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

• 2026Nightmares — Producer
• 2022Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — Soul of the Damned (voice)
• 2011Hostel: Part III — Director, Producer
• 2009Drag Me to Hell — Mourner at Death Feast
• 2007Babysitter Wanted — Dr. Spiegel
• 2007Gimme Skelter — Thanks
• 2007Hostel: Part II — Executive Producer
• 2006Hostel — Executive Producer
• 20052001 Maniacs — Strolling Minstrel #2, Producer
• 2004My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure — Director
• 2004Spider-Man 2 — Man on Balcony
• 2002Hatred Of A Minute — Bored Party Guest
• 2002Spider-Man — Marine Cop
• 1999From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money — Porno Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1996Where Truth Lies — Prison Guard
• 1995Nude Bowling Party — Joe Pornofsky
• 1995The Quick and the Dead — Gold Teeth Man
• 1995Wild Malibu Weekend! — Make-Up Shemp #1
• 1994Pulp Fiction — Thanks
• 1993Red — The caller
• 1992The Making of High Noon — Sound
• 1992The Nutt House — Story
• 1990Darkman — Dockworker
• 1990Lionheart — Pool Fight Bookie
• 1990Skinned Alive — Phink
• 1990The Girl I Want — Guy 2
• 1990The Rookie — Screenplay
• 1989Hit List — Writer
• 1989Intruder — Bread Man, Director, Screenplay
• 1989Robot Ninja — Marty Coleslaw
• 1989The Dead Next Door — Richards
• 1987Evil Dead II — Fake Shemp, Screenplay
• 1985The Sappy Sap — Man
• 1985Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except — Pin Cushion, Screenplay
• 1983The Evil Dead — Fake Shemp
• 1982Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter — Screenplay, Producer
• 1981Torro. Torro. Torro! — Director, Writer
• 1980Stryker's War — Marine
• 1980The Blind Waiter — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1979Attack of the Helping Hand! — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1979Night Crew — Director
• 1979Within the Woods — Scotty
• 1978Acting and Reacting
• 1977The Final Round — Manager
• 1976James Bombed in "Here Today... Gun Tomorrow" — Director
• 1976The Case of the Topanga Pearl
• 1975I'll Never Heil Again — Director, Producer
• 1975The James Hoffa Story — Producer
• 1974All the World's a Stooge — Director
• 1974Curse of the Werewolf — Director
• 1974Half-Wits-Holiday — Director
• 1974No Dough Boys — Director
• 1974The Singing Nutzs — Director, Writer
• 1973A Night in a Sanitarium — Director
• 1972Oedipus Rex
• 1969Inspector Clutz Saves the Day — Igor the Monster, Costumer, Director, Writer
• Dark Ascension — Man in Hell, Additional Writing
• Tube Bar 35th Anniversary Collection — The caller
• Wrath — Director, Writer, Producer

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)
• 2019QT8: The First Eight — Self
• 2014Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist — Self
• 2012Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever — Self
• 2011Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder — Self
• 2011Swallowed Souls: The Making of 'Evil Dead 2' — Self
• 2009Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare — Self
• 2007The Cult of Ichi — Self
• 2002Pulp Fiction: The Facts — Self
• 1992Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion — Himself
• 1991Shock Cinema: Volume One — Himself
• The Incredibly Strange Film Show — Self