Walter Skinner

Walter Sergei Skinner is a fictional character played by Mitch Pileggi on the Fox television series The X-Files. Skinner is an Assistant Director of the FBI and is the direct supervisor of Special Agent Mulder and Scully and the X-Files office. He also appeared in an episode of The Lone Gunmen. Walter Skinner is a former Marine and a Vietnam War veteran. In the war he once killed a boy at a very short distance, an experience which has scarred him for life. He is married to Sharon Skinner. He has been treated at a sleep disorder clinic, suffering from recurring dreams of an old woman, which may either be a hallucination arising from drug use during Vietnam or a succubus. Skinner's hobbies include jogging and boxing, the latter of which has been shown in his ability to outfight Mulder and X and to defend himself reasonably well when he was attacked by Alex Krycek and his men. Skinner has a friend named Wayne Federman, a Hollywood screen writer. In the episode "Hollywood, A.D." Wayne... full article at wikipedia