Dennis Christopher
Born December 02, 1950 (Age: 75)
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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 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 (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.
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Filmography
Django Unchained
2012
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as Leonide Moguy
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Age: 62
No Image
Inside the Lost Room
2007
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as Self
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Age: 56
Nine Lives
2004
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as Mikey
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Age: 53
No Image
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999
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as Self
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Age: 48
Skeletons
1997
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as Jim Norton
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Age: 46
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
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as Philip D'Arnot
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Age: 45
The Silencers
1996
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as Comdor
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Age: 45
It's My Party
1996
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as Douglas Reedy
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Age: 45
Mind Rage
1996
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as Steve
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Age: 45
Necronomicon
1993
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as Dale Porkel
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Age: 42
Doppelganger
1993
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as Doctor Heller
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Age: 42
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1992
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as Randy
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Age: 41
False Arrest
1991
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as Wally Roberts
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Age: 40
Dead Women in Lingerie
1991
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as Lapin
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Age: 40
Circuitry Man
1990
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as Leech
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Age: 39
A Sinful Life
1989
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as Nathan Flowers
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Age: 38
Friends
1987
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as John
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Age: 36
Chariots of Fire
1981
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as Charles Paddock
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Age: 30
Fade to Black
1980
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as Eric Binford
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Age: 29
Breaking Away
1979
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as Dave Stoller
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Age: 28
A Wedding
1978
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as Hughie Brenner
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Age: 27
3 Women
1977
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as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
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Age: 26