Scott Spiegel
Acting • Born 1957-12-24 – Died 2025-08-20
Biography
Scott Spiegel (December 10, 1957 – August 20, 2025) was an American screenwriter, film director, producer and actor. He is best known for co-writing the screenplay for the movie Evil Dead II with longtime friend, film director Sam Raimi, with whom he attended Wylie E. Groves High School in Birmingham, Michigan. Spiegel played the role of Scotty in Raimi's Within the Woods, which served as a precursor to The Evil Dead. When Spiegel first moved to Los Angeles, he shared a house in with directors Raimi and Joel Coen, producer Ethan Coen and actresses Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand and Kathy Bates. He shared yet another house with roommate and film editor Bob Murawski (Spider-Man). In the early 1990s, he introduced film director Quentin Tarantino to producer Lawrence Bender, who helped Tarantino get Reservoir Dogs made. Spiegel grew up in what was then "rural" Birmingham, Michigan. He attended Walnut Lake Elementary school and then went on to attend West Maple Jr. High School. It was here that Scott met Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. Spiegel worked at the local grocery market across from Walnut Lake Elementary School and it is from this market that Scott would later draw upon the memories to come up with classic scenes that would eventually be worked into many of the scenes of the movies he would either write or direct. In 1999, Spiegel directed the direct-to-video sequel to From Dusk Till Dawn, Texas Blood Money. Spiegel formed the production company Raw Nerve with film directors Eli Roth, and Boaz Yakin. Raw Nerve produced the film Hostel (2005), directed by Roth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Scott Spiegel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
51 credits
Within the Woods
Movie • 1979
Scotty
Wild Malibu Weekend!
Movie • 1995
Make-Up Shemp #1
Skinned Alive
Movie • 1990
Phink
Robot Ninja
Movie • 1989
Marty Coleslaw
Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion
Movie • 1992
Himself
Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist
Movie • 2014
Self
Red
Movie • 1993
The caller
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Movie • 2022
Soul of the Damned (voice)
The Case of the Topanga Pearl
Movie • 1976
The Blind Waiter
Movie • 1980
Darkman
Movie • 1990
Dockworker
Dark Ascension
Movie
Man in Hell
Spider-Man
Movie • 2002
Marine Cop
Spider-Man 2
Movie • 2004
Man on Balcony
Inspector Clutz Saves the Day
Movie • 1969
Igor the Monster
The Evil Dead
Movie • 1981
Fake Shemp
The Sappy Sap
Movie • 1985
Man
Babysitter Wanted
Movie • 2007
Dr. Spiegel
Shock Cinema: Volume One
Movie • 1991
Himself
The Girl I Want
Movie • 1990
Guy 2
Curse of the Werewolf
Movie • 1974
A Night in a Sanitarium
Movie • 1973
Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
Movie • 1985
Pin Cushion
The Dead Next Door
Movie • 1989
Richards
Drag Me to Hell
Movie • 2009
Mourner at Death Feast
Oedipus Rex
Movie • 1972
Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder
Movie • 2011
Self
Evil Dead II
Movie • 1987
Fake Shemp
Swallowed Souls: The Making of 'Evil Dead 2'
Movie • 2011
Self
Nude Bowling Party
Movie • 1995
Joe Pornofsky
2001 Maniacs
Movie • 2005
Strolling Minstrel #2
Where Truth Lies
Movie • 1996
Prison Guard
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
Movie • 1999
Porno Director
The Quick and the Dead
Movie • 1995
Gold Teeth Man
Lionheart
Movie • 1990
Pool Fight Bookie
Intruder
Movie • 1989
Bread Man
Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
Movie • 2012
Self
Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter
Movie • 1982
Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
Movie • 2009
Self
Acting and Reacting
Movie • 1978
Stryker's War
Movie • 1980
Marine
Torro. Torro. Torro!
Movie • 1981
QT8: The First Eight
Movie • 2019
Self
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Pulp Fiction: The Facts
Movie • 2002
Self
Hatred Of A Minute
Movie • 2002
Bored Party Guest (credited as Peter Perkinson)
Torro. Torro. Torro!
Movie • 1981
The Cult of Ichi
Movie • 2007
Self
Clockwork
Movie • 1979
Serial Killer
Six Months to Live
Movie • 1977
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
TV • 1988
Self