1. Jan-Michael Vincent earned his second Golden Globe nomination for his role on the television miniseries The Winds of War, before starring as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke on the television series Airwolf.
36 Facts About Jan-Michael Vincent
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Jan-Michael Vincent was born in Denver, Colorado, where his father was stationed after enlisting in the United States Army in 1941.
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Jan-Michael Vincent's father, Lloyd Whiteley Vincent, was born in Tulare, California, and raised in nearby Hanford in the San Joaquin Valley.
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Jan-Michael Vincent's mother, Doris Jane, was born in Arkansas and moved to Hanford as a toddler.
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Jan-Michael Vincent attended school in Hanford and graduated in 1963 from Hanford High School.
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Jan-Michael Vincent attended Ventura College in Ventura, California, for three years and recalled, "I would have completed college, but the registration clerk literally shut the window in my face for the lunch hour", and Vincent instead took his $200 and went to Mexico to party.
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Jan-Michael Vincent later served in the California Army National Guard and remained in the National Guard Reserve until 1971.
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Jan-Michael Vincent gained his first acting job in 1967 in The Bandits, starring and co-directed by Robert Conrad.
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Also in 1967, Jan-Michael Vincent appeared in the TV movie The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk.
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Jan-Michael Vincent made an appearance in the Dragnet 1968 episode "The Grenade", as a muscular high school student who suffered an acid attack by a mentally unstable classmate.
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Jan-Michael Vincent appeared in the Danger Island segments of Hanna-Barbera's The Banana Splits series as Link.
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Jan-Michael Vincent's first starring role was in the fall of 1969 in the prime-time soap opera The Survivors, alongside Lana Turner and George Hamilton; the series was canceled mid-season.
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Jan-Michael Vincent acted in several movies in the late 1960s, including the 1969 20th Century Fox movie The Undefeated, starring John Wayne, Rock Hudson, and Antonio Aguilar.
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Jan-Michael Vincent's name appeared as Michael Vincent in the credits of the movie.
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Jan-Michael Vincent guest-starred in three episodes of Lassie with actor Tony Dow and two episodes of Bonanza.
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In 1970, Jan-Michael Vincent garnered critical praise for his role in the TV movie Tribes, co-starring Darren McGavin, about a tough Marine boot-camp drill instructor dealing with a hippie draftee who will not follow the rules.
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Jan-Michael Vincent gave a complex performance opposite Robert Mitchum in Going Home.
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In 1972, Jan-Michael Vincent appeared with Charles Bronson in the crime film The Mechanic and a made-for-TV love story Sandcastles.
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In 1973, Jan-Michael Vincent starred in the Disney comedy The World's Greatest Athlete, with Tim Conway and John Amos.
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Jan-Michael Vincent starred as the anti-hero Buster Lane in the 1974 romance Buster and Billie, wherein he startled audiences with his full-frontal nudity.
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Jan-Michael Vincent starred in the trucker movie White Line Fever ; in Baby Blue Marine, a war film directed by John D Hancock, which starred Glynnis O'Connor; and in Shadow of the Hawk co-starring Marilyn Hassett.
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Jan-Michael Vincent starred in Damnation Alley, based on Roger Zelazny's science fiction novel.
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Two more 1978 appearances were the surfing film Big Wednesday with William Katt and Gary Busey, and Hooper with Burt Reynolds, in which Jan-Michael Vincent played a young stuntman.
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In 1980, Jan-Michael Vincent starred in the gang-themed drama Defiance, which received a limited release.
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That year, Jan-Michael Vincent appeared in The Return, a science-fiction film that was released directly to television and video.
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Jan-Michael Vincent worked with Traci Lords in the 1991 suspense film Raw Nerve.
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Jan-Michael Vincent appeared in the film with a swollen face and scars, and still wearing his hospital ID bracelet.
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Jan-Michael Vincent married Bonnie Poorman in 1968, and they had a daughter in 1973.
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Jan-Michael Vincent battled alcoholism and intravenous drug use for much of his life.
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Jan-Michael Vincent was charged with felony assault in 1986, but was acquitted after his attorney argued that the woman tripped and fell on a telephone cord in his home.
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Jan-Michael Vincent then was arrested for drunk driving but avoided jail by entering rehab in 1988.
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Jan-Michael Vincent sustained a permanent injury to his vocal cords from an emergency medical procedure, leaving him with a permanently raspy voice.
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Jan-Michael Vincent was charged with drunk driving again after his 1996 accident, and sentenced to rehabilitation and placed on probation.
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In 2000, Jan-Michael Vincent violated probation for his prior alcohol-related arrests by appearing drunk in public three times and assaulting his fiancee.
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Jan-Michael Vincent was involved in yet another automobile accident in 2008.
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Jan-Michael Vincent died on February 10,2019, at the age of 74 in Asheville, North Carolina, due to cardiac arrest while hospitalized at Mission Hospital.