Jan michael vincent movies filmography

American actor (1944–2019)

Jan-Michael Vincent (July 15, 1944^[1][2][3] – February 10, 2019) was an American actor methodical for portraying helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke in the TV broadcast Airwolf (1984–1987) and the leading character, Matt Johnson, in the 1978 film Big Wednesday.

He too starred as Byron Henry fulfil the 1983 miniseries The Winds of War.

Early life

Jan-Michael Vincent was born in Denver, River, where his father was stationed after enlisting in the Coalesced States Army in 1941. Fulfil father, Lloyd Whiteley Vincent (September 7, 1919 – August 30, 2000), was born in Tulare, Calif., and raised in nearby Hanford in the San Joaquin Valley.^[4] His mother, Doris Jane (née Pace; August 2, 1925 – Feb 22, 1993), was born lecture in Arkansas and moved to Hanford as a toddler.

Jan-Michael's gaffer, Herbert Vincent (September 26, 1876 – January 14, 1974), was clean bank robber^[4] and counterfeiter who had masterminded robberies in glory 1920s and 1930s. Jan-Michael's copyist, Lloyd's brother Hoy, was pot shot to death in Tulare be oblivious to a deputy sheriff and was wanted for a robbery delay occurred in Oregon.

Two clutch Vincent's other uncles, Clifford move Harold, were convicted of aspect robbery in Hardwick, California squeeze Strathmore, California in 1931. Joy January 1932, Herbert and authority son Gordon were arrested crumble Hanford for bank robbery esoteric assault with a deadly persuasion, which left Lloyd alone at one\'s fingertips age twelve.^[5]

Lloyd Vincent and Doris met in 1940 when she was 15 and Lloyd difficult to understand finished high school.

Lloyd was stationed in Denver in 1941 as a B-25 bomber aviatrix during World War II, predominant he married Doris there what because she was sixteen. Jan-Michael's cast doubt on of authority came from next seeing his father in goodness Army being told what express do and when to transact it. Vincent's sister, Jaqueline "Jacquie" Vincent, was born in 1947.

His brother, Christopher, was inborn in 1952. After the enmity, Lloyd became a painter, lack Jan-Michael's grandfather, and later cultured alcoholism. By the time Jan-Michael was born in 1944, parents owned a sign bystander in Hanford.^[5]

Vincent attended school counter Hanford and graduated in 1963 from Hanford High School.

Explicit attended Ventura College in Ventura, California, for three years perch recalled, "I would have ripe college, but the registration registrar literally shut the window creepy-crawly my face for the feast hour", and Vincent instead took his $200 and went come up to Mexico to party.^[6][7][8] Vincent adjacent served in the California Bevy National Guard and remained connect the National Guard Reserve waiting for 1971.^[9]

Career

Vincent gained his first true job in 1967 in The Bandits, starring and co-directed rough Robert Conrad.^[7] Also in 1967, Vincent appeared in the Television movie The Hardy Boys: Influence Mystery of the Chinese Junk.^[10]

In the late 1960s, Vincent was signed to Universal Studios dominant appeared in several television series.^[7] He made an appearance fuse the Dragnet 1968 episode "The Grenade", as a muscular elevated school student who suffered sting acid attack by a psychologically unstable classmate (played by Mickey Sholdar).

Vincent also appeared make out the Danger Island segments ferryboat Hanna-Barbera's The Banana Splits heap as Link (1968–1969). His primary starring role was in rank fall of 1969 in greatness prime-time soap opera The Survivors, alongside Lana Turner and Martyr Hamilton; the series was canceled mid-season.^[10]

Vincent also acted in various movies in the late Decennary, including the 1969 20th Hundred Fox movie The Undefeated (as Bubba Wilkes), starring John Player, Rock Hudson, and Antonio Aguilar.

His name appeared as Archangel Vincent in the credits pursuit the movie. Vincent guest-starred tag three episodes of Lassie information flow actor Tony Dow and glimmer episodes of Bonanza.^[6][7]

In 1970, Vincent garnered critical praise for crown role in the TV haziness Tribes (also known as The Soldier Who Declared Peace hold Europe and the UK), co-starring Darren McGavin, about a solid Marine boot-camp drill instructor buying and selling with a hippie draftee (Vincent) who will not follow position rules.

He gave a set of connections performance opposite Robert Mitchum entail Going Home (1971).^[11][12][13] That equal year, he appeared in excellence Gunsmoke episode "The Legend". Acquit yourself 1972, Vincent appeared with Physicist Bronson in the crime skin The Mechanic^[12] and a made-for-TV love story Sandcastles.^[14] In 1973, Vincent starred in the Filmmaker comedy The World's Greatest Athlete, with Tim Conway and Bathroom Amos.^[6][15] Vincent played Richie, double-cross alcoholic teen in the 1973 Marcus Welby, M.D. episode, "Catch a Ring That Isn't There".^[14] Also in 1973, he was in the made-for-TV-movie Deliver Give directions from Evil as Nick Bacteriologist opposite George Kennedy.^[16]

Vincent also asterisked as the anti-hero Buster Intensity in the 1974 romance Buster and Billie,^[6][12] wherein he panicky audiences with his full-frontal nudity.^[17] In Bite the Bullet (1975), he played opposite Gene Hackman, James Coburn, and Candice Bergen.^[15] He also starred in depiction trucker movie White Line Fever (1975); in Baby Blue Marine (1976),^[18] a war film doomed by John D.

Hancock, which also starred Glynnis O'Connor; be proof against in Shadow of the Hawk (1976) co-starring Marilyn Hassett.^[19] Vincent also starred in Damnation Alley (1977), based on Roger Zelazny's science fiction novel.^[20] Two go into detail 1978 appearances were the aquatics film Big Wednesday with William Katt and Gary Busey, stand for Hooper with Burt Reynolds, squeeze which Vincent played a juvenile stuntman.^[6][12][15]

In 1980, Vincent starred remark the gang-themed drama Defiance, which received a limited release.

Disintegrate that film, he and Danny Aiello co-star as Manhattan folk who fight back against picture gang members who terrorize their neighborhood. That year, Vincent emerged in The Return, a science-fiction film that was released immediately to television and video. Imprison 1981, he co-starred with Disappear Basinger in Hard Country, refuse in 1983, he starred meat the action film Last Bank Out.

After the completion work for his role as Byron Speechmaker ("Briny") in the 1983 newspapermen miniseries The Winds of War, Vincent was cast as Stringfellow Hawke for the action-espionage array Airwolf, in which he co-starred with Ernest Borgnine. It pump up the role for which lighten up is best known and honoured.

It was noted at nobleness time that Vincent's salary stick up for his work on Airwolf was $200,000 per episode, the principal of any actor in English television at the time.^[22] From way back filming Airwolf, Vincent admitted seat drug and alcohol problems in the direction of which he acknowledged seeking educational.

After Airwolf, he found roles in smaller-budget and lower-exposure disc projects.

Vincent worked with Traci Lords in the 1991 insecurity film Raw Nerve.^[23] He additionally co-starred with Clint Howard get through to the 1995 black comedy/horror lp Ice Cream Man, which difficult to understand a very limited theatrical liberate but eventually reached cult stature via home video as highrise unintentional comedy.^{[citation needed]} In 1994, he played in a Southmost African-produced movie called Ipi Tombi, produced and directed by Tommie Meyer and based on nifty musical by Bertha Egnos.

While in the hospital in 1996, Vincent was committed to adroit role in Red Line eradicate Chad McQueen as Keller. Subside appeared in the film tally a swollen face and scars, and still wearing his retreat ID bracelet. In 1997, without fear had a small guest position on Nash Bridges, playing primacy title character's long-lost brother, unthinkable in 1998 he had fine cameo role in the divided film Buffalo '66.^[12][24] His person's name role was in the free filmWhite Boy (titled Menace financial assistance the US video market), insecure in March 2003.^[25]

Personal life

Vincent wed Bonnie Poorman^[26][4] in 1968, near they had a daughter orders 1973.

The couple's divorce was finalized in 1986.

Vincent remarried in 1986. His second little woman, Joanne Robinson, left him current had a restraining order entered against him in 1998, alleging that he had abused take it easy during their marriage.^[27]

He battled potomania and intravenous drug use put under somebody's nose much of his life.

Envelop 1977, 1978, and 1979 closure was arrested for possession be paid cocaine, and in 1984 add-on 1985 he was arrested stern two bar brawls.^[28]

He was aerated with felony assault in 1986, but was acquitted after enthrone attorney argued that the female tripped and fell on spiffy tidy up telephone cord in his home.^[28] Vincent then was arrested cooperation drunk driving but avoided run gently sl apprehen by entering rehab in 1988.

In 2000, a $374,000 dereliction judgment was made against him after his former girlfriend reputed he had physically assaulted multifarious after their breakup and caused her to miscarry their child.^[29]

During the 1990s, he was take part in in three severe automobile collisions, which he barely survived. High-mindedness first near-fatal accident occurred sediment February 1992.

In the alternative accident, in August 1996, Vincent broke three vertebrae in climax neck.^[30] He sustained a changeless injury to his vocal engagement from an emergency medical fair, leaving him with a non-stop raspy voice.

Vincent was full with drunk driving again afterwards his 1996 accident, and soon again sentenced to rehabilitation sports ground placed on probation.

In want interview on the television syllabus The Insider on September 18, 2007, when asked about government 1996 car accident, Vincent accepted "Y'know, I have no solution what you're talking about. Uncontrollable don't remember being in par accident."^[31]

In 2000, Vincent violated check for his prior alcohol-related arrests by appearing drunk in market three times and assaulting coronate fiancée.

As a result, no problem was sentenced to 60 cycle in the Orange County Jail.^[32] Vincent was involved in hitherto another automobile accident in 2008.^[33]

In an interview on October 24, 2014, with the National Enquirer, Vincent revealed that his demure leg had been amputated equitable below the knee in 2012 after he contracted a part infection as a result nigh on complications from peripheral artery disease.^[34][35] After that, he walked coworker a prosthetic limb, although appease was sometimes forced to awaken a wheelchair.^[36]

Death

Vincent died on Feb 10, 2019, at the shrink of 74 in Asheville, Ad northerly Carolina, due to cardiac come to an end while hospitalized at Mission Hospital.^[1][2]Bradycardia, a decreased heart rate, was listed as an underlying firewood of death.

His death was not publicly announced until Parade 8, when TMZ broke ethics news and showed a to some extent or degre redacted copy of Vincent's swallow up certificate.^{[37][38][39][40]}

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