Airwolf star Jan-Michael Vincent dies aged 74 after suffering cardiac arrest

[slayer14]

Jan-Michael Vincent, 1980s TV heartthrob and star of Airwolf, has died.
The actor passed away last month, on February 10, after suffering a cardiac arrest at a North Carolina hospital. He was 74.
TMZ, who obtained the death certificate, reports that no autopsy was performed and the star was later cremated.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6787161/Airwolf-star-Jan-Michael-Vincent-dies-aged-74-suffering-cardiac-arrest.html

He was one of the greats RIP

[ChuckyTheGoat]

I'll be honest. Thought it was this guy, when I saw the name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Michael_Thomas

[Bluehorseshoe]

I think I watched "Damnation Alley" 10 times as a kid. It was always on HBO back then. lol

[mr. leisure]

Big Wednesday


Cool surfing movie

RIP

[DOM-Ganador]

Original "Mechanic" with Charlie Mother`Fuggin Bronson was the best thing he was ever in.
Dude never lived up to potential. Also did not age well. Looked about 70, 20 years ago.

[Reload]

Wow RIP

[Bluehorseshoe]

Original "Mechanic" with Charlie Mother`Fuggin Bronson was the best thing he was ever in.
Dude never lived up to potential. Also did not age well. Looked about 70, 20 years ago.

Didn't he have some motorcycle accident where his face got messed up?

[jjgold]

never heard of him

[DOM-Ganador]

Didn't he have some motorcycle accident where his face got messed up?

Was the studio's choice to play the role of Hooper in Jaws (1975).

What the FUKK. The Richard Dryfuss role. Biggest movie of the decade, after GF1 and GF2.

Suffered permanent damage to his voice after getting into a near-fatal auto accident in 1996 that resulted in a broken neck. Paramedics had to insert a tube down his throat and the tube damaged one of his vocal cords.

Good call Shoe. Many struggles with booze as well.

[Chi_archie]

oh no

[Bluehorseshoe]

Was the studio's choice to play the role of Hooper in Jaws (1975).

What the FUKK. The Richard Dryfuss role. Biggest movie of the decade, after GF1 and GF2.

Suffered permanent damage to his voice after getting into a near-fatal auto accident in 1996 that resulted in a broken neck. Paramedics had to insert a tube down his throat and the tube damaged one of his vocal cords.

Good call Shoe. Many struggles with booze as well.

I remember he went to work on a movie right after the accident and he could barely speak. This is all real.....

[Chi_archie]

While in the hospital in 1996, Vincent was committed to a role in Red Line with Chad McQueen as Keller. He appeared in the film with a swollen face and scars, and still wearing his hospital ID bracelet.

[Chi_archie]

damn, guy was a hot mess

accidents all over the place.

drunk



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.^[10] 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.^[10] 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.^[11]
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.^[12] 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. ^[13]
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."^[3][14]
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.^[15]
Vincent was involved in another automobile accident in 2008.^[16]
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.^[17] He also revealed he had a tax debt in excess of $70,000.^[18]

[Chi_archie]

[Kermit]

Loved him in The Mechanic.

[Eddy Munny]

I'll be honest. Thought it was this guy, when I saw the name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Michael_Thomas

I also thought it was a guy.

Anybody else here think it was a guy?

Raise your hand if you thought it was a guy.

A guy, we said.

[19th Hole]

damn, guy was a hot mess

accidents all over the place.

drunk

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.^[10] 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.^[10] 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.^[11]
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.^[12] 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. ^[13]
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."^[3][14]
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.^[15]
Vincent was involved in another automobile accident in 2008.^[16]
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.^[17] He also revealed he had a tax debt in excess of $70,000.^[18]

~~~
WOW. Really had no idea that he was on full tilt.
Living life on the very edge...surprised that he made it past 70.

Jan..."Y'know, I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't remember being in an accident."

"Vincent revealed that his right leg was amputated just below the knee in 2012 "

Rest Easy My Man.

[Eddy Munny]

We thought it was a guy, though.

[gauchojake]

Back in the early 90s he was in some shitty band that played at the local town western days celebration where I lived. He was hammered and had some song about getting drunk on cough syrup. It was pretty HOF thinking back.

[Eddy Munny]

Back in the early 90s he was in some shitty band that played at the local town western days celebration where I lived. He was hammered and had some song about getting drunk on cough syrup. It was pretty HOF thinking back.

Cool story and everything, but me and Chucky thought it was a guy... Top that.

[19th Hole]

Cool story and everything, but me and Chucky thought it was a guy... Top that.

~~~~

Pre-tranny fad.
Seems Jan knew which equipment belonged to him and he had no problem with that.

[Eddy Munny]

No, we thought it was a guy. We had an idea of what to expect. We had preconceived notions. I hope you understand.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Eddy, JAN not that unusual for male name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Vertonghen

[Eddy Munny]

Eddy, JAN not that unusual for male name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Vertonghen

That must be why we thought it was a guy. I knew there was a reason. I just knew it.

[OTL]

Didn't he have some motorcycle accident where his face got messed up?

Yes. He was blind drunk during the crash.

In the final episode of the original Airwolf, they had to rewrite the script to cut out his dialogue and put him in a wheelchair, because he was so intoxicated he couldn't stand up or remember his lines.

Guy ruined his career with his addiction to the bottle.

[mcaulay777]

He was in some cool movies in the 70s.My dad loved going to the drive in because it was cheap so we went there a lot.I was real little and remember White Line Fever and Hooper. White line fever was a trucker movie it had the Sensei from Karate Kid and Webb who was in Casino. He was the guy that told the ngc we need to kick a @@@333 out of town.

[bobbywaves]

He was the man in Defiance: