Michael Schultz
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 10, 1938 (age 88)
- Birthplace
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Biography
Schultz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Katherine Frances (née Leslie), a factory worker, and German American Leo Schultz, an insurance salesman. After his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Marquette University, he attended Princeton University, where in 1966 he directed his first play, a production of Waiting for Godot. He joined the Negro Ensemble Company in 1968, which brought him to Broadway in 1969. His breakthrough was directing Lorraine Hansberry's To Be Young, Gifted and Black, which he restaged for television in 1972. Schultz' earliest film projects combined low comedy with profound social comment (Honeybaby, Honeybaby and Cooley High), reaching a peak with the ensemble comedy Car Wash (1976) and Which Way Is Up? (1977), starring Richard Pryor. In 1978, Schultz took the reins of the musical Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with the largest budget ever entrusted to an African-American film director to that date. However, upon its release, the project was a commercial and critical failure. Schultz would go on to make prominent films such as Scavenger Hunt (1979), Carbon Copy (1981), and Disorderlies (1987). More recently, Schultz has worked in television, piloting episodes of such style-conscious series as The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Picket Fences, as well as an abundance of made-for-TV movies. In 1991, Schultz was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.
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Filmography
Shock Treatment
Movie · Director
Found
TV · Director · 2 eps
All American: Homecoming
TV · Director · 4 eps
The Wonder Years
TV · Director · 1 ep
Black Lightning
TV · Director · 3 eps
All American
TV · Director · 14 eps
Dead of Summer
TV · Director · 1 ep
Recovery Road
TV · Director · 1 ep
No Tomorrow
TV · Director · 1 ep
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
TV · Director · 1 ep
black-ish
TV · Director · 6 eps
The Tomorrow People
TV · Director · 1 ep
Arrow
TV · Director · 8 eps
Hart of Dixie
TV · Director · 3 eps
Switched at Birth
TV · Director · 1 ep
New Girl
TV · Director · 3 eps
Once Upon a Time
TV · Director · 1 ep
Drop Dead Diva
TV · Director · 2 eps
Privileged
TV · Director · 1 ep
In Plain Sight
TV · Director · 1 ep
Eli Stone
TV · Director · 3 eps
Women's Murder Club
TV · Director · 1 ep
Lincoln Heights
TV · Director · 1 ep
Dirty Sexy Money
TV · Director · 2 eps
October Road
TV · Director · 1 ep
Chuck
TV · Director · 3 eps
Brothers and Sisters
TV · Director · 14 eps
Pepper Dennis
TV · Director · 1 ep
Woman Thou Art Loosed
Movie · Director
Jack & Bobby
TV · Director · 2 eps
Cold Case
TV · Director · 1 ep
The O.C.
TV · Director · 1 ep
L.A. Law: The Movie
Movie · Director
Everwood
TV · Director · 16 eps
The Education of Max Bickford
TV · Director · 1 ep
Philly
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
Movie · Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Movie · Director
Boston Public
TV · Director · 3 eps
City of Angels
TV · Director · 1 ep
Gilmore Girls
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
Movie · Director
My Last Love
Movie · Director
Family Law
TV · Director · 1 ep
Wasteland
TV · Director · 1 ep
Killers in the House
Movie · Director
Charmed
TV · Director · 2 eps
Felicity
TV · Director · 2 eps
The Practice
TV · Director · 8 eps
Ally McBeal
TV · Director · 7 eps
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
Movie · Director
Promised Land
TV · Director · 2 eps
JAG
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
Movie · Director
Chicago Hope
TV · Director · 6 eps
Touched by an Angel
TV · Director · 8 eps
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
TV · Director · 1 ep
Diagnosis: Murder
TV · Director · 1 ep
Day-O
Movie · Director
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
TV · Director · 1 ep
Livin' Large!
Movie · Director
Sisters
TV · Director · 2 eps
Jury Duty: The Comedy
Movie · Director
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
Movie · Director
Tarzan in Manhattan
Movie · Director
Rock 'N Roll Mom
Movie · Director
Disorderlies
Movie · Director
Timestalkers
Movie · Director
The Spirit
Movie · Director
L.A. Law
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Last Dragon
Movie · Director
Krush Groove
Movie · Director
The Jerk, Too
Movie · Director
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Movie · Director
Earth, Wind & Fire in Concert
Movie · Director
Benny's Place
Movie · Director
American Playhouse
TV · Director · 1 ep
Carbon Copy
Movie · Director
Scavenger Hunt
Movie · Director
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Movie · Director
Which Way Is Up?
Movie · Director
Greased Lightning
Movie · Director
Car Wash
Movie · Director
Cooley High
Movie · Director
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
Movie · Director
Baretta
TV · Director · 1 ep
Starsky & Hutch
TV · Director · 4 eps
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
Movie · Director
Bee Gees: Live in Melbourne 1974
Movie · Director
Movin' On
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Rockford Files
TV · Director · 1 ep
Together for Days
Movie · Director
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Movie · Director