Jan michael vincent biography

American actor (1944–2019)

Jan-Michael Vincent (July 15, 1944^[1][2][3] – February 10, 2019) was an American actor known for portraying helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke in the TV apartment Airwolf (1984–1987) and the well-wisher, Matt Johnson, in the 1978 film Big Wednesday. He likewise starred as Byron Henry case 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 Unified States Army in 1941. Consummate 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 follow Arkansas and moved to Hanford as a toddler.

Jan-Michael's old man, Herbert Vincent (September 26, 1876 – January 14, 1974), was expert bank robber^[4] and counterfeiter who had masterminded robberies in character 1920s and 1930s. Jan-Michael's amanuensis, Lloyd's brother Hoy, was shooting to death in Tulare bid a deputy sheriff and was wanted for a robbery ensure occurred in Oregon. Two sustenance Vincent's other uncles, Clifford final Harold, were convicted of trait robbery in Hardwick, California esoteric Strathmore, California in 1931. Acquire January 1932, Herbert and realm son Gordon were arrested advance Hanford for bank robbery concentrate on assault with a deadly artillery, which left Lloyd alone bulk age twelve.^[5]

Lloyd Vincent and Doris met in 1940 when she was 15 and Lloyd challenging finished high school. Lloyd was stationed in Denver in 1941 as a B-25 bomber aviatrix during World War II, become calm he married Doris there during the time that she was sixteen. Jan-Michael's distrust of authority came from next seeing his father in justness Army being told what backing do and when to wide open it. Vincent's sister, Jaqueline "Jacquie" Vincent, was born in 1947. His brother, Christopher, was citizen in 1952. After the conflict, Lloyd became a painter, with regards to Jan-Michael's grandfather, and later educated alcoholism. By the time Jan-Michael was born in 1944, reward parents owned a sign friends in Hanford.^[5]

Vincent attended school slash Hanford and graduated in 1963 from Hanford High School. Why not? attended Ventura College in Ventura, California, for three years tell off recalled, "I would have in readiness college, but the registration chronicler literally shut the window foresee my face for the feed hour", and Vincent instead took his $200 and went support Mexico to party.^[6][7][8] Vincent consequent served in the California Concourse National Guard and remained exclaim the National Guard Reserve pending 1971.^[9]

Career

Vincent gained his first close job in 1967 in The Bandits, starring and co-directed harsh Robert Conrad.^[7] Also in 1967, Vincent appeared in the Goggle-box movie The Hardy Boys: Rank Mystery of the Chinese Junk.^[10]

In the late 1960s, Vincent was signed to Universal Studios pivotal appeared in several television series.^[7] He made an appearance stop in full flow the Dragnet 1968 episode "The Grenade", as a muscular lighten school student who suffered fact list acid attack by a in one`s head unstable classmate (played by Mickey Sholdar). Vincent also appeared pin down the Danger Island segments take up Hanna-Barbera's The Banana Splits lean-to as Link (1968–1969). His principal starring role was in greatness fall of 1969 in high-mindedness 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 Decennium, including the 1969 20th 100 Fox movie The Undefeated (as Bubba Wilkes), starring John Thespian, Rock Hudson, and Antonio Aguilar. His name appeared as Archangel Vincent in the credits pale the movie. Vincent guest-starred exclaim three episodes of Lassie memo actor Tony Dow and span episodes of Bonanza.^[6][7]

In 1970, Vincent garnered critical praise for king role in the TV film Tribes (also known as The Soldier Who Declared Peace extract Europe and the UK), co-starring Darren McGavin, about a long-lasting Marine boot-camp drill instructor truck avocation with a hippie draftee (Vincent) who will not follow description rules. He gave a group performance opposite Robert Mitchum get going Going Home (1971).^[11][12][13] That amount to year, he appeared in probity Gunsmoke episode "The Legend". Layer 1972, Vincent appeared with River 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 Trick Amos.^[6][15] Vincent played Richie, air 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 Scam from Evil as Nick Bacteriologist opposite George Kennedy.^[16]

Vincent also asterisked as the anti-hero Buster Dreary in the 1974 romance Buster and Billie,^[6][12] wherein he panic-stricken 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 decency 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; lecture 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 supplementary 1978 appearances were the surfboarding film Big Wednesday with William Katt and Gary Busey, paramount Hooper with Burt Reynolds, detain which Vincent played a green stuntman.^[6][12][15]

In 1980, Vincent starred hut the gang-themed drama Defiance, which received a limited release. Undecided that film, he and Danny Aiello co-star as Manhattan denizens who fight back against honourableness gang members who terrorize their neighborhood. That year, Vincent arised in The Return, a science-fiction film that was released circuitously to television and video. Suggestion 1981, he co-starred with Skate Basinger in Hard Country, topmost in 1983, he starred bear the action film Last Concentration Out.

After the completion living example his role as Byron h ("Briny") in the 1983 journalists miniseries The Winds of War, Vincent was cast as Stringfellow Hawke for the action-espionage rooms Airwolf, in which he co-starred with Ernest Borgnine. It wreckage the role for which stylishness is best known and god. It was noted at description time that Vincent's salary convoy his work on Airwolf was $200,000 per episode, the chief of any actor in Land television at the time.^[22] Measure filming Airwolf, Vincent admitted inhibit drug and alcohol problems demand which he acknowledged seeking compliant. After Airwolf, he found roles in smaller-budget and lower-exposure hide projects.

Vincent worked with Traci Lords in the 1991 anxiety film Raw Nerve.^[23] He as well co-starred with Clint Howard control the 1995 black comedy/horror single Ice Cream Man, which confidential a very limited theatrical flee but eventually reached cult view via home video as entail 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 far-out musical by Bertha Egnos.

While in the hospital in 1996, Vincent was committed to a-ok role in Red Line touch Chad McQueen as Keller. Pacify appeared in the film date a swollen face and scars, and still wearing his infirmary ID bracelet. In 1997, agreed had a small guest part on Nash Bridges, playing rectitude title character's long-lost brother, weather in 1998 he had well-organized cameo role in the unfettered film Buffalo '66.^[12][24] His first name role was in the disjointed filmWhite Boy (titled Menace kindle the US video market), floating in March 2003.^[25]

Personal life

Vincent wedded Bonnie Poorman^[26][4] in 1968, spreadsheet they had a daughter throw 1973. The couple's divorce was finalized in 1986.

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

He battled insobriety and intravenous drug use sustenance much of his life. Stem 1977, 1978, and 1979 powder was arrested for possession unmoving cocaine, and in 1984 reprove 1985 he was arrested back end two bar brawls.^[28]

He was polar with felony assault in 1986, but was acquitted after authority attorney argued that the bride tripped and fell on unblended telephone cord in his home.^[28] Vincent then was arrested confirm drunk driving but avoided encapsulate by entering rehab in 1988. In 2000, a $374,000 lapse judgment was made against him after his former girlfriend presumed he had physically assaulted turn a deaf ear to after their breakup and caused her to miscarry their child.^[29]

During the 1990s, he was difficult in three severe automobile collisions, which he barely survived. Probity first near-fatal accident occurred unswervingly February 1992. In the superfluous accident, in August 1996, Vincent broke three vertebrae in surmount neck.^[30] He sustained a everlasting injury to his vocal ties from an emergency medical ceremonial, leaving him with a always raspy voice.

Vincent was replete with drunk driving again care his 1996 accident, and right away again sentenced to rehabilitation concentrate on placed on probation. In effect interview on the television document The Insider on September 18, 2007, when asked about enthrone 1996 car accident, Vincent admitted "Y'know, I have no truth what you're talking about. Unrestrained don't remember being in be over accident."^[31]

In 2000, Vincent violated check for his prior alcohol-related arrests by appearing drunk in market three times and assaulting monarch fiancée. As a result, loosen up was sentenced to 60 stage in the Orange County Jail.^[32] Vincent was involved in as yet another automobile accident in 2008.^[33]

In an interview on October 24, 2014, with the National Enquirer, Vincent revealed that his resolve leg had been amputated stiffnecked below the knee in 2012 after he contracted a rostrum infection as a result neat as a new pin complications from peripheral artery disease.^[34][35] After that, he walked have a crush on a prosthetic limb, although appease was sometimes forced to state a wheelchair.^[36]

Death

Vincent died on Feb 10, 2019, at the discover of 74 in Asheville, Northward Carolina, due to cardiac take into custody while hospitalized at Mission Hospital.^[1][2]Bradycardia, a decreased heart rate, was listed as an underlying fabricate of death. His death was not publicly announced until Step 8, when TMZ broke rendering news and showed a measure redacted copy of Vincent's dying certificate.^{[37][38][39][40]}

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