Michael Schultz

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-11-10 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Michael Schultz

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 c...

Acting

2019

I Am Richard Pryor

as Self - Filmmaker

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SEGAL

as Self

Production

1979

Scavenger Hunt

as Director

1977

Which Way Is Up?

as Director

1987

Disorderlies

as Director

1975

Cooley High

as Director

1985

The Last Dragon

as Director

1985

Krush Groove

as Director

1977

2004

1991

Livin' Large!

as Director

1976

Car Wash

as Director

1985

Krush Groove

as Producer

1987

Timestalkers

as Director

1981

Carbon Copy

as Director

1989

1974

1998

1987

The Spirit

as Director

1972

1990

2002

1992

Day-O

as Director

1981

Bustin' Loose

as Director

1999

My Last Love

as Director

1988

Rock 'N Roll Mom

as Director

1996

Phat Beach

as Executive Producer

1984

The Jerk, Too

as Director

1982

Benny's Place

as Director

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