Michael SchultzFilmography

South Beach [TV Series]

Crew: Editor

Actors: Vanessa Williams, Marcus Coloma, Chris J. Johnson, Lee Thompson Young, Odette Yustman

Synopsis: Characterized by many observers as a somewhat down-and-dirtier The O.C., the weekly, hour-long drama series South Beach starred Marcus Coloma as Matt and Chris Johnson as Vincent, two Brooklyn buddies who relocated to South Beach, Miami in hopes of bettering their prospects. Matt was running away Read More

Woman Thou Art Loosed

Crew: Director

Actors: Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Debbi Morgan, Michael Boatman, Clifton Powell

Synopsis: One woman's odyssey through a hellish life of sexual abuse, drug addiction, and crime is resolved in faith in this tough but inspiring drama based on a true story documented by evangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes. Michelle Jordan (Kimberly Elise) was raised by a single mother, Cassie (Loretta Devine) Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Root of All Evil

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bound by the rules of the Confessional, elderly priest Father Madden (Charles Durning) is unable to turn in the person who has tipped him off about a planned bank robbery. The only person who could help the Father solve his dilemma is angel Gloria (Valerie Bertinelli), but he refuses to believe Read More

L.A. Law: The Movie

Crew: Director

Actors: Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: This two-hour TV movie served as a reunion for the cast of L.A. Law, a popular NBC legal series which originally aired from 1987 to 1994. Virtually all of the series' regulars were back on the job, with the noteworthy exception of Jimmy Smits. Most of the story takes place within the walls of the Read More

What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away

Crew: Editor

Actors: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Angell Conwell, Monica McSwain

Synopsis: A rare original movie offering from the UPN network, What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away focuses on three high school girls: aspiring singer Temple (Keshia Knight Pulliam) and her lifelong friends Alex (Angell Conwell) and Breena (Monica McSwain). Attending a weekend college-scholarship Read More

Ally McBeal: Home Again

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Jane Krakowski, Lisa Nicole Carson, Vonda Shepard, Robert Downey, Jr., James LeGros

Charmed: Charmed Again, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, Dorian Gregory, James Read, Finola Hughes

Synopsis: While mourning the death of their sister Prue, Charmed Ones Piper and Phoebe Halliwell (Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano) are surprised by a visit from their mother, Patty (Finola Hughes) -- and even more surprising by the news Patty has brought them. It seems the girls have a half sister whom Read More

Ally McBeal: I Want Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Peter MacNicol, Jane Krakowski, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Regina Hall, Josh Hopkins, Julianne Nicholson, James Marsden

Ally McBeal: Mr. Bo

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Jane Krakowski, Lisa Nicole Carson, Vonda Shepard, Robert Downey, Jr., James LeGros

Touched by an Angel: The Invitation

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This year's Halloween assignment for Monica (Roma Downey), Tess (Della Reese) and Andrew (John Dye) is to save expectant parents Annie and Rick Higuerra (Karen Arroyave, Guillermo Diaz) from the clutches of Satan. Annie has already been approached at her place of business by a demonic young man Read More

Operation Sandman: Warriors in Hell

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: At a secret military base in the American desert, Dr. Harlan Jessup (Ron Perlman) is charge of the experimental "Operation Sandman", in which volunteer soldiers are injected with a new serum that will allow them to operate without sleep for days at a time. Led by senior NCO "Gunny" Riggins Read More

Ritual

Crew: Editor

Actors: Clarence Williams III, Denise Nicholas, Shawn Michael Howard, Angelle Brooks

Synopsis: A domestic drama that explores the dysfunctional dynamics at work beneath an affluent African-American family's veneer of ostensible perfection, Ritual stars Clarence Williams III as patriarch and former '60s student activist Leron Becker. While Becker refuses to believe that anything is wrong Read More

Ally McBeal: The Green Monster

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi

Felicity: Assassins

Crew: Director

Killers in the House

Crew: Director

Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Holly Robinson Peete, Hal Linden, Michael J. Pagan

Synopsis: In this taut drama, a father fights to save his family from the desperate bank robbers who have taken over his newly acquired country home. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

My Last Love

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Chicago attorney Susan Morton (Nancy Travis) returns to her home town of California to wait out her final months. She also brings along her 11-year-old daughter Carson (Jamie Renee Smith), in hopes of finding a good home for the girl when the time comes. Read More

Touched By an Angel: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this sequel to the second-season episode "The Feather", Randy Travis and Paul Wittenberg return respectively as hard-bitten but likeable Sam and his mentally challenged younger brother Wayne. When Wayne accidentally breaks the angel for the brothers' Christmas tree, Sam generously offers to buy Read More

Touched By an Angel: Forget Me Not

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Rebelling against her overprotective mother Charlotte (Carol Lawrence), photographer Sara Perkins (Isabella Hofmann) accepts a dangerous assignment in war-torn Bosnia, with Monica (Roma Downey) tagging along as her assistant. Upon her return, Sara fully expects an angry reaction from her Read More

Touched By an Angel: Inherit the Wind

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Granted one hour by Andrew (John Dye) to set his affairs in order before his death, wealthy old Edward Greeley (John McMartin) uses the time he has left to straighten out his spoiled-rotten son Kevin (Charlie Schlatter). After Edward shuffles off his mortal coil, Kevin is shocked to learn that his Read More

Phat Beach

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jermaine Hopkins, Brian Hooks, Gregg Vance, Claudia Kaleem, Eric Fleeks

Synopsis: During a glorious Southern California summer, high school student Benny King (Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins) is doing time flipping burgers. Benny's father wants him to learn the work ethic, rather than have him sit around the house all summer, dreaming and writing. It's not surprising, then, that when Read More

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Chapter 4 - Travels with Father

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Perplexed by his father's coldness after he returns from WWI, Indy reminisces about the adventures he had in Greece and Russia. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Touched By an Angel: Promised Land

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Originally telecast September 15, 1996, the third-season opener of Touched by an Angel is actually the pilot episode for the spinoff series Promised Land, which debuted two days later on September 17. Down in the dumps because she has failed her most recent assignment, Heavenly caseworker Monica Read More

Touched By an Angel: Jacob's Ladder

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having shown up at the wrong house for her latest assignment, Monica (Roma Downey) innocently finds herself under arrest for drug possession--and when she insists that she is an angel, she ends up in a mental hospital. Monica's court-appointed lawyer Jake Stone (Joe Morton) is a cynical, athestic Read More

Touched By an Angel: Unidentified Female

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In a series of flashbacks, two detectives try to determine the identity of a confused "Jane Doe" (Allison Smith)--and also her connection with a shooting in which a young man named Alex Jackson (Brandon Douglas). Inevitably, Heavenly caseworker Monica (Roma Downey) is also a key player in the Read More

The Show

Crew: Editor

Actors: Sean Combs, Method Man, Biggie Smalls, Russell Simmons, Craig Mack, Dr. Dre, Naughty By Nature, Snoop Dogg, Run-D.M.C.

Synopsis: This documentary offers viewers an in depth look at the world of hip-hop and rap music as it chronicles a diverse group of performers preparing to give a major concert at Philadelphia's Armory. Interspersed amongst the preparations are interviews with rappers past and present, looks at their Read More

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Chapter 22 - Hollywood Follies

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this chapter from the youthful adventurer's saga, Jones is assigned to catch temperamental director Erich von Stroheim, but through a series of mix-ups, Indy ends up appearing in a John Ford film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

112th & Central: Through the Eyes of the Children

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: This a locally-made documentary of the explorations of inner-city youths into the area ravaged by a riot in 1992. The youngsters were guided through the filmmaking process by civic-minded filmmakers, and were assisted by a professional cameraman and director. Engaging mostly their own relatives Read More

Dayo

Crew: Director

Actors: Delta Burke, Elijah Wood

Synopsis: Day-O is a purified TV-movie variation on the odious theatrical feature Drop Dead Fred. Mother-to-be Delta Burke begins to get those old familiar prebirth blues. Feeling that she's let life pass her by, Delta is enervated by the return of her imaginary childhood playmate, Day-O (Elijah Wood). Read More

Livin' Large

Crew: Director

Actors: Terrence "T.C." Carson, Lisa Arrindell, Blanche Baker, Nathaniel "Afrika" Hall, Julia Campbell

Synopsis: After getting his big break, an aspiring TV reporter (Terrence 'T.C.' Carson) finds that showbiz ain't all it's cracked up to be. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Jury Duty: The Comedy

Crew: Director

Actors: Reginald VelJohnson, Heather Locklear, Bronson Pinchot, Lynn Redgrave, Alan Thicke

Synopsis: Good thing they told us this Jury Duty: The Comedy; we might have thought it was Jury Duty: The Term Paper. This comedy salad features a whole slew of TV luminaries--Alan Thicke, Bill Kirchenbauer, Lynn Redgrave, Heather Locklear, Tracy Scoggin, Reginald VelJohnson etc.--playing judge Read More

Tarzan in Manhattan

Crew: Director

Actors: Tony Curtis, Kim Crosby

Synopsis: If you liked the 1941 Johnny Weissmuller opus Tarzan's New York Adventure, you'll go ape (sorry!) over the made-for-TV Tarzan in Manhattan. The Jungle Lord uncovers an insidious plot by a covetous scientist to enhance the natural IQ of African monkeys. To prevent his beloved Cheetah from falling Read More

Rock 'n' Roll Mom

Crew: Director

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Telma Hopkins, Michael Brandon, Heather Locklear, Nancy Lenehan

Synopsis: Dyan Cannon plays the title character, a middle-aged housewife and mother who enjoys singing in local amateur contests. Almost overnight, she becomes a nationally famous rock star, with all the attendant trappings of glamour and adulation. But fame has its price: As Cannon rises to the top of her Read More

Disorderlies

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Damon Wimbley, Darren "The Human Beat Box" Robinson, Ralph Bellamy, Mark "Prince Markie Dee" Morales, Tony Plana, Anthony Geary, Marco Rodriguez

Synopsis: A conniving nephew (Anthony Geary) wishes to get rid of his elderly uncle (Ralph Bellamy) to collect a large inheritance, so he hires the three worst orderlies he can find (played by the Fat Boys). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Spirit

Crew: Director

Actors: McKinlay Robinson

Synopsis: The Spirit is a TV movie based on Will Eisner's celebrated comic-strip crimefighter. The title character's real name is Denny Colt (played by Sam Jones), a police officer who is believed to be have been killed by gangsters. Revived in a shack near the city graveyeard, Colt dons a domino mask and Read More

Timestalkers

Crew: Director

Actors: William Devane, Lauren Hutton, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: The "history is inviolate" theory so chillingly elucidated in Ray Bradbury's The Sound of Thunder is recycled for the made-for-TV Timestalkers. William Devane plays a genially eccentric professor who teams with time traveller Lauren Hutton to prevent the course of history from being disastrously Read More

The Last Dragon

Crew: Director

Actors: Taimak, Vanity, Christopher Murney, Julius J. Carry III, Faith Prince

Synopsis: The TV prints of this entertaining melange whittled down the film's original self-serving title (Motown king Berry Gordy was the producer), and settled on merely The Last Dragon. Taimak stars as an African American martial-arts whiz, so devoted to his hobby that he dresses and behaves in what he Read More

Krush Groove

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Blair Underwood, Joseph Simmons, Sheila E., Mark "Prince Markie Dee" Morales, Damon Wimbley

Synopsis: In-between rappin' numbers by groups like Run-DMC and The Fat Boys, an almost unnoticeable plot unfolds as manager Russell (Blair Underwood) desperately looks for funding to press more records for Run-DMC's first hit. This gets him into deep water when he borrows from the wrong man and then is Read More

The Jerk, Too

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Navin Johnson, the consummate idiot, returns in this remake of Steve Martin's popular 1979 film The Jerk. As in the first, Johnson, the lily white adoptee of a black sharecropper sets out across the country in search of true love. This version was designed as a pilot for a TV series that never Read More

For Us, The Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Crew: Director

Actors: Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Irene Cara

Synopsis: Howard E. Rollins stars as martyred civil-rights spokesman Medgar Evers, while Irene Cara co-stars as his wife (and future NAACP leader) Myrlie. The film concentrates on the last years of Evers, an ex-insurance agent turned activist. His home in Jackson, Mississippi is besieged by bigots and he Read More

Benny's Place

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Relying more on acting and attitude than makeup, Louis Gossett Jr. plays a cantankerous, fiercely independent old man in Benny's Place. A longtime employee of a steel mill, Gossett has set up his own tool repair operation within the mill, running things nicely, thank you, without the interference Read More

Earth, Wind & Fire: In Concert

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Earth, Wind & Fire

Synopsis: R&B supergroup Earth, Wind & Fire performs their standards at the Oakland Coliseum on December 30-31, 1981. Highlights include "Sing a Song," "Fantasy," and "Shining Star." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Carbon Copy

Crew: Director

Actors: George Segal, Susan Saint James, Jack Warden, Denzel Washington, Paul Winfield

Synopsis: George Segal plays rich and surly California executive Walter Whitney, who learns out-of-the-blue that he has a 17-year-old black son, in Michael Schultz's lightweight Carbon Copy. When his son Roger Porter (Denzel Washington) arrives, Walter tries to pass him off to his neighbors in the Read More

Scavenger Hunt

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Benjamin, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Cloris Leachman, Cleavon Little

Synopsis: When millionaire Vincent Price dies, he leaves a riotous will which amounts to a scavenger hunt, the winner of which receives the entire willed fortune. So 15 potential heirs are sent on a zany quest where they must outrace and outsmart one another to inherit the big bucks. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Frampton, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Frankie Howerd

Synopsis: Pop star Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees star in this musical, loosely based on the popular 1967 Beatles album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In the story, Billy Shears, who now heads the Lonely Hearts Club Band, is the grandson of the famous Sergeant Pepper. He is confronted by the Read More

Greased Lightning

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, Pam Grier, Cleavon Little, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: Based on the life story of NASCAR auto racing champion Wendell Scott, this film, starring Richard Pryor as Scott, covers his struggles -- from the end of World War II to 1971-- to overcome racism and gain the freedom to demonstrate his winning auto-racing skills to everyone. He is not without Read More

Which Way Is Up?

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee, Margaret Avery, Morgan Woodward, Marilyn Coleman

Synopsis: This Americanized remake of Lina Wertmuller's The Seduction of Mimi offered audiences the novelty of seeing Richard Pryor performing three different roles in the same film. Which Way Is Up? tells the tale of Leroy Jones (Pryor), a poor orange picker who gets fired from his job when he accidentally Read More

Car Wash

Crew: Director

Actors: Franklyn Ajaye, Sully Boyar, Richard Brestoff, George Carlin, Irwin Corey

Synopsis: Michael Schultz directed this kinetic, hyperventilating comedy (scripted by Joel Schumacher) concerning the crazed events that go on within a single 10-hour period at a Los Angeles car wash. The cast of colorful car-wash employees includes Lonnie (Ivan Dixon), an ex-con; Duane (Bill Duke), a Read More

Cooley High

Crew: Director

Actors: Glynn E. Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis, Corin Rogers

Synopsis: Michael Schultz directed this deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago's near North Side in 1964. Like American Graffiti, Cooley High deals with girl, school, and police troubles as a group of high-school seniors prepare for post-high-school life. The chums are Glynn Turman as Read More

The Rockford Files: The Dark and Bloody Ground

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode marks the first appearance of Gretchen Corbett as attorney Beth Davenport, erstwhile girlfriend of private eye Jim Rockford (James Garner). Characteristically, Beth has called upon Jim for a teeny-tiny favor: namely, to prove the innocence of her impoverished client Ann Calhoun Read More

Honeybaby, Honeybaby

Crew: Director

Actors: Nabih Aboul Hoson, Gay Suilin

Synopsis: In this comedy, filmed in Beirut, an American interpreter wins a trip to the Middle East and finds gets a lot more than a guided tour when she hires an adventurer, who is taking the body of a deposed African leader to its final resting place. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Together for Days

Crew: Director

Actors: Gisela Caldwell, Northern Calloway, Scott Childress, Brooks Clift, Andrea Frye, Eileen Gordon, Emmanuel Hall, Michael Hatfield, Dennis Henry, Frank Hines, Mimi Honce, J.E. Nation, Sherman Perkins, Liz Wright

Synopsis: This drama examines the reaction of an African-American community to a love affair between a black man and his Caucasian girl friend. Their love is imperiled because so many of his family and friends are strongly against the match. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dorinda Clark-Cole Live

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: The concert film Dorinda Clark-Cole: Live captures the singer belting out a half-dozen songs. The setlist includes "I'm Coming Out," "You Can't Hurry God," "If It Had Not Been For the Lord," and "I'm Still Here." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More