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Name
Scott Spiegel

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1957-12-24

Deathday
2025-08-20 (68 years old)

Place of Birth
Birmingham, Michigan, USA

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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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

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

1988 The Incredibly Strange Film Show ( 1 episode ) as Self

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