Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022 · Movie
as Self
Dennis Christopher
1950-12-02
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021 · Movie
as Himself
Battle at Versailles
2016 · Movie
Graves
2016 · TV Show
as Martin Treadwell
Prisoners
2013 · Movie
as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Django Unchained
2012 · Movie
as Leonide Moguy
Jobriath A.D.
2012 · Movie
as Himself
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2012 · Movie
as Self
Perception
2012 · TV Show
as Fred Gorman
Unforgettable
2011 · TV Show
as Lukas Emminger
Queen of the Lot
2010 · Movie
as Odin Johannessen
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009 · TV Show
as Self
Dangerous Isolation
2006 · Movie
as Adrien
The Lost Room
2006 · TV Show
as Dr. Martin Ruber
Criminal Minds
2005 · TV Show
as Abner Merriman
Nine Lives
2004 · Movie
as Mikey
Deadwood
2004 · TV Show
as Bellegarde
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2001 · Movie
as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
Six Feet Under
2001 · TV Show
as Kevin Lamb
Star Trek: Enterprise
2001 · TV Show
as Danik
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · TV Show
as Roger Coffman
Crossing Jordan
2001 · TV Show
as Charles Rutledge
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · TV Show
as Homeless Guy, Richard Dorsey
FreakyLinks
2000 · TV Show
as Vince J. Elsing
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Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999 · Movie
as Self
Angel
1999 · TV Show
as Cyvus Vail
Roswell
1999 · TV Show
as Bobby Dupree
Skeletons
1997 · Movie
as Jim Norton
The Silencers
1996 · Movie
as Comdor
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996 · Movie
as Philip D'Arnot
It's My Party
1996 · Movie
as Douglas Reedy
Mind Rage
1996 · Movie
as Steve
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
1996 · TV Show
as Paul D’Arnot
The Sentinel
1996 · TV Show
as Anthony Bates
Pacific Blue
1996 · TV Show
as Mortimer T. Anton
Profiler
1996 · TV Show
as Jack of All Trades, Sheriff Ed Post, Sheriff Ed Post / Jack of All Trades, Jack of All Trades / Albert Newquay
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
1995 · Movie
as Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp
Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995 · Movie
as Victor Varenkov
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The Watcher
1995 · TV Show
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1994 · Movie
as Leech
Boys Life
1994 · Movie
as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
The Disco Years
1994 · Movie
as Mr. Reese
New York Undercover
1994 · TV Show
as Dr. Royce
Doppelganger
1993 · Movie
as Doctor Heller
Necronomicon
1993 · Movie
as Dale Porkel
Curaçao
1993 · Movie
as Friedrich (uncredited)
seaQuest DSV
1993 · TV Show
as Ambassador Dillington
Moon Over Miami
1993 · TV Show
NYPD Blue
1993 · TV Show
as Gerard prosser
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993 · TV Show
as Borath
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1992 · Movie
as Randy
Dead Women in Lingerie
1991 · Movie
as Lapin
False Arrest
1991 · Movie
as Wally Roberts
Civil Wars
1991 · TV Show
as Jamie Berne
Circuitry Man
1990 · Movie
as Leech
It
1990 · TV Show
as Eddie Kaspbrak
A Sinful Life
1989 · Movie
as Nathan Flowers
Monsters
1988 · TV Show
as Laurence Bauer
Friends
1987 · Movie
as John
The Falling
1986 · Movie
as Damon
Jake Speed
1986 · Movie
as Desmond Floyd
Flight of the Spruce Goose
1986 · Movie
as Stan
Matlock
1986 · TV Show
as Noel Bishop
Moonlighting
1985 · TV Show
as Benjamin Wylie
The Equalizer
1985 · TV Show
as Father Nicholas Kostmayer
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · TV Show
as Dr. Henry Carlson, Lyman Taggart
Jack and the Beanstalk
1983 · Movie
as Jack
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1982 · Movie
as Brian Anderson
Cagney & Lacey
1982 · TV Show
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · TV Show
as Jack
Chariots of Fire
1981 · Movie
as Charles Paddock
Fade to Black
1980 · Movie
as Eric Binford
Breaking Away
1979 · Movie
as Dave Stoller
California Dreaming
1979 · Movie
as T.T.
Elvis
1979 · Movie
as Nick Adams
The Last Word
1979 · Movie
as Ben Travis
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · TV Show
as Killer
A Wedding
1978 · Movie
as Hughie Brenner
September 30, 1955
1977 · Movie
as Eugene
3 Women
1977 · Movie
as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1976 · Movie
as Charley
Roma
1972 · Movie
as The Hippie (uncredited)
Blood and Lace
1971 · Movie
as Pete
The Young Graduates
1971 · Movie
as Pan
Didn’t You Hear?
1970 · Movie
as Kevin
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SILENCERS
· Movie
as Comdor
