
Michael Schultz
Highest Rated: 100% Days of Wrath (2008)
Lowest Rated: 12% 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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Filmography
Movies
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100% | 79% | Days of Wrath | Film Editor | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Hollywood Style | Film Editor | - | 2006 |
51% | 84% | 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 Editor | - | 2000 |
90% | 73% | Pups | Film Editor | $4.4K | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 56% | My Last Love | Director | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 78% | Killers in the House | Director | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 56% | 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 | 43% | Dayo | Director | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 37% | Livin' Large! | Director | $5.5M | 1991 |
No Score Yet | 47% | Jury Duty: The Comedy | Director | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | 14% | Tarzan in Manhattan | Director | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Rock 'n' Roll Mom | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | 34% | Timestalkers | Director | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Spirit | Director | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 53% | Disorderlies | Director | $8.4M | 1987 |
58% | 86% | The Last Dragon | Director | - | 1985 |
43% | 81% | Krush Groove | Director | $11.1M | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jerk, Too | Director | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | 75% | For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story | Director | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Benny's Place | Director | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Carbon Copy | Director | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | 74% | Scavenger Hunt | Director | - | 1979 |
12% | 44% | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | Director | - | 1978 |
20% | 83% | Which Way Is Up? | Director | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | 52% | Greased Lightning | Director | - | 1977 |
88% | 60% | Car Wash | Director | - | 1976 |
85% | 89% | Cooley High | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honeybaby, Honeybaby | Director | - | 1974 |
TV
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96% | No Score Yet | All American | Director | 2019-2021 |
92% | 47% | Black Lightning | Director | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 78% | Manifest | Director | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 91% | Code Black | Director | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Step Up: High Water | Director | 2018 |
92% | 55% | black-ish | Director | 2015-2017 |
86% | 63% | Arrow | Director | 2012-2017 |
88% | 86% | No Tomorrow | Director | 2016 |
98% | 83% | Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | Director | 2016 |
81% | 87% | Hart of Dixie | Director | 2014-2015 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Plain Sight | Director | 2011 |
79% | 84% | Brothers & Sisters | Director | 2007-2010 |
60% | No Score Yet | 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 | No Score Yet | October Road: The Journey So Far | Director | 2007 |
85% | 85% | Gilmore Girls | Director | 2006 |
19% | No Score Yet | Pepper Dennis | Director | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cold Case | Director | 2005 |
88% | No Score Yet | Jack & Bobby | Director | 2004-2005 |
93% | 95% | Everwood | Director | 2002-2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Director | 2003 2000 1995-1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JAG | Director | 2001-2002 1997 |
79% | No Score Yet | The Education of Max Bickford | Director | 2002 |
64% | No Score Yet | Philly | Director | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Charmed | Director | 2000-2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Director | 2000-2001 1998 |
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 | 60% | Felicity | Director | 1999 |
88% | No Score Yet | Michael Hayes | Director | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Promised Land | Director | 1996-1997 |
82% | No Score Yet | Picket Fences | Director | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Director | 1975 |
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