Chiz Schultz

Chiz Schultz

Nascimento : 1931-08-26, Rockland, New York, USA

História

A producer for film and television, Charles Hamilton “Chiz” Schultz' career spans over forty years. Best known for his work in television and as a producer of films featuring African Americans, Schultz began his career in show business as a stage manager, actor and producer with various summer stock companies from 1946 to 1953. Upon graduating from Princeton University in 1954, he was employed by CBS-TV as a staff production assistant on the Mama and Adventure series, and in 1955, he became associate producer on several television shows including Studio One, Playhouse 90 and Kraft Theater. His first independent producing was done from 1959 to 1962 as a freelance associate producer for television specials such as The Judy Garland Show and Belafonte: New York 19. The New York Public Library

Perfil

Chiz Schultz
Chiz Schultz

Filmes

Head Above Water
Leonard
Leonard is a devoted husband to his wife Elsie, who is suffering from Alzheimer's. Though both are elderly, they live together in their family home. But Leonard himself has a fall, and he soon realizes the limits of their situation and his ability to remain his wife's caretaker.
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Dr. Redding
O suspense DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS de Spike Lee é um novo tipo de história de amor. Dr. Hess Green (Stephen Tyrone Williams) é amaldiçoado por um misterioso objeto africano e é tomado por uma recém-descoberta sede de sangue. Mas ele não é um vampiro. Logo após a sua transformação ele começa um perigoso romance com Ganja Hightower (Zaraah Abrahams) que questiona a natureza do amor, vício, sexo e status na nossa sociedade aparentemente sofisticada.
Birth of the Living Dead
Film & TV producer
A behind the scenes look into George Romero's groundbreaking horror classic Night of the Living Dead.
Walter and Henry
Producer
Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a nervous breakdown, it's up to Henry to find his father's long-lost family, including the grandfather and aunt he's never met.
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Producer
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic champion of the rights of the poor working man, the disfranchised and people of color. He led a life in the vanguard of many movements, achieved international acclaim for his music and suffered tremendous personal sacrifice. His story is one of the great dramas of the 20th century, spanning an international canvas of social upheaval and ideological controversy.
A Raisin in the Sun
Producer
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Seize the Day
Producer
Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.
A História de um Soldado
Executive Producer
Um advogado negro, oficial do Exército, vai a uma base militar remota no interior da Louisiana para conduzir o inquérito sobre o brutal assassinato de um sargento negro. Ele desconfia de crime racial, mas enfrenta a resistência de oficiais brancos para identificar os culpados.
The House of Dies Drear
Executive Producer
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.
Too Far to Go
Producer
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Producer
A modern-day scientist gets teleported to Medieval England in King Arthur's Court! He has to adapt to the current times and tries to make improvements as they come.
The Baron
Producer
A black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borrow money from the Mafia.
Ganja & Hess
Producer
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
The Angel Levine
Producer
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
The Judy Garland Show
Associate Producer
This CBS special, filmed in 1962 and colorized in this version, brings together three legends in a once-in-a-lifetime concert. Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin indulge in their usual Rat Pack high jinks, swilling drinks, trading barbs and crooning catchy tunes. But it's Judy Garland in the spotlight here, the crown jewel among gems, belting out classics such as "The Man That Got Away," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" and more.