Michael Schultz

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.

  • Title: Michael Schultz
  • Popularity: 9.313
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1938-11-10
  • Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • Homepage:
  • Also Known As: Michael A. Schultz
img

Michael Schultz Movies

  • 2009
    imgMovies

    Directors on Directing

    Directors on Directing

    1 2009 HD

    A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

    Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

    7.096 2013 HD

    Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and others recount the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds.

    img
  • 2019
    imgMovies

    I Am Richard Pryor

    I Am Richard Pryor

    6.8 2019 HD

    The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his...

    img
  • 1970
    imgMovies

    Segal

    Segal

    1 1970 HD

    A documentary focusing on the life and career of actor George Segal.

    img
  • 1979
    imgMovies

    Scavenger Hunt

    Scavenger Hunt

    5.7 1979 HD

    img
  • 1977
    imgMovies

    Which Way Is Up?

    Which Way Is Up?

    6 1977 HD

    img
  • 1987
    imgMovies

    Disorderlies

    Disorderlies

    4.9 1987 HD

    img
  • 1975
    imgMovies

    Cooley High

    Cooley High

    6.9 1975 HD

    img
  • 1985
    imgMovies

    The Last Dragon

    The Last Dragon

    6.42 1985 HD

    img
  • 1985
    imgMovies

    Krush Groove

    Krush Groove

    6.1 1985 HD

    img
  • 1977
    imgMovies

    Greased Lightning

    Greased Lightning

    6.3 1977 HD

    img
  • 1978
    imgMovies

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    4.4 1978 HD

    img
  • 2004
    imgMovies

    Woman Thou Art Loosed

    Woman Thou Art Loosed

    5.45 2004 HD

    img
  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Livin' Large!

    Livin' Large!

    5.8 1991 HD

    img
  • 1976
    imgMovies

    Car Wash

    Car Wash

    6.023 1976 HD

    img
  • 1985
    imgMovies

    Krush Groove

    Krush Groove

    6.1 1985 HD

    img
  • 1987
    imgMovies

    Timestalkers

    Timestalkers

    5.2 1987 HD

    img
  • 1981
    imgMovies

    Carbon Copy

    Carbon Copy

    5.713 1981 HD

    img
  • 1982
    imgMovies

    Earth, Wind & Fire in Concert

    Earth, Wind & Fire in Concert

    6.7 1982 HD

    img
  • 1989
    imgMovies

    Tarzan in Manhattan

    Tarzan in Manhattan

    3.9 1989 HD

    img
  • 1974
    imgMovies

    Honeybaby, Honeybaby

    Honeybaby, Honeybaby

    4 1974 HD

    img
  • 2000
    imgMovies

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure

    5.6 2000 HD

    img
  • 1999
    imgMovies

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence

    5.3 1999 HD

    img
  • 1996
    imgMovies

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father

    6.2 1996 HD

    img
  • 1994
    imgMovies

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies

    5.5 1994 HD

    img
  • 1998
    imgMovies

    Killers in the House

    Killers in the House

    1 1998 HD

    img
  • 1975
    imgMovies

    Ceremonies in Dark Old Men

    Ceremonies in Dark Old Men

    1 1975 HD

    img
  • 1987
    imgMovies

    The Spirit

    The Spirit

    4.6 1987 HD

    img
  • 1972
    imgMovies

    Together for Days

    Together for Days

    8 1972 HD

    img
  • 1983
    imgMovies

    For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

    For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

    1 1983 HD

    img
  • 1990
    imgMovies

    Jury Duty: The Comedy

    Jury Duty: The Comedy

    1 1990 HD

    img
  • 2002
    imgMovies

    L.A. Law: The Movie

    L.A. Law: The Movie

    8.4 2002 HD

    img
  • 1992
    imgMovies

    Day-O

    Day-O

    4.7 1992 HD

    img
  • 1981
    imgMovies

    Bustin' Loose

    Bustin' Loose

    6 1981 HD

    img
  • 1999
    imgMovies

    My Last Love

    My Last Love

    5.6 1999 HD

    img
  • 1988
    imgMovies

    Rock 'N Roll Mum

    Rock 'N Roll Mum

    4.5 1988 HD

    img
  • 1990
    imgMovies

    Hammer, Slammer, & Slade

    Hammer, Slammer, & Slade

    1 1990 HD

    img
  • 2000
    imgMovies

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

    5.7 2000 HD

    img
  • 1996
    imgMovies

    Phat Beach

    Phat Beach

    5.5 1996 HD

    img
  • 1984
    imgMovies

    The Jerk, Too

    The Jerk, Too

    3 1984 HD

    img
  • 1972
    imgMovies

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black

    5 1972 HD

    img
  • 1982
    imgMovies

    Benny's Place

    Benny's Place

    10 1982 HD

    img
  • 1975
    imgS7 E91

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    10 1975 HD

    Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS4 E15

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.67 1970 HD

    Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the demands of the faculty, the students and their parents.

    img
  • 1970
    imgS2 E23

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.8 1970 HD

    Movin' On is an American drama series that ran for two seasons, between 1974 and 1976. It originally appeared on the NBC television network. The...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS5 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.1 1970 HD

    The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.

    img
  • 1970
    imgS8 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.704 1970 HD

    A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS4 E24

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.4 1970 HD

    Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS6 E28

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.3 1970 HD

    Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama. It follows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the Reed family...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E13

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.9 1970 HD

    Women's Murder Club was an American police procedural and legal drama, which ran on ABC from October 12, 2007, to May 13, 2008. The series is set in...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E18

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.833 1970 HD

    Megan Smith, a smart and quirky young assistant at a glossy magazine, is fired when her Yale education proves detrimental to getting ahead in the...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.727 1970 HD

    If "greatness is thrust upon us," as Winston Churchill once said, then it stands to reason that those who are destined for greatness are rarely aware...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS6 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.2 1970 HD

    Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS5 E8

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7 1970 HD

    U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon must hunt down witnesses for federal cases in the witness protection program while also managing a rather dysfunctional...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E13

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    5.2 1970 HD

    Pepper Dennis is a reporter hoping to move into the anchor chair. She may or may not have helped her career ambitions by having a one-night stand...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS8 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7 1970 HD

    L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    1 1970 HD

    The Education of Max Bickford is a television drama that aired from 2001 to 2002 on CBS. It starred Richard Dreyfuss as the title character, a...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS3 E21

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    8.2 1970 HD

    Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together since her husband left her and took most of their...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS4 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.565 1970 HD

    After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado....

    img
  • 1970
    imgS4 E10

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    8.653 1970 HD

    Eddie Sutton is a dedicated police officer, his wife Jenn, a devoted nurse, but their most important job is as parents to their three teenage...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS3 E21

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.6 1970 HD

    Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel.

    img
  • 1970
    imgS8 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    8.194 1970 HD

    Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS2 E13

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.167 1970 HD

    The Darling family's obscene wealth and enormous power makes them easy targets for their rivals, enemies, and the tabloids. Patriarch Tripp uses...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS2 E14

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.6 1970 HD

    When Nick Garrett was 18, he packed up his truck and said goodbye for a summer road trip that turned into 10 years of being away. He has since become...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS2 E13

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.767 1970 HD

    Many lawyers consider themselves prophets, but Eli Stone may be the real deal. Eli has built a successful career at a top law firm in San Francisco...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS7 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.766 1970 HD

    The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS5 E13

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.7 1970 HD

    When Buy More computer geek Chuck Bartowski unwittingly downloads a database of government information and deadly fighting skills into his head, he...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS2 E10

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    9 1970 HD

    City of Angels is an American medical drama television series which ran for two seasons on CBS during the 2000 calendar year. It was network...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS10 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.31 1970 HD

    Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS9 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.2 1970 HD

    Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

    img
  • 1970
    imgS8 E10

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.8 1970 HD

    Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man,...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.5 1970 HD

    Philly is an American television series created by Steven Bochco that focused on criminal defense attorney Kathleen Maguire. It lasted a full season...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E27

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7 1970 HD

    A tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS5 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.6 1970 HD

    Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS4 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.224 1970 HD

    Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS7 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.9 1970 HD

    Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS4 E16

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.783 1970 HD

    Ryan Atwood, a teen from the wrong side of the tracks, moves in with a wealthy family willing to give him a chance. But Ryan's arrival disturbs the...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS8 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.1 1970 HD

    Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

    img
  • 1970
    imgS4 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.5 1970 HD

    Felicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E2

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.3 1970 HD

    Six post-collegiate professionals in New York City bond as they struggle to make sense of pointless jobs and unrequited love.

    img
  • 1970
    imgS6 E13

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.7 1970 HD

    A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.

    img
  • 1970
    imgS8 E13

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.2 1970 HD

    A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.

    img
  • 1970
    imgS4 E10

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.371 1970 HD

    New Yorker Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E10

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    5.8 1970 HD

    Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.945 1970 HD

    The story of several young people from around the world who represent the next stage in human evolution, possessing special powers, including the...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS5 E10

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.5 1970 HD

    The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E10

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.5 1970 HD

    Maddie is a teenage girl dealing with addiction who has a reputation as a party girl who doesn’t think she has a problem, until she’s...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS4 E18

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.797 1970 HD

    Rebecca Bunch is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything - her partnership at a prestigious law firm...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E13

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.3 1970 HD

    When a risk-averse, straight-arrowed, female procurement manager at an Amazon-like distribution center falls in love with a free-spirited man who...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E13

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.3 1970 HD

    When a risk-averse, straight-arrowed, female procurement manager at an Amazon-like distribution center falls in love with a free-spirited man who...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS4 E13

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7 1970 HD

    Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS6 E15

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    8.195 1970 HD

    When a rising high school football player from South Central L.A. is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, the wins, losses and struggles of two...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS2 E18

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    6.5 1970 HD

    At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS6 E12

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.5 1970 HD

    Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit,...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS7 E8

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.352 1970 HD

    Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS3 E13

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.6 1970 HD

    Follow the journeys of Simone Hicks, a tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills, and elite baseball player Damon Sims from Chicago, as they navigate life at...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS2 E8

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7 1970 HD

    In any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. Of these reported cases, more than half of the missing people are people...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS2 E10

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7.1 1970 HD

    A coming of age story set in the late 1960s that takes a nostalgic look at a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama through the...

    img
  • 1970
    imgS1 E22

    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    7 1970 HD

    The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of...

    img