[1] Owens has performed in many feature films, often in minor roles, including appearances in Cocktail and The Recruit.

Later that year, he played the Frankenstein-esque Great Mutato in a surreal episode called "The Post-Modern Prometheus".

[2] Owens was credited as 'Also Starring' but only appeared in eight episodes, spread across the show's fifth and sixth seasons, before his character died at the hand of his father.

Owens returned in a 2002 episode called "William", playing a hideously disfigured Jeffrey Spender who had survived the "murder".

[3] Owens appeared one final time as Jeffrey Spender, on January 3rd, 2018, in The X-Files Eleventh Season Premiere, "My Struggle III", in order to warn Agent Scully and also divulged the last name of her son’s adoptive parents.