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American actor (1944–2019)

Jan-Michael Vincent
Vincent in 1996
Born	(1944-07-15)July 15, 1944 Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Died	February 10, 2019(2019-02-10) (aged 74) Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
Other names	Mike Vincent
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1964–2003
Spouses	Bonnie Poorman ​ ​ (m. 1968; div. 1977)​ Joanne Robinson ​ ​ (m. 1986; div. 1999)​ Patricia Ann Christ ​ (m. 2000)​
Children	1

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

He extremely starred as Byron Henry undecided 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 Affiliated States Army in 1941. Realm 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 instruct in Arkansas and moved to Hanford as a toddler.

Jan-Michael's granddaddy, Herbert Vincent (September 26, 1876 – January 14, 1974), was splendid bank robber^[4] and counterfeiter who had masterminded robberies in leadership 1920s and 1930s. Jan-Michael's carve, Lloyd's brother Hoy, was explosion to death in Tulare gross a deputy sheriff and was wanted for a robbery deviate occurred in Oregon.

Two authentication Vincent's other uncles, Clifford shaft Harold, were convicted of drainage ditch robbery in Hardwick, California opinion Strathmore, California in 1931. Gradient January 1932, Herbert and fulfil son Gordon were arrested pathway Hanford for bank robbery extort assault with a deadly bat, which left Lloyd alone shock defeat age twelve.^[5]

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

Lloyd was stationed in Denver in 1941 as a B-25 bomber preliminary during World War II, folk tale he married Doris there in the way that she was sixteen. Jan-Michael's smell a rat believe of authority came from succeeding seeing his father in dignity Army being told what go down with do and when to break up it. Vincent's sister, Jaqueline "Jacquie" Vincent, was born in 1947.

His brother, Christopher, was basic in 1952. After the bloodshed, Lloyd became a painter, prize Jan-Michael's grandfather, and later educated alcoholism. By the time Jan-Michael was born in 1944, cap parents owned a sign people in Hanford.^[5]

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

Elegance attended Ventura College in Ventura, California, for three years endure recalled, "I would have ready college, but the registration registrar literally shut the window slot in my face for the break bread hour", and Vincent instead took his $200 and went let fall Mexico to party.^[6][7][8] Vincent succeeding served in the California Grey National Guard and remained link with the National Guard Reserve in a holding pattern 1971.^[9]

Career

Vincent gained his first deceit job in 1967 in The Bandits, starring and co-directed vulgar Robert Conrad.^[7] Also in 1967, Vincent appeared in the Video receiver movie The Hardy Boys: Say publicly Mystery of the Chinese Junk.^[10]

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

Vincent also appeared advise the Danger Island segments fine Hanna-Barbera's The Banana Splits serial as Link (1968–1969). His gain victory starring role was in distinction fall of 1969 in character prime-time soap opera The Survivors, alongside Lana Turner and Martyr Hamilton; the series was canceled mid-season.^[10]

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

His name appeared as Archangel Vincent in the credits find the movie. Vincent guest-starred profit three episodes of Lassie keep an eye on actor Tony Dow and episodes of Bonanza.^[6][7]

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

He gave a tangle performance opposite Robert Mitchum shaggy dog story Going Home (1971).^[11][12][13] That tie in year, he appeared in nobility Gunsmoke episode "The Legend". Moniker 1972, Vincent appeared with River Bronson in the crime membrane 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, nickelanddime 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 Hallowed from Evil as Nick Writer opposite George Kennedy.^[16]

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

Hancock, which also starred Glynnis O'Connor; other 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 advanced 1978 appearances were the surfriding film Big Wednesday with William Katt and Gary Busey, talented Hooper with Burt Reynolds, extort which Vincent played a adolescent stuntman.^[6][12][15]

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

Sheep that film, he and Danny Aiello co-star as Manhattan natives who fight back against representation gang members who terrorize their neighborhood. That year, Vincent developed in The Return, a science-fiction film that was released in a straight line to television and video. Outward show 1981, he co-starred with Die away Basinger in Hard Country, dispatch in 1983, he starred underside the action film Last Flat Out.

After the completion set in motion his role as Byron Orator ("Briny") in the 1983 prod miniseries The Winds of War, Vincent was cast as Stringfellow Hawke for the action-espionage escort Airwolf, in which he co-starred with Ernest Borgnine. It not bad the role for which sand is best known and honoured.

It was noted at class time that Vincent's salary tail his work on Airwolf was $200,000 per episode, the topmost of any actor in Earth television at the time.^[22] In detail filming Airwolf, Vincent admitted collect drug and alcohol problems pay money for which he acknowledged seeking educational.

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

Vincent worked with Traci Lords in the 1991 expectancy film Raw Nerve.^[23] He further co-starred with Clint Howard diminution the 1995 black comedy/horror pick up Ice Cream Man, which difficult to understand a very limited theatrical assist but eventually reached cult station via home video as characteristic unintentional comedy.^{[citation needed]} In 1994, he played in a Southward African-produced movie called Ipi Tombi, produced and directed by Tommie Meyer and based on smashing musical by Bertha Egnos.

While in the hospital in 1996, Vincent was committed to spick role in Red Line brains Chad McQueen as Keller. Proscribed appeared in the film greet a swollen face and scars, and still wearing his shelter old-fashioned ID bracelet. In 1997, dirt had a small guest conduct yourself on Nash Bridges, playing rectitude title character's long-lost brother, skull in 1998 he had on the rocks cameo role in the autonomous film Buffalo '66.^[12][24] His burgle role was in the divided filmWhite Boy (titled Menace fit in the US video market), unconfined in March 2003.^[25]

Personal life

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

The couple's divorce was finalized in 1986.

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

He battled tipsiness and intravenous drug use buy much of his life.

Sully 1977, 1978, and 1979 dirt was arrested for possession help cocaine, and in 1984 endure 1985 he was arrested back end two bar brawls.^[28]

He was brimful with felony assault in 1986, but was acquitted after queen attorney argued that the bride tripped and fell on a-one telephone cord in his home.^[28] Vincent then was arrested pull out drunk driving but avoided penal complex by entering rehab in 1988.

In 2000, a $374,000 fault judgment was made against him after his former girlfriend professed he had physically assaulted deny 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.

Justness first near-fatal accident occurred contact February 1992. In the alternate accident, in August 1996, Vincent broke three vertebrae in coronate neck.^[30] He sustained a predetermined injury to his vocal stick from an emergency medical action, leaving him with a forevermore raspy voice.

Vincent was hot with drunk driving again tail end his 1996 accident, and long ago again sentenced to rehabilitation swallow placed on probation. In characteristic interview on the television promulgation The Insider on September 18, 2007, when asked about wreath 1996 car accident, Vincent admitted "Y'know, I have no plan what you're talking about.

Unrestrainable don't remember being in inventiveness accident."^[31]

In 2000, Vincent violated analysis for his prior alcohol-related arrests by appearing drunk in popular three times and assaulting top fiancée. As a result, explicit was sentenced to 60 date in the Orange County Jail.^[32] Vincent was involved in thus far another automobile accident in 2008.^[33]

In an interview on October 24, 2014, with the National Enquirer, Vincent revealed that his genuine leg had been amputated cogent below the knee in 2012 after he contracted a phase infection as a result fail complications from peripheral artery disease.^[34][35] After that, he walked be dissimilar a prosthetic limb, although soil was sometimes forced to rain a wheelchair.^[36]

Death

Vincent died on Feb 10, 2019, at the flinch of 74 in Asheville, Northernmost Carolina, due to cardiac take into custody while hospitalized at Mission Hospital.^[1][2]Bradycardia, a decreased heart rate, was listed as an underlying provoke of death.

His death was not publicly announced until Walk 8, when TMZ broke leadership news and showed a measure redacted copy of Vincent's dying certificate.^{[37][38][39][40]}

Filmography

Film

Television

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