Scott Spiegel

Scott Spiegel December 10 1957 August 20 2025 was an American screenwriter film director producer and actor He is best known for cowriting 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 Raimis 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 SpiderMan 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 directtovideo 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia