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Stephen J. Cannell Biography / Wiki
| Name | Stephen J. Cannell |
| Also Know | Stephen Joseph Cannell |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Creator |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles – California – USA |
| Date of Birth | 1941-02-05 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 69 |
| Deathday | 2010-09-30 |
Stephen J. Cannell Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Ice Spiders | Frank Stone | 2007-01-01 | When a young ski team training for the Olympics arrives at the remote and isolated Lost Mountain Ski Resort to focus on training, they’re thrilled to … |
| Identity Crisis | The Coroner | 1989-01-01 | A rapper finds himself possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer; frequently switching personalities…. |
| Threshold | Pacheco Laval | 2003-04-01 | Alien seeds hitch a ride to earth in a space shuttle crew and begin to grow. When their numbers reach the Threshold amount they will be an unstoppable… |
| The Contract | William Goodwin | 1999-10-31 | … |
| CHiPs ’99 | Bendix | 1998-10-27 | Ponch has returned to the police force, and is determined to help his friend Jon investigating various car thefts…. |
| Half Past Dead | Frank Hubbard | 2002-11-15 | A man goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there, he stumbles onto a plot in… |
| Dead Above Ground | Carl Hadden | 2002-01-01 | Jeff Lucas is already an outcast, but when he makes a horror film instead of a documentary for a class project, the ridicule his classmates inflict up… |
| Posse | Jimmy Love | 1993-05-14 | A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for… |
Stephen J. Cannell Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Director | Stone is an American police drama that aired on NBC on Monday nights between January 14 and March 17, 1980. The series was a Stephen J. Cannell Produc… | ||
| Director | Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective/comedy series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January and June 1980. The series was c… | ||
| Director | Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn’t commit, Rockf… | ||
Stephen J. Cannell Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| It Waits | Producer | 2005-11-10 | A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park…. |
| The A-Team | Producer | 2010-06-09 | A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn’t … |
| Dead Above Ground | Producer | 2002-01-01 | Jeff Lucas is already an outcast, but when he makes a horror film instead of a documentary for a class project, the ridicule his classmates inflict up… |
| The Poker House | Producer | 2008-06-20 | Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns…. |
| 21 Jump Street | Producer | 2012-03-14 | In high school, Schmidt was a dork and Jenko was the popular jock. After graduation, both of them joined the police force and ended up as partners rid… |
| 22 Jump Street | Executive Producer | 2014-06-05 | After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local co… |
| The Gypsy Warriors | Executive Producer | 1978-05-12 | American soldiers (Tom Selleck and James Whitmore Jr.) must travel behind enemy lines to procure the formula for a deadly Nazi toxin in this World War… |
| Toma | Producer | 1973-03-21 | This TV-pilot, later made into a TV-series, is about a cop in Newark, New Jersey, who defies his superiors to try to bring down the head of a Mafia nu… |
| Them | Executive Producer | 1996-10-08 | Remake of the 1954 SciFi classic… |
| Demon Hunter | Producer | 2005-06-01 | After resolving a situation of exorcism, the half-breed demon hunter Jake Greyman (Sean Patrick Flanery) reports to Cardinal White (William Bassett) a… |
| The Garden | Producer | 2006-01-08 | A troubled young boy and his father on a road trip stumble upon a rural farm where the elderly owner has sinister plans for the both of them involving… |
| Nightside | Executive Producer | 1980-06-08 | Danny Dandoy is a good-humored, street-wise cop working the dusk to dawn shift in Los Angeles with his somewhat naive new partner Macey in this suppos… |
| Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours | Executive Producer | 1976-10-27 | A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn’t know why a gunman is trying to kill her but believes she mig… |
| Hunter: Back in Force | Executive Producer | 2003-04-12 | Lieutenent Rick Hunter, now of San Diego Police Department, along with his ‘new’ partner Sergeant Dee Dee McCall, must track down a group of women ban… |
| Chase | Associate Producer | 1973-03-24 | A special police unit goes after a cop-killer in this pilot film to the short-lived series…. |
| Stone [Pilot] | Executive Producer | 1979-08-26 | Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the fo… |
| Scott Free | Executive Producer | 1976-10-13 | A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece o… |
| Dr. Scorpion | Executive Producer | 1978-02-24 | A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island…. |
| The Last Precinct | Executive Producer | 1986-01-26 | In this spoof of TV cop shows, which served as the pilot to the subsequent short-lived series, a bunch of bumbling misfits and rejects from the police… |
| Destination: America | Executive Producer | 1987-04-03 | A patrician family’s estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soon finds himself wrongly accused of his father’s mu… |
| Producer | Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn’t commit, Rockf… | ||
| Producer | 21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and… | ||
| Producer | The chronicles of  teacher Ralph Hinkley’s adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately… | ||
| Producer | Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He’s a tough yet compassi… | ||
| Producer | Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. D… | ||
| Producer | Hawkeye is a television series, airing in syndication for one season during 1994-1995, and produced by Stephen J. Cannell. The series was filmed in No… | ||
| Executive Producer | Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United S… | ||
| Producer | Missing Persons is a short-lived American crime drama television series, set in Chicago. It followed a fictitious missing persons unit; each episode u… | ||
| Producer | Booker is an American crime drama series starring Richard Grieco that aired on the Fox Network from September 24, 1989 to May 6, 1990. The series is a… | ||
| Producer | Sonny Spoon is a detective program aired in the United States on the NBC television network in 1988. The series was created by Michael Daly, Dinah Pri… | ||
| Producer | The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions in asso… | ||
| Producer | Toma is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC in 1973 and 1974…. | ||
| Producer | The Last Precinct is an American comedy series that aired on NBC from January to May 1986 on Friday Night at 9:00pm. The series stars Adam West as Cap… | ||
| Producer | The Quest is an American action/adventure television series that aired on ABC from October to November 1982. The series stars Perry King and Noah Beer… | ||
| Producer | Stone is an American police drama that aired on NBC on Monday nights between January 14 and March 17, 1980. The series was a Stephen J. Cannell Produc… | ||
| Producer | Profit is an American television series that originally aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1996 on Monday Night at 9:00 PM EST. The series was c… | ||
| Producer | Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective/comedy series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January and June 1980. The series was c… | ||
| Producer | Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The s… | ||
| Producer | A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as … | ||
| Producer | Ray is an enigmatic adventurer with no traceable past who travels from place to place fighting crime and helping people in trouble. He refuses to be p… | ||
| Producer | Marker is an American hour long television drama that premiered on the UPN on March 20, 1995. It is set in and was filmed in Hawaii. The series focus… | ||
| Producer | Top of the Hill is a short-lived political drama series aired by CBS as part of its 1989 fall lineup…. | ||
| Producer | The Duke is an American mini series that aired shown on NBC from April 5 to May 18, 1979…. | ||
| Producer | The Rousters is a 1983 NBC television series about a group of modern-day bounty hunters who are descendants of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. Despite ad… | ||
| Producer | The Hat Squad is a crime drama television series that ran for only one season on CBS, during the 1992–1993 season. 13 episodes were made, but only 1… | ||
| Executive Producer | A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as … | ||
| Executive Producer | The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron…. | ||
| Executive Producer | Broken Badges is an American-Canadian police drama… | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| It Waits | Teleplay | 2005-11-10 | A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park…. |
| The A-Team | Characters | 2010-06-09 | A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn’t … |
| 21 Jump Street | Teleplay | 2012-03-14 | In high school, Schmidt was a dork and Jenko was the popular jock. After graduation, both of them joined the police force and ended up as partners rid… |
| The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise | Writer | 1995-05-14 | Angel’s televangelical ministry launches a boycott against a movie entitled “Little Ezekial,” and Rockford is hired to protect its star…. |
| The Gypsy Warriors | Writer | 1978-05-12 | American soldiers (Tom Selleck and James Whitmore Jr.) must travel behind enemy lines to procure the formula for a deadly Nazi toxin in this World War… |
| The Great Pretender | Writer | 1991-04-14 | A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers dangerous reprisals at his work…. |
| Stingray | Writer | 1985-07-14 | A district attorney is kidnapped by a criminal who then has a deranged doctor do something to him that leaves him with the mind of a child. His assist… |
| The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play | Writer | 1996-04-25 | An friend of Jim’s continues to seek his help for her murdered son, but when she winds up dead not long after an altercation with the mafia man, Jim m… |
| The November Plan | Writer | 1977-01-01 | A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933…. |
| Greyhounds | Story | 1994-06-24 | Retired sherriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot. From http://www.cannell.com/tv-show-detail/18/greyhounds.html GREYHOUND… |
| Greyhounds | Screenplay | 1994-06-24 | Retired sherriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot. From http://www.cannell.com/tv-show-detail/18/greyhounds.html GREYHOUND… |
| Dead Above Ground | Writer | 2002-01-01 | Jeff Lucas is already an outcast, but when he makes a horror film instead of a documentary for a class project, the ridicule his classmates inflict up… |
| The Jordan Chance | Story | 1978-12-12 | Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of mur… |
| The Jordan Chance | Screenplay | 1978-12-12 | Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of mur… |
| Nightside | Teleplay | 1980-06-08 | Danny Dandoy is a good-humored, street-wise cop working the dusk to dawn shift in Los Angeles with his somewhat naive new partner Macey in this suppos… |
| Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours | Writer | 1976-10-27 | A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn’t know why a gunman is trying to kill her but believes she mig… |
| Hunter: Back in Force | Story | 2003-04-12 | Lieutenent Rick Hunter, now of San Diego Police Department, along with his ‘new’ partner Sergeant Dee Dee McCall, must track down a group of women ban… |
| Chase | Writer | 1973-03-24 | A special police unit goes after a cop-killer in this pilot film to the short-lived series…. |
| Stone [Pilot] | Writer | 1979-08-26 | Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the fo… |
| Scott Free | Writer | 1976-10-13 | A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece o… |
| Dr. Scorpion | Writer | 1978-02-24 | A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island…. |
| The Last Precinct | Writer | 1986-01-26 | In this spoof of TV cop shows, which served as the pilot to the subsequent short-lived series, a bunch of bumbling misfits and rejects from the police… |
| Writer | Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing ap… | ||
| Writer | Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective/comedy series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January and June 1980. The series was c… | ||
| Writer | A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as … | ||
| Writer | Silk Stalkings is a crime drama television series. The series portrays the daily lives of two detectives who solve sexually-based crimes of passion a… | ||
| Writer | Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He’s a tough yet compassi… | ||
| Writer | Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. D… | ||
| Writer | Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patroll… | ||
| Writer | Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United S… | ||
| Writer | Booker is an American crime drama series starring Richard Grieco that aired on the Fox Network from September 24, 1989 to May 6, 1990. The series is a… | ||
| Writer | City of Angels is a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who had previously worked together on The Rockford Files. Am… | ||
| Writer | Toma is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC in 1973 and 1974…. | ||
| Writer | Unsub is an American television series that aired on NBC from February 3 to April 14, 1989. The series centers around an elite FBI forensic team that … | ||
| Writer | Stone is an American police drama that aired on NBC on Monday nights between January 14 and March 17, 1980. The series was a Stephen J. Cannell Produc… | ||
| Writer | J.J. Starbuck is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from September 1987 to June 1988. The series follows cornpone-spouting Jerome Jeremi… | ||
| Writer | The Rousters is a 1983 NBC television series about a group of modern-day bounty hunters who are descendants of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. Despite ad… | ||
| Writer | Broken Badges is an American-Canadian police drama… | ||
| Writer | Framed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while trying to clear his name. His troubles began after he… | ||
| Writer | Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The s… | ||
| Writer | The chronicles of  teacher Ralph Hinkley’s adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately… | ||
| Writer | Ray is an enigmatic adventurer with no traceable past who travels from place to place fighting crime and helping people in trouble. He refuses to be p… | ||
| Teleplay | The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron…. | ||
| Writer | Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn’t commit, Rockf… | ||
| Writer | Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC ser… | ||
| Story | Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn’t commit, Rockf… | ||
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime | Creator | 1996-09-18 | Laid-back private eye Jim Rockford and his brown Pontiac Firebird become embroiled in another case when he runs across an old flame, blind book editor… |
| Dr. Scorpion | Creator | 1978-02-24 | A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island…. |
| Creator | Framed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while trying to clear his name. His troubles began after he… | ||
| Creator | Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn’t commit, Rockf… | ||
| Creator | Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective/comedy series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January and June 1980. The series was c… | ||
| Creator | 21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and… | ||
| Creator | Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The s… | ||
| Creator | A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as … | ||
| Creator | The chronicles of  teacher Ralph Hinkley’s adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately… | ||
| Creator | Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC ser… | ||
| Creator | Silk Stalkings is a crime drama television series. The series portrays the daily lives of two detectives who solve sexually-based crimes of passion a… | ||
| Creator | Cobra is an American television action/adventure series starring Michael Dudikoff. It ran for just one season in syndication…. | ||
| Creator | Riptide is an American TV detective series that ran on NBC from December 3, 1983 to August 22, 1986, starring Perry King, Joe Penny, and Thom Bray. Ri… | ||
| Creator | Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He’s a tough yet compassi… | ||
| Creator | Ray is an enigmatic adventurer with no traceable past who travels from place to place fighting crime and helping people in trouble. He refuses to be p… | ||
| Creator | The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron…. | ||
| Creator | Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United S… | ||
| Creator | The Duke is an American mini series that aired shown on NBC from April 5 to May 18, 1979…. | ||
| Creator | Palace Guard is a drama series Palace Guard is the story of a reformed jewel thief and cat burglar, Tommy Logan, who, after serving three years in pr… | ||
| Creator | Sonny Spoon is a detective program aired in the United States on the NBC television network in 1988. The series was created by Michael Daly, Dinah Pri… | ||
| Creator | Booker is an American crime drama series starring Richard Grieco that aired on the Fox Network from September 24, 1989 to May 6, 1990. The series is a… | ||
| Creator | City of Angels is a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who had previously worked together on The Rockford Files. Am… | ||
| Creator | The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions in asso… | ||
| Creator | Unsub is an American television series that aired on NBC from February 3 to April 14, 1989. The series centers around an elite FBI forensic team that … | ||
| Creator | Toma is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC in 1973 and 1974…. | ||
| Creator | The Last Precinct is an American comedy series that aired on NBC from January to May 1986 on Friday Night at 9:00pm. The series stars Adam West as Cap… | ||
| Creator | Traps is an American police drama that aired on CBS from March 31, 1994 to April 27, 1994…. | ||
| Creator | Chase is an American television series that aired on the NBC network from September 11, 1973 to August 28, 1974. The show was a production of Jack Web… | ||
| Creator | J.J. Starbuck is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from September 1987 to June 1988. The series follows cornpone-spouting Jerome Jeremi… | ||
| Creator | The Hat Squad is a crime drama television series that ran for only one season on CBS, during the 1992–1993 season. 13 episodes were made, but only 1… | ||
| Creator | Broken Badges is an American-Canadian police drama… | ||
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