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Michael Schultz

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  • 1938 - Present Day

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.

Birthday: 1938-11-10

Born At: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Casted In:

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
174340

Crewed In:

The Last Dragon
13938
Car Wash
15462
Scavenger Hunt
23050
Which Way Is Up?
23312
Disorderlies
24826
Krush Groove
29463
Greased Lightning
29737
Cooley High
35711
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
36759
Woman Thou Art Loosed
44634
Timestalkers
50551
Carbon Copy
53922
Livin' Large!
61435
Together for Days
86300
The Jerk, Too
87243
Phat Beach
92381
Earth, Wind & Fire in Concert
103702
The Spirit
161629
Tarzan in Manhattan
195752
Killers in the House
218477
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
220200
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
222037
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
222041
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
222059
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
222066
Day-O
263091
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
272240
My Last Love
309570
L.A. Law: The Movie
376642
Rock 'N Roll Mum
455348
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