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.
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Films (43)
SEGAL
2025 · Self
I Am Richard Pryor
2019 · Self - Filmmaker
Return of the Dragon
2015 · Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Self
Directors on Directing
2009 · Self
Woman Thou Art Loosed
2004 · Director
L.A. Law: The Movie
2002 · Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000 · Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
2000 · Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
1999 · Director
My Last Love
1999 · Director
Killers in the House
1998 · Director
Phat Beach
1996 · Executive Producer
Les Aventures du Jeune Indiana Jones : Travels with Father
1996 · Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
1994 · Director
Day-O
1992 · Director
Livin' Large!
1991 · Director
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
1990 · Director
Jury Duty: The Comedy
1990 · Director
Tarzan in Manhattan
1989 · Director
Rock 'N Roll Mom
1988 · Director
Disorderlies
1987 · Director, Producer
The Spirit
1987 · Director
Timestalkers
1987 · Director
Krush Groove
1985 · Director, Producer
The Last Dragon
1985 · Director
The Jerk, Too
1984 · Director
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983 · Director
Earth, Wind & Fire in Concert
1982 · Director
Benny's Place
1982 · Director
Carbon Copy
1981 · Director
Scavenger Hunt
1979 · Director
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978 · Director
Which Way Is Up?
1977 · Director
Greased Lightning
1977 · Director
Car Wash
1976 · Director
Cooley High
1975 · Director
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
1975 · Director
Bee Gees: Live in Melbourne 1974
1974 · Director
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
1974 · Director
Together for Days
1972 · Director
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972 · Director
Shock Treatment
· Director
Séries (57)
Found : Les Oubliés
2023 · Director
Desafío Americano: Nuevos comienzos
2022 · Director
Les Années Coup de Cœur
2021 · Director
Desafío americano
2018 · Director
Black Lightning
2018 · Director
No Tomorrow
2016 · Writer, Director
Dead of Summer
2016 · Director
Recovery Road
2016 · Director
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2015 · Director
'black•ish
2014 · Director
The Tomorrow People
2013 · Director
Arrow
2012 · Director
Il était une fois
2011 · Director
Hart of Dixie
2011 · Director
New Girl
2011 · Director
Switched
2011 · Director
Diva de l'au-delà
2009 · Director
Privileged
2008 · Director
U.S. Marshals, Protection de témoins
2008 · Director
Eli Stone
2008 · Director
Club contra el crimen
2007 · Director
Dirty Sexy Money
2007 · Director
Chuck
2007 · Director
October Road
2007 · Director
Retour à Lincoln Heights
2007 · Director
Brothers and Sisters
2006 · Director
Pepper Dennis
2006 · Director
Jack & Bobby
2004 · Director
Cold Case : Affaires classées
2003 · Director
Newport Beach
2003 · Director
Everwood
2002 · Director
Philly
2001 · Director
The Education of Max Bickford
2001 · Director
Boston Public
2000 · Director
Gilmore Girls
2000 · Director
City of Angels
2000 · Director
Wasteland
1999 · Director
Associées pour la loi
1999 · Director
Hechiceras
1998 · Director
Felicity
1998 · Director
Ally McBeal
1997 · Director
The Practice : Bobby Donnell & Associés
1997 · Director
Promised Land
1996 · Director
JAG: Justicia Militar
1995 · Director
Les Anges du bonheur
1994 · Director
Chicago Hope
1994 · Director
Diagnostic : Meurtre
1993 · Director
Brisco County
1993 · Director
Les Aventures du jeune Indiana Jones
1992 · Director
Sisters
1991 · Director
L.A. Law
1986 · Director
American Playhouse
1982 · Director
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · Director
Baretta
1975 · Director
Midi Première
1975 · Self
The Rockford Files
1974 · Director
Movin' On
1974 · Director