LANGLY
FULL
NAME: Ringo Langly
APPEARENCE: black-rimmed glasses, long blond hair and T-shirts from a dozen hard-rock bands
EXPERT ON: Communications expert; computer hacker
PERSONALITY: seems like doesn't take life too seriously; the one most likely to joke with Mulder or invite him to "hop on the Internet to nitpick the scientific inaccuracies" of a new science-fiction show. But he's also a little bent
INTERESTING FACT: Langly once bragged that he had breakfast with the "guy who shot John Kennedy," saying that he was dressed as a police officer on the grassy knoll.
HOW HE BECAME A LGM: After meeting John Byers, along with rival cable TV salesman Melvin Frohike, Langly also met with Suzanne Modeski, a woman who claimed that the government was experimenting with chemicals on the people of Boston.
HISTORY
WITH MULDER AND SCULLY:
Although the
paranoid conspiracy theorist has a lot of respect for Mulder, nevertheless,
when Mulder insists that Langly turn off the recording device in "E.B.E.,"
Langly does not
hesitate to lie to him. In exchange for a
photo of an E.B.E. (Extraterrestrial Biological Enity), Langly supplied
Mulder and Scully with computer-hacked
IDs to gain access to a secret governemtn facility.
Among the Lone Gunmen,
truth is as rare as trust.
When Mulder teleconferenced with the Lone Gunmen from Idaho, in "Fearful Symmetry," Byers, explains Langly's absence in a meeting as a philosophical aversion to having his image bounced off a satellite. He automatically records every incoming phone call, and is evidently as conversant with current conspiracy theory as his two compadres. But he is ready with a laugh any time Mulder's theories get a little "out there," such as the idea that UFOs started the Gulf War.
Although the
Lone Gunmen stive to keep a low profile, an ice-skating Langly joined his
colleagues in a
clandestine package retrieval mission for Mulder at a Washington, D.C.-area
rink and in the high-tech
infiltration of a research facility via a subterranean tunnel.
DEAN HAGLUND
Born and bred in Winnipeg, Haglund performs regularly as a stand-up, as a member of the improv group Vancouver TheaterSports, and is a veteran of many TV series and movies: "I sold drugs to Lorenzo Lamas in [HBO's upcoming] Mask of Death." In an episode of Lonesome Dove: The Series, "I was beaten and hanged before the first commercial."
INSPIRATION
FOR LANGLY: Computer-nerd friends and grunge-rocker types.
HOW
HE'S LIKE LANGLY: "I own a computer, I listen to the Ramones,
the long blond hair is for real."
HOW
HE'S NOT: "I'm
not as paranoid and I don't wear glasses."
STARTLING
REVELATIONS: "I'm Canadian and I can't skate."
FAVORITE:
"War of the Coprophages", "E.B.E."
STATUS:
Married,
IN
HIS FREE TIME: practices
yoga, can do splits.
IS
THE TRUTH OUT THERE?: Regarding his character's conspiracy theories
he says, "They're all true - but only
to certain people."
WHAT
HE'D LIKE FOR LANGLY: "A job at the Pentagon."
ACTOR FILMOGRAPHY
1998 -
The X-Files: Fight The Future - Ringo Langly
1996
- Mask of Death - Dealer
1994
- Dangerous Indiscretion - Crack head
1994-present
- "X-Files, The" (TV Series) - Ringo Langly
Notable TV guest appearances
1998 -
"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" - playing "MIB (Mr. Lincoln) " in episode: "Honey,
I Shrunk an Illegal Alien"
1995
- Sliders - "Fever" - a stockboy
? - Street
Justice - ? - appeared in one episode
1995
- Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years - "The Return" - Nathan Silas
1994
- The Commish - "Working Girls" - Zack
1992
- The Commish - "V.V." - a drug dealer
Miscellaneous Crew Filmography
1996 -
Channel 92 - "Pilot". Haglund was the cowriter.