James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American actor and musician. Marsters first came to the attention of the general public playing the popular character Spike, a platinum-blond English vampire in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series, Angel from 1997 to 2004. Since then, he has gone on to play other science fiction roles, such as the alien supervillain Brainiac on the Superman-inspired series Smallville, the omnisexual time traveller Captain John Hart in British science-fiction show Torchwood and terrorist Barnabas Greeley in Syfy's Caprica. In 2007, Marsters appeared in a supporting role in the mainstream movie P.S. I Love You and as the main antagonist, Piccolo, in the 2009 fantasy adventure film Dragonball Evolution. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Marsters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2024Abruptio — Les Hackel
• 2024Isla Monstro — Reggie (voice)
• Casa Grande — Miller Dalton
• Curses! — Larry (voice)
• Leverage: Redemption — Carl
• The Order — Xavier
• 2018A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold — Jason
• 2018A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While — Jason
• DuckTales — Nosferatu (voice)
• Marvel's Runaways — Victor Stein
• 2016New Life — William Morton
• 2015Billie Bob Joe
• 2015Dudes & Dragons — Lord Tensley
• Witches of East End — Mason Tarkoff
• Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man — Korvac/Chitauri #3 (voice)
• Metal Hurlant Chronicles — Docteur Rowan, Brad Davis
• 2011Three Inches — Troy Hamilton
• Three Inches
• Caprica — Barnabas Greeley
• Hawaii Five-0 — Victor Hesse
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated — Dandy Highwayman (voice)
• 2009Dragonball Evolution — Lord Piccolo
• 2009High Plains Invaders — Sam Danville
• Lie to Me — Jay Pollack
• 2009Moonshot — Buzz Aldrin
• The Super Hero Squad Show — Mister Fantastic
• Warehouse 13 — Sutton
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — Captain Argyus (voice)
• The Capture of the Green River Killer — Ted Bundy
• 2007P.S. I Love You — John
• Saving Grace — Dudley Payne
• 2007Shadow Puppets — Jack
• 2007Superman: Doomsday — Lex Luthor (voice)
• Torchwood — Captain John Hart
• 2005Cool Money — Bobby Comfort
• Numb3rs — Damian Lake
• Supernatural — Don Stark
• The Mountain
• Spider-Man: The New Animated Series — Sergei (voice)
• 2003Strange Frequency² — Mitch (segment 'Soul Man')
• 2002Chance — Simon
• Without a Trace — Grant Mars
• Smallville — Milton Fine
• Strange Frequency — Mitch Brand
• Andromeda — Charlemagne Bolivar
• Angel — Spike
• 1999House on Haunted Hill — Channel 3 Cameraman
• 1999Winding Roads — Billy Johnson
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Spike
• Millennium — Eric Swan
• Moloney — Billy O'Hara
• Medicine Ball — Mickey Collins
• Northern Exposure — Reverend Harding

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Rove — Self
• Hollywood Squares — Self - Panelist