---
name: "Rob Spera"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rob-spera"
fi1m_id: "rob-spera"
imdb_id: "nm0818237"
tmdb_id: 84982
wikidata_id: "Q113305085"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T13:15:07.175916+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Rob Spera

## Identity

Rob Spera

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rob-spera
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rob-spera
- **IMDb ID:** nm0818237
- **TMDB ID:** 84982
- **Wikidata ID:** Q113305085
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113305085, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818237/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84982

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Also known as:** Robert Angelo, Robert Spera, Robert Spira
- **Frequently works with:** [Chris Long](https://film.one/person/chris-long.md), [Guy Bee](https://film.one/person/guy-norman-bee.md), [Jan Eliasberg](https://film.one/person/jan-eliasberg.md), [J. Miller Tobin](https://film.one/person/j-miller-tobin.md), [John Badham](https://film.one/person/john-badham.md), [John Showalter](https://film.one/person/john-f-showalter.md), [Paul Shapiro](https://film.one/person/paul-shapiro.md), [Peter Ellis](https://film.one/person/peter-ellis.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as director, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113305085, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818237/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84982

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Supernatural*](https://film.one/tv/supernatural.md) (77)
- **Apple TV:** [*Criminal Minds*](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md) (60)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Rob Spera is an American director and writer of film and television. He has directed episodes of *Supernatural* (2013) and *Criminal Minds* (2007–2012), as well as *Army Wives* and *Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior*.

His film credits include *Leprechaun in the Hood* (2000), on which he also contributed the story and co-produced, *Sexual Predator* (2001), a segment of the television film *Fathers and Sons* (2005, which he also wrote), and *The Sweet Life* (2016).

Spera has a background in theatre as Resident Director at the Tony Award-winning Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he directed over seventy-five productions. He taught directing fellows at the American Film Institute Conservatory for twenty years.

*Sources: imdb.com, robspera.com, criminalminds.fandom.com, supernatural.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Criminal Minds* (2005), Fi1m 60, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md)
- *Supernatural* (2005), Fi1m 77, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/supernatural.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Sweet Life* (2017), Director
- *Army Wives* (2007), series, Director
- *Criminal Minds* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md)
- *Supernatural* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/supernatural.md)
- *Fathers and Sons* (2005), Director, Writer
- *The Kids Who Saved Summer* (2004), Director
- *Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp* (2003), Director
- *Sexual Predator* (2001), Director
- *Leprechaun in the Hood* (2000), Director, Story, Co-Producer
- *Midnight Temptations 2* (1999), Writer, Director
- *Stray Bullet* (1999), Director
- *Call Girl* (1995), Director, Writer
- *The Minister's Wife* (1992), Director, Writer
- *Witchcraft* (1988), Director

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