Jan-Michael Vincent

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Jan-Michael Vincent (born July 15, 1945 in Adams County , Colorado , † February 10, 2019 in Asheville , North Carolina ) was an American actor .

Life

In his teens, his parents Lloyd and Doris Vincent moved the family to Hanford , Southern California , where he attended nearby Ventura College. In the late 1960s, Vincent was discovered by talent scout Dick Clayton and signed to Universal Studios .

After minor roles in various television series ( Lassie , Bonanza , The Banana Splits Adventure Hour and Die Macht des Geldes) and films, he made his first major appearance in the television film Tribes. Vincent later shot the movie Big Boy for Disney , in which he played a Tarzan-like young man who becomes a professional sports athlete. During the 1970s, Vincent was films like The Mechanic with Charles Bronson , the Western The Undefeated with John Wayne and the surfers film Big Wednesday with William Katt and Gary Busey a popular and respected movie star .

Vincent was nominated twice for the Golden Globe: for the television movie Going Home (1971) and for his role in Firestorm (1983).

After his participation in the miniseries Der Feuersturm ( The Winds of War, 1983) Vincent received the male lead in the US television series Airwolf alongside Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine . The series, in which he the helicopter - Pilots played, Stringfellow "Huckleberry" Hawke ', earned him a high profile.

After the third season, the previous producer left the series and the broadcaster CBS also lost interest in the project because of the high production costs. The successor USA Network cast the series with another, cheaper actor. Vincent, who previously per episode up to 250,000 US dollars had earned, fell into a career low. From then on he was only offered roles in low-budget productions and B-movies , which were often marketed directly as videos . In the animated series Rick and Morty , Vincent is referred to with a made-up trailer for an action film called "Jan Quadrant Vincent 16" (Season 2, Episode 8).

Vincent owned a ranch in Louisiana . He was an excellent rider and hobby skydiver. Triggered by his success with Airwolf, which he could not process, he came into contact with drugs and developed a pathological drinking behavior. In 1996 he was seriously injured in a car accident and fractured three neck vertebrae; in addition, one of his vocal cords was irreparably damaged by a tube . His right leg later had to be amputated due to a blood vessel disease. Vincent said he was in debt.

After years out of the spotlight, he gave an interview on September 13, 2007 for The Insider , which aired on September 18 and 19, 2007 in the United States. In 2014 he gave an interview to the National Enquirer .

Vincent had a daughter from divorced Bonnie Portman.

Vincent died on 10 February 2019 at the age of 73 years in a hospital in Asheville , North Carolina , on a cardiac arrest .

Filmography (selection)

TV Shows

  • 1967: Police report (Dragnet 1967)
  • 1968: Lassie (14 × 26–28: Handford )
  • 1968/1969: Bonanza (9 × 30: help for Eddie , 10–27: visit of the marshal )
  • 1969: The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (8 episodes)
  • 1969: The Power of Money ( The Survivors, 8 episodes)
  • 1980: Hotel (TV series, episode Undercurrents )
  • 1983: The Winds of War ( The Winds of War; Miniseries 7 episodes)
  • 1984–1986: Airwolf (TV series, 55 episodes)
  • 1994: Renegade - Merciless Hunt (Episode 2 × 12: Two by two million dollars )
  • 1997: Nash Bridges (episode 3 × 08: Heavenly Brother )

Movies

  • 1969: The Undefeated , directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
  • 1971: Home (Going Home), directed by: Herbert B. Leonard
  • 1972: Sandcastles
  • 1972: Kalter Hauch (The Mechanic), directed by Michael Winner
  • 1973: Big Boy (The World's Greatest Athlete)
  • 1974: Buster loves Billie (Buster & Billie)
  • 1975: 700 Miles West (Bite the Bullet), directed by Richard Brooks
  • 1975: Street of Violence (White Line Fever), directed by Jonathan Kaplan
  • 1976: Baby Blue Marine
  • 1976: Shadow of the Hawk
  • 1976: Vigilante Force, directed by George Armitage
  • 1977: Damnation Alley (Damnation Alley)
  • 1978: Decision Day (Big Wednesday), directed by John Milius
  • 1978: To Head and Collar (Hooper), directed by Hal Needham
  • 1980: The return of aliens (The Return)
  • 1980: The Brooklyn Thugs (Defiance)
  • 1981: Jodie - Somewhere in Texas (Hard Country)
  • 1983: Flight from Hell (Last Plane Out)
  • 1984: Airwolf - An Unbeatable Weapon (TV Movie)
  • 1985: Cheech & Chong: Now it's all gone! (Get Out of My Room), directed by Cheech Marin
  • 1987: On the Edge of Hell (Six Against the Rock)
  • 1987: Born in East LA
  • 1987: Terror Night - Skyscraper in Fear (Enemy Territory)
  • 1989: Mörderischer Errtum (Hit List), directed by William Lustig
  • 1989: Explosion of Passions (Deadly Embrace)
  • 1990: American Soldier - Kommando Gold (In Gold We Trust)
  • 1990: Alienator, directed by Fred Olen Ray
  • 1990: Brand of Hell (Demonstone)
  • 1990: Xtro II - The Second Encounter (Xtro II: The Second Encounter)
  • 1990: Haunting Fear, directed by Fred Olen Ray
  • 1993: Deadly Heroes
  • 1993: Maximum Force 2 (Midnight Witness)
  • 1993: Deadly Therapy (Indecent Behavior)
  • 1995: Code name: Silencer
  • 1995: Ice Cream Man
  • 1995: Abducted II: The Reunion
  • 1998: Buffalo '66
  • 2000: Escape to Grizzly Mountain

Awards

  • 1971 nomination for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor Going Home
  • 1973 Golden Bravo Otto
  • 1974 and 1975 Silver Bravo Otto
  • 1976 Bronze Bravo Otto
  • 1976 Western Heritage Awards for Bite the Bullet
  • 1983 nomination for the Golden Globe for best supporting actor Firestorm (1983)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate from Jan-Michael Vincent of the Memorial Campus in Asheville from February 13, 2019 (English, PDF , 3.1 MB). Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ Lisa Eadicicco: 'Rick and Morty:' All the Easter Eggs You Missed. In: Time. July 27, 2017, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b 'Airwolf' Star Jan-Michael Vincent Felt 'Beaten' After Leg Amputation - Two Surgeries Left Him Knocking On 'Death's Door'. In: Radar Online. October 31, 2014, archived from the original on January 8, 2015 ; accessed on March 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Katja Mitic: Jan-Michael Vincent: The sad decline of the "Airwolf" hero. In: Welt Online . November 8, 2014, accessed May 16, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Jan-Michael Vincent interview. (YouTube video, 1:42 minutes) In: The Insider. September 19, 2007, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Jan-Michael Vincent. In: Filmbug. 2005, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Jan-Michael Vincent. In: Spiritus temporis. 2005, archived from the original on February 26, 2012 ; accessed on March 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vincent, Jan-Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Adams County , Colorado , United States
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2019
Place of death Asheville , North Carolina , United States