Scott Spiegel
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.
Photos
Movies (70)
Nightmares
2026 · Producer
Doctor Strange en el multiverso de la locura
2022 · Soul of the Damned (voice)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021 · Self (archive footage)
QT8: The First Eight
2019 · Self
Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist
2014 · Self
Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
2012 · Self
Hostel: Part III
2011 · Director, Producer
Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder
2011 · Self
Swallowed Souls: The Making of 'Evil Dead 2'
2011 · Self
Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
2009 · Self
Drag Me to Hell
2009 · Mourner at Death Feast
Babysitter Wanted
2007 · Dr. Spiegel
Gimme Skelter
2007 · Thanks
Hostel: Part II
2007 · Executive Producer
The Cult of Ichi
2007 · Self
Hostel
2006 · Executive Producer
2001 Maniacs
2005 · Strolling Minstrel #2, Producer
My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
2004 · Director
Spider-Man 2
2004 · Man on Balcony
Pulp Fiction: The Facts
2002 · Self
Spider-Man
2002 · Marine Cop
Hatred Of A Minute
2002 · Bored Party Guest
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
1999 · Porno Director, Director, Story, Screenplay
Where Truth Lies
1996 · Prison Guard
The Quick and the Dead
1995 · Gold Teeth Man
Nude Bowling Party
1995 · Joe Pornofsky
Wild Malibu Weekend!
1995 · Make-Up Shemp #1
Pulp Fiction
1994 · Thanks
Red
1993 · The caller
The Nutt House
1992 · Story
The Making of High Noon
1992 · Sound
Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion
1992 · Himself
Shock Cinema: Volume One
1991 · Himself
The Rookie
1990 · Screenplay
The Girl I Want
1990 · Guy 2
Darkman
1990 · Dockworker
Lionheart
1990 · Pool Fight Bookie
Skinned Alive
1990 · Phink
Robot Ninja
1989 · Marty Coleslaw
The Dead Next Door
1989 · Richards
Hit List
1989 · Writer
Intruder
1989 · Bread Man, Director, Screenplay
Evil Dead II
1987 · Fake Shemp, Screenplay
Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
1985 · Pin Cushion, Screenplay
The Sappy Sap
1985 · Man
The Evil Dead
1983 · Fake Shemp
Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter
1982 · Screenplay, Producer
Torro. Torro. Torro!
1981 · Director, Writer
Stryker's War
1980 · Marine
The Blind Waiter
1980 · Director, Writer, Producer
Within the Woods
1979 · Scotty
Attack of the Helping Hand!
1979 · Director, Writer, Producer
Night Crew
1979 · Director
Acting and Reacting
1978
The Final Round
1977 · Manager
The Case of the Topanga Pearl
1976
James Bombed in "Here Today... Gun Tomorrow"
1976 · Director
The James Hoffa Story
1975 · Producer
I'll Never Heil Again
1975 · Director, Producer
The Singing Nutzs
1974 · Director, Writer
No Dough Boys
1974 · Director
All the World's a Stooge
1974 · Director
Half-Wits-Holiday
1974 · Director
Curse of the Werewolf
1974 · Director
A Night in a Sanitarium
1973 · Director
Oedipus Rex
1972
Inspector Clutz Saves the Day
1969 · Igor the Monster, Writer, Costumer, Director
Dark Ascension
· Man in Hell, Additional Writing
Tube Bar 35th Anniversary Collection
· The caller
Wrath
· Producer, Director, Writer
