Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1957-12-24
Day of Death
2025-08-20
Place of Birth
Birmingham, Michigan, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Scott Spiegel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (48)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
QT8: The First Eight
2019
Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist
2014
Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
2012
Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder
2011
Swallowed Souls: The Making of 'Evil Dead 2'
2011
Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
2009
Drag Me to Hell
2009
Babysitter Wanted
2007
The Cult of Ichi
2007
2001 Maniacs
2005
Spider-Man 2
2004
Pulp Fiction: The Facts
2002
