Dennis Christopher
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.8084 |
| Birthday | 1950-12-02 |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As | Dennis Carrelli , |
1979
Breaking Away
7.132/285
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athlet...
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Breaking Away
1994
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
3.339/28
In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum in order to coerce him into helping her...
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Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
1990
Circuitry Man
4.9/28
In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips...
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Circuitry Man
1981
Chariots of Fire
6.779/1008
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a d...
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Chariots of Fire
1996
The Silencers
4.444/18
U.S. Senator is assassinated by Men in Black, mysterious organization which suppresses all knowledge about UFOs. Agent Rafferty from the U.S. Secret...
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The Silencers
1980
Fade to Black
5.617/90
A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookal...
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Fade to Black
1995
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
4.658/38
When bees attack an isolated country house, a family must stick together to survive.
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Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
1996
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
6.2/3
Tarzan has a tough encounter with arms dealer Nikolai who then kidnaps Colette and wants to sell her in Africa. Tarzan gets captured, escapes and foll...
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Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
2010
Queen of the Lot
2.65/6
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two thing...
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Queen of the Lot
1993
Doppelganger
4.86/93
After being implicated in a murder, a young woman flees New York City and moves to Los Angeles, where she rents a room from a writer. They begin an af...
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Doppelganger
2012
Django Unchained
8.187/27604
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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Django Unchained
1977
September 30, 1955
6.438/8
A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies in a car crash.
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September 30, 1955
1986
The Falling
4.92/44
Three young friends who are on vacation in Spain and a NASA scientist must join forces to save themselves and the rest of the world from an alien mena...
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The Falling
1978
A Wedding
6.2/58
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as...
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A Wedding
1971
Blood and Lace
5.533/30
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage ru...
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Blood and Lace
2006
Dangerous Isolation
4.2/6
A top software engineer and her daughter are kidnapped. The kidnappers want her to decrypt sensitive government information, and they are threatening...
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Dangerous Isolation
1970
Didn’t You Hear?
7/1
Kevin is wandering through the confused haze that most college students pass through at one time or another: lectures that make little - if any - sens...
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Didn’t You Hear?
1996
It's My Party
6.1/36
Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function...
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It's My Party
1991
Dead Women in Lingerie
2.7/6
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.
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Dead Women in Lingerie
1976
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
5.2/13
Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Be...
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1989
A Sinful Life
1/1
A former 'Sonny and Cher' dancer tries to pull her life together when social services threaten to take her daughter away from her.
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A Sinful Life
1982
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
5/2
During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson, a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathetic and self-serving, he eventually has his heart...
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Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
1987
Friends
5.25/4
John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream is interrupted when a model plane crashes through...
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Friends
1979
California Dreaming
4.444/18
Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden...
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California Dreaming
1994
Boys Life
4.615/13
Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethe...
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Boys Life
1999
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
0/0
The life of legendary actor Anthony Perkins is recounted by friends and family, colleagues and co-stars, revealing the man underneath Norman Bates.
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Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1991
False Arrest
5.143/7
A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal trip...
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False Arrest
1986
Jake Speed
4.4/16
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves live...
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Jake Speed
2013
Prisoners
8.102/12789
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 minute...
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Prisoners
1997
Skeletons
3.875/12
A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case...
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Skeletons
1971
The Young Graduates
5.7/6
Spunky and precocious high school senior Mindy Evans spurns her decent, but frustrated boyfriend Bill and has a fling with hunky married nice guy teac...
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The Young Graduates
1979
Elvis
6.8/135
This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.
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Elvis
1992
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
6/2
A homemaker is driven by jealousy to conspire against the mother of her daughter's rival.
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Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
1979
The Last Word
4/1
When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to take matters into his own hands. He takes a police office...
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The Last Word
1993
Necronomicon
6/190
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of...
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Necronomicon
2001
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
5.308/13
The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
1986
Flight of the Spruce Goose
0/0
A Pittsburgh miner kidnaps a model and drives her to Hollywood to see Howard Hughes' plane, the Spruce Goose.
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Flight of the Spruce Goose
1983
Jack and the Beanstalk
5/2
Imaginative and creative Jack seeks adventure while trying to provide for himself and his mother. Will he ever solve the mystery of how his father die...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
2004
Nine Lives
4.333/9
Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a l...
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Nine Lives
1996
Mind Rage
1.8/4
A string of brutal murders unravels a dark connection between two brothers and a woman caught between them. As the investigation deepens, old wounds a...
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Mind Rage
1972
Roma
7.225/353
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
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Roma
2021
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
7.449/39
Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries "It" and its infamous villain Pennywise live on in the minds of horror fans aroun...
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Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2012
Jobriath A.D.
6.6/13
Called "The American Bowie," "The True Fairy of Rock & Roll" and "Hype of the Year," Jobriath's reign as the first openly gay rock star was brief...
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Jobriath A.D.
1994
The Disco Years
5/9
Tom Peters looks back to 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet. Tom's mom is both sweet and intrusive, urging him to take out g...
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The Disco Years
1977
3 Women
7.114/337
Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.
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3 Women
1995
Aurora: Operation Intercept
4.9/7
There have been two mysterious plane crashes in only 48 hours. The aircraft suddenly lose control and crash, killing everyone aboard. A woman of Russi...
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Aurora: Operation Intercept
2022
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
6.4/9
Robert Englund has become one of the most revolutionary horror icons of our generation. This intimate portrait captures the man behind the Nightmare O...
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Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2016
Battle at Versailles
10/1
M2M's first original long-form documentary, Battle at Versailles, follows an event in 1973 at Palace of Versailles where top French designers such as...
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Battle at Versailles
2012
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
0/0
In an era known for protests and sit-ins, the 1973 Grand Divertissement at Versailles, made a statement of its own - a fashion statement. The legendar...
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Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
2007
Inside the Lost Room
4/1
Making of 'The Lost Room'
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Inside the Lost Room
SILENCERS
0/0
No one seems to know the true identity of the legendary Men in Black (M.I.B's) cryptic characters with pale skin, black trenchcoats, fedoras, and hypn...
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