Michael Schultz
Highest Rated: 100% Days of Wrath (2008)
Lowest Rated: 11% Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Birthday: Nov 10, 1938
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
This stage director began his professional career with the Negro Ensemble Company in the mid-1960s and graduated to Broadway in 1969 with the play "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?," starring Al Pacino, Hal Holbrook and Lauren Jones (whom Schultz later married). After receiving attention for the 1972 PBS special, "To Be Young, Gifted and Black," Schultz entered features with "Together for a Day" (1972) and split his time between TV and features. On the big screen, he helmed the spirited look at black inner-city youth, "Cooley High" (1975) and went on to engineer a number of up-beat entertainments, notably "Car Wash" (1976), the Richard Pryor vehicles "Greased Lightning" (1977) and "Bustin' Loose" (1983), the rap musical "Krush Groove" (1985) and the farcical "Livin' Large" (1991). More recently, Schultz has concentrated on helming TV episodics like "Picket Fences," "Chicago Hope" and "The Practice," all produced by David E Kelley, and "Touched By an Angel" and its spin-off "Promised Land." He also oversaw two entries in The Family Channel young Indiana Jones TV-movies, the charming "The Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies" (1994) and "The Young Indiana Jones and Travels with Father" (1996).
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Michael Schultz
Filmography
Movies
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100% |
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Days of Wrath | Film Editing | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Hollywood Style | Film Editing | - | 2006 |
52% |
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Woman Thou Art Loosed | Director | $6.9M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | L.A. Law: The Movie | Director | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ritual | Film Editing | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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My Last Love | Director | - | 1999 |
90% |
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Pups | Film Editing | $4.4K | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Killers in the House | Director | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Phat Beach | Executive Producer | $1.3M | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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Young Indiana Jones and Travels With Father | Director | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies | Director | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Dayo | Director | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet |
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Livin' Large! | Director | $5.5M | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Jury Duty; The Comedy | Director | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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Tarzan in Manhattan | Director | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Rock 'n' Roll Mom | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Timestalkers | Director | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Disorderlies |
Director, Producer |
$8.4M | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Spirit | Director | - | 1987 |
43% |
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Krush Groove |
Director, Producer |
$11.1M | 1985 |
61% |
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The Last Dragon | Director | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jerk, Too | Director | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story | Director | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Benny's Place | Director | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
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Carbon Copy | Director | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet |
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Scavenger Hunt | Director | - | 1979 |
11% |
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | Director | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
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Greased Lightning | Director | - | 1977 |
20% |
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Which Way Is Up? | Director | - | 1977 |
86% |
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Car Wash | Director | - | 1976 |
89% |
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Cooley High | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honeybaby, Honeybaby | Director | - | 1974 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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70% | 66% | Found | Director | 2023-2024 |
No Score Yet | 81% | All American: Homecoming | Director | 2022-2024 |
No Score Yet | 68% | All American | Director | 2019-2024 |
96% | 70% | The Wonder Years | Director | 2023 |
92% | 50% | Black Lightning | Director | 2018 |
72% | 68% | Manifest | Director | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 82% | Code Black | Director | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Step Up | Director | 2018 |
92% | 56% | black-ish | Director | 2015-2017 |
86% | 63% | Arrow | Director | 2012-2017 |
88% | 86% | No Tomorrow | Director | 2016 |
98% | 84% | Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | Director | 2016 |
81% | 88% | Hart of Dixie | Director | 2012 2014-2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Plain Sight | Director | 2011 |
79% | 84% | Brothers & Sisters | Director | 2007-2010 |
60% | 100% | Eli Stone | Director | 2008-2009 |
63% | No Score Yet | Privileged | Director | 2009 |
68% | No Score Yet | Dirty Sexy Money | Director | 2008 |
11% | No Score Yet | October Road | Director | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 88% | Gilmore Girls | Director | 2006 |
19% | No Score Yet | Pepper Dennis | Director | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Director | 2005 |
88% | No Score Yet | Jack & Bobby | Director | 2004-2005 |
93% | No Score Yet | Everwood | Director | 2002-2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Director | 1995-1997 2000 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JAG | Director | 1997 2001-2002 |
79% | No Score Yet | The Education of Max Bickford | Director | 2002 |
64% | No Score Yet | Philly | Director | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 90% | Charmed | Director | 2000-2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Director | 1998 2000-2001 |
83% | No Score Yet | That's Life | Director | 2000 |
20% | No Score Yet | City of Angels | Director | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Law | Director | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicago Hope | Director | 1998-1999 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Felicity | Director | 1999 |
88% | No Score Yet | Michael Hayes | Director | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Promised Land | Director | 1996-1997 |
82% | 92% | Picket Fences | Director | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Director | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files | Director | 1974 |