Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4436
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jason Spisak works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jason Spisak appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jason. Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, science fiction, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brandon Vietti, Jeff Wamester, Katie Rice and others, Jason Spisak helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018) as Bradley Bass (voice) · Watchmen: Chapter I (2024) as Doug Roth / President Kennedy / Restaurant Cook (voice) · Watchmen: Chapter II (2024) as Doug Roth / Bully #2 / Hector Godfrey (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4436 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2011–2024
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
Most frequent director
Brandon Vietti
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Brandon Vietti
Most common genre
Animation
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 27m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.5
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters, Batman: Hush, Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters, Batman: Hush, Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost.
Most productive era
2020s
6 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.21 film | 7.32 films |
| Action | 7.03 films | 6.73 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.21 film |
| Comedy | 7.03 films | 5.91 film |
| Crime | 7.12 films | — |
| Romance | 6.21 film | — |
| Horror | — | 5.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hipster.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
8.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Doug Roth / President Kennedy / Restaurant Cook (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
11 of 11 films
as Bradley Bass (voice)
Directed by Doug Murphy
as Doug Roth / Bully #2 / Hector Godfrey (voice)
Directed by Brandon Vietti
as Doug Roth / President Kennedy / Restaurant Cook (voice)
Directed by Brandon Vietti
as Blue Lantern Razer / Hayseed (voice)
Directed by Jeff Wamester
as Jason Todd / Red Hood (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Bradley Bass (voice)
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Bradley Bass (voice) gives Jason Spisak a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Doug Roth / Bully #2 / Hector Godfrey (voice)
Watchmen: Chapter II (2024)
Performance score7.2
Watchmen: Chapter II asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doug Roth / Bully #2 / Hector Godfrey (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Doug Roth / President Kennedy / Restaurant Cook (voice)
Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)
Performance score7.2
Watchmen: Chapter I asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doug Roth / President Kennedy / Restaurant Cook (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Blue Lantern Razer / Hayseed (voice)
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024)
Performance score7.1
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Blue Lantern Razer / Hayseed (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Bradley Bass (voice)
Start here. Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost is the clearest statement of what Jason Spisak does — accessible, 77 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jason at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost but asks for a colder reading of it.
Watchmen: Chapter II (2024)
Keeps the animation register of LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters but asks for a colder reading of it.
Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)
Same director as Watchmen: Chapter II, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024)
Keeps the science fiction register of Watchmen: Chapter I but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brandon Vietti
Director
2 films together
Notably Watchmen: Chapter I
Jay Oliva
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: Bad Blood
Doug Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman: Red Son
Katie Rice
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse
Jeff Wamester
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Brandon Vietti
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Watchmen: Chapter IDoug Murphy
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet GhostJeff Wamester
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part ThreeSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman: Red SonJay Oliva
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman: Bad BloodMatt Peters
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO DC Batman: Family MattersKatie Rice
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the MultiverseSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Bradley Bass (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Everything Must Go
as Hipster
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Bradley Bass (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
as Blue Lantern Razer / Hayseed (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Bradley Bass (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Jason Spisak has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Animation Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in animation, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Watchmen: Chapter II
as Doug Roth / Bully #2 / Hector Godfrey (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: Hush
as The Joker (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Everything Must Go
as Hipster
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Watchmen: Chapter II
as Doug Roth / Bully #2 / Hector Godfrey (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Bradley Bass (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Batman: Bad Blood
as The Calculator / Kuttler / Killer Moth (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Bradley Bass (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Everything Must Go
as Hipster
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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