Jeff Speakman

Jeff Speakman

Born: November 8, 1958
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jeff Speakman was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he became a All-American springboard diver in high school. He broke records in his school's district and conference all without ever having a coach. Determined to go to college, he worked for six years and graduated with honors from Missouri State College, earning a bachelor's degree in psychology with a minor in biology. Jeff currently holds a 6th-degree black belt in Japanese Goju-Ryu and a 6th-degree black belt in American Kenpo Karate. He is also found and director of American Kenpo Karate Systems (AAKS), an international kenpo karate organization with more than 50 schools. In 1993, Jeff was inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame as "Instructor of the Year." Jeff has only been studying acting for the past ten years.

Movies for Jeff Speakman...

Title: The Art of Action
Character: Self
Released: June 28, 2020
Type: TV
International action star Scott Adkins talks with some of the world's most renowned names in the action and martial arts film industry to discover what it takes to make good action movies and how to film fights.
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Striking Range
Title: Striking Range
Character: Kilmer
Released: June 1, 2006
Type: Movie
When millionaire businessman Ted Billings (Glenn Morshower) double-crosses his partners in a weapons deal, he decides to hire some protection. Billings enlists Eugene "Vash" Vasher (Lou Diamond Phillips) a mercenary-for-hire and soon, Vash is fighting off assaults on his boss from all sides, but on top of that, he doesn't even like Billings who has a hidden agenda. Among the shoot-outs and chases, Vash forms a bond with Emily (Yancy Butler) Billings' chief-of-security and Vash's former flame who's not all that she appears to be.
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The Gunman
Title: The Gunman
Character: Scott Sherwin
Released: April 6, 2004
Type: Movie
When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
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Night Terror
Title: Night Terror
Character: Professor Eric Lang
Released: November 11, 2002
Type: Movie
College kids investigating a derelict fun house, unwittingly resurrect Donnie, a psychopath who died in the haunt twenty-years earlier. Mayhem ensues.
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Hot Boyz
Title: Hot Boyz
Character: Master Keaton
Released: January 15, 2000
Type: Movie
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's jailed for murder by the infamous Ramparts Division of the LAPD. Kool wants to prove her innocence, and Tully, the cynical detective in charge, ignores LaShawna's case but uses Kool to break up an incipient crime operation. She's in danger because the guilty parties fear that the officer talked before he died. While in jail awaiting a hearing and legal help, she's beaten to death by a rogue cop. Kool vows revenge: the Hot Boyz are born.
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Memorial Day
Title: Memorial Day
Character: Edward Downey
Released: May 18, 1999
Type: Movie
An embittered satellite expert gets the opportunity for revenge against the USA by aiding terrorists in a plan to destroy the country's military base.
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Running Red
Title: Running Red
Character: Greg / Gregori
Released: March 30, 1999
Type: Movie
Gregori is an ex-Soviet Commando haunted by the death of his brother, and trying to forget his old life in the US. However, Gregori realizes after he has already started a family of his own that the past is never far behind. A former superior from his days as a Russkie hired gun orders him to kill some people or watch his new family die. It looks like Gregori doesn't have much of a choice, because he's grown fond of having Angie Everhart for a wife...
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Land of the Free
Title: Land of the Free
Character: Frank Jennings
Released: November 24, 1998
Type: Movie
A politician's campaign manager (Speakman) discovers that the candidate (Shatner) is a front for a military organization plotting a political overthrow of the government. In trying to expose the candidate's right-wing activities, he puts himself and his family in danger of being killed.
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Title: V.I.P.
Character: Jeff Speakman
Released: September 26, 1998
Type: TV
While attending a Hollywood premiere with a famous action star, a crazed fan pulls a gun—but her movie hunk turns into a coward, and it's Vallery who becomes the hero. Suddenly, she's thrown into a world of action and danger as owner of a Hollywood protection agency, Vallery Irons Protection (V.I.P.), taking risks to protect others at a price few are willing to pay.
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Scorpio One
Title: Scorpio One
Character: Jared Stone
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Using ultra-advanced technology, scientists aboard Scorpio One have made a monumental discovery -- and paid for it with their lives. Now, with time and oxygen running out, Scorpio One is about to become ground zero for an explosive showdown high above the Earth, where the stakes are nothing less than the future of the world.
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Plato's Run
Title: Plato's Run
Character: Dominick
Released: May 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Hired to rescue escaped inmates, a Florida man is framed for a Cuban gangster's assassination.
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Escape from Atlantis
Title: Escape from Atlantis
Character: Matt Spencer
Released: March 29, 1997
Type: Movie
In order to try to bring together his bickering family, a single father takes his three rebellious teenagers on a vacation trip to the Bahamas. They inadvertently wind up in the Bermuda Triangle, where they are whisked through a time portal and brought to the mythical island of Atlantis. There they are drawn into a fantastical conflict between the peace-loving population and a would-be tyrant determined to take over the island. In their desperate attempts to return home they encounter mythical creatures, evil magicians, and ancient powers.
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Deadly Outbreak
Title: Deadly Outbreak
Character: Sgt. Dutton Hatfield
Released: March 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Dutton Hatfield, played by Jeff Speakman, is working for the American embassy. He finds himself inside a biochemical weapon laboratory when terrorists headed by Colonel Baron (played by TimeCop villain Ron Silver) take over the place. Baron is looking for a sample of a deadly virus that is being developed inside the facility.
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Timelock
Title: Timelock
Character: McMasters
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In the 23rd century, a penal colony in a distant galaxy falls into anarchy when an inmate loads a virus into the computer system. While cryonic suspension was used to control the most dangerous criminals there, with the computers down these deadly men are back in circulation and determined to cause mayhem. With a gang of brilliant but dangerous inmates in control, a petty thief and the driver of the prison shuttle must stand against these lawless men for their own survival.
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The Expert
Title: The Expert
Character: John Lomax
Released: August 15, 1995
Type: Movie
It was a brutal murder that sent deranged psychopath Martin Kagan to prison. It was a naive deputy warden that granted him a stay of execution. Now, the police department's tactical defence instructor, John Lomax, wants revenge for his beloved sister's death.
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Street Knight
Title: Street Knight
Character: Jake Barrett
Released: March 12, 1993
Type: Movie
A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.
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The Perfect Weapon
Title: The Perfect Weapon
Character: Jeff Sanders
Released: March 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old friend, but is too late to prevent Kim's death at the hands of an unknown hitman. Vowing revenge, Jeff takes on all of the families, using his martial arts skills to find the man who killed his friend.
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Lionheart
Title: Lionheart
Character: Mansion Security Man
Released: June 7, 1990
Type: Movie
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.
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Side Roads
Title: Side Roads
Character: Joseph Velasco
Released: August 24, 1988
Type: Movie
Stylish noir thriller about an ex-con attempting to get his life in order, who is slowly drawn into an intricate murder plot.
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Slaughterhouse Rock
Title: Slaughterhouse Rock
Character: Cafe Patron
Released: May 21, 1988
Type: Movie
A man visits Alcatraz prison after having dreams about all the people who died there. When he gets there, his brother is possessed by an evil cannibal demon. The ghost of a female heavy metal singer who was killed there tries to help the man fight the monster.
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Title: Hunter
Character: Officer
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.