Stephen J. Cannell, who partnered during the late 1980s with Paul Bronfman to build North Shore Studios in Vancouver, died Thursday night at his Pasadena home, aged 69 years.

Cannell’s family issued a statement Friday to Entertainment Tonight in which they said the TV producer passed away “due to complications associated with melanoma.”

Cannell’s Canadian associations started when then Astral Bellevue Pathé (now Astral Media) was distributing his TV shows, including The A Team and Baretta, north of the border, and was approached to invest in a proposed Vancouver studio.

Astral founder Harold Greenberg passed on the venture, but encouraged Paul Bronfman to team up with Cannell on the studio project in north Vancouver.

North Shore Studios eventually became the home of the X-Files TV series.

Recent TV productions to shoot on its soundstages include Psych, Human Target, V and Battlestar Galactica.