Career
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Spigelgass got his start collaborating on the script for Erich Von Stroheim"s Hello, Sister! (1933). Additional screen credits include The Big Street (1942), I Was a Male War Bride (1949), Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), Silk Stockings (1957), Pepe (1960), and Gypsy (1962). Spigelgass signed on as a staff writer for Universal Studios in 1938 and was a colonel in the United States Army Signal Corps.
Spigelgass also was a playwright and penned such dramas as Dear Maine the Sky Is Falling, The Wrong Way Light Bulb, and A Remedy for Winter, the comedy A Majority of One, and the book for the musical Look to the Lilies.
He also wrote plays for such television series as Playhouse 90 and the novels Million Dollar Baby and Federation to the Teeth. He himself was nominated in 1950 for the story for Mystery Street and garnered three Writers Guild of America nominations over the course of his career.
Spigelgass died in Los Angeles, California.