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Airwolf Star Jan Michael Vincent Dead age 74

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March 08, 2019, 11:00 AM
navyshooter
Airwolf Star Jan Michael Vincent Dead age 74
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Just saw this today, He passed Feb 10th 2019

though Airwolf was cheesy I will Amit to watching it.

RIP Stringfellow Hawke




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March 08, 2019, 11:06 AM
DSgrouse
Damn, that is to bad.
March 08, 2019, 11:26 AM
corsair
74-years, considering all the abuse and drama that he did while he was younger, I'm surprised he lived this long.
March 08, 2019, 12:16 PM
Balzé Halzé
Wow. For some reason I thought he died long ago.

I did love Airwolf back in the day.

ETA: Christ, that Dailymail website is unbearable to navigate. I'm on a mobile network but still. Just awful.


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March 08, 2019, 01:16 PM
TMats
Poor guy, the drugs and alcohol really took a toll. Lower leg amputation and he looks about 90 in recent pictures. Hope he’s at peace.


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March 08, 2019, 01:31 PM
bendable
used to see him driving his cars from the 50's on the freeway , between reseda and westlake village,

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he liked them untouched, no new nothing , all original everything





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March 08, 2019, 04:23 PM
Sig209
He did a low budget movie way back when I really loved growing up.

Defiance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M820rcgczCs

played a reluctant bad-ass mariner who mixes it up w a local NYC street gang while he is waiting for his next ship...

pretty intense street fight scenes - at least for a 12 yr old back then...

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March 08, 2019, 05:00 PM
Dzozer
Remember Danger Island? Uh Oh CHONGO!!!! I loved the Banana Splits as a kid and Danger Island was my favorite part.

RIP Link...



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March 08, 2019, 05:12 PM
maxwayne
He did some Police Stories that I liked.
March 08, 2019, 05:22 PM
CQB60
He made life hard on himself. Died in obscurity. Very sad ending. Find the peace in eternity you failed to find in life, JMV


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March 08, 2019, 05:31 PM
Cliff




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March 09, 2019, 03:30 AM
BansheeOne
Somebody needs to photoshop four 222s doing the Missing Man maneuver.

I once unwittingly climbed into the original Airwolf at an open house day of the helicopter service near my hometown which it was sold to after the show, sans props of course. I remember ridiculing our local paper for thinking this was the actual name of the Bell 222. Only really found out when the aircraft crashed in a thunderstorm on a medical flight some years later, with all aboard killed.
March 09, 2019, 09:41 AM
whododat
He was also on the original Mechanic movie with Charles Bronson.


Because son, it is what you are supposed to do.
March 09, 2019, 10:25 AM
Sigmund
He made some movies I thought about seeing but never got around to it. One was about USMC basic training (Tribe), the other was driving around in a post-nuclear world (Damnation Alley):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066490/?ref_=nv_sr_2

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...?ref_=nm_flmg_act_54
March 09, 2019, 10:33 AM
Floyd D. Barber
Baby Blue Marine, White Line Fever.


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March 09, 2019, 10:38 AM
slabsides45
quote:
Originally posted by whododat:
He was also on the original Mechanic movie with Charles Bronson.


This is what I always think of him for.


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March 09, 2019, 11:15 AM
P-220
What a sad ending to what appears to have been a pretty incredible life.

R.I.P. Mr. Vincent.


Niech Zyje P-220

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March 09, 2019, 05:35 PM
mesabi
Let's not forget his role in "Bite the Bullet".
March 09, 2019, 07:44 PM
hberttmank
He had some pretty good roles back in the day. He could have become a big star. He was some type of LEO, maybe a sheriff in The Return (1980). He carried a 1911 in a belt slide holster and he was pretty handy with it. RIP Jan Michael.



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March 09, 2019, 08:51 PM
Dawes
On "Police Story" back in the 1970's: