Stephen J. Cannell

Creator

Stephen J. Cannell

Born 1941-02-05 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Actor / Producer / Writer.

Acting credits

Half Past Dead poster
5.2

A man goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there, he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.

Half Past Dead

2002

Posse poster
5.5

A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.

Posse

1993

No artwork available
8.0

A mix of show clips, archival materials, and interviews with Greenwalt, McNamara, Pasdar, executive producer Stephen J. Cannell, and actors Lisa Blount and Lisa Zane. This documentary covers the development of the McNamara/Greenwalt partnership as well as the origins of Profit, its path to the screen, shooting the “Pilot” and attached controversies, casting, character issues and the approaches taken by the actors, the use of voiceovers, inspirations and related concepts, storylines, stretching boundaries and censorship, reactions to the show and its legacy.

Greed Kills

2005

Ice Spiders poster
4.2

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.

Ice Spiders

2007

CHiPs '99 poster
6.4

Ponch has returned to the police force, and is determined to help his friend Jon investigating various car thefts.

CHiPs '99

1998

Dead Above Ground poster
8.0

Jeff Lucas is already an outcast, but when he makes a horror film instead of a documentary for his class project, the ridicule his classmates inflict upon him soon turns to outright abuse.

Dead Above Ground

2002

The Contract poster
3.8

After a bad day with her boss, friend, husband, babysitter etc., Anne goes to a bar. A man offers to solve her problems. As a joke, she signs a napkin. Hours later, the boss is dead.

The Contract

1999

Threshold poster
4.7

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.

Threshold

2003

Identity Crisis poster
2.3

A rapper finds himself possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer; frequently switching personalities.

Identity Crisis

1989

Behind the camera

21 Jump Street poster
6.9

When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. But, as time goes on, Schmidt and Jenko discover that high school is nothing like it was just a few years earlier -- and, what's more, they must again confront the teenage terror and anxiety they thought they had left behind.

21 Jump Street

2012

The A-Team poster
6.4

A man who loves when a plan comes together, Col. Hannibal Smith leads a close-knit team of elite operatives and Iraq War veterans. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, Smith and his men, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck, break out and go rogue, using their special talents to clear their names and find the perpetrator. Hot on their trail is Capt. Charissa Sosa, who was once involved with a member of Smith's team and has sworn to capture them, no matter what it takes.

The A-Team

2010

Chase poster
7.0

A special police unit goes after a cop-killer in this pilot film to the short-lived series.

Chase

1973

The Poker House poster
6.2

Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

The Poker House

2008

The Garden poster
4.8

A troubled young boy and his father on a road trip stumble upon a rural farm where the elderly owner has sinister plans for the both of them involving witchcraft and evil.

The Garden

2006

The Gypsy Warriors poster
5.0

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

1978

The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise poster
6.6

Angel's televangelical ministry launches a boycott against a movie entitled "Little Ezekial," and Rockford is hired to protect its star.

The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise

1995

The Rockford Files: Backlash of the Hunter poster
10.0

A woman hires Rockford to discover if her father's death was homicide or suicide.

The Rockford Files: Backlash of the Hunter

1974

Demon Hunter poster
4.7

After resolving a situation of exorcism, the half-breed demon hunter Jake Greyman reports to Cardinal White and they realize that the demon Asmodeus is impregnating many mortals trying to raise offspring. Cardinal White calls Sister Sarah Ryan to assist Jake in his hunting for Asmodeus and his women.

Demon Hunter

2005

Wiseguy: Pilot poster
9.0

This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent reassigned to the Organized Crime Bureau as a “wiseguy”, a specially trained deep undercover agent. To help support his cover, Vinnie has just finished serving 18 months in a New Jersey prison…

Wiseguy: Pilot

1987

Greyhounds poster
7.0

A retired sheriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot.

Greyhounds

1994

It Waits poster
5.1

A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park.

It Waits

2005

The November Plan poster
7.0

A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.

The November Plan

1977

Dead Above Ground poster
8.0

Jeff Lucas is already an outcast, but when he makes a horror film instead of a documentary for his class project, the ridicule his classmates inflict upon him soon turns to outright abuse.

Dead Above Ground

2002

Dead Above Ground poster
8.0

Jeff Lucas is already an outcast, but when he makes a horror film instead of a documentary for his class project, the ridicule his classmates inflict upon him soon turns to outright abuse.

Dead Above Ground

2002

Confessions of the D.A. Man poster
NR

A dangerous campus radical may go free if the District Attorney's office can't locate any witnesses for the prosecution.

Confessions of the D.A. Man

1978

Left in Darkness poster
5.6

Celia has had a rough life, with a mother who died in childbirth and a father who disappeared. Unfortunately for Celia, death is not any easier than life. When she is drugged and raped at a frat party, Celia dies from an overdose, and must battle the terrible Soul Eaters who roam the afterlife.

Left in Darkness

2006

The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play poster
8.0

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: Friends and Foul Play

1996

Scott Free poster
7.0

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

1976

Dr. Scorpion poster
7.0

A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island.

Dr. Scorpion

1978

Dawg poster
4.4

To inherit a million dollars, an egotistical womanizer must find the women he's betrayed and convince them to forgive him.

Dawg

2002

Toma poster
7.7

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.

Toma

1973

Brothers-in-Law poster
7.0

T.K. Kenny and Mickey Gubiacci are a highway patrolman and a trucker respectively. Now the two of them don't get along and have nothing in common except for the fact that they are both married to the daughters of Winston Goodhue, and that they don't like him. When Kenny divorces his wife, Goodhue makes it difficult for him to see his son, Win, and would like to keep him away from Win. Goodhue eventually gets Kenny thrown out of the department. Mickey, who has been hauling some illegal loads for Goodhue is arrested and Goodhue convinces his daughter to dump him. And Goodhue takes away his truck. Eventually, Kenny and Mickey get together and decide to get back at Goodhue. And the best way they decide to do that is to throw a monkey wrench into his new development project.

Brothers-in-Law

1985

The Jordan Chance poster
7.0

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

1978