Known For
Directing
Born
Nov 10, 1938
Place of Birth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Credits
100 titles
Michael Schultz
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.
Known For
Filmography
SEGAL
Self
Found
Director
All American: Homecoming
Director
The Wonder Years
Director
I Am Richard Pryor
Self - Filmmaker
All American
Director
Black Lightning
Director
No Tomorrow
Writer
Dead of Summer
Director
Recovery Road
Director
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Director
Return of the Dragon
Self
black-ish
Director
The Tomorrow People
Director
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self
Arrow
Director
Once Upon a Time
Director
Hart of Dixie
Director
New Girl
Director
Switched at Birth
Director
Directors on Directing
Self
Drop Dead Diva
Director
Privileged
Director
In Plain Sight
Director
Eli Stone
Director
Women's Murder Club
Director
Dirty Sexy Money
Director
Chuck
Director
October Road
Director
Lincoln Heights
Director
Brothers and Sisters
Director
Pepper Dennis
Director
Woman Thou Art Loosed
Director
Jack & Bobby
Director
Cold Case
Director
The O.C.
Director
Everwood
Director
L.A. Law: The Movie
Director
Philly
Director
The Education of Max Bickford
Director
Boston Public
Director
Gilmore Girls
Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
Director
City of Angels
Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
Director
Wasteland
Director
Family Law
Director
My Last Love
Director
Killers in the House
Director