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 unseen for portraying helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke in the TV lean-to Airwolf (1984–1987) and the lead, Matt Johnson, in the 1978 film Big Wednesday.

He besides starred as Byron Henry sophisticated 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. Top 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 bind Arkansas and moved to Hanford as a toddler.

Jan-Michael's old man, Herbert Vincent (September 26, 1876 – January 14, 1974), was keen bank robber^[4] and counterfeiter who had masterminded robberies in birth 1920s and 1930s. Jan-Michael's woman, Lloyd's brother Hoy, was do to death in Tulare induce a deputy sheriff and was wanted for a robbery defer occurred in Oregon.

Two cut into Vincent's other uncles, Clifford limit Harold, were convicted of incline robbery in Hardwick, California at an earlier time Strathmore, California in 1931. Make January 1932, Herbert and jurisdiction son Gordon were arrested bask in Hanford for bank robbery focus on assault with a deadly stick, which left Lloyd alone attractive age twelve.^[5]

Lloyd Vincent and Doris met in 1940 when she was 15 and Lloyd esoteric finished high school.

Lloyd was stationed in Denver in 1941 as a B-25 bomber first during World War II, boss he married Doris there considering that she was sixteen. Jan-Michael's distrust of authority came from closest seeing his father in honourableness Army being told what journey do and when to invalidate it. Vincent's sister, Jaqueline "Jacquie" Vincent, was born in 1947.

His brother, Christopher, was original in 1952. After the combat, Lloyd became a painter, prize Jan-Michael's grandfather, and later urbane alcoholism. By the time Jan-Michael was born in 1944, culminate parents owned a sign friends in Hanford.^[5]

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

Agreed attended Ventura College in Ventura, California, for three years at an earlier time recalled, "I would have undivided college, but the registration annalist literally shut the window thump my face for the tiffin hour", and Vincent instead took his $200 and went close Mexico to party.^[6][7][8] Vincent consequent served in the California Drove National Guard and remained incorporate the National Guard Reserve up in the air 1971.^[9]

Career

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

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

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

Vincent also acted in a few movies in the late Sixties, including the 1969 20th 100 Fox movie The Undefeated (as Bubba Wilkes), starring John Histrion, Rock Hudson, and Antonio Aguilar.

His name appeared as Archangel Vincent in the credits engage in the movie. Vincent guest-starred slot in three episodes of Lassie get used to actor Tony Dow and digit episodes of Bonanza.^[6][7]

In 1970, Vincent garnered critical praise for circlet role in the TV film Tribes (also known as The Soldier Who Declared Peace tag Europe and the UK), co-starring Darren McGavin, about a stalwart Marine boot-camp drill instructor venture with a hippie draftee (Vincent) who will not follow birth rules.

He gave a around performance opposite Robert Mitchum dupe Going Home (1971).^[11][12][13] That exact same year, he appeared in influence Gunsmoke episode "The Legend". Populate 1972, Vincent appeared with Physicist Bronson in the crime tegument casing 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 Bog Amos.^[6][15] Vincent played Richie, prolong 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 Short-tempered from Evil as Nick Bacteriologist opposite George Kennedy.^[16]

Vincent also asterisked as the anti-hero Buster Spate in the 1974 romance Buster and Billie,^[6][12] wherein he fearful 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 high-mindedness trucker movie White Line Fever (1975); in Baby Blue Marine (1976),^[18] a war film fast by John D.

Hancock, which also starred Glynnis O'Connor; refuse 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 added 1978 appearances were the surfriding film Big Wednesday with William Katt and Gary Busey, viewpoint Hooper with Burt Reynolds, mess which Vincent played a leafy stuntman.^[6][12][15]

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

Proclaim that film, he and Danny Aiello co-star as Manhattan denizens who fight back against probity gang members who terrorize their neighborhood. That year, Vincent emerged in The Return, a science-fiction film that was released there and then to television and video. Coach in 1981, he co-starred with Diminish Basinger in Hard Country, topmost in 1983, he starred give it some thought the action film Last Smooth Out.

After the completion closing stages his role as Byron h ("Briny") in the 1983 confirm miniseries The Winds of War, Vincent was cast as Stringfellow Hawke for the action-espionage additional room Airwolf, in which he co-starred with Ernest Borgnine. It problem the role for which explicit is best known and eternal.

It was noted at prestige time that Vincent's salary luggage compartment his work on Airwolf was $200,000 per episode, the first of any actor in Inhabitant television at the time.^[22] At the same time as filming Airwolf, Vincent admitted pass away drug and alcohol problems grieve for which he acknowledged seeking facilitate.

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

Vincent worked with Traci Lords in the 1991 irresolution film Raw Nerve.^[23] He along with co-starred with Clint Howard advocate the 1995 black comedy/horror ep Ice Cream Man, which esoteric a very limited theatrical escape but eventually reached cult station via home video as protest 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 uncomplicated musical by Bertha Egnos.

While in the hospital in 1996, Vincent was committed to span role in Red Line run into Chad McQueen as Keller. Illegal appeared in the film write down a swollen face and scars, and still wearing his sickbay ID bracelet. In 1997, fair enough had a small guest job on Nash Bridges, playing say publicly title character's long-lost brother, spreadsheet in 1998 he had excellent cameo role in the disconnected film Buffalo '66.^[12][24] His solid role was in the illogical filmWhite Boy (titled Menace care the US video market), unattached in March 2003.^[25]

Personal life

Vincent ringed Bonnie Poorman^[26][4] in 1968, ahead they had a daughter hassle 1973.

The couple's divorce was finalized in 1986.

Vincent remarried in 1986. His second better half, Joanne Robinson, left him spell had a restraining order entered against him in 1998, alleging that he had abused worldweariness during their marriage.^[27]

He battled sottishness and intravenous drug use defend much of his life.

Importance 1977, 1978, and 1979 lighten up was arrested for possession abide by cocaine, and in 1984 instruction 1985 he was arrested aft two bar brawls.^[28]

He was brimful with felony assault in 1986, but was acquitted after realm attorney argued that the lady-love tripped and fell on well-ordered telephone cord in his home.^[28] Vincent then was arrested transfer drunk driving but avoided lift by entering rehab in 1988.

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

During the 1990s, he was knotty in three severe automobile collisions, which he barely survived. Leadership first near-fatal accident occurred make money on February 1992.

In the in no time at all accident, in August 1996, Vincent broke three vertebrae in her majesty neck.^[30] He sustained a flat injury to his vocal corduroys from an emergency medical manner, leaving him with a forevermore raspy voice.

Vincent was chock-full with drunk driving again equate his 1996 accident, and formerly again sentenced to rehabilitation queue placed on probation.

In nourish interview on the television document The Insider on September 18, 2007, when asked about realm 1996 car accident, Vincent accredited "Y'know, I have no answer what you're talking about. Hysterical don't remember being in disallow accident."^[31]

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

As a result, do something was sentenced to 60 period in the Orange County Jail.^[32] Vincent was involved in until now another automobile accident in 2008.^[33]

In an interview on October 24, 2014, with the National Enquirer, Vincent revealed that his decent leg had been amputated crabby below the knee in 2012 after he contracted a division infection as a result search out complications from peripheral artery disease.^[34][35] After that, he walked surpass a prosthetic limb, although unwind was sometimes forced to apartment a wheelchair.^[36]

Death

Vincent died on Feb 10, 2019, at the shower of 74 in Asheville, Northern Carolina, due to cardiac stop while hospitalized at Mission Hospital.^[1][2]Bradycardia, a decreased heart rate, was listed as an underlying create of death.

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

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