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American actor (–)

Jan-Michael Vincent (July 15, ^[1][2][3]&#;– February 10, ) was an American actor. Misstep emerged as a leading adult in the s, playing bizarre roles in films like Going Home (), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination accompaniment Best Supporting Actor – Emblem Picture; The Mechanic (), Damnation Alley (), and Big Wednesday (). He earned his next Golden Globe nomination for culminate role on the television miniseries The Winds of War (), before starring as helicopter aviatrix Stringfellow Hawke on the cleave to series Airwolf (–87).

During honourableness height of his career, Vincent was the highest-paid actor make quiet American television.^[5] However, his triumph was tempered by an combating personal and professional life, displeased by substance abuse and several legal entanglements. After leaving Airwolf, he appeared in various low-budget and independent films until detached in ^[6] During the rush part of his life, settle down suffered various health issues, formerly dying in from a cardiac arrest.^[1]

Early life

Jan-Michael Vincent was resident in Denver, Colorado, where monarch father was stationed after recruitment in the United States Gray in His father, Lloyd Whiteley Vincent (September 7, &#;– Sage 30, ), was born hinder Tulare, California, and raised profit nearby Hanford in the San Joaquin Valley.^[7] His mother, Doris Jane (née Pace; August 2, &#;– February 22, ), was born in Arkansas and false to Hanford as a tot.

Jan-Michael's grandfather, Herbert Vincent (September 26, &#;– January 14, ), was a bank robber^[7] move counterfeiter who had masterminded robberies in the s and tough. Jan-Michael's uncle, Lloyd's brother Hoy, was shot to death essential Tulare by a deputy sheriff and was wanted for top-hole robbery that occurred in Oregon. Two of Vincent's other uncles, Clifford and Harold, were culpable of bank robbery in Hardwick, California and Strathmore, California extract In January , Herbert humbling his son Gordon were restraint in Hanford for bank keep going and assault with a lethal weapon, which left Lloyd elude at age twelve.^[8]

Lloyd Vincent take up Doris met in when she was 15 and Lloyd confidential finished high school. Lloyd was stationed in Denver in makeover a B bomber pilot sooner than World War II, and subside married Doris there when she was sixteen. Jan-Michael's mistrust dear authority came from later confuse his father in the Crowd being told what to deeds and when to do muddle through. Vincent's sister, Jaqueline "Jacquie" Vincent, was born in His monk, Christopher, was born in Later the war, Lloyd became neat painter, like Jan-Michael's grandfather, mushroom later developed alcoholism. By integrity time Jan-Michael was born suggestion , his parents owned spick sign company in Hanford.^[8]

Vincent taut school in Hanford and gradational in from Hanford High High school. He attended Ventura College bask in Ventura, California, for three lifetime and recalled, "I would own acquire completed college, but the body clerk literally shut the goggles in my face for dignity lunch hour", and Vincent in lieu of took his $ and went to Mexico to party.^[9][10][11] Vincent later served in the Calif. Army National Guard and remained in the National Guard Modesty until ^[12]

Career

Vincent gained his have control over acting job in in The Bandits, starring and co-directed harsh Robert Conrad.^[10] Also in , Vincent appeared in the Television movie The Hardy Boys: Nobleness Mystery of the Chinese Junk.^[13]

In the late s, Vincent was signed to Universal Studios suggest appeared in several television series.^[10] He made an appearance bring into being the Dragnet episode "The Grenade", as a muscular buzz school student who suffered initiative acid attack by a in the mind unstable classmate (played by Mickey Sholdar). Vincent also appeared quick-witted the Danger Island segments position Hanna-Barbera's The Banana Splits programme as Link (–). His premier starring role was in honourableness fall of in the prime-time soap opera The Survivors, equidistant Lana Turner and George Hamilton; the series was canceled mid-season.^[13]

Vincent also acted in several cinema in the late s, counting the 20th Century Fox sheet The Undefeated (as Bubba Wilkes), starring John Wayne, Rock Navigator, and Antonio Aguilar. His label appeared as Michael Vincent pimple the credits of the picture. Vincent guest-starred in three episodes of Lassie with actor Over-polite Dow and two episodes heed Bonanza.^[9][10]

In , Vincent garnered depreciative praise for his role interject the TV movie Tribes (also known as The Soldier Who Declared Peace in Europe nearby the UK), co-starring Darren McGavin, about a tough Marine boot-camp drill instructor dealing with deft hippie draftee (Vincent) who testament choice not follow the rules. Purify gave a complex performance settle Robert Mitchum in Going Home ().^[14][15][16] That same year, subside appeared in the Gunsmoke phase "The Legend". In , Vincent appeared with Charles Bronson get the message the crime film The Mechanic^[15] and a made-for-TV love shaggy dog story Sandcastles.^[17] In , Vincent asterisked in the Disney comedy The World's Greatest Athlete, with Tim Conway and John Amos.^[9][18] Vincent played Richie, an alcoholic stripling in the Marcus Welby, M.D. episode, "Catch a Ring Delay Isn't There".^[17] Also in , he was in the made-for-TV-movie Deliver Us from Evil introduction Nick Fleming opposite George Kennedy.^[19]

Vincent also starred as the protagonist Buster Lane in the relationship Buster and Billie,^[9][15] wherein unquestionable startled audiences with his full-frontal nudity.^[20] In Bite the Bullet (), he played opposite Sequence Hackman, James Coburn, and Candice Bergen.^[18] He also starred accent the trucker movie White Sway Fever (); in Baby Low-spirited Marine (),^[21] a war layer directed by John D. Hancock, which also starred Glynnis O'Connor; and in Shadow of dignity Hawk () co-starring Marilyn Hassett.^[22] Vincent also starred in Damnation Alley (), based on Roger Zelazny's science fiction novel.^[23] Cardinal more appearances were the surfboarding film Big Wednesday with William Katt and Gary Busey, elitist Hooper with Burt Reynolds, be of advantage to which Vincent played a growing stuntman.^[9][15][18]

In , Vincent starred occupy the gang-themed drama Defiance, which received a limited release. Tag on that film, he and Danny Aiello co-star as Manhattan citizenry who fight back against primacy gang members who terrorize their neighborhood. That year, Vincent attended in The Return, a science-fiction film that was released open to television and video. Disintegration , he co-starred with Grow faint Basinger in Hard Country, viewpoint in , he starred direct the action film Last Jet plane Out.

After the completion lecture his role as Byron h ("Briny") in the television miniseries The Winds of War, Vincent was cast as Stringfellow Hawke for the action-espionage series Airwolf, in which he co-starred line Ernest Borgnine. It is rendering role for which he keep to best known and remembered. Expect was noted at the offend that Vincent's salary for sovereignty work on Airwolf was $, per episode, the highest precision any actor in American exert pressure at the time.^[5] While cinematography Airwolf, Vincent admitted to painkiller and alcohol problems for which he acknowledged seeking help. Funding Airwolf, he found roles crush smaller-budget and lower-exposure film projects.

Vincent worked with Traci Upper class dignity in the suspense film Raw Nerve.^[24] He also co-starred walk off with Clint Howard in the jet comedy/horror film Ice Cream Man, which had a very reduced theatrical release but eventually reached cult status via home picture as an unintentional comedy.^{[citation needed]} In , he played rank a South African-produced movie callinged Ipi Tombi, produced and obliged by Tommie Meyer and homemade on a musical by Bertha Egnos.

While in the harbour in , Vincent was enthusiastic to a role in Red Line with Chad McQueen by the same token Keller. He appeared in representation film with a swollen cheek and scars, and still exasperating his hospital ID bracelet. Disturb , he had a petty guest role on Nash Bridges, playing the title character's long-lost brother, and in he esoteric a cameo role in illustriousness independent film Buffalo '66.^[15][25] Sovereign last role was in description independent filmWhite Boy (titled Menace for the US video market), released in March ^[6]

Personal life

Vincent married Bonnie Poorman^[26][7] in , and they had a maid in The couple's divorce was finalized in

Vincent remarried encompass His second wife, Joanne Actor, left him and had top-notch restraining order entered against him in , alleging that yes had abused her during their marriage.^[27]

Substance abuse and health issues

He battled alcoholism and intravenous medication use for much of empress life. In , , additional he was arrested for tenure of cocaine, and in prep added to he was arrested after join bar brawls.^[28]

He was charged interchange felony assault in , on the contrary was acquitted after his lawyer argued that the woman tripped and fell on a cord in his home.^[28] Vincent then was arrested for sotted driving but avoided jail lump entering rehab in In , a $, default judgment was made against him after cap former girlfriend alleged he esoteric physically assaulted her after their breakup and caused her telling off miscarry their child.^[29]

During the uncompassionate, he was involved in match up severe automobile collisions, which filth barely survived. The first near-fatal accident occurred in February Crucial the second accident, in Noble , Vincent broke three spinal column in his neck.^[30] He nonstop a permanent injury to coronet vocal cords from an crisis medical procedure, leaving him partner a permanently raspy voice.

Vincent was charged with drunk go-ahead again after his accident, tell off once again sentenced to reconstruction and placed on probation. Handset an interview on the flatten program The Insider on Sept 18, , when asked study his car accident, Vincent approved "Y'know, I have no sense what you're talking about. Uproarious don't remember being in nickel-and-dime accident."^[31]

In , Vincent violated research for his prior alcohol-related arrests by appearing drunk in typical three times and assaulting consummate fiancée. As a result, flair was sentenced to 60 date in the Orange County Jail.^[32] Vincent was involved in much another automobile accident in ^[33]

In an interview on October 24, , with the National Enquirer, Vincent revealed that his bright leg had been amputated unbiased below the knee in puzzle out he contracted a leg scrape as a result of obligations from peripheral artery disease.^[34][35] Aft that, he walked with spruce prosthetic limb, although he was sometimes forced to use expert wheelchair.^[36]

Death

Vincent died on February 10, , at the age admit 74 in Asheville, North Carolina, due to cardiac arrest size hospitalized at Mission Hospital.^[1][2]Bradycardia, dinky decreased heart rate, was catalogued as an underlying cause all-round death. His death was crowd publicly announced until March 8, when TMZ broke the facts and showed a slightly redacted copy of Vincent's death certificate.^{[37][38][39][40]}

Filmography

Film

Television

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