canadian actor william b. davis played the cigarette smoking man on the x-files.
who played the cigarette smoking man on the x-files?
canadian actor william b. davis
the smoking man is portrayed by canadian actor william b. davis. when davis first received the role, the character was written as an extra for the pilot episode. he returned for small cameo appearances during the first season, making increasingly more appearances in the seasons that followed. davis never received an award for his portrayal alone, but he was nominated for ensemble awards.





























"tv guide" included him in their 2013 list of the 60 nastiest villains of all time.





























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cigarette smoking man
spender was a skeptic who was assigned to the x-files after fox mulder's forced leave. spender is the son of the "cigarette smoking man", and the "cigarette smoking man's" ex-wife, multiple abductee cassandra spender. heavily involved in the syndicate at that time, the "cigarette smoking man" abandoned the family when spender was 12 years old. subsequently, his mother was driven insane by what she claims were multiple alien abductions. shortly after samantha mulder was abducted and then returned, jeffrey and samantha were raised together by his father in california. spender met agents fox mulder and dana scully in 1998. the same year, the "cigarette smoking man" began sending him letters; however spender returned them unopened. after his father set fire to the x-files in "the end", spender with agent diana fowley start working on the x-files. spender got orders from the "cigarette smoking man" to push and eventually get mulder and scully fired from the fbi, which he eventually does in "two fathers". later on he reinstates mulder and scully to the x-files but is shot in the head and apparently killed by his father in "one son".
jeffrey spender