Dennis Christopher
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1950-12-02
- Lieu de naissance:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biographie
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.
Connu pour
Filmographie
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
Graves
Battle at Versailles
Prisoners
Django Unchained
Versailles 73, révolution de la mode
Perception
Jobriath A.D.
Unforgettable
Queen of the Lot
Celebrity Ghost Stories
The Lost Room
Deux femmes en danger
Esprits criminels
Nine Lives
Deadwood
New York Section Criminelle
Star Trek: Enterprise
Preuve à l'appui
Six Feet Under
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Les Experts
FreakyLinks
Roswell
Angel
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
Saugatuck : La Cité du Crime
Profiler
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
Les Aventures fantastiques de Tarzan
The Silencers
It's My Party
The Sentinel
Pacific Blue
Mind Rage
Frelons
The Watcher
Aurora: Operation Intercept
Boys Life
New York Undercover
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
The Disco Years
Necronomicon
New York Police Blues
Moon Over Miami
Seaquest - Police des mers
Curaçao
Le Double maléfique
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
Guerres Privées
False Arrest
Dead Women in Lingerie
Ça
Circuitry Man
A Sinful Life
Monsters
Friends
The Falling
Jake Speed
Matlock
Flight of the Spruce Goose
Equalizer
Clair de Lune
Arabesque
Jack and the Beanstalk
Faerie Tale Theatre
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
Cagney et Lacey
Les Chariots de Feu
Fondu au noir
The Last Word
La Bande des quatre
California Dreaming
Bizarre, bizarre
Le Roman d'Elvis
Un mariage
September 30, 1955
3 femmes
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Roma
The Young Graduates
Blood and Lace
Didn’t You Hear?
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