Stephen J. Cannell

Stephen J. Cannell

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

Morte : 2010-09-30

História

Actor / Producer / Writer.

Perfil

Stephen J. Cannell

Filmes

Anjos da Lei 2
Executive Producer
Os oficiais Schmidt e Jenko têm agora uma nova missão: se infiltrar em uma faculdade local. O problema é que, em meio à investigação, Jenko conhece sua alma gêmea em plena equipe de atletismo e Schmidt, após se infiltrar no centro de arte boêmia, começa a questionar a dupla. Em meio aos inevitáveis problemas de relacionamento, eles precisam encontrar um meio de desvendar o caso que estão investigando.
Anjos da Lei
Producer
Jenko e Schmidt estudaram juntos, mas nunca foram amigos. Anos depois, os dois se reencontram na academia de polícia e passam a se ajudar. Já formados, a dupla se envolve em uma confusão ao tentar prender um traficante. Por causa de seu desempenho catastrófico, eles são remanejados para trabalhar infiltrados como alunos de ensino médio. Eles devem desvendar quem é o fornecedor de uma nova droga em uma escola, enquanto tentam manter seu disfarce de estudantes.
Anjos da Lei
Teleplay
Jenko e Schmidt estudaram juntos, mas nunca foram amigos. Anos depois, os dois se reencontram na academia de polícia e passam a se ajudar. Já formados, a dupla se envolve em uma confusão ao tentar prender um traficante. Por causa de seu desempenho catastrófico, eles são remanejados para trabalhar infiltrados como alunos de ensino médio. Eles devem desvendar quem é o fornecedor de uma nova droga em uma escola, enquanto tentam manter seu disfarce de estudantes.
Esquadrão Classe A
Producer
O Coronel Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson) e seus amigos mercenários são acionados para fazer um serviço secreto para um agente do Governo americano, mas uma militar de alta patente, a Tenente Sosa (Jessica Biel), antigo caso de Cara de Pau (Bradley Cooper), os proíbe de prosseguir na missão, que envolve falsificação de dólares em Bagdá e uma provável conspiração.
Esquadrão Classe A
Characters
O Coronel Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson) e seus amigos mercenários são acionados para fazer um serviço secreto para um agente do Governo americano, mas uma militar de alta patente, a Tenente Sosa (Jessica Biel), antigo caso de Cara de Pau (Bradley Cooper), os proíbe de prosseguir na missão, que envolve falsificação de dólares em Bagdá e uma provável conspiração.
A Casa de Jogos
Producer
Em um lar controlado por apostadores e bandidos, Agnes e suas duas irmãs tentam sobreviver às péssimas circunstâncias de suas vidas com dignidade e humor.
Ice Spiders
Frank Stone
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 find a retired Olympic skier is there to help them train. But their plans are halted when a scientist working at a nearby government lab arrives with the horrifying news that a top secret Government project has produced giant spiders and they have escaped, killing and eating everything in sight.
Jardim do Mal
Producer
Sam (Adam Taylor Gordon) é um garoto que tem visões. Ele e seu pai, David (Brian Wimmer), um alcoólatra divorciado que há 6 meses não bebe, tentam colocar a vida nos eixos. Durante uma viagem eles sofrem um acidente e são socorridos por Ben Zachary (Lance Henriksen), que é dono de uma propriedade rural. Ben permite que os dois morem no local, sem cobrar algo, e dá um emprego para David, que, precisando do dinheiro, fica. Mas Sam vê coisas que o fazem não gostar da situação, além de que convencê-lo de que tudo está sendo preparado para o apocalipse acontecer.
À Espera do Mal
Producer
Uma criatura que estava adormecida é acordada das profundezas do inferno e volta no mundo. A isso junta-se uma jovem que está atormentada pela culpa de ter causado a morte de seu melhor amigo. Ela está na floresta, mas percebe que não está sozinha já que essa terrível criatura a está perseguindo lentamente, deixando um rastro de morte em seu caminho e destruindo a todos que podem ajudá-la. Agora, essa jovem terá que enfrentar sozinha o seu pior pesadelo que, mais do que a sua própria culpa, a persegue sem trégua e poderá se tornar um pesadelo fatal.
À Espera do Mal
Teleplay
Uma criatura que estava adormecida é acordada das profundezas do inferno e volta no mundo. A isso junta-se uma jovem que está atormentada pela culpa de ter causado a morte de seu melhor amigo. Ela está na floresta, mas percebe que não está sozinha já que essa terrível criatura a está perseguindo lentamente, deixando um rastro de morte em seu caminho e destruindo a todos que podem ajudá-la. Agora, essa jovem terá que enfrentar sozinha o seu pior pesadelo que, mais do que a sua própria culpa, a persegue sem trégua e poderá se tornar um pesadelo fatal.
Caçador de Demônios
Producer
Jake é um ser meio-demônio, meio-homem que tem um único propósito na vida: exterminar demônios e proteger a raça humana. Seu último inimigo, Asmodeus, chegou à Terra com a intenção de povoar o mundo com seus seres demoníacos. A missão de Jake é perseguir e destruir Asmodeus. Mas o demônio também tem seus planos para fugir do guardião e usará de todas suas artimanhas para destruí-lo e transformar o mundo num inferno.
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.
Invasores
Pacheco Laval
A espaçonave Oklahoma é enviada ao espaço com amissão de fazer reparos no telescópio Hubble. Mas durante uma caminhada fora da nave, Clay Collins (Colin Glazer), um dos membros da equipe, entra em contato com um estranho material uma espécie de meteorito que acaba ficando preso à sua roupa. Para evitar contaminações, a missão é abortada. De volta à Terra, o astronauta adoece. Exames de laboratório revelam a presença de um DNA desconhecido em Collins, e a doutora Savannah Baylei (Jamie Luner) é levada a crer que uma forma de vida alienígena habita o organismo do astronauta. Enquanto isso, na pacata cidae de Glavestown, pessoas começam a morrer em circunstâncias estranhas, e até a Agência Nacional de Segurança é acionada. Notícias divulgadas pela imprensa dizem tratar-se de um Anthrax. Mal sabe a população que criaturas vindas do espaço estão usando o corpo das pessoas para se desenvolverem. Conseguirão os alienígenas conquistar nosso planeta?
No Corredor da Morte
Frank Hubbard
Prestes a ser executado por ter roubado US$ 200 milhões em ouro, um preso solicita como último pedido um encontro com Sascha Petrosevitch, outro prisioneiro, que tem a fama de, após ter sido baleado em uma perseguição da polícia, ter morrido e retornado à vida alguns minutos depois. Porém o que ele não sabe é que Sascha é um agente do FBI, infiltrado para obter informações sobre o roubo do carregamento de ouro. Entretanto, um influente criminoso planeja invadir a prisão para também conseguir a informação sobre onde está o ouro escondido, o que força a Sascha a liderar uma rebelião de presidiários para combatê-lo.
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
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
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 must must do what it takes to put both her soul and her son's, at rest, himself.
The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise
Writer
Angel's televangelical ministry launches a boycott against a movie entitled "Little Ezekial," and Rockford is hired to protect its star.
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: A Vingança de Jessie Lee
Jimmy Love
Um grupo de soldados de infantaria em sua maioria negros, retornam da guerra hispano-americana com um carregamento de ouro. Eles viajam para o Oeste, onde Jesse Lee (Mario Van Peebles), o líder, procura os homens que haviam assassinado seu pai, ao mesmo tempo que são perseguidos por um sádico comandante (Billy Zane).
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.
Midnight Offerings
Executive Producer
Vivian has magic powers. She doesn't hesitate to save her boyfriend David from failing in school by murdering teachers. However, David has gotten tired of her and is putting his charm on a new girl in school, Robin. Robin discovers that she also has magic powers, and before long the two girls clash violently.
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.