Richard "Ringo" Langly was born circa 1968-69 and raised on a farm in Saltsville, Nebraska, which he hated. From a very young age, little Ringo Langly showed amazing aptitude with the computer, although his parents didn't exactly approve of his pursuits. While we don't know if he ever went to college and got a degree in computer programming, we do know that he is the Gunmen's communications expert, able to crack into just about anything to get the information they need.
Unlike Byers, Langly doesn't put much stock in personal appearance. He wears unapologetically geeky glasses, heavy-metal/punk band T-shirts, running pants, and converse hi-tops. He barely brushes his long blonde hair, and is frequently mistaken for a girl as a result. On top of that, Langly is perhaps the sauciest, most sarcastic Gunmen, who is always ready to make a snide comment to those that he considers beneath him (just about everyone).
Apart from being a computer god (or, perhaps, because of it), Langly is the über-geek. His Dungeons and Dragons alias is "Lord Manhammer" and he will spend two weeks playing a computer game, forsaking everything else. And yet, for some reason, we see no indication of him ever having a girlfriend. When Frohike teases him--calling him a 32-year-old virgin, Langly is strangely silent, giving Frohike a resigned, hurt look. He seems particularly upset when he realizes he's trying to convince Charlie Muckle to leave a virtual reality heaven of perfect weather and abundant sex. Is it any wonder he's so cynical?
A result of this is his very delicate pride. Langly always works to make sure that everyone knows that he is the best hacker out there. In "The Unusual Suspects," Langly will not help Frohike and Byers until Frohike admits to him that "Your [Langly's] Kung Fu is the best." Likewise, any indication that someone else should do his hacking for him is met with Langly's utter indignation. Unfortunately for Langly, this is made even worse by the fact that when he does go to Kimmy for help, Kimmy usually mocks him the entire time. His quest to be the absolute best computer hacker in the universe gets him into more trouble than is healthy.
Langly may very well be the most paranoid of the three (although not by much). In "Fearful Symmetry" he was the only one who didn't teleconference with Mulder because he didn't want his image being bounced off of a satellite. Likewise, in "Like Water for Octane," he was the first one to suspect (with some gentle prompting from Jimmy) that the FOI document was a plant.
Another staid feature of our boy Ringo is his delicate stomach. There have been at least three episodes when Langly has been unable to contain his lunch. In "Three of a Kind," he rushes out of the room during an autopsy, in "Bond, Jimmy Bond," he purges himself of a stomachfull of gasoline, and in "Like Water for Octane" he can't seem to take sight of the dead FOI clerk. There have been many other opportunities for Langly to vomit, but he seems to be getting better at keeping it down.
Raised in Winnipeg, Canada, Haglund began acting at a young age, then pursuing standup comedy in local bars. Receiving a B.A. in theatre, dance, and video production from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, he joined the Vancouver TheatreSports League. Not only performing improv comedy, Haglund also helped script some of the group's routines, and eventually cowrote the pilot for the situation comedy "Channel 92." His television credits included bit parts on "Sliders," "Lonesome Dove: the Return," "Street Justice," "Home Improvement," and he also provides a voice of Dr. Cornelius Neumeier on the "Robocop animated series," and also provides a voice on "Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot."