#steve kiziak

[koschei-the-ginger]

My rating of fake Mulders in the x-files

Ed Jerse - potrayed by Rodney Rowland

younger than Mulder, creepier than Mulder, this guy is supposed to look like him just enough for it to bother you. totally looks like someone who would kill his neighbour. 7/10

Kansas city FBI agent - portrayed by Steve Kiziak

virtually irrecognizable from some angles, eastern european, real life stunt double, even gets his ass beaten to a pulp by Kansas city Scully. I love him. 9.5/10

fake txf movie Mulder portrayed by Gary Shandling - potrayed by real Gary Shandling

appearance wise not a good fit but I love a good internal joke and he's horny enough - 7/10

Agent Miller - potrayed by Robbie Amell

minimal resemblance, zero charisma, character flatter and plainer than a toast bread, he's not even eastern european, he's not even jewish, absolutely terrible -100000000/10

[katherinechris]

David Duchovny and his body double Steve Kiziak

Steve Kiziak remembers the day he was discovered by Hollywood.

It was 1995. He was a 25-year-old electrician walking down Vancouver’s Main Street when a white van slowed down to almost a complete stop to check him out.

“I could see people’s noses pressed up against the glass. I was being stared at and I was pretty freaked out,” Kiziak recalled.

He wasn’t being stalked. He was being recruited, albeit in a creepy “stranger danger” way. Inside the van was a production crew from the X-Files, including David Nutter, the show’s director, who were doing some location scouting in Kiziak’s Mt. Pleasant neighbourhood.

“Nutter pretty much asked me on the spot if I wanted a job,” said Kiziak, who turned the chance encounter into a 20-year career as a professional stand-in.

For the next five seasons, three in Vancouver and two in Los Angeles, Kiziak doubled actor David Duchovny as FBI special agent Fox Mulder on the science fiction show. He performed the same duties on two X-Files movies and the coming revival series shot in Vancouver last year.

Vancouver casting agent Lisa Ratke, who worked on the X-Files, usually relies on a database with 10,000 actors when casting extras and stand-ins. Kiziak is the only one she can remember being grabbed off the street.

“It’s all completely unusual. David Nutter told the van driver to ‘Stop the van, stop the van. Oh my god, oh my god … that guy looks exactly like David Duchovny,’” Ratke said.

[startwreck]

A rare Steve sighting that I didn’t notice til this rewatch

[throwback1009]

David Duchovny and his doppelganger Steve Kiziak.

[startwreck]

Re The End - are you saying that Steve Kiziak is standing in for DD in that particular scene? I only see him credited as a stand-in in Hollywood A.D. and IWTB. I'm curious why they'd need to use him in that scene; unless DD was unavailable for a back shot for some reason. It just really looks like DD's back- also that scene had a number of face shots so why wouldn't they do it in one? Do you have the backstory? Just curious since I've always assumed it's all DD.

It's not Steve for the entire scene (clearly, since it's DD's face), but that very last shot is definitely Steve. On mobile so I'll spare you the comparison shots, but Steve is taller, has a different hair/neckline, and has poufier hair than DD here. I'm not sure what the story is -- just assumed it was an eleventh hour desire for another shot, or for that angle, that they couldn't fit into DD/GA's filming schedules (they might have already left Vancouver to start working on Fight The Future.) I really love this shot regardless, think it's a beautiful image to end on, and it's really a testament to everyone who worked on it that I, self-proclaimed Mulder hairline aficionado, didn't notice it til now. I'm not sure what the rules are in terms of crediting stand-ins, but I'm pretty sure he worked consistently throughout the series when DD was in it. I think there's a Vancouver Sun article about him from 2016 that states something to that effect.