Stephen J. Cannell, the prolific television writer and Producer WHO co-created "The Rockford Files" and "The A-Team" and later became a best-selling novelist, has Died. They was 69
Cannell Died Thursday evening of Complications Associated with melanoma at his home in Pasadena, his family said.
In a Career That Began in the late 1960s "when they Sold his first TV script and soon became the hottest young writer on the Universal lot, Cannell created or co-created More Than 40 TV shows, Including" Baa Baa Black Sheep, "" Baretta , "" The Greatest American Hero "and" 21 Jump Street. "
Cannell, WHO Formedia his own independent Production Company in 1979, wrote More Than 450 TV episodes and Produced or Executive Produced More Than 1.500 episodes.
"He was one of the masters of good old-fashioned generic television," said Robert Thompson, a professor of television at Syracuse University and author of the 1990 book "Adventures in Prime Time: The Television Programs of Stephen J. Cannell.
"They did detective shows, they did adventure dramas, they did Fantasies," said Thompson. "He wasn't one of the WHO These guys did like 'The Sopranos." They was a meat and potatoes Producer, writer and creator of the TV shows. And they did meat and potatoes really, really well. "
"" The Rockford Files, "the 1974-80 detective series co-created by Roy Huggins and starring James Garner," was kind of a standard, formulaic detective genre of the show, But it was brilliantly executed. And Cannell Could write a state-of- Dialogue-the-art like few others of his time, "said Thompson.
In 1978, they shared an Emmy Award for outstanding drama series for "The Rockford Files."
From writing "this really great dialogue" on "The Rockford Files," Thompson said, "he'd go is Thurs form his company and do a show like 'The A Team," this kind of goofy, fantasy-like Lone Ranger Program . But once again, in Cannell's hands, it became a huge hit. It was delightfully funny to watch. "
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