Michael Schultz

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1938-11-10 (86 years old)

Place of Birth Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Also Known As Michael A. Schultz

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

Director

2023
Found

as Director

2022
2021
The Wonder Years

as Director

2018
Black Lightning

as Director

2018
All American

as Director

2016
Dead of Summer

as Director

2016
Recovery Road

as Director

2016
No Tomorrow

as Director

2015
2014
black-ish

as Director

2013
2012
Arrow

as Director

2011
Hart of Dixie

as Director

2011
Switched at Birth

as Director

2011
New Girl

as Director

2009
Drop Dead Diva

as Director

2008
Privileged

as Director

2008
In Plain Sight

as Director

2008
Eli Stone

as Director

2007
2007
Lincoln Heights

as Director

2007
Dirty Sexy Money

as Director

2007
October Road

as Director

2007
Chuck

as Director

2006
2006
Pepper Dennis

as Director

2004
2004
Jack & Bobby

as Director

2003
Cold Case

as Director

2003
The O.C.

as Director

2002
2002
Everwood

as Director

2001
Philly

as Director

2000
Boston Public

as Director

2000
City of Angels

as Director

2000
Gilmore Girls

as Director

1999
My Last Love

as Director

1999
Family Law

as Director

1999
Wasteland

as Director

1998
1998
Charmed

as Director

1998
Felicity

as Director

1997
The Practice

as Director

1997
Ally McBeal

as Director

1996
Promised Land

as Director

1995
JAG

as Director

1994
Chicago Hope

as Director

1994
1993
Diagnosis: Murder

as Director

1992
Day-O

as Director

1991
Livin' Large!

as Director

1991
Sisters

as Director

1990
1990
1989
1988
Rock 'N Roll Mum

as Director

1987
Disorderlies

as Director

1987
Timestalkers

as Director

1987
The Spirit

as Director

1986
L.A. Law

as Director

1985
The Last Dragon

as Director

1985
Krush Groove

as Director

1984
The Jerk, Too

as Director

1982
Benny's Place

as Director

1981
Carbon Copy

as Director

1981
Bustin' Loose

as Director

1979
Scavenger Hunt

as Director

1977
Which Way Is Up?

as Director

1977
Greased Lightning

as Director

1976
Car Wash

as Director

1975
Cooley High

as Director

1975
Baretta

as Director

1975
Starsky & Hutch

as Director

1974
1974
Movin' On

as Director

1974
The Rockford Files

as Director

1972
Together for Days

as Director

Actor

Segal

as Self

2019
I Am Richard Pryor

as Self - Filmmaker

1975

Producer

1996
Phat Beach

as Executive Producer

1985
Krush Groove

as Producer

Writer

2016
No Tomorrow

as Writer