1992Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story — Randy
• Civil Wars — Jamie Berne
• 1991Dead Women in Lingerie — Lapin
• 1991False Arrest — Wally Roberts
• 1990And yet it turns — Eddie Kaspbrak
• 1990Circuitry Man — Leech
• It — Eddie Kaspbrak
• 1989A Sinful Life — Nathan Flowers
• Monsters — Laurence Bauer
• 1987Friends — John
• 1986Flight of the Spruce Goose — Stan
• 1986Jake Speed — Desmond Floyd
• Matlock — Noel Bishop
• 1986The Falling — Damon
• Moonlighting — Benjamin Wylie
• The Equalizer — Father Nicholas Kostmayer
• Murder, She Wrote — Dr. Henry Carlson, Lyman Taggart
• 1983Jack and the Beanstalk — Jack
• Cagney & Lacey
• 1982Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder — Brian Anderson
• Faerie Tale Theatre — Jack
• 1981Chariots of Fire — Charles Paddock
• 1980Fade to Black — Eric Binford
• 1979Breaking Away — Dave Stoller
• 1979California Dreaming — T.T.
• 1979Elvis — Nick Adams
• Tales of the Unexpected — Killer
• 1979The Last Word — Ben Travis
• 1978A Wedding — Hughie Brenner
• 19773 Women — Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
• 1977September 30, 1955 — Eugene
• 1976Bernice Bobs Her Hair — Charley
• 1972Roma — The Hippie (uncredited)
• 1971Blood and Lace — Pete
• 1971The Young Graduates — Pan
• 1970Didn’t You Hear? — Kevin
• SILENCERS — Comdor

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2022Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story — Self
• 2021Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ — Himself
• 2012Jobriath A.D. — Himself
• 2012Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution — Self
• Celebrity Ghost Stories — Self
• 1999Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows — Self