Michael Schultz
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.
Scavenger Hunt
(Director)
Which Way Is Up?
(Director)
Disorderlies
(Director)
Cooley High
(Director)
The Last Dragon
(Director)
Krush Groove
(Director)
Greased Lightning
(Director)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(Director)
Woman Thou Art Loosed
(Director)
Livin' Large!
(Director)
Car Wash
(Director)
Krush Groove
(Producer)
Timestalkers
(Director)
Carbon Copy
(Director)
Earth, Wind & Fire in Concert
(Director)
Tarzan in Manhattan
(Director)
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
(Director)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
(Director)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
(Director)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
(Director)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
(Director)
Killers in the House
(Director)
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
(Director)
The Spirit
(Director)
Together for Days
(Director)
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
(Director)
Jury Duty: The Comedy
(Director)
L.A. Law: The Movie
(Director)
Day-O
(Director)
Bustin' Loose
(Director)
My Last Love
(Director)
Rock 'N Roll Mum
(Director)
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
(Director)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
(Director)
Phat Beach
(Executive Producer)
The Jerk, Too
(Director)
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
(Director)
Benny's Place
(Director)
Boston Public
(Director)
Movin' On
(Director)
Brothers and Sisters
(Director)
The Practice
(Director)
Baretta
(Director)
Sisters
(Director)
Women's Murder Club
(Director)
Privileged
(Director)
Jack & Bobby
(Director)
Chicago Hope
(Director)
Pepper Dennis
(Director)
In Plain Sight
(Director)
L.A. Law
(Director)
The Education of Max Bickford
(Director)
Everwood
(Director)
Family Law
(Director)
Lincoln Heights
(Director)
Promised Land
(Director)
Charmed
(Director)
Dirty Sexy Money
(Director)
October Road
(Director)
Eli Stone
(Director)
Cold Case
(Director)
City of Angels
(Director)
Chuck
(Director)
Touched by an Angel
(Director)
JAG
(Director)
Arrow
(Director)
Philly
(Director)
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
(Director)
Ally McBeal
(Director)
Starsky & Hutch
(Director)
Gilmore Girls
(Director)
Diagnosis: Murder
(Director)
The O.C.
(Director)
Felicity
(Director)
Wasteland
(Director)
Drop Dead Diva
(Director)
black-ish
(Director)
Hart of Dixie
(Director)
Dead of Summer
(Director)
The Tomorrow People
(Director)
Switched at Birth
(Director)
Recovery Road
(Director)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
(Director)
No Tomorrow
(Writer)
No Tomorrow
(Director)
Black Lightning
(Director)
All American
(Director)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
(Director)
The Rockford Files
(Director)
New Girl
(Director)
All American: Homecoming
(Director)
Found
(Director)
The Wonder Years
(Director)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
(Director)