James Marsters

Person · Open Library

Works

10

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1962-08-20

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339,671

James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962 in Greenville, California) is an American actor and musician, best known for playing the popular platinum-blonde character Spike, a British vampire, in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series Angel. James Marsters sang in the American rock band Ghost of the Robot on their album Mad Brilliant and the E.P. 'It's Nothing'. Since the band's break up he has released two solo albums, Civilized Man and Like a Waterfall, and ha

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 84,879x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 68,277x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 66,823x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,474x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,710x

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Quotes

• “Spike's was a very simple philosophy when we met him. I think that now he is forming one, and I think that the best thing that he has come up with so far is that a lot of being human is about degradation and pain and humiliation. I think he's starting to understand that for the first time. I think he got away from that by becoming a vampire and that's why he was so keen to stop being human, but he's getting back to being human now.”
• “I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.”
• “I have turned roles down because they are rapists. It's something I don't even want to watch. If I even click on it on TV, I have to click it off or I'll put my foot through the screen... What you see on that screen is just my terror at having to do that scene.”
• “He (Spike) probably fell in love with Buffy when he first saw her, but didn't admit it to himself because he was already in love with Dru...”
• “I'm a psychopath, but I don't have a problem with that.”
• “[Spike] is a sadist and he is never happier than when he is hurting people or killing people, but he is truly, sincerely, deeply in love with Drusilla.”

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Key facts

Born

James Wesley Marsters , ( 1962-08-20 ) August 20, 1962 (age 63) , Greenville, California , U.S.

Other names

David Gray Sam Majesters

Education

Allan Hancock College Juilliard School

Occupations

Actor voice actor musician singer comic book writer audiobook narrator

Years active

1987–present

Spouses

Liane Davidson ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1997 ) ​ Patricia Jasmin Rahman ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2021 ) ​

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