Stephen J. Cannell

Stephen J. Cannell

1941-2010 

Usually I put bit and pieces into these obits, and here's the fun fact -- Cannell was dyslexic, and didn't discover that until he was in his thirties. 

A man who always had a "healthy" tan, he died from complications of melanoma.

You know who he is if you watched TV in the last thirty years. Most folks I know can find something to like in this list, most of which he created or co-created. Wrote, produced, sometimes played bit parts. I saw him on last season's Castle, as one of Castle's poker buddies. If he had never done anything but Baretta or The Rockford Files, that would have been plenty.

Television

▪ 21 Jump Street

▪ Adam-12

▪ The A-Team

▪ Baa Baa Black Sheep

▪ Baretta

▪ Booker

▪ Broken Badges

▪ Castle (as himself)

▪ Chase

▪ Cobra

▪ The Commish

▪ The D.A.

▪ Diagnosis Murder (acting)

▪ The Duke

▪ The Greatest American Hero

▪ Hardcastle and McCormick

▪ The Hat Squad

▪ Hawkeye

▪ Hunter

▪ J.J. Starbuck

▪ The Last Precinct

▪ Magnum, P.I. (acting)

▪ The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage

▪ Pacific Blue (acting)

▪ Palace Guard

▪ Profit

▪ The Quest

▪ Renegade (acting)

▪ Richie Brockelman, Private Eye

▪ Riptide

▪ Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (acting)

▪ The Rockford Files

▪ The Rousters

▪ Santa Barbara (soap opera) (acting)

▪ Silk Stalkings (acting)

▪ Sonny Spoon

▪ Stingray

▪ Stone

▪ Street Justice

▪ Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

▪ Toma

▪ Top of the Hill

▪ Unsub

▪ Wiseguy

Bibliography

Shane Scully series

1. The Tin Collectors (2001)

2. The Viking Funeral (2002)

3. Hollywood Tough (2003)

4. Vertical Coffin (2004)

5. Cold Hit (2005)

6. White Sister (2006)

7. Three Shirt Deal (2007)

8. On the Grind (2009)

9. The Pallbearers (2010)

10. The Prostitute's Ball (2010)

Other novels

▪ The Plan (1996)

▪ Final Victim (1997)

▪ King Con (1998)

▪ Riding the Snake (1999)

▪ The Devil's Workshop (2000)

▪ Runaway Heart (2003)

▪ At First Sight (2008)