Scott Spiegel
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.
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Full filmography
- Spider-Man (2002) as Marine Cop
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) as Soul of the Damned (voice)
- Spider-Man 2 (2004) as Man on Balcony
- The Evil Dead (1981) as Fake Shemp
- Evil Dead II (1987) as Fake Shemp
- Drag Me to Hell (2009) as Mourner at Death Feast
- Lionheart (1990) as Pool Fight Bookie
- The Quick and the Dead (1995) as Gold Teeth Man
- Darkman (1990) as Dockworker
- The Incredibly Strange Film Show (1988) as Self
- 2001 Maniacs (2005) as Strolling Minstrel #2
- Nude Bowling Party (1995) as Joe Pornofsky
- From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) as Porno Director
- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend (2021) as Self (archive footage)
- Intruder (1989) as Bread Man
- QT8: The First Eight (2019) as Self
- Dark Ascension as Man in Hell
- Within the Woods (1979) as Scotty
- Babysitter Wanted (2007) as Dr. Spiegel
- Pulp Fiction: The Facts (2002) as Self
- Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever (2012) as Self
- The Dead Next Door (1989) as Richards
- Robot Ninja (1989) as Marty Coleslaw
- Where Truth Lies (1996) as Prison Guard