Michael Schultz
Directing
1938-11-10 · 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.
Filmography
SEGAL
2025 · Movie
Found
2023 · Series
All American: Homecoming
2022 · Series
The Wonder Years
2021 · Series
I Am Richard Pryor
2019 · Movie
All American
2018 · Series
Black Lightning
2018 · Series
No Tomorrow
2016 · Series
Dead of Summer
2016 · Series
Recovery Road
2016 · Series
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2015 · Series
Return of the Dragon
2015 · Movie
black-ish
2014 · Series
The Tomorrow People
2013 · Series
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Movie
Arrow
2012 · Series
Once Upon a Time
2011 · Series
Hart of Dixie
2011 · Series
New Girl
2011 · Series
Switched at Birth
2011 · Series
Directors on Directing
2009 · Movie
Drop Dead Diva
2009 · Series
Privileged
2008 · Series
In Plain Sight
2008 · Series
Eli Stone
2008 · Series
Women's Murder Club
2007 · Series
Dirty Sexy Money
2007 · Series
Chuck
2007 · Series
October Road
2007 · Series
Lincoln Heights
2007 · Series
Brothers and Sisters
2006 · Series
Pepper Dennis
2006 · Series
Woman Thou Art Loosed
2004 · Movie
Jack & Bobby
2004 · Series
Cold Case
2003 · Series
The O.C.
2003 · Series
Everwood
2002 · Series
L.A. Law: The Movie
2002 · Movie
Philly
2001 · Series
The Education of Max Bickford
2001 · Series
Boston Public
2000 · Series
Gilmore Girls
2000 · Series
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000 · Movie
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
2000 · Movie
City of Angels
2000 · Series
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
1999 · Movie
Wasteland
1999 · Series
Family Law
1999 · Series
My Last Love
1999 · Movie
Killers in the House
1998 · Movie
Charmed
1998 · Series
Felicity
1998 · Series
Ally McBeal
1997 · Series
The Practice
1997 · Series
Promised Land
1996 · Series
Phat Beach
1996 · Movie
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
1996 · Movie
JAG
1995 · Series
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
1994 · Movie
Touched by an Angel
1994 · Series
Chicago Hope
1994 · Series
Diagnosis: Murder
1993 · Series
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
1993 · Series
Day-O
1992 · Movie
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 · Series
Livin' Large!
1991 · Movie
Sisters
1991 · Series
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
1990 · Movie
Jury Duty: The Comedy
1990 · Movie
Tarzan in Manhattan
1989 · Movie
Rock 'N Roll Mom
1988 · Movie
Disorderlies
1987 · Movie
The Spirit
1987 · Movie
Timestalkers
1987 · Movie
L.A. Law
1986 · Series
Krush Groove
1985 · Movie
The Last Dragon
1985 · Movie
The Jerk, Too
1984 · Movie
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983 · Movie
Earth, Wind & Fire in Concert
1982 · Movie
Benny's Place
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Carbon Copy
1981 · Movie
Scavenger Hunt
1979 · Movie
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978 · Movie
Which Way Is Up?
1977 · Movie
Greased Lightning
1977 · Movie
Car Wash
1976 · Movie
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · Series
Cooley High
1975 · Movie
Baretta
1975 · Series
Midi Première
1975 · Series
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
1975 · Movie
Bee Gees: Live in Melbourne 1974
1974 · Movie
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
1974 · Movie
The Rockford Files
1974 · Series
Movin' On
1974 · Series
Together for Days
1972 · Movie
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972 · Movie
Shock Treatment
Movie