Vince Gilligan

George Vincent Gilligan Jr. (born February 10, 1967, in Richmond, Virginia) is an award-winning American writer, director and producer, who worked extensively on The X-Files from up until the show's original end in 2002. 
Gilligan also co-created The X-Files spin-off series The Lone Gunmen, along with X-Files creator , and .
==The X-Files==
Gilligan's first contribution to The X-Files began with the episode Soft Light, which had asked him to develop a script for. Shortly after the episode had been completed, Gilligan was offered a job as a permanent writer.
Gilligan would only write one episode for - the acclaimed Pusher - but served as a creative consultant for 14 of the 24 episodes. His contributions as part of The X-Files staff further expanded in , writing five episodes - including the Emmy-nominated episode Memento Mori, along with and - as well as co-producing all 24 episodes. 
Gilligan's involvement increased further in the next two seasons, writing six episodes and serving as Supervising Producer for all 20 episodes of season five. Gilligan then wrote seven episodes, and served as Co-Executive Producer for all 22 episodes of .
Season seven would present Gilligan with his X-Files directorial debut, Je Souhaite, which he also wrote and served as Co-Executive Producer for. Vince wrote five other season seven episodes, as well as co-executive producing all 22 episodes. 
The last two seasons of The X-Files provided Gilligan the role of Executive Producer overseeing every episode in and . Gilligan wrote 4 episodes between seasons eight and nine, and also directed the penultimate episode of The X-Files: Sunshine Days.
In 2001, Vince Gilligan co-created The Lone Gunmen with , and , an X-Files spin-off series focused on the popular government conspiracy theorist trio of the same name. Due to low ratings however, the series was cancelled after thirteen episodes.
==Career==
Vince Gilligan received a B.F.A. in film production from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In 1989, he received the Governor's Screenwriting Award in Virginia for his screenplay Home Fries. 
Gilligan found great success in 2008 as the creator and showrunner of the critically acclaimed Breaking Bad, a series which featured a mixture of drama and humor similar to some of his episodes of The X-Files. Gilligan made several references to The X-Files throughout Breaking Bads five season run. In 2015, Gilligan co-created and served as Executive Producer for Better Call Saul, a Breaking Bad spin off based on the lawyer Saul Goodman.
==Trivia==
*Gilligan often likes to include "in-joke" references to his girlfriend, Holly Rice, in his scripts. For example, an employee who kicks in the episode "Pusher" is named Holly.
*In the second movie of X-Files franchise, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, the name "Gilligan" can clearly be seen on Mulder's cell phone as he scrolls through its phone book for Scully's name, moments before Mulder becomes distracted by doing so and consequently crashes the car he is driving.
*Vince Gilligan appears in The Stupendous Yappi’s commercial as one of the callers.
==Credits==
===The X-Files===
Episode 	Episode 	Credit
Season 2	Season 2	Season 2
*"Soft Light"	
*"Soft Light"	Writer
Season 3	Season 3	Season 3
*"Pusher"	
*"Pusher"	Writer/Creative Consultant
*"Revelations"
*""
*"Syzygy"
*"Grotesque"
*"Piper Maru"
*"Apocrypha"
*"Teso Dos Bichos"	
*"Hell Money"
*"José Chung's From Outer Space"
*"Avatar"
*"Quagmire"
*"Wetwired"
*"Talitha Cumi"	Creative Consultant
Season 4	Season 4	Season 4
*"Unruhe"
*"Paper Hearts"
*"Leonard Betts"(writer w/ John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)	
*"Memento Mori" (writer w/ Chris Carter, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
*"Small Potatoes"	Writer/Co-Producer
*"Herrenvolk"
*"Home"
*"Teliko"
*"The Field Where I Died"
*"Sanguinarium"
*""
*"Tunguska"
*"Terma"
*"El Mundo Gira"
*"Never Again"	
*"Kaddish"
*"Unrequited"
*"Tempus Fugit"
*"Max"
*"Synchrony"
*"Zero Sum"
*"Elegy"
*"Demons"
*"Gethsemane"	Co-Producer
Season 5	Season 5	Season 5
*"Unusual Suspects"
*"Christmas Carol"(writer w/ John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
*"Emily"(writer w/ John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)	
*"Kitsunegari"(writer w/ Tim Minear)
*"Bad Blood"
*"Folie à Deux"	Writer/Supervising producer
*"Redux"
*"Redux II"
*"Detour"
*"The Post-Modern Prometheus"
*"Schizogeny"
*"Chinga"
*"Kill Switch"	
*"Patient X"
*"The Red and the Black"
*"Travelers"
*"Mind's Eye"
*"All Souls"
*"The Pine Bluff Variant"
*"The End"	Supervising producer
Season 6	Season 6	Season 6
*"Drive"
*"Dreamland"
*"Dreamland II"
*"Tithonus"	
*"Monday"(writer w/ John Shiban)
*"Three of a Kind"(writer w/ John Shiban)
*"Field Trip"(writer w/ John Shiban)	Writer/Co-Executive Producer
*"The Beginning"
*"Triangle"
*"
*"Terms of Endearment"
*"The Rain King"
*"S.R. 819"
*"Two Fathers"
*"One Son"	
*"Agua Mala"
*"Arcadia"
*"Alpha"
*"Trevor"
*"Milagro"
*"The Unnatural"
*"Biogenesis"	Co-Executive Producer
Season 7	Season 7	Season 7
*"Je Souhaite"	
*"Je Souhaite"	Director/Writer/Co-Executive Producer
*Hungry"
*"Millennium"(writer w/ Frank Spotnitz)
*"The Amazing Maleeni"(writer w/ John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)	
*"X-Cops"
*"Theef"	Writer/Co-Executive Producer
*"The Sixth Extinction"
*"The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati"
*"Rush"
*"The Goldberg Variation"
*"Orison"
*"Signs and Wonders"
*"Sein Und Zeit"
*"Closure"	
*"First Person Shooter"
*"En Ami"
*"Chimera"
*"all things"
*"Brand X"
*"Hollywood A.D."
*"Fight Club"
*"Requiem "	Co-Executive Producer
Season 8	Season 8	Season 8
*"Roadrunners"	
*"Roadrunners"	Writer/Executive Producer
*"Within"
*"Without"
*"Patience"
*"Invocation"
*"Redrum"
*"Via Negativa"
*"Surekill"
*"Salvage"
*"Badlaa"
*"The Gift"	
*"Medusa"
*"Per Manum"
*"This Is Not Happening"
*"DeadAlive"
*"Three Words"
*"Empedocles"
*"Vienen"
*"Alone"
*"Essence"
*"Existence"	Executive Producer
Season 9	Season 9	Season 9
*"Sunshine Days"	
*"Sunshine Days"	Director/Writer/Executive Producer
*"John Doe"	
*"Jump the Shark"	Writer/Executive Producer
*"Nothing Important Happened Today"
*"Nothing Important Happened Today II"
*"Dæmonicus"
*"4-D"
*"Lord of the Flies"
*"Trust No 1"
*"Hellbound"
*"Provenance"	
*"Providence"
*"Audrey Pauley"
*"Underneath"
*"Improbable"
*"Scary Monsters"
*"William"
*"Release"
*"The Truth"	Executive Producer
===The Lone Gunmen===
Episode 	Episode 	Credit
Season 1	Season 1	Season 1
*"Pilot"(w/ , and )
*"Bond, Jimmy Bond"(w/ John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
*"Planet of the Frohikes"	
*"Maximum Byers"(w/ Frank Spotnitz)
*"Cap'n Toby Show"(w/ John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz)
*"All About Yves"(w/ John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz	Writer/Executive Producer
*"Eine Kleine Frohike"
*"Like Water for Octane"
*"Three Men and a Smoking Diaper"
*"Madam, I'm Adam"
*"Diagnosis: Jimmy"	
*"Tango de los Pistoleros"
*"The Lying Game"
*"All About Yves"
*"Cap'n Toby Show"	Executive Producer
==External links==
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*Better Call 'Pusher': Vince Gilligan’s Tragic Men & Monsters at The Companion
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