Vince Gilligan (born February 10, 1967 in Farmville, Virginia) is an award-winning American writer, director and producer who received a B.F.A. in film production from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In 1989, Gilligan received the Governor's Screenwriting Award in Virginia for his screenplay Home Fries. He joined The X-Files as a writer in 1995, ultimately writing or co-writing thirty episodes of that series as well as six episodes of spin-off series The Lone Gunmen. In 1997, Gilligan — along with Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban — wrote "Memento Mori", an Emmy-nominated episode of The X-Files' fourth season.
Gilligan is also the creator and showrunner of Breaking Bad, a series which featured a mixture of drama and humor similar to some of his episodes of The X-Files.
Trivia
- Gilligan often likes to include "in-joke" references to his girlfriend, Holly Rice, in his scripts. For example, an FBI employee who kicks AD Walter Skinner in the episode "Pusher" is named Holly.
- In the second movie of X-Files franchise, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, the name "Gilligan" can clearly be seen on Mulder's cell phone as he scrolls through its phone book for Scully's name, moments before Mulder becomes distracted by doing so and consequently crashes the car he is driving.
Writer Credits
- The X-Files:
- Season 2:
- Season 3:
- "Pusher"
- Season 4:
- "Unruhe"
- "Paper Hearts"
- "Leonard Betts" (with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- "Memento Mori" (with Chris Carter, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- "Small Potatoes"
- Season 5:
- "Unusual Suspects"
- "Christmas Carol" (with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- "Emily" (with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- "Kitsunegari" (with Tim Minear)
- "Bad Blood"
- "Folie à Deux"
- Season 6:
- "Drive"
- "Dreamland" (with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- "Dreamland II" (with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- "Tithonus"
- "Monday" (with John Shiban)
- "Three of a Kind" (with John Shiban)
- "Field Trip" (teleplay with John Shiban)
- Season 7:
- "Hungry"
- "Millennium" (with Frank Spotnitz)
- "The Amazing Maleeni" (with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- "X-Cops"
- "Theef" (with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- "Je Souhaite"
- Season 8:
- Season 9:
- "John Doe"
- "Jump the Shark" (with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- "Sunshine Days"
- The Lone Gunmen
- Season 1
- "Pilot" (with John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter)
- "Bond, Jimmy Bond" (with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- "Planet of the Frohikes"
- "Maximum Byers" (with Frank Spotnitz)
- "Cap'n Toby Show" (with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- "All About Yves" (with John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
- Season 1
Director Credits
Producer Credits
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- The Beginning
- Drive
- Triangle
- Dreamland
- Dreamland II
- How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
- Terms of Endearment
- The Rain King
- S.R. 819
- Tithonus
- Two Fathers
- One Son
- Agua Mala
- Monday
- Arcadia
- Alpha
- Trevor
- Milagro
- The Unnatural
- Three of a Kind
- Field Trip
- Biogenesis
- The Sixth Extinction
- The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
- Hungry
- Millennium
- Rush
- The Goldberg Variation
- Orison
- The Amazing Maleeni
- Signs and Wonders
- Sein Und Zeit
- Closure
- X-Cops
- First Person Shooter
- Theef
- En Ami
- Chimera
- all things
- Brand X
- Hollywood A.D.
- Fight Club
- Je Souhaite
- Requiem
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- Within
- Without
- Patience
- Roadrunners
- Invocation
- Redrum
- Via Negativa
- Surekill
- Salvage
- Badlaa
- The Gift
- Medusa
- Per Manum
- This Is Not Happening
- DeadAlive
- Three Words
- Empedocles
- Vienen
- Alone
- Essence
- Existence
- Nothing Important Happened Today
- Nothing Important Happened Today II
- Dæmonicus
- 4-D
- Lord of the Flies
- Trust No 1
- John Doe
- Hellbound
- Provenance
- Providence
- Audrey Pauley
- Underneath
- Improbable
- Scary Monsters
- Jump the Shark
- William
- Release
- Sunshine Days
- The Truth
- Executive Producer (13 episodes) (2001)
External Links
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