The Tragic Demise & Death of Jan-Michael Vincent
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Airwolf! this guy was awesome. TIME really gets everyone. Momento Mori folks
CALLING ALL JAN MICHAEL VINCENTS.
Wow, surprised he made it to 74. Airwolf was super peak 80s television.
It just goes to show you can have pretty much everything going for you: Great looks, a successful and very high paying career (during the time he was making *Airwolf* he was the highest paid actor on TV, if memory serves!)… and still things can unravel.
Jan-Michael Vincent’s many demons, including drugs and alcohol, appear to have taken him down and seeing the photographs of him toward the end of his life, half blind and missing a leg, is heartbreaking.
I honestly thought he was a made-up character. Tragic story, poor dude
So weird this was posted today. Just last night I saw an old episode of Dragnet from 1967 with a very young Jan Michael Vincent.
I can’t believe he was a real person.
R/rickandmorty
Airwolf is on streaming. I remember my dad watching it when I was a kid and thinking it was soooo cool. JMV definitely had sex appeal
Hard livin’ and still made it to age 74. Way to roll Hawke.
Airwolf wasn’t bad, but for me, his best role was in Milius’ 1978 film, Big Wednesday. He gives a great performance in that. It’s one of the comfort films I rewatch every few years.
He signed an airwolf picture for me once upon a time.
One of the sad parts is his death wasn’t announced for a month
He appears as a detective in this mid-1990s slasher starring Clint Howard, called The Ice Cream Man. It’s one of the most surly and “I don’t give a fuck about being here” performances I have ever seen any actor give.
R.I.P., a TV hero to some, a good actor. Human being with failings like the rest of us. I will remember him in a better light of his life.
FWIW that picture of him and supposedly his first wife, Bonnie Portman, used in this video is actually him with actress [Bonnie Bedelia](https://tinyurl.com/2tywjsdj). On the CBS soap opera Love of Life, she played Sandy Porter, so I think some Google image search mix up happened here.
This guy was in episodes of The Banana Splits (Danger Island) back in the early 70s. Some of his finest work
I remember enjoying Airwolf and Ernest Borgnine, but today I couldn’t tell you at all what that show was about.
My favorite story about Jan-Michael Vincent is when Norm MacDonald wanted to have him as a guest for his podcast but his producer said “he’s dead” even though JMV was still alive at the time.
How famous was Air Wolf you might ask. It used to air in my ass-end-of-nowhere South Asian country. My brother owned an Air Wolf toy helicopter that I wasn’t allowed to play with.
Airwolf is where I remember him the most. That 80s style action stuff I absolutely loved. I think it was on like back to back on the weekends with A Team
But I loved him most in Hooper. I loved all those Burt Reynolds ensemble Hal Needem movies
To many sectors huh? Rip.
I’m genuinely disappointed that they didn’t include Big Wednesday in his filmography.
I NEED A GOD DAMN JAN MICHAEL VINCENT
I mean the guy made it to 74. Got to experience fortune and fame and partied his ass off during the golden age of partying your ass off. Could have been worse.
Airwolf Forever!
He was never the epitome of cool, he was a hunky photogenic guy that they were grooming to be a big star in the 70s who really wasn’t a good actor and had personal issues. He was a bus and truck Ryan O’Neal or, if you want to go further, Brad Pitt’s looks without Brad Pitt’s talent and savvy.
In the late 70s and early 80s, this dude was going to take over the world. He already had a bunch of TV and TV movie credits to his name. Then they gave him Airwolf (amazingly fun and very 80s show). Then he just started to dissolve.
I wish The Worlds Greatest Athlete was on Disney+. It was one of those cheap but fun live action Disney movies from the 70s.
I got to know and loved him through *Winds of War* playing alongside Robert Mitchum. Super irritated when he didn’t reprise his role in *War and Remembrance*. I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that he didn’t come back because of his substance issues and it makes me sad. What a tragic spiral.
There’s 16 districts and only 8 Jan Michael Vincent’s. Get ready to Jan Michael your Vincent.
I loved him in The Mechanic with Charles Bronson! He also did a stint as a character on the “Danger Island” show that was part of the Banana Splits kid’s show.