...as Walter Skinner
Mitch Pileggi (born April 5, 1952) is an American actor who portrayed FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner in The X-Files. He also appeared as Skinner in The Lone Gunmen episode "The Lying Game" and provided his voice to The X-Files Game and The X-Files: Resist or Serve.
Mitch Pileggi's father worked for a military contractor, which meant that he and his family moved all over the world. Mitch worked for the same people his father did, until he left Iran in 1979. He came back to the US, to Texas, where he worked in local theatre. This led to minor movie and television parts. In 1982, he appeared in Mongrel (with Rachel Winfree). He auditioned a few times for The X-Files before getting the part of Assistant Director Skinner. It wasn't until he came back with more hair at the audition for Skinner that he was successful in obtaining the role.
His wife, Arlene Pileggi, played Skinner's secretary in the show. They were introduced by Gillian Anderson, Arlene being her stand-in. David Duchovny was best man at their wedding in Hawaii, in 1996. Their daughter, Sawyer Pileggi, was born in 1998.
Since The X-Files finished in 2002, Pileggi has voiced Commissioner James Gordon in The Batman and had a recurring role as Colonel Steven Caldwell in Stargate: Atlantis. Pileggi also starred as Samuel Campbell in the hit sci-fi series Supernatural and FX's Sons of Anarchy.
Roles[]
The X-Files[]
+Season 1
- - Tooms (1994)... Walter Skinner
+Season 2
- - Little Green Men (1994)... Walter Skinner
- - The Host (1994)... Walter Skinner
- - Sleepless (1994)... Walter Skinner
- - Ascension (1994)... Walter Skinner
- - One Breath (1994)... Walter Skinner
- - Colony (1995)... Walter Skinner
- - End Game (1995)... Walter Skinner
- - F. Emasculata (1995)... Walter Skinner
- - Anasazi (1995)... Walter Skinner
+Season 3
- - The Blessing Way (1995)... Walter Skinner
- - Paper Clip (1995)... Walter Skinner
- - Nisei (1995)... Walter Skinner
- - Grotesque (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - Piper Maru (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - Apocrypha (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - Pusher (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - Avatar (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - Wetwired (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - Talitha Cumi (1996)... Walter Skinner
+Season 4
- - Herrenvolk (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - Teliko (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - The Field Where I Died (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - Tunguska (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - Terma (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - Paper Hearts (1996)... Walter Skinner
- - El Mundo Gira (1997)... Walter Skinner
- - Memento Mori (1997)... Walter Skinner
- - Unrequited (1997)... Walter Skinner
- - Max (1997)... Walter Skinner
- - Small Potatoes (1997)... Walter Skinner
- - Zero Sum (1997)... Walter Skinner
+Season 5
- - Redux (1997)... Walter Skinner
- - Redux II (1997)... Walter Skinner
- - Kitsunegari (1998)... Walter Skinner
- - Bad Blood (1998)... Walter Skinner
- - The Red and the Black (1998)... Walter Skinner
- - The Pine Bluff Variant (1998)... Walter Skinner
- - Folie à Deux (1998)... Walter Skinner
- - The End (1998)... Walter Skinner
+Season 6
- - The Beginning (1998)... Walter Skinner
- - Triangle (1998)... Walter Skinner/SS Sturmbannfuehrer
- - S.R. 819 (1999)... Walter Skinner
- - Two Fathers (1999)... Walter Skinner
- - One Son (1999)... Walter Skinner
- - Monday (1999)... Walter Skinner
- - Field Trip (1999)... Walter Skinner
- - Biogenesis (1999)... Walter Skinner
+Season 7
- - The Sixth Extinction (1999)... Walter Skinner
- - The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (1999)... Walter Skinner
- - Millennium (1999)... Walter Skinner
- - Sein Und Zeit (2000)... Walter Skinner
- - Closure (2000)... Walter Skinner
- - En Ami (2000)... Walter Skinner
- - Chimera (2000)... Walter Skinner
- - Brand X (2000)... Walter Skinner
- - Hollywood A.D. (2000)... Walter Skinner
- - Je Souhaite (2000)... Walter Skinner
- - Requiem (2000)... Walter Skinner
+Season 8
- - Within (2000)... Walter Skinner
- - Without (2000)... Walter Skinner
- - Via Negativa (2000)... Walter Skinner
- - The Gift (2001)... Walter Skinner
- - Per Manum (2001)... Walter Skinner
- - This is Not Happening (2001)... Walter Skinner
- - DeadAlive (2001)... Walter Skinner
- - Three Words (2001)... Walter Skinner
- - Vienen (2001)... Walter Skinner
- - Alone (2001)... Walter Skinner
- - Essence (2001)... Walter Skinner
- - Existence (2001)... Walter Skinner
+Season 9
- - Nothing Important Happened Today (2001)... Walter Skinner
- - Nothing Important Happened Today II (2001)... Walter Skinner
- - 4-D (2001)... Walter Skinner
- - John Doe (2002)... Walter Skinner
- - Provenance (2002)... Walter Skinner
- - Providence (2002)... Walter Skinner
- - Jump the Shark (2002)... Walter Skinner
- - William (2002)... Walter Skinner
- - Sunshine Days (2002)... Walter Skinner
- - The Truth (2002)... Walter Skinner
+Season 10
- - My Struggle (2015)... Walter Skinner
- - Founder's Mutation (2016)... Walter Skinner
- - Babylon (2016)... Walter Skinner
- - My Struggle II (2016)... Walter Skinner
+Season 11
- - My Struggle III (2018)... Walter Skinner
- - This (2018)... Walter Skinner
- - The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat (2018)... Walter Skinner
- - Ghouli (2018)... Walter Skinner
- - Kitten (2018)... Walter Skinner
- - My Struggle IV (2018)... Walter Skinner
The Lone Gunmen[]
- Season 1