High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alvin D. Kersh is a fictional character in the American Fox television series The X-Files, a science fiction series about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of extraterrestrial existence. Kersh was introduced as an Assistant Director at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the sixth-season opener, "The Beginning", when Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully were temporarily transferred under his supervision. The two agents were previously in charge of the X-Files office, which is concerned with cases with particularly mysterious or possibly supernatural circumstances that were left unsolved and shelved by the FBI; in contrast to their previous supervisor, Assistant Director Walter Skinner, who had become their ally, Kersh kept them away from the X-Files and even attempted to separate the two partners. After not appearing in the seventh season, he was re-introduced in the season-eight opener, "Within", as a new Deputy Director at the FBI. The character was portrayed by American actor James Pickens, Jr.