ft.)is the largest series in the collection. PROJECTS AND PROPOSALS, 1972-1989 series (2.8 lin. He continues to work as a producer with his production companies, Chiz Schultz, Inc. Nancy Marshall Schultz and has three children. After three years the company was dissolved. Among its many successful productions were A Raisin in the Sun, starring Danny Glover and Esther Rolle, for American Playhouse Award for Cable Excellence winner Ordinary People and four years of new material for The Best of National Geographic. He joined his creative and business talents with those of Steven Schwartz to form the corporation in 1986. From 1983 to 1986, Schultz was executive producer for the film documentary on the Committed Artists of South Africa, Asinamali, The House of Dies Drear, the two hour mystery film for Public Broadcasting Service's Wonderworksseries, and the Academy Award nominated feature film for Columbia Pictures, A Soldier's Story.įireside Entertainment Corporation was Chiz Schultz's second production company. In 1982, he became the executive producer of Betcha Don't Know,a series of thirty-second info-mercials for NBC-TV and an Emmy-nominated Children's Television Workshop production starring Mickey Rooney and Robert Guillaume. His special for Once Upon a Classic, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,won an Emmy nominee for Best Children's Program in 1979. In 1974, Schultz created a series of videotaped training courses, which he called Contemporary Awareness Training, developed for corporations and public institutions to promote awareness and understanding about issues such as racism and sexism.įrom 1977 to 1979, Schultz produced television shows for Public Broadcasting Service and NBC-TV. ![]() He was also a consultant to the Ford Foundation, creating and supervising the first minority training program in the film industry, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hudson Valley Freedom Theater and Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, Inc., two organizations dedicated to maximizing the creative potential within African-American communities. ![]() That same year, he served as a consultant to the Children's Television Workshop and designed a Program Advisory Service to help meet their television programming needs. (1975) and Baron Wolfgang von Trips (1976). Ganga and Hess is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In addition, he produced the off-Broadway tribute to Lorraine Hansberry, To be Young, Gifted and Black(1969).ġ972 was a watershed year for Schultz, he established his first production Company, Chiz Schultz Inc., and produced, among other shows, a half hour film pilot, J.T., (1972) for ABC-TV and the feature films Ganga and Hess The shows included the television special Harry and Lena (1969), and the feature films The Angel Levine (1970), The Landlord(1970), and Buck and the Preacher (1972). From 1968 to 1972, he developed and produced several shows featuring singer, actor, and president of B.E.I., Harry Belafonte. as vice president and executive producer of film and television. In 1968 Schultz joined Belafonte Enterprises Inc. ![]() ![]() He also worked on the development and casting of the Mod Squad pilot. Three years later, in 1967, he joined Thomas Spelling Productions as producer and story editor for The Danny Thomas Show. After ten years, Chiz Schultz returned in 1964 to CBS-TV as program executive, supervising specials and series for the network. His promotion to director of programs in 1963, expanded his responsibilities to include programming, scheduling, and creative personnel. 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.Īs executive producer of programs with the Educational Broadcasting Corporation in 1962, Schultz established the original programming department for Channel 13, creating programs and supervising a staff of producers, directors, writers, and composers. 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. 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. A producer for film and television, Charles Hamilton “Chiz” Schultz' career spans over forty years.
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