The Rockford Files is my all-time favorite show. Mr. Cannell created the character of Jim Rockford and numerous others. RIP, SJC http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b203466_stephen_j_cannellmdashiconic_tv.html The A-Team. The Rockford Files. 21 Jump Street. Stephen J. Cannell, who produced those hits and many, many more cop and action shows you grew up on, died Thursday night at his Los Angeles-area home. He was 69, and had been battling melanoma. The prolific writer/producer's other credits included Wiseguy, Hunter, The Commish and The Greatest American Hero, one of the few caped-crusader shows to take successfully flight in the early 1980s. The big screen has long coveted Cannell's biggest timeless hits. An A-Team movie, featuring Liam Neeson and some other guy going where George Peppard and Mr. T memorably went in the 1983-87 adventure series, opened to mixed critical and box-office results this past summer. Film versions of The Greatest American Hero and 21 Jump Street are currently in development. The latter series, launched in 1987, propelled one of its young unknowns, a scrawny teen named Johnny Depp, to stardom. Also recently, NBC considered reviving The Rockford Files, the acclaimed 1970s James Garner P.I. series that earned Cannell his first and only Emmy. But the network didn't pick up the Dermot Mulroney pilot for the fall. In addition to his TV work, Cannell was a best-selling detective novelist. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f1oK5SVmRQ4?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f1oK5SVmRQ4?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
There goes that celebs die in 3's thing again. Tony Curtis Greg Giraldo <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cvncv4xkHzQ?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cvncv4xkHzQ?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
And the man was severly dyslexic, so the typing in that scene was completely for show. He had typists type up all his ideas. Obviously, one of the great creative minds for tv and film. He will be sorely missed. Not a bad actor, either... <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UK03xt7nRdk?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UK03xt7nRdk?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
RIP. Forgot he wrote "Greatest American Hero" but not surprised. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e9Q3orQhEcA?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e9Q3orQhEcA?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
