Mitch Pileggi (born April 5, 1952 in Portland, Oregon) is an actor known to X-Files fans for his portrayal of FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner. He also played Skinner in The Lone Gunmen episode "The Lying Game" and voiced him in 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 U.S., to Texas where he worked in local theatre. This led to minor movie and television parts. He audition a few times for The X-Files before getting the part. 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 has a recurring role as Colonel Steven Caldwell in Stargate: Atlantis.

AppearancesEdit

• "Tooms" (Season 1)
• "Little Green Men" (Season 2)
• "The Host"
• "Sleepless"
• "Ascension"
• "One Breath"
• "Colony"
• "End Game"
• "F. Emasculata"
• "Anasazi"
• "The Blessing Way" (Season 3)
• "Paper Clip"
• "Nisei"
• "Grotesque"
• "Piper Maru"
• "Apocrypha"
• "Pusher"
• "Avatar"
• "Wetwired"
• "Talitha Cumi"
• "Herrenvolk" (Season 4)
• "Teliko"
• "The Field Where I Died"
• "Tunguska"
• "Terma"
• "Paper Hearts"
• "El Mundo Gira"
• "Memento Mori"
• "Unrequited"
• "Max"
• "Small Potatoes"
• "Zero Sum"
• "Redux" (Season 5)
• "Redux II"
• "Kitsunegari"
• "Bad Blood"
• "The Red and the Black"
• "The Pine Bluff Variant"
• "Folie a Deux"
• "The End"
• "The Beginning" (Season 6)
• "Triangle"
• "S.R. 819"
• "Two Fathers"
• "One Son"
• "Monday"
• "Field Trip"
• "Biogenesis"
• "The Sixth Extinction" (Season 7)
• "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati"
• "Millennium"
• "Sein Und Zeit"
• "En Ami"
• "Chimera"
• "Brand X"
• "Hollywood AD"
• "Je Souhaite"
• "Requiem"
• "Within" (Season 8)
• "Without"
• "Via Negativa"
• "The Gift"
• "Per Manum"
• "This is Not Happening"
• "DeadAlive"
• "Three Words"
• "Vienen"
• "Alone"
• "Essence"
• "Existence"
• "Nothing Important Happened Today" (Season 9)
• "Nothing Important Happened Today II"
• "4-D"
• "John Doe"
• "Provenance"
• "Providence"
• "Jump the Shark"
• "William"
• "Sunshine Days"
• "The Truth"

Acting RolesEdit

• Mongrel (1982, with Rachel Winfree)
• Man in the Chair (2006, with George Murdock and M. Emmet Walsh)

External LinksEdit

• Mitch Pileggi at the Internet Movie Database

Mitch Pileggi on Wikipedia