Michael Schultz

Known for DirectingBorn 1938-11-10 (age 87)Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Benny's Place

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men

City of Angels

Midi Première

Lincoln Heights

All American

Charmed

Family Law

Together for Days

Women's Murder Club

Gilmore Girls

Drop Dead Diva

Cold Case

Chuck

The O.C.

Wasteland

All American: Homecoming

The Practice

Boston Public

Everwood

Switched at Birth

Once Upon a Time

New Girl

Hart of Dixie

Jack & Bobby

The Rockford Files

Philly

black-ish

JAG

The Wonder Years

Chicago Hope

L.A. Law: The Movie

Privileged

In Plain Sight

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

Brothers and Sisters

Touched by an Angel

Black Lightning

Sisters

I Am Richard Pryor

The Tomorrow People

Diagnosis: Murder

Starsky & Hutch

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

Killers in the House

L.A. Law

Arrow

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend