Mitch Pileggi
This tall, athletic and bald character player of film and TV certainly made the most of a guest shot on a first season episode ("Tooms") of the hit Fox paranormal drama "The X-Files." Pileggi (pronounced "puh-ledgy") was invited back for an eight-episode arc at the beginning of the second season--largely coinciding with Gillian Anderson's diminished presence due to her pregnancy. Initially viewed with suspicion by both the show's protagonists and fans, the intense, repressed and seething FBI Assistant Director Skinner eventually won everyone over with his quietly heroic efforts to aid his sometimes renegade agents even at the price of angering his masters and putting his professional and physical life on the line. Skinner has said that he stands on the line that David Duchovny's Agent Fox Mulder routinely crosses. The character became one of the show's tiny group of recurring characters. Pileggi realized well into his characterization that he had been unconsciously modeling Skinner on his own late father, Vito, a defense contractor.
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Mitch Pileggi
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desert Shadows | Professor Charles M. Ridley (Character) | - | 2023 |
19% |
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American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally | John Kelly (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet |
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Polaroid | Sheriff Pembroke (Character) | - | 2019 |
17% |
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The Girl in the Photographs | Sheriff Porter (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Space Twister | Gunter MacGregor (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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Woodshop | Miller (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Xtra Credit | John Weller (Character) | - | 2009 |
47% |
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Man in the Chair | Floyd (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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1st to Die | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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Takedown | Bruce Koball (Character) | - | 2000 |
26% |
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Gun Shy | Dexter Helvenshaw (Character) | $1.6M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cybertraque | Bruce Koball (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! | Police Chief Jeff Croy (Character) | - | 1998 |
66% |
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The X-Files | Walter Skinner (Character) | $83.9M | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Dangerous Touch | Vince (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Knight Rider 2000 | Thomas J. Watts (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Visions | Captain Keller (Character) | - | 1990 |
30% |
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Shocker | Horace Pinker (Character) | $15.5M | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brothers in Arms | Caleb (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three on a Match | Bull Tully (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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On the Line | Stephens (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Mongrel | Unknown (Character) | - | 1982 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 91% | Walker | Bonham Walker (Character) | 2021-2024 |
88% | 47% | Supergirl | Rama Khan (Guest Star) | 2019-2020 |
No Score Yet | 84% | NCIS | U.S. Secretary of Defense Wynn Crawford (Guest Star) | 2019 |
74% | 86% | The X-Files |
Asst. Dir. Walter Skinner (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1994-2002 2016 2018 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Blue Bloods | Donald DeCarlo (Guest Star) | 2015 |
75% | 93% | Dallas | Harris Ryland (Character) | 2014 |
87% | 90% | Sons of Anarchy | Ernest Darby (Guest Star) | 2008-2010 2013 |
84% | 72% | Grey's Anatomy | Lawrence Jennings (Guest Star) | 2007 2009-2012 |
57% | 82% | The Finder | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
92% | 88% | Leverage | Colin Saunders (Guest Star) | 2011 |
93% | 73% | Supernatural | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 2010-2011 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Medium | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009-2010 |
82% | 87% | Castle | Hans Brauer (Guest Star) | 2010 |
75% | 90% | Human Target | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Plain Sight | Al Dennison (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Stargate Atlantis |
Col. Steven Caldwell (Character), Colonel Steven Caldwell (Guest Star) |
2005-2009 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
79% | 84% | Brothers & Sisters | Browne Carter (Guest Star) | 2008 |
50% | 100% | Day Break | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 2008 |
80% | 65% | Reaper | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
86% | 90% | Boston Legal | U.S. Attorney Mark Freestone (Guest Star) | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 80% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
74% | 82% | Nip/Tuck | Dr. Russell Marcus (Guest Star) | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eyes | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | D.E.A. Agent Jack Hammond (Guest Star) | 2003 2005 |
8% | No Score Yet | The Mountain | Colin Dowling (Character) | 2004-2005 |
25% | No Score Yet | Tarzan | Unknown (Character) | 2003 |
52% | 42% | Birds of Prey | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Search Of ... | Host | 2002 |
38% | 67% | The Lone Gunmen | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Terry Waters (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 82% | That '70s Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walker, Texas Ranger | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Players | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dallas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | Chuck Danko (Guest Star) | 1990 |