10.0
10.0
Battle at Versailles
2016
Dennis Christopher
Acting
Born:December 2, 1950(age 75)
Birthplace:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:Monsignor Bonner High School, Temple University
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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 (48 movies)
8.2
8.2
Django Unchained
2012
as Leonide Moguy
7.4
7.4
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021
as Himself
7.2
7.2
Roma
1972
as The Hippie (uncredited)
7.1
7.1
Breaking Away
1979
as Dave Stoller
7.1
7.1
3 Women
1977
as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
Didn’t You Hear?
1970
as Kevin
6.8
6.8
Chariots of Fire
1981
as Charles Paddock
6.6
6.6
Jobriath A.D.
2012
as Himself
6.6
6.6
September 30, 1955
1977
as Eugene
6.4
6.4
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
as Self
6.2
6.2
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996
as Philip D'Arnot
6.2
6.2
A Wedding
1978
as Hughie Brenner
6.1
6.1
It's My Party
1996
as Douglas Reedy
6.0
6.0
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1992
as Randy
6.0
6.0
Necronomicon
1993
as Dale Porkel
5.9
5.9
The Young Graduates
1971
as Pan
5.6
5.6
Fade to Black
1980
as Eric Binford
5.6
5.6
Blood and Lace
1971
as Pete
5.3
5.3
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001
as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
5.3
5.3
Friends
1987
as John
5.2
5.2
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976
as Charley
5.1
5.1
False Arrest
1991
as Wally Roberts
5.0
5.0
The Disco Years
1994
as Mr. Reese
5.0
5.0
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1982
as Brian Anderson
5.0
5.0
Jack and the Beanstalk
1983
as Jack
4.9
4.9
Circuitry Man
1990
as Leech
4.9
4.9
Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995
as Victor Varenkov
4.9
4.9
The Falling
1986
as Damon
4.9
4.9
Doppelganger
1993
as Doctor Heller
4.7
4.7
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
1995
as Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp
4.6
4.6
Boys Life
1994
as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
4.4
4.4
California Dreaming
1979
as T.T.
4.4
4.4
The Silencers
1996
as Comdor
4.4
4.4
Jake Speed
1986
as Desmond Floyd
4.3
4.3
Nine Lives
2004
as Mikey
4.2
4.2
Dangerous Isolation
2006
as Adrien
4.0
4.0
The Last Word
1979
as Ben Travis
4.0
4.0
Inside the Lost Room
2007
as Self
3.9
3.9
Skeletons
1997
as Jim Norton
3.3
3.3
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1994
as Leech
2.7
2.7
Dead Women in Lingerie
1991
as Lapin
2.6
2.6
Queen of the Lot
2010
as Odin Johannessen
1.8
1.8
Mind Rage
1996
as Steve
1.0
1.0
A Sinful Life
1989
as Nathan Flowers
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2012
as Self
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999
as Self
Flight of the Spruce Goose
1986
as Stan
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