Known for Acting
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.
Born
December 24, 1957
Died
August 20, 2025 (age 67)
Birthplace
Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Filmography
101 films, 1 show


Hostel: Part III
2011 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.


My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
2004 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's bodyguard. When she's unable to prevent the owner's murder at the hands of an old foe, Modesty is hell-bent on seeking revenge. --- An adaptation of the Modesty Blaise novels and comic strip by Peter O'Donnell.


From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
1999 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar, the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood.


Intruder
1989 · 1h 28m
country: United States
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.


Torro. Torro. Torro!
1981 · 7m
country: Unknown
A lawnmower goes on a rampage.


The Blind Waiter
1980 · 15m
country: Unknown
Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.


Night Crew
1979 · 6m
country: Unknown
A pre-EVIL DEAD Super 8 short from Scott Spiegel and Sam Raimi that became the basis for INTRUDER.


Attack of the Helping Hand!
1979 · 6m
country: United States
General Mills' popular Hamburger Helper mascot also known as Helping Hand or Lefty, a four-fingered, left-hand white glove, which appears on the product's packaging, comes to life in a woman's kitchen and tries to grope her and kill her.


James Bombed in "Here Today... Gun Tomorrow"
1976 · 18m
country: Unknown
Parody of a James Bond film starring Bruce Campbell.


I'll Never Heil Again
1975 · 19m
country: Unknown
A re-working of the classic 'Three Stooges' WWII short 'You Natzy Spy!' (1940).


The Singing Nutzs
1974 · 8m
country: Unknown
A comical take on the title of the 1966 Debbie Reynolds film 'The Singing Nun'.


No Dough Boys
1974 · 11m
country: Unknown
Spiegel, Taylor, & Quill get jobs, get fired, get chased, get beaten.


All the World's a Stooge
1974 · 6m
country: Unknown
Bruce tries to teach Spiegel, Taylor, & Quill how to play tennis, but he hasn't go tthe balls!


Half-Wits-Holiday
1974 · 11m
country: Unknown
Super-8 remake of the classic 'Three Stooges' pie fight flick Half-Wits-Holiday (1947), shot silent, with an original stooges soundtrack on tape.


Curse of the Werewolf
1974 · 2m
country: United States
American horror short from 1974.


A Night in a Sanitarium
1973
country: United States
American horror short from 1973.


Inspector Clutz Saves the Day
1969
country: United States
Professor needs a brain to have his monster, Igor, alive. Wrong brain causes monster to kill the creator and then Inspector Klutz shoots the monster.