Personal Info
Birth date
1950-12-02 (74 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known as
Dennis Carrelli
Dennis Christopher
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.
Filmography
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7.635
Overview:
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.Criminal Minds
8.309
Overview:
An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
7.883
Overview:
At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Overview:
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.Star Trek: Enterprise
7.6
Overview:
During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.The Equalizer
7.2
Overview:
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.565
Overview:
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.NYPD Blue
7
Overview:
Police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwined several plots involving an ensemble cast.Crossing Jordan
7.166
Overview:
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Overview:
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.Angel
7.9
Overview:
The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.Six Feet Under
8.103
Overview:
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.New York Undercover
7.1
Overview:
New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.Moonlighting
7.5
Overview:
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.Unforgettable
7.176
Overview:
Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember everything. She reluctantly joins the New York City Police Department's Queens homicide unit after her former boyfriend and partner asks for help with solving a case. The move allows her to try to find out the one thing she has been unable to remember, which is what happened the day her sister was murdered.seaQuest DSV
7
Overview:
In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.Matlock
7.1
Overview:
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.Deadwood
8.125
Overview:
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.Perception
7.2
Overview:
Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, but his eccentric view of the world and less-than-stellar social skills can often interfere with his work.Cagney & Lacey
6.9
Overview:
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.Pacific Blue
5.3
Overview:
Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on bicycles. The show ran for five seasons on the USA Network, from March 2, 1996 to April 9, 2000, with a total of one hundred and one episodes. Often compared as "Baywatch on bikes," the series enjoyed a popular run among the Network's viewers, and was popular in France, Israel, Sweden, Bulgaria, Norway, Spain, Russia, Austria, Germany, Italy, South America, Canada, Denmark, Poland, and other foreign markets.Prisoners
8.098
Overview:
Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.It
6.9
Overview:
In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.Roswell
7.691
Overview:
Bizarre things start happening in the little New Mexico town where UFOs were spotted in 1947. Cut to 1999, when a cute high-school student saves the life of a teenage waitress. Surrounded by cliques of clever, angst-filled classmates, the two form a bond that threatens the survival of a secret universe involving superhuman powers, a yen for hot sauce and an alien gene pool.The Sentinel
7.1
Overview:
The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.Celebrity Ghost Stories
7.3
Overview:
Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From encounters with ghosts and angry spirits to haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first person narratives from our favorite stars delivers a brand new way of experiencing the thrills and chills of the addictive world of the paranormal.Faerie Tale Theatre
8.1
Overview:
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.Django Unchained
8.183
Overview:
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.Graves
5.1
Overview:
Former two-term President Richard Graves embarks on a Don Quixote-like quest to right the wrongs of his administration and reclaim his legacy 25 years after leaving the White House. His enlightenment takes place just as his wife Margaret Graves decides it’s finally time for her to pursue her own political ambitions.Acting
2022Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story as Self
2021Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ as Himself
2016Graves (4 Episodes) as Martin Treadwell
2016Battle at Versailles as Unknown
2013Prisoners as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
2012Django Unchained as Leonide Moguy
2012Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution as Self
2012Perception (1 Episode) as Fred Gorman
2012Jobriath A.D. as Himself
2011Unforgettable (1 Episode) as Lukas Emminger
2010Queen of the Lot as Odin Johannessen
2009Celebrity Ghost Stories (1 Episode) as Self
2007Inside the Lost Room as Self
2006The Lost Room (3 Episodes) as Dr. Martin Ruber
2006Dangerous Isolation as Adrien
2005Criminal Minds (1 Episode) as Abner Merriman
2004Nine Lives as Mikey
2004Deadwood (5 Episodes) as Bellegarde
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1 Episode) as Roger Coffman
2001Star Trek: Enterprise (1 Episode) as Danik
2001Crossing Jordan (1 Episode) as Charles Rutledge
2001Six Feet Under (1 Episode) as Kevin Lamb
2001The Ballad of Lucy Whipple as Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (1, 1 Episode) as Homeless Guy, Richard Dorsey
2000FreakyLinks (13 Episodes) as Vince J. Elsing
1999Roswell (2 Episodes) as Bobby Dupree
1999Angel (3 Episodes) as Cyvus Vail
1999Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows as Self
1997Skeletons as Jim Norton
1996Tarzan: The Epic Adventures as Philip D'Arnot
1996Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (22 Episodes) as Paul D’Arnot
1996The Silencers as Comdor
1996It's My Party as Jack Allen
1996The Sentinel (1 Episode) as Anthony Bates
1996Pacific Blue (1 Episode) as Mortimer T. Anton
1996Mind Rage as Steve
1995Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare as Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp
1995The Watcher (1 Episode) as Unknown
1995Aurora: Operation Intercept as Victor Varenkov
1994Boys Life as Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
1994New York Undercover (1 Episode) as Dr. Royce
1994Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II as Leech
1994The Disco Years as Mr. Reese
1993Necronomicon as Dale Porkel
1993NYPD Blue (1 Episode) as Gerard prosser
1993Moon Over Miami (1 Episode) as Unknown
1993seaQuest DSV (1 Episode) as Ambassador Dillington
1993Doppelganger as Doctor Heller
1993Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 Episode) as Borath
1992Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story as Randy
1991False Arrest as Wally Roberts
1991Dead Women in Lingerie as Lapin
1990It (2 Episodes) as Eddie Kaspbrak
1990Circuitry Man as Leech
1989A Sinful Life as Nathan Flowers
1987Friends as John
1986Alien Predators as Damon
1986Jake Speed as Desmond Floyd
1986Matlock (1 Episode) as Unknown
1986Flight of the Spruce Goose as Stan
1985The Equalizer (1 Episode) as Father Nicholas Kostmayer
1985Moonlighting (1 Episode) as Benjamin Wylie
1984Murder, She Wrote (1, 1 Episode) as Dr. Henry Carlson, Lyman Taggart
1983Jack and the Beanstalk as Jack
1982Faerie Tale Theatre (1 Episode) as Jack
1982Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder as Brian Anderson
1982Cagney & Lacey (1 Episode) as Unknown
1981Chariots of Fire as Charles Paddock
1980Fade to Black as Eric Binford
1979The Last Word as Ben Travis
1979Breaking Away as Dave Stoller
1979California Dreaming as T.T.
1979Tales of the Unexpected (1 Episode) as Killer
1979Elvis as Nick Adams
1978A Wedding as Hughie Brenner
1977September 30, 1955 as Eugene
19773 Women as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1976Bernice Bobs Her Hair as Charley
1972Roma as The Hippie (uncredited)
1971The Young Graduates as Pan
1971Blood and Lace as Pete
1970Didn’t You Hear? as Kevin