Jan-Michael Vincent DEAD

[StaticCling]

Evidently he died on February 10th from Myocardial Infarction, but his death wasn't reported until today.

In case you geezers don't know who it is, he was the star of Airwolf.

And, incidentally, he was a geezer himself. 74 "years young"

[Jobaka]

I never watched Airwolf, but I remember him co-starring in The Mechanic.

[Aerovette]

He had a pretty rough life after the 80's. I saw him in a fairly recent movie and he was almost unrecognizable. Didn't he lose a leg or something?

[Rob]

Originally Posted by aerovette

He had a pretty rough life after the 80's. I saw him in a fairly recent movie and he was almost unrecognizable. Didn't he lose a leg or something?

[Lakota]

Liked him in the cult classic, Big Wednesday (1978), Great scene where he and Gary Busey flunked their military draft physical.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077235/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Also in, Baby Blue Marine (1976)

"A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074173/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[Mike Mercury]

Originally Posted by aerovette

He had a pretty rough life after the 80's.

indeed.

Originally Posted by from Wikipee

Vincent battled alcoholism and intravenous drug use for much of his life. In 1977, 1978 and 1979 he was arrested for possession of cocaine and in 1984 and 1985 he was arrested after two bar brawls. He also received a felony assault charge in 1986, of which he was acquitted, after his attorney argued that the woman tripped and fell on a telephone cord in his home.

He then was arrested for drunk driving but avoided jail by entering rehab in 1988. In 2000 a $374,000 default judgment was made against him after his former girlfriend alleged he had physically assaulted her after their breakup and caused her to miscarry their child.

During the 1990s, he was involved in three severe automobile collisions, which he barely survived. In an accident in August 1996 Vincent broke three vertebrae in his neck. He also sustained a permanent injury to his vocal cords from an emergency medical procedure, leaving him with a permanently raspy voice. The first near fatal accident occurred in February 1992 and the third happened in September 1997.

Vincent was charged with drunk driving again after his 1996 accident and once again sentenced to rehab and placed on probation. In an interview on the TV program The Insider on September 18, 2007, when asked about his 1996 car accident, he answered, "Y'know, I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't remember being in an accident."

In 2000 Vincent violated probation for his prior alcohol-related arrests by appearing drunk in public three times and assaulting his fiancée. As a result, he was sentenced to 60 days in the Orange County Jail.

Vincent was involved in another automobile accident in 2008.

In an interview that took place on October 24, 2014, with National Enquirer, Vincent revealed that his right leg was amputated just below the knee in 2012 after he contracted a leg infection as a result of complications from peripheral artery disease. After that he walked with a prosthetic limb, although he was sometimes forced to use a wheelchair. He also revealed he had a tax debt in excess of $70,000

[StaticCling]

Originally Posted by Lakota

Liked him in the cult classic, Big Wednesday (1978), Great scene where he and Gary Busey flunked their military draft physical.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077235/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Milius film. Probably the best writer in Hollywood. Until he was basically blacklisted for being a Conservative.

[69camfrk]

Talk about a dude that actually had talent but couldn't get his shit together....

[MrPeabody]

Big Wednesday is one of my all time favorites.

[Lakota]

Tribes 1971 Darren McGavin, Jan-Michael Vincent made for TV movie

"A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things."

free on youtube

Tribes 1971 Darren McGavin, Jan-Michael Vincent - YouTube

[JRD77VET]

Originally Posted by 69camfrk

Talk about a dude that actually had talent but couldn't get his shit together....