TOM BRAIDWOOD (Frohike) DEAN HAGLUND (Langly) BRUCE HARWOOD (Byers) Tom Braidwood was born Sept. 27, 1948, in British Columbia, Canada and earned a Bachelor's degree in theater and a Master's in film from the University of British Columbia. Pursuing a dual path of both stage acting and production, he landed small roles in Canadian films such as Harry Tracy (1981), directed by future X-Files director William A. Graham, and the national hit My American Cousin (1986). He's worked both in front of and behind the camera, including as a producer and director on the hit Canadian TV series Da Vinci's Inquest. On The X-Files, he was one of a handful of revolving first assistant directors, half-humorously pressed into service as one of The Lone Gunmen. Braidwood is married with two daughters, Jessica and Kate, who appeared with him in the commercially unreleased 1992 film The Portrait; the latter played a theater usherette in the X-Files episode "The Pine Bluff Variant." Dean Haglund, born July 29, 1965, in Oak Bank, Manitoba, Canada, is a popular stand-up comic who performs with the improvisational troupe TheatreSports. Beginning in the early 1990s, he began getting occasional roles on such Vancouver-shot series as The Commish, Sliders and Lonesome Dove: The Series. When he auditioned for the role of hacker Langly, he took a refreshing non-stereotypical approach. "From my university days I know a bunch of computer guys who are Ph.D. types in the upper end of computer-theory research," he said, noting that "they all know really good rock bands — they're certainly not the pocket-protector types." As for Langly's ever-changing eyewear, "The prop guy keeps pulling a different pair out of the bag. He's got a bag of all these glasses and we can never remember which one we used on the show before!" (The name "Langly" is, of course, an allusion to the Virginia home of CIA headquarters.) Among his recent credits are voices for the animated series Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot and Robocop: Alpha Commando. Before playing Byers, Bruce Harwood essayed a prominent TV role as environmental expert Willis in the 1990-91 season of MacGyver. He also appeared as a scientist in the cast of the Disney Sunday Movie telefilm/pilot Earth*Star Voyager. Born April 29, 1963, Hardwood once said he conceived of the primly suit-and-tie-wearing Byers as "a university professor, and in his spare time on the weekends and in the evenings, he goes down to this little office which moves once a month. The Lone Gunmen have to keep moving, because they haven't got enough money and because they're worried about being bugged." Other TV credits include The Sentinel, The Outer Limits, Andromeda and the "Frozen" episode of the SCI FI original series Stargate SG-1. close window