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Jan-Michael Vincent began acting professionally in the 1960's. He really took off in the 70's in movies like Big Wednesday, Buster and Billie and Damnation Alley. The eighties provided more film roles in The Definance and Hard Country, but also had Jan-Michael turning to television with the lead in The Winds of War and Airwolf. two serious car accidents slowed Vincent down in the 90's, with film and TV appearances being few and far between. Vincent had the look of a bad boy, with a hardened face, but a hot body which he showed off often in his film roles.
Jan-Michael Vincent (born July 15, 1944) is a retired American actor best known for his role as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke on the 1980s U.S. television series Airwolf (1984–1986) and as the protagonist of John Milius's 1978 surfing epic Big Wednesday.
Vincent was born July 15, 1944 in Denver, Colorado, to Doris and Lloyd Vincent. His family moved to Hanford, California, when Jan-Michael was in his teens. Vincent attended Ventura College in Ventura, California.
Vincent has battled alcoholism for much of his life. In 1983, he was arrested for drunk driving, but avoided jail by entering rehab. He was also arrested after two bar brawls in 1984 and 1985 and then received a felony assault charge in 1986, which he was acquitted of after his attorney argued that the woman tripped and fell on a telephone cord in his home. In 1995, 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. 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 Patricia; as a result, he was sentenced to 60 days in Orange County Jail.
Vincent married his first wife Bonnie Poorman, his "college classmate sweetheart" in 1969 and they had a daughter, Amber Vincent, in 1973. His second wife, Joanne Robinson, left him and filed a restraining order against him in 1994, alleging that he had abused her since their marriage in 1985.
As of 2013, Vincent resides near Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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