Dennis Christopher
Birthday: 1950-12-02
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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Breaking Away
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm ...
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Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from...
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Circuitry Man
In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasur...
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Chariots of Fire
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...
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The Silencers
U.S. Senator is assassinated by Men in Black, mysterious organization which suppresses all knowledge...
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Fade to Black
A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all th...
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Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
When bees attack an isolated country house, a family must stick together to survive....
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Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
Tarzan has a tough encounter with arms dealer Nikolai who then kidnaps Colette and wants to sell her...
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Queen of the Lot
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress...
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Doppelganger
After being implicated in a murder, a young woman flees New York City and moves to Los Angeles, wher...
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Django Unchained
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mis...
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September 30, 1955
A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies i...
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The Falling
Three young friends who are on vacation in Spain and a NASA scientist must join forces to save thems...
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A Wedding
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of t...
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Blood and Lace
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged...
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Dangerous Isolation
A top software engineer and her daughter are kidnapped. The kidnappers want her to decrypt sensitive...
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Didn’t You Hear?
Kevin is wandering through the confused haze that most college students pass through at one time or ...
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It's My Party
Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparation...
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Dead Women in Lingerie
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victim...
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tri...
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A Sinful Life
A former 'Sonny and Cher' dancer tries to pull her life together when social services threaten to ta...
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Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson, a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathe...
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Friends
John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream ...
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California Dreaming
Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized,...
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Boys Life
Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulth...
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Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
The life of legendary actor Anthony Perkins is recounted by friends and family, colleagues and co-st...
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False Arrest
A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is ...
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Jake Speed
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. ...
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Prisoners
Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, ...
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Skeletons
A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England ...
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The Young Graduates
Spunky and precocious high school senior Mindy Evans spurns her decent, but frustrated boyfriend Bil...
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Elvis
This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to star...
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Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
A homemaker is driven by jealousy to conspire against the mother of her daughter's rival....
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The Last Word
When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to take ma...
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Necronomicon
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segmen...
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s....
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Flight of the Spruce Goose
A Pittsburgh miner kidnaps a model and drives her to Hollywood to see Howard Hughes' plane, the Spru...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Imaginative and creative Jack seeks adventure while trying to provide for himself and his mother. Wi...
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Nine Lives
Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, se...
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Mind Rage
A string of brutal murders unravels a dark connection between two brothers and a woman caught betwee...
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Roma
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most fa...
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Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries "It" and its infamous villain P...
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Jobriath A.D.
Called "The American Bowie," "The True Fairy of Rock & Roll" and "Hype of the Year," Jobriath's ...
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The Disco Years
Tom Peters looks back to 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet. Tom's mom is ...
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3 Women
Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre re...
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Aurora: Operation Intercept
There have been two mysterious plane crashes in only 48 hours. The aircraft suddenly lose control an...
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Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Robert Englund has become one of the most revolutionary horror icons of our generation. This intimat...
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Battle at Versailles
M2M's first original long-form documentary, Battle at Versailles, follows an event in 1973 at Palace...
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Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
In an era known for protests and sit-ins, the 1973 Grand Divertissement at Versailles, made a statem...
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