# Buffy: Is James Marsters/Spike's accent convincing to Brits?

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**Created:** [April 17, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buffy-is-james-marsters-spikes-accent-convincing-to-brits/169421 "2003-04-17T22:34:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buffy-is-james-marsters-spikes-accent-convincing-to-brits/169421/81 "2016-07-25T13:21:42Z")

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Being retired now, I can weigh in on all these old threads that are revived. If you though Michael Caine’s American accent was bad in “Cider House”, you should hear him do southern American, as in “Hurry Sundown”. (1967).

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