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The TV writer-producer also worked on Walker, Texas Ranger, Riptide, Raven and more.
Frank Lupo, who partnered with Stephen J. Cannell to create such popular 1980s action shows as
The A-Team,
Wiseguy, has died. He was 66.
Lupo died Feb. 18 of cardiac arrest in a hospital in The Villages, Florida, a community outside Ocala, his niece, Gina Dickerson, told
The Hollywood Reporter.
Walker, Texas Ranger.
Born in Brooklyn on Jan. 22, 1955, Lupo graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School and attended The New School in Manhattan as an English major.
He came to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s and at age 20 was hired by Universal Television, where he met Cannell. After writing episodes of such shows as ABC s