ROY THINNES

Roy in a rare shot from "The Hindenberg."

Roy with Alfred Hitchcock, who had released him from Family Plot for two reasons. The first because he had forgotten a committment to William Devane(Hitch was a tad absent-minded) to play the role of "Adamson," and the other because he felt Roy was "too nice" for the part. Despite rumors to the contrary, there was no animosity between Hitch or Roy and in fact Hitch was sorrowful at letting Roy go. After all, Roy was and still is regarded by many as one of the best actors in the world. Even some of the industry's top writers, including Harlan Ellison, are fans of Roy's work.

"Codename: Diamondhead" was another Quinn Martin effort, in which Roy plays a secret agent. "Paul, Johnny Paul" Well he never really said that, but that was his character's name.

In "Codename: Diamondhead", Roy co-starred with actress France Nguyen, who is best known among Science Fiction fans as the shrewish "Elaan" in the Star Trek episode "Elaan of Troyius."

Roy with Jennifer Warren (left) and Mare Winningam(center) from the 1981 TV movie "Freedom", about how divorce can devastate the child involved.

Roy's most recent appearance on the X-Files has put him back in the forefront. Here he is as enigmatic alien shapeshifter Jeremiah Smith, who as a Christ-like figure held prisoner by the notorious Cigarette Smoking Man, contemplates his escape. The turnabout role is one that Chris Carter, a fan of The Invaders as a child, gave to Roy. The irony of Roy playing an alien! Smith returned to the X-Files in the 8th season in 2001.

"Alien, shmalien! C'mon, Agent Scully, let me in. Look, my hands are normal and I can even bend my pinkies." Seriously, this ominous shot was taken through Scully's apartment front door peephole in The X Files episode "Talitha, Cumi." Much of The X-Files' mythology is taken from The Invaders.

"Now we're cookin' with gas, Homey!" Roy's appearance solidified the character as one of the X-Files' icons. Jeremiah Smith is a kind alien(unlike the rest of his race) who miraculously saves human lives very similar to the aliens depicted in the WB show "Roswell", who also can transmute matter.

"Hold up. Gotta break out the Sunblock." The fourth season premiere of the X-Files, "Herrenvolk," was the conclusion to "Talitha, Cumi," Season 3's cliffhanger that is regarded as one of the X-Files' most popular episodes. In this shot, Mulder, Samantha(his sister's clone) and Jeremiah attempt to escape the clutches of Bounty Hunter(Brian Thompson, not pictured), an alien shapeshifter hired by the Cigarette Smoking Man, an agent of a syndicate working with aliens who intend to colonize earth. Chris Carter borrowed heavily from Larry Cohen's Invaders' mythology.

"Should we invite Bounty Hunter to the barbecue?" It is believed Jeremiah is killed in this episode, but then Jeremiah has several clones of himself walking the Earth as illustrated in the "Talitha, Cumi" episode of The X-Files. These clones apparently were under orders to catalog everyone's DNA as part of a program to infect every human with an alien virus.

"Did we both have the misfortune of going to Janet Reno's hairdresser?"

"Nope. All's I did was LOOK at Janet Reno. That's why my hair is standing on end."

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