
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 comment (Honeybaby, Honeybaby and Cooley High), reaching a peak with the ensemble comedy Car Wash (1976) and Which Way Is Up? (1977), starring Richard Pryor. In 1978, Schultz took the reins of the musical Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with the largest budget ever entrusted to an African-American film director to that date. However, upon its release, the project was a commercial and critical failure. Schultz would go on to make prominent films such as Scavenger Hunt (1979), Carbon Copy (1981), and Disorderlies (1987). More recently, 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. In 1991, Schultz was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.

Benny's Place

City of Angels

Lincoln Heights

Family Law

チャームド ~魔女3姉妹~

All American

Together for Days

ギルモア・ガールズ

Women's Murder Club

コールドケース 迷宮事件簿

The O.C.

私はラブ・リーガル

CHUCK/チャック

The Rockford Files

The Practice

エバーウッド 遥かなるコロラド

Boston Public

スイッチ ~運命のいたずら~

All American: Homecoming

New Girl / ダサかわ女子と三銃士

ワンス・アポン・ア・タイム

JAG

Wasteland

ハート・オブ・ディクシー ドクターハートの診療日記

刑事スタスキー&ハッチ

Sisters

シカゴ・ホープ

L.A. Law: The Movie

Touched by an Angel

Diagnosis: Murder

ブラザーズ&シスターズ

Privileged

ブラッキッシュ

L.A. Law

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

In Plain Sight

Earth, Wind & Fire in Concert

Jack & Bobby

The Wonder Years

ブラックライトニング

Cooley High

トゥモロー・ピープル

アロー

Philly

クレイジー・エックス・ガールフレンド

Eli Stone

Felicity

アリー my Love

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

The Last Dragon

Baretta

Recovery Road

Movin' On

No Tomorrow

Greased Lightning

ダーティ・セクシー・マネー

Krush Groove

ホームタウン 〜僕らの再会〜

Found

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father

Bustin' Loose

Promised Land

Which Way Is Up?

Car Wash

Carbon Copy

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

Dead of Summer

Livin' Large!

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence

My Last Love

Scavenger Hunt

Timestalkers

Woman Thou Art Loosed

Pepper Dennis

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Disorderlies

Day-O

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Spirit

Honeybaby, Honeybaby

Tarzan in Manhattan

Rock 'N Roll Mom

The Jerk, Too

Jury Duty: The Comedy

The Education of Max Bickford

Killers in the House

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Hammer, Slammer, & Slade

Bee Gees - Live au Festival Hall de Melbourne