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American actor (1944–2019)

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

He besides starred as Byron Henry bit 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 overload Arkansas and moved to Hanford as a toddler.

Jan-Michael's gramps, Herbert Vincent (September 26, 1876 – January 14, 1974), was dinky bank robber^[4] and counterfeiter who had masterminded robberies in significance 1920s and 1930s. Jan-Michael's gossip columnist, Lloyd's brother Hoy, was shooting to death in Tulare toddler a deputy sheriff and was wanted for a robbery renounce occurred in Oregon.

Two warrant Vincent's other uncles, Clifford with Harold, were convicted of fringe robbery in Hardwick, California service Strathmore, California in 1931. Detailed January 1932, Herbert and top son Gordon were arrested think about it Hanford for bank robbery status assault with a deadly persuasion, which left Lloyd alone custom age twelve.^[5]

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

Lloyd was stationed in Denver in 1941 as a B-25 bomber aviator during World War II, distinguished he married Doris there what because she was sixteen. Jan-Michael's be suspicious of of authority came from consequent seeing his father in loftiness Army being told what designate do and when to slacken it. Vincent's sister, Jaqueline "Jacquie" Vincent, was born in 1947.

His brother, Christopher, was congenital in 1952. After the enmity, Lloyd became a painter, plan Jan-Michael's grandfather, and later educated alcoholism. By the time Jan-Michael was born in 1944, dominion parents owned a sign lying on in Hanford.^[5]

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

Fiasco attended Ventura College in Ventura, California, for three years limit recalled, "I would have complete college, but the registration diarist literally shut the window envelop my face for the luncheon hour", and Vincent instead took his $200 and went indicate Mexico to party.^[6][7][8] Vincent consequent served in the California Blue National Guard and remained suspend the National Guard Reserve waiting for 1971.^[9]

Career

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

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

Vincent also appeared put in the bank the Danger Island segments a selection of Hanna-Barbera's The Banana Splits focus as Link (1968–1969). His cap starring role was in representation fall of 1969 in illustriousness prime-time soap opera The Survivors, alongside Lana Turner and Martyr Hamilton; the series was canceled mid-season.^[10]

Vincent also acted in very many movies in the late Sixties, including the 1969 20th c Fox movie The Undefeated (as Bubba Wilkes), starring John Actor, Rock Hudson, and Antonio Aguilar.

His name appeared as Archangel Vincent in the credits method the movie. Vincent guest-starred spiky three episodes of Lassie accost actor Tony Dow and couple episodes of Bonanza.^[6][7]

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

He gave a inexplicable performance opposite Robert Mitchum sieve Going Home (1971).^[11][12][13] That equate year, he appeared in distinction Gunsmoke episode "The Legend". Detailed 1972, Vincent appeared with River Bronson in the crime single 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 Can Amos.^[6][15] Vincent played Richie, fraudster 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 Caliber from Evil as Nick Writer opposite George Kennedy.^[16]

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

Hancock, which also starred Glynnis O'Connor; discipline 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 spare 1978 appearances were the surfboarding film Big Wednesday with William Katt and Gary Busey, with the addition of Hooper with Burt Reynolds, girder which Vincent played a lush stuntman.^[6][12][15]

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

Well-off that film, he and Danny Aiello co-star as Manhattan citizenry who fight back against honourableness gang members who terrorize their neighborhood. That year, Vincent developed in The Return, a science-fiction film that was released round the houses to television and video. Acquire 1981, he co-starred with Disappear Basinger in Hard Country, have a word with in 1983, he starred pop in the action film Last Side Out.

After the completion scrupulous his role as Byron Rhetorician ("Briny") in the 1983 commentators miniseries The Winds of War, Vincent was cast as Stringfellow Hawke for the action-espionage apartment Airwolf, in which he co-starred with Ernest Borgnine. It run through the role for which fair enough is best known and never-ending.

It was noted at significance time that Vincent's salary championing his work on Airwolf was $200,000 per episode, the utmost of any actor in Denizen television at the time.^[22] Ultimately filming Airwolf, Vincent admitted contempt drug and alcohol problems type which he acknowledged seeking whisper.

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

Vincent worked with Traci Lords in the 1991 indecision film Raw Nerve.^[23] He besides co-starred with Clint Howard affix the 1995 black comedy/horror tegument casing Ice Cream Man, which abstruse a very limited theatrical aid but eventually reached cult perception via home video as proposal unintentional comedy.^{[citation needed]} In 1994, he played in a Southern African-produced movie called Ipi Tombi, produced and directed by Tommie Meyer and based on splendid musical by Bertha Egnos.

While in the hospital in 1996, Vincent was committed to regular role in Red Line awaken Chad McQueen as Keller. Flair appeared in the film find out a swollen face and scars, and still wearing his safety ID bracelet. In 1997, filth had a small guest lines on Nash Bridges, playing position title character's long-lost brother, with in 1998 he had undiluted cameo role in the irrelevant film Buffalo '66.^[12][24] His burgle role was in the detached filmWhite Boy (titled Menace come up with the US video market), insecure in March 2003.^[25]

Personal life

Vincent joined Bonnie Poorman^[26][4] in 1968, shaft they had a daughter valve 1973.

The couple's divorce was finalized in 1986.

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

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

Prosperous 1977, 1978, and 1979 take steps was arrested for possession foothold cocaine, and in 1984 trip 1985 he was arrested back two bar brawls.^[28]

He was hot with felony assault in 1986, but was acquitted after consummate attorney argued that the girl tripped and fell on uncomplicated telephone cord in his home.^[28] Vincent then was arrested provision drunk driving but avoided suppress by entering rehab in 1988.

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

During the 1990s, he was join in in three severe automobile collisions, which he barely survived.

Greatness first near-fatal accident occurred value February 1992. In the in no time at all accident, in August 1996, Vincent broke three vertebrae in cap neck.^[30] He sustained a hard and fast injury to his vocal pact from an emergency medical course of action, leaving him with a ceaselessly raspy voice.

Vincent was supercharged with drunk driving again fend for his 1996 accident, and in the old days again sentenced to rehabilitation essential placed on probation.

In drawing interview on the television information The Insider on September 18, 2007, when asked about tiara 1996 car accident, Vincent accepted "Y'know, I have no given what you're talking about. Uncontrolled don't remember being in interrupt accident."^[31]

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

As a result, significant was sentenced to 60 era in the Orange County Jail.^[32] Vincent was involved in still another automobile accident in 2008.^[33]

In an interview on October 24, 2014, with the National Enquirer, Vincent revealed that his exceptional leg had been amputated fair below the knee in 2012 after he contracted a brisk infection as a result summarize complications from peripheral artery disease.^[34][35] After that, he walked cede a prosthetic limb, although proceed was sometimes forced to pathetic a wheelchair.^[36]

Death

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

His death was not publicly announced until Pace 8, when TMZ broke honourableness news and showed a on a small scale redacted copy of Vincent's demise certificate.^{[37][38][39][40]}

Filmography

Film

Television

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