Michael Schultz

Birthday:

11/10/1938

Place of birth:

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.



Credits

I Am Richard Pryor (2019)
Self - Filmmaker
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)
Self
Directors on Directing (2009)
Self
Segal ()
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: Hollywood Follies (1999)
Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1999)
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
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 Mum (1988)
Director
Disorderlies (1987)
Director
The Spirit (1987)
Director
Timestalkers (1987)
Director
Krush Groove (1985)
Director
Krush Groove (1985)
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
Bustin' Loose (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
Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974)
Director
Together for Days (1972)
Director
To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1972)
Director