---
name: "Tom Braidwood"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-braidwood"
fi1m_id: "tom-braidwood"
imdb_id: "nm0104006"
tmdb_id: 113017
wikidata_id: "Q1431084"
roles: ["First assistant director"]
born: "27 September 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T01:31:55.078154+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Tom Braidwood

## Identity

Tom Braidwood

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tom-braidwood
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tom-braidwood
- **IMDb ID:** nm0104006
- **TMDB ID:** 113017
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1431084
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Braidwood, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1431084, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104006/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113017

First assistant director. Born 27 September 1948 in British Columbia, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** First assistant director
- **Born:** 27 September 1948, British Columbia, Canada
- **Active:** 1993–1998
- **Also known as:** Tom E. Braidwood, Thomas Braidwood
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 crew
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Braidwood, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1431084, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104006/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113017

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The X-Files*](https://film.one/film/the-x-files-1998.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Tom Braidwood is a Canadian actor and director. Born on 27 September 1948 in British Columbia, he began working in film and television production in Vancouver in 1977, initially as a production assistant and location manager before taking on assistant director roles.

He is best known for portraying Melvin Frohike, one of the Lone Gunmen, in the television series *The X-Files* (1993–2018) and the spin-off *The Lone Gunmen* (2001). While serving as first assistant director on *The X-Files* during its first five seasons, Braidwood was cast in the recurring role, which appeared across 40 episodes. He also appeared as Frohike in the 1998 feature film *The X-Files*. His other acting credits include *Alien Trespass* (2009), *Messages Deleted* (2010) and *Viper* (1994).

Braidwood worked as a second unit director on *Millennium* and as a producer and director on *Da Vinci's Inquest*. He largely retired from acting and production around 2010 but returned to reprise Frohike in the 2016 revival of *The X-Files*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *The X-Files* (1998), Fi1m 64, as Frohike — [page](https://film.one/film/the-x-files-1998.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *The X-Files* (1993), Fi1m 84, First Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Amazon Falls* (2010), as Tommy
- *Messages Deleted* (2010), as Sailorman
- *Alien Trespass* (2009), as Ed Sanders
- *Reverse* (2008), First Assistant Director
- *The X-Files: I Want to Believe* (2008), Second Unit First Assistant Director
- *Packing Up* (2004), First Assistant Director, Dolly Grip
- *Zixx* (2004), series, Director
- *Tilt* (2003), as Sam Penzer
- *Exchange* (2003), First Assistant Director
- *The Lone Gunmen* (2001), series, as Melvin Frohike
- *Edgemont* (2001), series, Director
- *Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby* (2000), Second Unit First Assistant Director
- *Da Vinci's Inquest* (1998), series, Director
- *The X-Files* (1998), as Frohike — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-x-files-1998.md)
- *Cold Squad* (1998), series, Actor
- *Viper* (1994), series, as Larry
- *The Only Way Out* (1993), as Court Official
- *The X-Files* (1993), series, as Melvin Frohike · First Assistant Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)
- *The Movie Movie* (1986), as Butcher shop owner
- *My American Cousin* (1985), as Wally
- *Danger Bay* (1985), series, First Assistant Director
- *Harry Tracy, Desperado* (1982), as Aspen Storekeeper
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, as Wally
- *Limited Engagement* (1976), Director
- *Backbone* (1972), Director

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