Michael Schultz

Michael Schultz
Born	November 10, 1938 (1938-11-10) (age 73) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Years active	1972–present
Partner	Lauren Jones (1965–present; 2 children)

Michael Schultz (born November 10, 1938) is an American director and producer of film and television.

Life and career

Schultz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Katherine Frances (née Leslie), a factory worker, and Leo Schultz, an insurance salesman.^[1] 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 churn out profitable efforts like Scavenger Hunt (1979) 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.^[2]

Filmography

Television To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (1972) The Rockford Files (1974) TV Series Starsky and Hutch (1975) TV Series Baretta (1975) TV Series Benny's Place (1982) For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983) The Jerk, Too (1984) The Spirit (1987) Timestalkers (1987) Rock 'n' Roll Mom (1988) Tarzan in Manhattan (1989) Hammer, Slammer, & Slade (1990) Jury Duty: The Comedy (1990) Day-O (1992) Diagnosis: Murder (1993) TV Series Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies (1994) Chicago Hope (1994) TV Series Shock Treatment (1995) Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1996) Ally McBeal (1997) TV Series The Practice (1997) TV Series Killers in the House (1998) Ally (1999) TV Series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence (1999) Philly (2001) TV Series L.A. Law: The Movie (2002) Everwood (TV Series) Brothers and sisters TV Series Cold Case (2006) TV Series Eli Stone (2007) TV Series Dirty Sexy Money (2007) TV Series Chuck (2010) TV Series

Film Together for Days (1972) Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974) Cooley High (1975) Car Wash (1976) Greased Lightning (1977) Which Way Is Up? (1977) Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) Scavenger Hunt (1979) Bustin' Loose (1981) Carbon Copy (1981) Krush Groove (1985) The Last Dragon (1985) Disorderlies (1987) Livin' Large! (1991) Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) Theatre God is a (Guess What?) (1968) Kongi's Harvest (1968) Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (1968) Obie Award, Best Director The Reckoning (1969) Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969) Operation Sidewinder (1970) The Dream on Monkey Mountain (1971) The Cherry Orchard (1972) Thoughts (1973) What the Wine-Sellers Buy (1974) Mule Bone (1991)

References

1. ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/48/Michael-A-Schultz.html
2. ^ Jet

External links

• Michael Schultz at the Internet Broadway Database
• Michael Schultz at the Internet Movie Database

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Date of birth	November 10, 1938
Place of birth	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
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