Michael Schultz
Directing
Born 1938-11-10
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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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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Directing
59 credits
Arrow
Charmed
Chicago Hope
Gilmore Girls
JAG
Once Upon a Time
New Girl
Diagnosis: Murder
Everwood
Cold Case
The O.C.
The Practice
All American
Chuck
black-ish
L.A. Law
The Rockford Files
Touched by an Angel
Switched at Birth
Brothers and Sisters
Felicity
Starsky & Hutch
Boston Public
Drop Dead Diva
Hart of Dixie
Black Lightning
In Plain Sight
Found
Baretta
American Playhouse
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Family Law
Ally McBeal
The Tomorrow People
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Eli Stone
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Dirty Sexy Money
Dead of Summer
All American: Homecoming
The Wonder Years
Promised Land
Jack & Bobby
Pepper Dennis
October Road
Women's Murder Club
Recovery Road
Lincoln Heights
City of Angels
Movin' On
Privileged
The Education of Max Bickford
No Tomorrow
The Last Dragon
Philly
Wasteland
Disorderlies
Car Wash
Carbon Copy
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