Actors - Stephen J. Cannell

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Stephen J. Cannell (born May 2, 1941) (pronounced CAN-ull (rhymes with channel)) is an Emmy award winning television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor from the USA. Noted for sophisticated, character-driven writing within genre formats, Cannell has created or co-created nearly 40 different shows, including The Rockford Files, The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, Wiseguy
, 21 Jump Street, and The Commish. In the process he has scripted more than 350 episodes, and produced or executive produced in excess of 1,500 episodes.

Television

Cannell has worked on numerous TV projects, some of which are listed below

The Rockford Files
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
The A-Team
The Greatest American Hero
Hardcastle & McCormick
21 Jump Street
Hunter
Silk Stalkings
Renegade
Wiseguy
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
Baretta
The Commish
The Duke
The Quest
Riptide
Sonny Spoon
Stone

Bibliography

Cannell is also a bestselling author, having written the following novels. The noted novels feature the character of Detective Shane Scully of the LAPD

Cold Hit (Scully)
Vertical Coffin (Scully)
Runaway Heart
Hollywood Tough (Scully)
The Viking Funeral (Scully)
The Tin Collectors (Scully)
The Devil's Workshop
Riding The Snake
King Con
Final Victim
The Plan

Film

Cannell is working on several projects in this area, most notably a film version of The A-Team.

Trivia

The closing logo of his production company features him typing, before throwing the sheet from his typewriter whereupon it animates to become his company logo against a black screen. It was updated often, the main differences being Cannell's clothes, sometimes new awards in the background and (rarely) a new office for the live-action part.

This is parodied in an episode of The Simpsons called "The Front", featuring Bart and Lisa watching the "Itchy and Scratchy" episode that they wrote, followed by the cartoon's closing logo with a version of Cannell's typewriting, but instead Itchy and Scratchy throwing the piece of paper away to signal the end of the episode, and "Itchy and Scratchy Studios" appears.

The closing logo is also parodied in an episode of Family Guy titled "The Story on Page One", in which protagonist Peter Griffin is typing a story about Luke Perry for daughter Meg. After completing the page, he throws the paper and the rest of the parody is true-to-form.

Cannell is dyslexic, and is a spokesperson on the subject.

Cannell graduated from the University of Oregon in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science in journalism.

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