Scott Spiegel

Scott Spiegel (born December 24, 1957) is 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.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	(Executive) Producer	Writer	Actor	Role	Notes
1977	It's Murder!		N	N	N	Detective	Short film
1978	Clockwork				N	The Killer
	Within the Woods				N	Scotty
1979	Attack of the Helping Hand	N	N	N
1980	The Blind Waiter	N	N	N	N	Chef
1982	Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter		N	N	N	Native
1985	Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except		N	N	N	Pin Cushion
1987	Evil Dead II			N
1989	The Dead Next Door				N	Richards
	Intruder	N		N	N	Bread Man
1990	The Rookie			N
	Lionheart				N	Pool Fight Bookie
1992	The Nutt House	N		N			Credited as Peter Perkinson
1995	The Quick and the Dead				N	Gold Teeth Man
1999	From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money	N		N
2004	Spider-Man 2				N	Rooftop Pizza Thief
	My Name is Modesty	N					Direct-to-DVD
2005	2001 Maniacs		N
	Hostel		N
2007	Hostel: Part II		N
2009	Drag Me to Hell				N	Mourner at Death Feast
2011	Hostel: Part III	N	N				Direct to DVD
2014	Wrath	N	N
	Welcome to Purgatory		N
TBA	Spring Break '83	N					Yet to be released

Collaborations

	The Blind Waiter	Attack of the Helping Hand	Intruder	The Nutt House	From Dusk Till Dawn II	My Name is Modesty	Hostel: Part III
Bruce Campbell	N		N		N
Raymond Cruz					N	N
Barry Livingston				N			N
Sam Raimi	N	N	N
Emil Sitka			N	N

External links

• Scott Spiegel at the Internet Movie Database