The Cigarette Smoking Man is a fictional character and one of the primary antagonists of the American science fiction drama television series The X-Files. He serves as the arch-nemesis of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder. In the show's sixth season, his name is said to be C.G.B. Spender, but Dana Scully suggests this is one of "hundreds of aliases"; the show's characters and fans continue to refer to him by variations of "the Smoking Man" because he is almost always seen chain-smoking Morley cigarettes, and because he was credited in the pilot episode and other episodes as "Smoking Man". In the eleventh season, he reveals his full name to be Carl Gerhard Busch.
William B. Davis as the Cigarette Smoking Man
The episode portrays the Smoking Man shooting John F. Kennedy after being signaled by the "Umbrella man" (sitting on the right side).
The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The original television series aired from September 1993 to May 2002 on Fox. During its original run, the program spanned nine seasons, with 202 episodes. A short tenth season consisting of six episodes ran from January to February 2016. Following the ratings success of this revival, The X-Files returned for an eleventh season of ten episodes, which ran from January to March 2018. In addition to the television series, two feature films have been released: The 1998 film The X-Files and the stand-alone film The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released in 2008, six years after the original television run had ended.
Chris Carter created The X-Files and wrote the series pilot, along with several other episodes.
Duchovny portrays Fox Mulder as a main character for season 1–7, 10 and 11 of the series, as well as an intermittent lead in the eighth and ninth.
Anderson portrays Dana Scully for the entire eleven seasons of the series. She was the first female writer and director of an episode in 2000.
"The End", the season five finale (1998), was the last episode to be filmed in Vancouver until the revival in 2016.