FrameThrower · Actors · Dennis Christopher
Dennis Christopher
2 films · 113 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2012–2012
Born 2 December 1950 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dennis Christopher 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.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 113 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dennis takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 56% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Dennis takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 113 frames from Dennis Christopher's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.