Michael Schultz
Directing
Born: November 10, 1938 (age 87) · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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
Arrow
2012
Charmed
1998
Once Upon a Time
2011
New Girl
2011
Gilmore Girls
2000
Chuck
2007
Black Lightning
2018
The O.C.
2003
All American
2018
Cold Case
2003
JAG
1995
The Tomorrow People
2013
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Directing (92)
Arrow
Director
Charmed
Director
Gilmore Girls
Director
JAG
Director
New Girl
Director
Once Upon a Time
Director
Cold Case
Director
Chicago Hope
Director
Diagnosis: Murder
Director
The O.C.
Director
American Playhouse
Director
Everwood
Director
The Wonder Years
Director
The Practice
Director
black-ish
Director
The Rockford Files
Director
Touched by an Angel
Director
All American
Director
Chuck
Director
Switched at Birth
Director
L.A. Law
Director
Brothers and Sisters
Director
Felicity
Director
Hart of Dixie
Director
Starsky & Hutch
Director
In Plain Sight
Director
Drop Dead Diva
Director
Black Lightning
Director
Boston Public
Director
Family Law
Director
Baretta
Director
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Director
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Director
Ally McBeal
Director
Dirty Sexy Money
Director
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Director
Eli Stone
Director
The Tomorrow People
Director
Found
Director
All American: Homecoming
Director
Promised Land
Director
Jack & Bobby
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Women's Murder Club
Director
October Road
Director
Lincoln Heights
Director
Movin' On
Director
Pepper Dennis
Director
The Last Dragon
Director
Recovery Road
Director
City of Angels
Director
Philly
Director
Dead of Summer
Director
The Education of Max Bickford
Director
No Tomorrow
Director
Privileged
Director
Greased Lightning
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Wasteland
Director
Disorderlies
Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
Director
Car Wash
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
Director
Timestalkers
Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
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Scavenger Hunt
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Carbon Copy
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Krush Groove
Director
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
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Cooley High
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Which Way Is Up?
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The Spirit
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L.A. Law: The Movie
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Jury Duty: The Comedy
Director
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
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Tarzan in Manhattan
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The Jerk, Too
Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
Director
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Director
Woman Thou Art Loosed
Director
Rock 'N Roll Mom
Director
Day-O
Director
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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Honeybaby, Honeybaby
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Livin' Large!
Director
My Last Love
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Bee Gees: Live in Melbourne 1974
Director
Together for Days
Director
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
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Benny's Place
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Killers in the House
Director
Sisters
Director
Earth, Wind & Fire in Concert
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