Celebrity Biographies
Jan-Michael Vincent
He shared the screen with John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Lana Turner and Charles Bronson, and rose to enormous popularity in the early ’80s as the lead in “Helicopter.” But later he had problems with various addictions that ruined his career. Jan Michael Vincent passed away at a hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, as a result of cardiac arrest, at age 74, on February 10, 2019.
Born in Denver (Colorado), on July 15, 1944, Jan-Michael Vincent ‘s family moved to Hanford (California) when he was very young. At 18 he served in the National Guard, before being discovered by a talent scout who asked him to work for the movies. He made his debut with a small role in Los Bandidos , by Robert Conrad , in 1967. After participating in numerous series, he had a prominent role in The Expendables (1969), with John Wayne and Rock Hudson , and was recruited as the son of Lana Turner in the The Survivors series , canceled due to lack of success after a few chapters.
After titles such as Bite the Bullet , with Gene Hackman , Hell’s Alley , with George Peppard , Hooper the Incredible , with Burt Reynolds , and Coldly… for no personal reason , with Charles Bronson , and embodying a surfer in Big Wednesday , he recruited as the protagonist of the series Helicóptero , along with Ernest Borgnine, which had a huge impact, especially in the United States. She played the pilot of a sophisticated vehicle that performs secret missions for the US government, in exchange for help finding his brother who disappeared during the Vietnam War. She transcended in the media that she was paid about 200,000 dollars per chapter, one of the highest salaries at that time for a television protagonist.
The success of the proposal made him a very popular face, but he did not take fame well, falling into the hell of alcoholism and drugs. Since then, he has starred in numerous scandals that were echoed in the media, especially his conviction in 1995 for having mistreated his wife, Lisa Marie Chiafullo, who lost the child she was expecting (she had previously given birth to her daughter Amber). . He also went on to assault his subsequent girlfriends, Joanne Robinson and Bonnie Lynn Poorman. In 2012 his leg was amputated due to an infection.
Faced with such misfortunes, it is not surprising that Jan-Michael Vincent ‘s career languished, finding himself relegated to by-products like the action by-product By Profession Assassin , the gruesome sequel to the already debatable horror film Xtro , titled Xtro 2: The Second Meeting , or the TV movie about the Monkey King Tarzan in Manhattan . He only shone somewhat as a bowling alley owner, alongside Vincent Gallo , in Buffalo ’66 .. At the time of his death, he had been admitted for a heart attack, but on social networks he was optimistic. “Do you think that can kill me? A box of aspirin, I have relieved myself and as good as new,” he wrote.