Peter Donat

Pierre Collingwood Donat, known as Peter Donat, was a Canadian actor. He was a co-founding company member of the American Conservatory Theater, and a frequent player at the Stratford Festival. He was also known to television audiences for his roles as Elmo Tyson on the primetime soap opera Flamingo Road (1981–82) and as William Mulder, the father of Fox Mulder, on The X-Files (1995–99). He won a Theatre World Award for The First Gentleman (1957), and was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Bay Boy (1984).