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Michael Schultz (born November 10 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an African American director and film producer.

After undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University, Michael Schultz 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). Eventually, he concentrated on pure-entertainment projects like Car Wash (1976) and Which Way is Up? (1977). He managed to survive the potential career-killer Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), continuing to churn out profitable efforts like Scavenger Hunt (1979) and Disorderlies (1987).

As of late, Michael 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.

Directorial credits

Films

• Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
• Disorderlies (1987)
• Krush Groove (1985)
• The Last Dragon (1985)
• Carbon Copy (1981)
• Bustin' Loose (1981)
• Scavenger Hunt (1979)
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
• Greased Lightning (1977)
• Which Way Is Up? (1977)
• Car Wash (1976)
• Cooley High (1975)
• Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974)

Television

• Pool Boy (2006) (pre-production)
• L.A. Law: The Movie (2002)
• Philly (2001) TV Series
• Ally (1999) TV Series
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence (1999)
• Killers in the House (1998)
• Ally McBeal (1997) TV Series
• The Practice (1997) TV Series
• Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1996)
• Shock Treatment (1995)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies (1994)
• Chicago Hope (1994) TV Series
• Diagnosis: Murder (1993) TV Series
• Day-O (1992)
• Livin' Large! (1991)
• Hammer, Slammer, & Slade (1990)
• Jury Duty: The Comedy (1990)
• Tarzan in Manhattan (1989)
• Rock 'n' Roll Mom (1988)
• The Spirit (1987)
• Timestalkers (1987)
• The Jerk, Too (1984)
• For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)
• Benny's Place (1982)
• Starsky and Hutch (1975) TV Series
• Baretta (1975) TV Series
• The Rockford Files (1974) TV Series
• To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (1972)

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