Dennis Christopher

Dennis Christopher

Birthday: 1950-12-02

Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Also known as: Dennis Carrelli , Dennis Christopher

imdb_id: nm0160550

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.

Played in movies:

Battle at Versailles

Score: 10.0

Django Unchained

Score: 8.2

Prisoners

Score: 8.1

Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’

Score: 7.6

3 Women

Score: 7.2

Roma

Score: 7.2

Jobriath A.D.

Score: 7.1

Breaking Away

Score: 7.1

Didn’t You Hear?

Score: 7.0

Elvis

Score: 6.8

Chariots of Fire

Score: 6.8

The Young Graduates

Score: 6.7

Friends

Score: 6.7

September 30, 1955

Score: 6.6

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

Score: 6.4

A Wedding

Score: 6.3

It's My Party

Score: 6.3

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

Score: 6.2

Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story

Score: 6.0

Necronomicon

Score: 6.0

False Arrest

Score: 5.8

Blood and Lace

Score: 5.7

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Score: 5.7

Fade to Black

Score: 5.6

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Score: 5.5

The Disco Years

Score: 5.1

Jack and the Beanstalk

Score: 5.0

Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder

Score: 5.0

Alien Predators

Score: 4.9

Aurora: Operation Intercept

Score: 4.9

Doppelganger

Score: 4.9

Circuitry Man

Score: 4.9

Nine Lives

Score: 4.8

Boys Life

Score: 4.8

California Dreaming

Score: 4.6

Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare

Score: 4.6

Jake Speed

Score: 4.4

The Silencers

Score: 4.4

Dangerous Isolation

Score: 4.3

Skeletons

Score: 4.1

Inside the Lost Room

Score: 4.0

The Last Word

Score: 4.0

Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II

Score: 3.4

Dead Women in Lingerie

Score: 3.0

Queen of the Lot

Score: 3.0

Mind Rage

Score: 1.7

A Sinful Life

Score: 1.0

Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution

Score: 0.0

Flight of the Spruce Goose

Score: 0.0

Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Criminal Minds

Score: 8.3

Deadwood

Score: 8.1

Faerie Tale Theatre

Score: 8.1

Six Feet Under

Score: 8.1

Angel

Score: 7.9

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Score: 7.9

The Lost Room

Score: 7.7

Roswell

Score: 7.7

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Score: 7.6

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Score: 7.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Score: 7.6

Star Trek: Enterprise

Score: 7.6

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Moonlighting

Score: 7.5

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Score: 7.3

Crossing Jordan

Score: 7.2

New York Undercover

Score: 7.2

Unforgettable

Score: 7.2

Perception

Score: 7.2

The Equalizer

Score: 7.1

Matlock

Score: 7.1

The Sentinel

Score: 7.1

seaQuest DSV

Score: 7.0

NYPD Blue

Score: 7.0

Moon Over Miami

Score: 7.0

Cagney & Lacey

Score: 7.0

It

Score: 6.9

Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.7

FreakyLinks

Score: 6.2

The Watcher

Score: 6.0

Pacific Blue

Score: 5.4

Graves

Score: 5.1

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

Score: 4.7