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Dennis Christopher
Known for: ActingDennis 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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Џанго разузданиот
as Leonide Moguy 
Тоа
as Eddie Kaspbrak 
Огнени кочии
as Charles Paddock 
The Lost Room
as Dr. Martin Ruber 
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
as Paul D’Arnot 
3 Women
as Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited) 
Doppelganger
as Doctor Heller 
Breaking Away
as Dave Stoller 
Necronomicon
as Dale Porkel 
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
as Himself 
California Dreaming
as T.T. 
Mind Rage
as Steve 
Jake Speed
as Desmond Floyd 
Queen of the Lot
as Odin Johannessen 
Roma
as The Hippie (uncredited) 
Fade to Black
as Eric Binford 
Circuitry Man
as Leech 
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
as Leech 
False Arrest
as Wally Roberts 
The Silencers
as Comdor 
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
as Charley 
Aurora: Operation Intercept
as Victor Varenkov 
Dangerous Isolation
as Adrien 
The Falling
as Damon 
Dead Women in Lingerie
as Lapin 
September 30, 1955
as Eugene 
Blood and Lace
as Pete 
Jobriath A.D.
as Himself