Posted on 03/08/2019 11:35:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Jan-Michael Vincent, a 1980s heartthrob who starred in "Airwolf," died at age 74.
Vincent's date of death was Feb. 10, but the news was made more known to the public today.
TMZ reports his death certificate says he suffered cardiac arrest while he was a patient at a North Carolina hospital. There was no autopsy, and his body was cremated.
Vincent's most recent work was a 2002 movie called "White Boy," and he has a long history of acting in films and on television. He played "Stringfellow Hawke" in "Airwolf."
I didn’t know he was still around. I thought he was the actor that accidentally shot himself in the head with a blank round from a pistol.
That was Jon-Erik Hexum.
Back in the 70s he was a major screen star. Chiseled physique; looked like you could strike a match on him. Why oh why are the Elvises and Marilyns and Jan-Michaels of this world so torn between good and evil?
Hollywood is a sick place that will chew people up and spit them out broken.
RIP Airwolf
I remember this guy mostly from a 70’s TV flick called ‘Tribes’, with JMV and Darrin McGavin. Vince was a Marine boot and Gav the DI. I was about 13 or so when it came out, and I tried to use it as a ‘teaching moment’ with my father when Vincent said something lefty about getting drafted. My father let me know you don’t get drafted in the Marines, numbnuts.
I think he hit his peak in “White Line Fever”, mid-70s.
Then he started doing a different kind of white lines.
Thanks. I was confused about it all these years.
UR right.
You’re welcome.
Probably AIDS. He was always a little suspect in my book.
They won’t care
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UPI May 14, 1985
Actor Jan-Michael Vincent was found innocent Tuesday of a...
MALIBU, Calif. -- Actor Jan-Michael Vincent was found innocent Tuesday of a misdemeanor battery charge involving a barroom brawl with an intoxicated man who was seriously injured in the fight.
A Municipal Court jury deliberated only a few hours before acquitting Vincent, 40, star of the CBS adventure series 'Airwolf.' The trial lasted three days.
Sheriff's deputies said the fight broke out last June in the Trancas Restaurant in Malibu when John Bogosian, 43, of South Pasadena, who was intoxicated, approached Vincent. Bogosian was knocked unconscious when his head struck the floor.
Vincent, speaking outside court, said he hit the man in self-defense after Bogosian pulled on the back of his T-shirt.
'The guy came up to me and grabbed me from the back,' he said. 'I was scared.'
Vincent is 5-foot-10 and weighs 160 pounds, while Bogosian is 6-foot-2 and reportedly weighed 215 pounds at the time of the dispute.
Bogosian's date that night, Marlana Huter, 24, testified he drank eight or more tequilas, each followed by a beer, in less than an hour.
'He was pretty drunk,' she added.
Another member of Bogosian's party also testified he was intoxicated.
Bogosian said he was hospitalized for two weeks in intensive care and does not remember the incident.
Sheriff's detective Richard Schilling testified that battery charge against Vincent would not have been filed had Bogosian's injuries not been so serious."
Jan-Michael is a poster child for a hard life of drinking and drugs.
He never regretted it. He came to a peace knowing it was who he was. He did what he wanted to do.
I enjoyed him in a movie with Darren McGavin called Tribes made in 1971. YouTube some clips to see what a physical specimen he was at one time.
I think he hit his peak in “White Line Fever”, mid-70s.
I remember that movie well. I remember Kay Lenz even more. :-)
I’ll probably watch that tonight..
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A few years ago I ran across Jan-Michael Vincent movie “Tribes” which I saw back in the early seventies when it first came out. It was a made for TV movie of the early 70s, and so I wiki’d JMV...it just blew me away what he had done to himself over the decades... terrible, tragic.
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