Melvin Frohike

Melvin Frohike (1953-2002) is a fictional character in the television show The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, played by Tom Braidwood. Frohike was born circa 1953 in Pontiac, Michigan. Prior to joining The Lone Gunmen, he was an acclaimed Tango dancer in Miami. On giving up the Tango, he toured the country with hippies before founding Frohike Electronics Corp, specializing in cable pirating hardware. In 1989 at a consumer electronics show in Baltimore, where his company had a trade stand, he met John Byers and Richard Langly and subsequently they formed a group publishing “The Lone Gunmen” Newsletter. Frohike is the shortest of the three member of the Lone Gunmen and is terminally scruffy with a unique dress sense. In earlier X-Files appearances he sported a short ponytail, and favours wearing woolen vests, braces and leather, together with his trademark fingerless gloves. He is the Lone Gunmen’s expert in photography, special operations and electronic surveillance and is... full article at wikipedia