Dennis Christopher Carrelli (born December 2, 1950) is an American retired actor whose film credits include Breaking Away (1979), Fade to Black (1980), Chariots of Fire (1981), It (1990), and Django Unchained (2012).
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Early life
Dennis Christopher Carrelli, the youngest of four children, was born in Philadelphia on December 2, 1950, to Vincent Albert Carrelli, an insurance salesman, and the former Anna Marie Doogan. His parents married in 1936. He had two brothers, Vincent Carrelli Jr. (a talent manager who later went by the name Vince Cannon) and Edward Carrelli, along with one sister, Patricia Kratzinger Laros.
Christopher graduated from Monsignor Bonner High School in 1968. He attended Temple University, but dropped out in 1969.
Career
In 1967, Christopher made a guest appearance on The Time Tunnel in the episode "Merlin the Magician" (S1E27). A chance encounter with Federico Fellini, who was filming in Rome at the time, led to the director casting him as a hippie in the film Roma (1972).
After that, Christopher worked as an assistant to the fashion designer Halston.
