Richard Speight Jr.

Television

Speight has starred in commercials for such brands as Got Milk?; IBM; Pepsi; and Disney. He has also directed several commercials for Pepsi as well as for other major brands.

Speight played Sgt. Warren "Skip" Muck in the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning World War II miniseries Band of Brothers, produced for HBO by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Speight appeared in several television series, such as The Agency; ER; Jericho; Party of Five and JAG.

In 2007, he landed a recurring role on the drama Supernatural (U.S. TV series) where he played 'The Trickster'/Loki (later revealed to be the Archangel Gabriel). Making a surprise return in 2018, Speight's characters returned to the screens as dual roles of Gabriel and Loki in the season 13 episode "Unfinished Business", while simultaneously directing the episode himself.

He has guest starred on Life (U.S. TV series), Memphis Beat, Longmire (TV series), and had a small recurring role on Justified (TV series). He also had a guest role on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2014, and in 2017 on Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders Season 2 Episode 5 (titled "Made In..." April 2017), a police procedural series on CBS, as a guest star along with friend and co-worker Rob Benedict.

Film

Speight's earlier work included a role in the film, Ernest Goes to Camp; and a regular role on the NBC Saturday morning sitcom, Running the Halls. He had a brief appearance in the film, Thank You for Smoking, directed and written by fellow USC alumnus Jason Reitman. Speight appeared in Speed 2: Cruise Control and The Last Big Attraction. He had a starring role in Jason Reitman's short film, In God We Trust.

His more recent productions include "La Musica Provata", "The Week (2016)", "Mucho Dinero", "Brick Madness", "Bad, Bad Men", and "Death House" (2016). Speight plays a lead role as an FBI agent in a thriller, "The Evil Gene" (2016). A feature length comedy thriller "Driven" is in post-production to be released late 2018 to early 2019 by Dead Leaf Productions. Speight will be playing a lead role as a mysterious taxi rider.

Web series

Speight is a close friend of actor Rob Benedict. The two of them often appear at conventions in tandem. Together, they created the comedy web-series "Kings of Con" based on their experiences at conventions for Supernatural, a TV show in which they both were featured actors and beloved characters. Speight is co-writer, producer, director, and actor in "Kings of Con," and plays a "heightened version of himself" as character Richard Slate. With the support of a successful Indiegogo campaign, the series launched on November 15, 2016 at Comic Con Headquarters in the U.S., and internationally through multiple platforms such as GooglePlay.

An after show called "Kings of Conversation" is available through their Facebook page, featuring guests from episodes to discuss behind the scenes stories and uniquely themed segments including "What's Real?", "Fan-art (f-art)", and "Photo Ops".

Directing and writing

Speight's directing career began with co-directing/co-starring in the independent feature North Beach.

Speight wrote and directed the satirical social comedy America 101. The festival darling and award-winning 10-minute short stars Band of Brothers veteran, Rick Gomez; and co-stars Amy Gumenick (a veteran of "Supernatural") and North Beach alums Jayden Lund and Jim Hanna. The short feature is described thusly: "One man's life becomes as the lesson of the day as he takes a frenetic ride through his personal vision of the American experience."^[2] It is now available on iTunes.

The success of " America 101" launched Speight into the world of commercial directing. He has helmed several spots for Pepsi among other national brands.

Following his success in commercial directing and rigorous preparation in Warner Bros. TV Director's Workshop, Speight made debut as TV show director on Supernatural's season 11 episode "Just My Imagination" – the first episode to have been nominated for Hugo Awards 2016 in the show's current history. He went on to direct four more episodes over the course of the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth seasons. In 2018, Speight directed the season 13 episode "Unfinished Business" while playing the dual roles of Gabriel and Loki in the episode at the same time.

Podcast

Speight has participated in several podcasts including Thrilling Adventure Hour (Episodes 148, 159, 165, 171, 195, 196).

Music

Speight plays the guitar and bass. He has been in several bands, his first record as a cover band in high school, The Distortion Hawgs, where he performed lead vocals. In his college years, he was in the band Strange Neighbors with actor/harmonica player Tim Omundson, as well as in the band Fugitive Pope (1995) as the guitarist.

Speight participates as a guest singer on several albums by singer songwriter & producer Jason Manns – "Christmas with Friends (2014)", "Covers with Friends (2016), and "Recovering with Friends (2018)". He will be working with Jason Manns on a solo album sometime in 2019.

Film

Television

Music videos

As a director