Stephen J. Cannell

Stephen J. Cannell

Nacimiento : 1941-02-05, Los Angeles, California, USA

Muerte : 2010-09-30

Historia

Actor / Producer / Writer.

Perfil

Stephen J. Cannell

Películas

Infiltrados en la universidad
Executive Producer
La pareja de policías formada por Schmidt y Jenko vuelve a la carga después del éxito de la operación contra la red de narcotraficantes en el instituto. En esta ocasión, los agentes de la ley siguen perteneciendo a la unidad secreta Jump Street y tendrán que infiltrarse en una universidad para llevar a cabo una arriesgada investigación. Una nueva aventura que pondrá a prueba al dúo cada vez mejor compenetrado.
Infiltrados en clase
Producer
Dos jóvenes agentes de la ley se hacen pasar por alumnos de instituto para desarticular una red de narcotráfico. Schmidt y Jenko fueron enemigos en el colegio pero, cuando años más tarde se reencuentran en la academia de policía, terminan haciéndose amigos. Puede que no sean los mejores agentes, pero les llega su gran oportunidad de demostrar lo que valen cuando se unen a la unidad de la policía secreta Jump Street, comandada por el capitán Dickson. Entonces cambian sus armas e insignias por las mochilas y utilizan su apariencia juvenil para infiltrarse en un instituto. El problema es que los jóvenes de hoy no se parecen en nada a los de años atrás, y Schmidt y Jenko descubren que todo lo que creían saber sobre la adolescencia, el sexo, las drogas y el rock and roll era completamente erróneo.
Infiltrados en clase
Teleplay
Dos jóvenes agentes de la ley se hacen pasar por alumnos de instituto para desarticular una red de narcotráfico. Schmidt y Jenko fueron enemigos en el colegio pero, cuando años más tarde se reencuentran en la academia de policía, terminan haciéndose amigos. Puede que no sean los mejores agentes, pero les llega su gran oportunidad de demostrar lo que valen cuando se unen a la unidad de la policía secreta Jump Street, comandada por el capitán Dickson. Entonces cambian sus armas e insignias por las mochilas y utilizan su apariencia juvenil para infiltrarse en un instituto. El problema es que los jóvenes de hoy no se parecen en nada a los de años atrás, y Schmidt y Jenko descubren que todo lo que creían saber sobre la adolescencia, el sexo, las drogas y el rock and roll era completamente erróneo.
El equipo A
Producer
"Me encanta que los planes salgan bien" es la frase identificativa del Coronel Hannibal Smith, el líder de "El Equipo A", una unidad especial de veteranos de la guerra de Iraq, antiguos soldados de las Fuerzas Especiales que fueron acusados de un crimen que no cometieron. Ellos son Hannibal, un experto planificador de misiones ingeniosas que requieren una reacción en una fracción de segundo, habilidades especiales y un equipo de soldados competentes... y excéntricos; Templenton 'Fénix' Peck quien puede conseguir cualquier cosa para las actividades poco ortodoxas y audaces del Equipo; M.A. Barracus, el conductor y músculo del Equipo; y Murdock, un pilo excepcional y loco acreditado. La Capitana Charisa es un antiguo ligue de Fénix que ahora persigue a El Equipo A por un crimen que no cometieron y Lynch es un misterioso agente de la CIA que juega un papel importante en la misión más explosiva del Equipo.
El equipo A
Characters
"Me encanta que los planes salgan bien" es la frase identificativa del Coronel Hannibal Smith, el líder de "El Equipo A", una unidad especial de veteranos de la guerra de Iraq, antiguos soldados de las Fuerzas Especiales que fueron acusados de un crimen que no cometieron. Ellos son Hannibal, un experto planificador de misiones ingeniosas que requieren una reacción en una fracción de segundo, habilidades especiales y un equipo de soldados competentes... y excéntricos; Templenton 'Fénix' Peck quien puede conseguir cualquier cosa para las actividades poco ortodoxas y audaces del Equipo; M.A. Barracus, el conductor y músculo del Equipo; y Murdock, un pilo excepcional y loco acreditado. La Capitana Charisa es un antiguo ligue de Fénix que ahora persigue a El Equipo A por un crimen que no cometieron y Lynch es un misterioso agente de la CIA que juega un papel importante en la misión más explosiva del Equipo.
The Poker House
Producer
Drama basado en sus años de adolescencia de la propia directora, Lori Petty; se trata del retrato de la vida de un pequeño pueblo pobre en Iowa de 1976.
Arañas devoradoras
Frank Stone
Un grupo de esquiadores acude a una estación de esquí con el fin de entrenarse para las Olimpiadas. Pero cuando llegan allí, se encontrarán con una desagradable sorpresa: una plaga de enormes arañas surge por doquier dispuestas a matarlos.
La semilla del mal (The Garden)
Producer
David y su hijo Samuel tienen un accidente de coche a las afueras del pueblo de Havilah. Ante este percance aceptan la hospitalidad de Ben Zachary, un misterioso anciano. Sin hogar, sin trabajo y sin un lugar donde ir, David acepta trabajar en la granja de Ben, en cuyo jardín crece un árbol de siete frutas, Samuel, que ha sufrido pesadillas durante toda su vid, sueña que están en manos de un hombre que realiza actos horribles. Unas premoniciones revelan que su nueva profesora, la Srta. Chapman ayuda a Zachary a realizarlos. Mientras su padre está cada vez mas sometido al hechizo del anciano, Samuel se dá cuenta de que sus pesadillas son indicios de un próximo apocalipsis. La batalla definitiva entre Dios y el Diablo va a llevarse a cabo.
Al acecho
Producer
Una carga explosiva en una gruta de una montaña deja al descubierto una cueva en la que vive una extraña criatura oculta entre las sombras. Un sangriento depredador ha sido despertado de su letargo. Danielle, una joven guardabosques, sospecha que algo pasa a su alrededor cuando un excursionista desaparece. Nadie quiere escucharla y acaba aislada en el bosque sin opción de escapatoria. Algo está al acecho, esperándola.
Al acecho
Teleplay
Una carga explosiva en una gruta de una montaña deja al descubierto una cueva en la que vive una extraña criatura oculta entre las sombras. Un sangriento depredador ha sido despertado de su letargo. Danielle, una joven guardabosques, sospecha que algo pasa a su alrededor cuando un excursionista desaparece. Nadie quiere escucharla y acaba aislada en el bosque sin opción de escapatoria. Algo está al acecho, esperándola.
Demon Hunter
Producer
Mitad hombre, mitad demonio, Jake ha dedicado su existencia a la caza de entes malignos mientras que colabora con la iglesia católica en la infinita batalla contra los poderes del infierno. Sus expeditivos métodos hacen que la Iglesia le asigne a la hermana Sarah como compañera. Su último enemigo es Asmodeus, un poderoso demonio que ha vuelto a la tierra con la intención de convertir al mayor número de humanos posible en su luchar contra el bien. Jake librar las más espectaculares peleas cuerpo a cuerpo con Asmodeus y sus secuaces, pero el secreto para poder vencerlo lo esconde la misteriosa hermana Sarah.
Hunter: Back in Force
Executive Producer
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 bank robbers who appear to be behind bars when the crimes occur, while simultaneously looking for an excon he put away who has just been released and is now on a vengeful crime wave.
Hunter: Back in Force
Story
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 bank robbers who appear to be behind bars when the crimes occur, while simultaneously looking for an excon he put away who has just been released and is now on a vengeful crime wave.
Threshold
Pacheco Laval
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 swarm.
Al filo de la muerte
Frank Hubbard
En el 2002 la Autoridad Penal de California ha reabierto la prisión más famosa de la historia: Alcatraz. Un contrariado funcionario de prisiones convertido en mente criminal ha organizado un comando para que se infiltre en la reformada fortaleza de alta tecnología, con el objetivo de forzar a un preso condenado a muerte a revelar el paradero de 200 millones de dólares en oro. Otro preso, Nick Frazier, debe ayudar al agente del FBI infiltrado, Sasha Petrosevitch, a reunir un grupo de presos para detener a los invasores antes de que asesinen a los miembros del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia que están allí para presenciar la inminente ejecución. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dead Above Ground
Writer
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 upon him soon turns to outright abuse. After being forced into an auto race with one of his more sadistic classmates, Jeff's car careens over a cliff and the troubled student is presumed to be dead. When a new family moves into the home previously inhabited by Jeff and his family, a series of bizarre occurrences lead the family's high-school-age son to believe that Jeff has returned to inflict revenge upon those who wronged him in life.
Dead Above Ground
Carl Hadden
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 upon him soon turns to outright abuse. After being forced into an auto race with one of his more sadistic classmates, Jeff's car careens over a cliff and the troubled student is presumed to be dead. When a new family moves into the home previously inhabited by Jeff and his family, a series of bizarre occurrences lead the family's high-school-age son to believe that Jeff has returned to inflict revenge upon those who wronged him in life.
Dead Above Ground
Producer
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 upon him soon turns to outright abuse. After being forced into an auto race with one of his more sadistic classmates, Jeff's car careens over a cliff and the troubled student is presumed to be dead. When a new family moves into the home previously inhabited by Jeff and his family, a series of bizarre occurrences lead the family's high-school-age son to believe that Jeff has returned to inflict revenge upon those who wronged him in life.
The Contract
William Goodwin
Anna tiene una mala semana . Su jefe es un dolor para ella, al igual que el empleado de la tienda de comestibles. Su amiga estaba mal con ella, su marido no podía apartar los ojos de una camarera, y su niñera le molestaba . Una noche en el pub local , le dice a un hombre de sus problemas y él dice que puede resolverlos si ella firma un papel. Al día siguiente , su jefe ha sido brutalmente asesinado. Pronto, Anna se da cuenta de que todo el mundo sabe que está en peligro, incluyendo a su familia y amigos..
CHiPs '99
Bendix
Ponch has returned to the police force, and is determined to help his friend Jon investigating various car thefts.
Them
Executive Producer
Remake of the 1954 SciFi classic
The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime
Creator
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 Megan. Her no-good playboy cousin Patrick is involved with the Russian Mob, which puts everyone's life in danger. The weary Rockford must also deal with his old friend Angel, who is painting Jim's trailer to work off a debt.
The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play
Writer
Rockford intenta ayudar a su amigo, Babs demuestra que su hijo fue asesinado por un mafioso. Después de que Babs es asesinada, Rockford utiliza claves de su diario para ayudar a su investigación y se matricula en una clase de conductas delictivas para obtener más información acerca del caso.
The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise
Writer
Un detective privado es contratado para proteger a una actriz cuya última película está siendo boicoteada por un grupo de fanáticos religiosos.
The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
Executive Producer
Lieutenant Rick Hunter's girlfriend is murdered.
Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou
Executive Producer
Gerald McRaney stars as Jake Lassiter, a colorful ex-football player turned top defense attorney who is hired to defend Dr. Roger Salisbury, a surgeon charged with malpractice in the mysterious death of a wealthy patient, Phillip Corrigan.
Greyhounds
Story
Retired sherriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot. From http://www.cannell.com/tv-show-detail/18/greyhounds.html GREYHOUNDS is an action drama starring Dennis Weaver, Robert Guillaume, James Coburn and Pat Morita about three retired lawmen and a "reformed" conman lured back into crimefighting as special consultants to a young Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Diego. Weaver is Chance Wayne, a widowed ex-sheriff; Guillaume is former Judge Robert "Maximum Bob" Smith; Morita plays ex-police psychiatrist Akira "Moch" Mochizuki; Coburn is con artist John Duffy, just released from prison and not so anxious to go straight. "JoJo" Gonzales, played by Roxann Biggs, is the female U.S. Attorney who recruits them for her staff.
Greyhounds
Screenplay
Retired sherriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot. From http://www.cannell.com/tv-show-detail/18/greyhounds.html GREYHOUNDS is an action drama starring Dennis Weaver, Robert Guillaume, James Coburn and Pat Morita about three retired lawmen and a "reformed" conman lured back into crimefighting as special consultants to a young Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Diego. Weaver is Chance Wayne, a widowed ex-sheriff; Guillaume is former Judge Robert "Maximum Bob" Smith; Morita plays ex-police psychiatrist Akira "Moch" Mochizuki; Coburn is con artist John Duffy, just released from prison and not so anxious to go straight. "JoJo" Gonzales, played by Roxann Biggs, is the female U.S. Attorney who recruits them for her staff.
Posse
Jimmy Love
Un grupo de soldados de infantería, en su mayoría negros, regresan de la Guerra de Cuba (1898) con un alijo de oro. Viajan al Oeste, donde su líder busca a los hombres que lincharon a su padre.
The Great Pretender
Writer
A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers dangerous reprisals at his work.
Identity Crisis
The Coroner
A rapper finds himself possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer; frequently switching personalities.
Destination: America
Executive Producer
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 murder, with his old childhood friend determined to convict him. Pilot to a prospective TV series.
The Last Precinct
Executive Producer
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 academy, all assembled under a straitlaced but dimwitted captain, fumble their way to success cracking a drug ring run by a blind mobster.
The Last Precinct
Writer
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 academy, all assembled under a straitlaced but dimwitted captain, fumble their way to success cracking a drug ring run by a blind mobster.
Stingray
Writer
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 assistant seeks out a man who is only known by the car he drives, a Stingray. He helps people who have problems and in return, they owe him a favor that he will collect later.
Ritos de Medianoche
Executive Producer
Vivian es una chica que tiene poderes mágicos. Su novio David, ya esta cansado de ella y conoce a Robin, otra chica que al igual que Vivian tambien posee poderes mágicos. Cuando estas se conocen, comenzará una guerra mental entre las dos chicas.
Nightside
Executive Producer
Danny Dandoy is a good-humored, streetwise cop working the dusk-to-dawn shift in Los Angeles with his somewhat naive new partner, Macey, in this proposed pilot for a new TV series.
Nightside
Teleplay
Danny Dandoy is a good-humored, streetwise cop working the dusk-to-dawn shift in Los Angeles with his somewhat naive new partner, Macey, in this proposed pilot for a new TV series.
Stone
Writer
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 force in this pilot to the short-lived series.
Stone
Executive Producer
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 force in this pilot to the short-lived series.
The Night Rider
Writer
"The Mark of Zorro" was updated for this pilot for a prospective series that tells of a New Orleans gentleman who turns masked rider to fight for law and order and avenge his family's killing by four men who wanted their silver mine.
The Night Rider
Executive Producer
"The Mark of Zorro" was updated for this pilot for a prospective series that tells of a New Orleans gentleman who turns masked rider to fight for law and order and avenge his family's killing by four men who wanted their silver mine.
The Jordan Chance
Story
Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of murder. The local police give him every reason to believe she was railroaded to ease a tense racial status quo, and they will stop at almost nothing to prevent the case from being reopened.
The Jordan Chance
Screenplay
Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of murder. The local police give him every reason to believe she was railroaded to ease a tense racial status quo, and they will stop at almost nothing to prevent the case from being reopened.
The Gypsy Warriors
Executive Producer
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 II adventure.
The Gypsy Warriors
Writer
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 II adventure.
Dr. Scorpion
Executive Producer
A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island.
Dr. Scorpion
Writer
A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island.
Dr. Scorpion
Creator
A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island.
The November Plan
Writer
A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.
Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours
Writer
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 might be involved in a murder.
Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours
Executive Producer
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 might be involved in a murder.
Scott Free
Executive Producer
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 of land he won in a poker game.
Scott Free
Writer
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 of land he won in a poker game.
Chase
Associate Producer
A special police unit goes after a cop-killer in this pilot film to the short-lived series.
Chase
Writer
A special police unit goes after a cop-killer in this pilot film to the short-lived series.
Toma
Producer
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 numbers racket.