Dennis Christopher

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.

Known For

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Roger Coffman

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Homeless Guy

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Richard Dorsey

Pacific Blue

Mortimer T. Anton

Criminal Minds

Abner Merriman

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Self

Faerie Tale Theatre

Jack

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Borath

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2022	Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story	Self
2021	Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’	Himself
2016	Battle at Versailles
2013	Prisoners	Mr. Jones (uncredited)
2012	Django Unchained	Leonide Moguy
2012	Jobriath A.D.	Himself
2012	Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution	Self
2010	Queen of the Lot	Odin Johannessen
2007	Inside the Lost Room	Self
2006	Dangerous Isolation	Adrien
2004	Nine Lives	Mikey
2001	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple	Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
1999	Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows	Self
1997	Skeletons	Jim Norton
1996	The Silencers	Comdor
1996	Tarzan: The Epic Adventures	Philip D'Arnot
1996	It's My Party	Jack Allen
1996	Mind Rage	Steve
1995	Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare	Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp
1995	Aurora: Operation Intercept	Victor Varenkov
1994	Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II	Leech
1994	Boys Life	Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
1994	The Disco Years	Mr. Reese
1993	Doppelganger	Doctor Heller
1993	Necronomicon	Dale Porkel
1992	Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story	Randy
1991	Dead Women in Lingerie	Lapin
1991	False Arrest	Wally Roberts
1990	Circuitry Man	Leech
1989	A Sinful Life	Nathan Flowers
1987	Friends	John
1986	Alien Predators	Damon
1986	Jake Speed	Desmond Floyd
1986	Flight of the Spruce Goose	Stan
1983	Jack and the Beanstalk	Jack
1982	Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder	Brian Anderson
1981	Chariots of Fire	Charles Paddock
1980	Fade to Black	Eric Binford
1979	Breaking Away	Dave Stoller
1979	California Dreaming	T.T.
1979	Elvis	Nick Adams
1979	The Last Word	Ben Travis
1978	A Wedding	Hughie Brenner
1977	September 30, 1955	Eugene
1977	3 Women	Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1976	Bernice Bobs Her Hair	Charley
1972	Roma	The Hippie (uncredited)
1971	Blood and Lace	Pete
1971	The Young Graduates	Pan
1970	Didn’t You Hear?	Kevin

Year	TV Show	Role
2016	Graves	Martin Treadwell
2012	Perception	Fred Gorman
2011	Unforgettable	Lukas Emminger
2009	Celebrity Ghost Stories	Self
2006	The Lost Room	Dr. Martin Ruber
2005	Criminal Minds	Abner Merriman
2004	Deadwood	Bellegarde
2001	Six Feet Under	Kevin Lamb
2001	Star Trek: Enterprise	Danik
2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Roger Coffman
2001	Crossing Jordan	Charles Rutledge
2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Homeless Guy
2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Richard Dorsey
2000	FreakyLinks	Vince J. Elsing
1999	Angel	Cyvus Vail
1999	Roswell	Bobby Dupree
1996	Tarzan: The Epic Adventures	Paul D’Arnot
1996	The Sentinel	Anthony Bates
1996	Pacific Blue	Mortimer T. Anton
1995	The Watcher
1994	New York Undercover	Dr. Royce
1993	seaQuest DSV	Ambassador Dillington
1993	Moon Over Miami
1993	NYPD Blue	Gerard prosser
1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Borath
1990	It	Eddie Kaspbrak
1986	Matlock
1985	Moonlighting	Benjamin Wylie
1985	The Equalizer	Father Nicholas Kostmayer
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Dr. Henry Carlson
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Lyman Taggart
1982	Cagney & Lacey
1982	Faerie Tale Theatre	Jack
1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Killer