* Walter Skinner ( seasons 1 – 8, recurring ; season 9, main ) – is portrayed by Mitch Pileggi.

In the animated series The Batman, James Gordon is voiced by Mitch Pileggi.

Mitchell Craig " Mitch " Pileggi ( born April 5, 1952 ) is an American actor.

At the same time, another main character to the Batman mythos, Commissioner James Gordon ( voiced by Mitch Pileggi ) is introduced, along with the Bat-Signal.

Nicholas Pileggi ( born February 22, 1933 ) is an American author and screenwriter.

A made man in the Cianelli crime family, Michael Pileggi is one of the few who know the truth behind Angelo Mortalli ’ s death.

The character Walter Skinner was played by actor Mitch Pileggi, who had unsuccessfully auditioned for the roles of two or three other characters on The X-Files before getting the part.

At first, the fact that he was asked back to audition for the recurring role slightly puzzled him, until he discovered the reason he had not previously been cast in those roles — Carter had been unable to envision Pileggi as any of those characters, because the actor had been shaving his head.

Carter believed that the series could continue for another ten years with new leads, and the opening credits were accordingly redesigned in both seasons eight and nine to emphasize the new actors ( along with Pileggi, who was finally listed as a main character ).

Ephron was married for more than 20 years to screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, until her death.

Pileggi received the role of Walter Skinner after " two or three " auditions for the role.

Pileggi was honored with numerous awards and award nominations for his portrayal of Skinner.

Pileggi had auditioned unsuccessfully for several other parts on the series before being cast as Skinner.

At first, the fact that he was asked back to audition for the role had puzzled him, until he discovered the reason he had not cast for the previous parts — Chris Carter had been unable to imagine Pileggi as any of those characters, due to the fact that the actor had been shaving his head.

When Pileggi attended the audition for Walter Skinner, he had been in a grumpy mood and had allowed his small amount of hair to grow back.

After successfully auditioning for the role, Pileggi thought he had been lucky that he had not been cast in one of the earlier roles, as he believed he would have appeared in only a single episode and would have missed the opportunity to play the recurring role of Walter Skinner.

Previous recurring characters Monica Reyes ( Annabeth Gish ) and Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ) were billed as main characters for this season, which follows Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ), John Doggett ( Robert Patrick ) and Reyes on their hunt to reveal a government conspiracy who are creating " Super Soldiers ".

In 1987, lawyers for publishing giant Simon & Schuster sued the New York authorities to prevent enforcement of the Son of Sam law with respect to a book they were about to publish called Wiseguy, written by Nicholas Pileggi.

While Goodfellas was based upon the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the screenplay for My Blue Heaven was written by Pileggi's wife, Nora Ephron, and much of the research for both works was done in the same sessions with Hill.

Part three introduced several cast changes for the season, including the departure of Aiden Ford ( Rainbow Sun Francks ) and the inclusion of Dr. Carson Beckett ( Paul McGillion ) and Steven Caldwell ( Mitch Pileggi ) to the main and recurring cast.

Pileggi also wrote the screenplay for the fictional City Hall ( 1996 ), starring Al Pacino.

Don Cianelli had ordered Pileggi to fake a funeral for Mortalli in order to prevent the Don ’ s daughter and Mortalli ’ s girlfriend Gina from becoming suspicious.

Additional conflict comes from the efforts of land developer Colin Dowling ( Mitch Pileggi ) and his attractive daughter, Max ( Elizabeth Bogush ), who falls for David.

In 1999, Pickens was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for his work as Kersh, alongside Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, David Duchovny, Mitch Pileggi and Chris Owens.

Four main characters from the television series appear in the film: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi and William B. Davis reprise their respective roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner and the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

Carter appointed frequent series director Rob Bowman as director of the film, which went on to feature many of the series ' regular cast, including Duchovny, Anderson, Mitch Pileggi and William B. Davis.

Mulder and Scully's boss, Assistant Director Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ), also became a central character.

Pileggi later realized he had been lucky that he had not been cast in one of the earlier roles, as he believed he would have appeared in only a single episode and would have missed the opportunity to play Walter Skinner's recurring role.

The series also introduced the character of Walter Skinner, played by Mitch Pileggi, who would go on to become a recurring, and later, main character in the show.

", would become regular characters beginning the second season, eventually starring in the spin-off series The Lone Gunmen ; whilst the episode " Tooms " introduced Walter Skinner, portrayed by Mitch Pileggi, who would go on to be billed as a series star by the ninth season.

Doggett and Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ) travel to a reclamation plant, to find any links between Wormus ' work and death.

That's what happened with William B. Davis as the Cigarette-Smoking Man and with Nick Lea as Krycek, and with Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner, and that's what happened here with James Pickens.

Portrayed by Italian-American actor Mitch Pileggi, Skinner was a main character in the ninth season of the show and a recurring character throughout the first eight seasons.

Lea continued to play Krycek, who became a nemesis not just of Mulder and Scully but particularly of A. D. Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ).

Republican Wendell N. Butler, Jr. was appointed Mayor of the City of Chester on October 9, 2002, to fill the unexpired term of Dominic Pileggi, who resigned to take a seat in the State Senate.

* The book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Larry Shandling, chronicles the days when The Stardust Hotel and Casino-and two other casinos from the area-were run by professional gambler and bookie, Frank ' Lefty ' Rosenthal and a soldier in the Chicago Outfit named Anthony ' The Ant ' Spilotro, on behalf of the Chicago and Kansas City Mafia during the 1970s and early 1980s.

Pileggi cowrote the pilot of the CBS television series Vegas which first aired in September, 2012.

Some of the novels, which were published in both hardcover and trade paperback editions, came out as audio books read by several of the series ' stars, including Gillian Anderson ( Ground Zero ), John Neville ( Fight the Future ), Steven Williams ( Squeeze ), Bruce Harwood ( Skin ) and Mitch Pileggi ( Antibodies and Ruins ).

New York magazine's Nicholas Pileggi described it as a loser when compared to other games Atari could have released like Donkey Kong and Frogger.

The game's cast of voice actors included Michael T. Weiss, Sheena Easton, Rob Paulsen, Mitch Pileggi, Dan Castellaneta, and Tony Jay.

He was portrayed in the HBO film Recount, about the Florida election recount of the 2000 presidential election, by actor Mitch Pileggi.

* Pileggi, Nicholas.

However, he put his elbow through the canvas while showing it to his guests, including the screenwriter Nora Ephron and her husband Nick Pileggi, the broadcaster Barbara Walters, the art dealer Serge Sorokko and his wife, the model Tatiana Sorokko, the New York socialite Louise Grunwald and the lawyer David Boies and his wife, Mary.

* City Hall ( 1996 ) ( with Bo Goldman, Nicholas Pileggi, and Ken Lipper ) dir.

The story of the skimming was featured in the book Casino by Nicholas Pileggi.

The books were written by Dr. Spencer Johnson and Ann Donegan Johnson, and illustrated by Stephen Pileggi.