Jan-Michael Vincent

Jan-Michael Vincent was born on July 15, 1944. Vincent has had an extensive television and film career that began in the late 1960s and lasted until the early 2000s. He is currently said to be retired from acting. 
Jan-Michael Vincent's first acting job was in the movie Los Bandidos, directed by and starring Robert Conrad, in 1964. In 1970, Jan-Michael Vincent garnered critical praise for his role in the made for TV film "classic" Tribes, co-starring Darren McGavin, he also appeared in the Disney film The World's Greatest Athlete as a Tarzan-like young man who becomes a great professional athlete. 
Jan-Michael Vincent became a popular and an acclaimed film star during the 1970s, especially for his co-starring role with Charles Bronson in the crime film The Mechanic. Other notable films included the Western The Undefeated with John Wayne and the cult surfing film Big Wednesday with William Katt and Gary Busey. 
Jan-Michael Vincent also starred in the 1974 romance Buster and Billie as the romantic anti-hero Buster Lane. In "Hooper" with Burt Reynolds, Vincent played a young stunt man. In 1975, he also starred in the cult classic trucker movie White Line Fever, followed by the notorious Damnation Alley, based on Roger Zelazny's science fiction novel, in 1977.
In 1981, he co-starred with Kim Basinger in Hard Country.
After an acclaimed performance in the 1983 television miniseries The Winds of War, Jan-Michael Vincent was cast as Stringfellow Hawke for the action-espionage series Airwolf, in which Vincent co-starred with Ernest Borgnine. It is probably the role for which Vincent is best known and remembered, and one for which he was especially well paid. It was noted, at the time, that Vincent's salary for his work on Airwolf was the highest paid of any actor in American television. 
Jan-Michael Vincent was involved in two severe automobile accidents from which he barely escaped alive. As a result of one accident in 1996, in which Vincent broke three vertebrae in his neck, he sustained a permanent injury to his vocal cords from an emergency medical procedure. This has left him with a permanently raspy voice.
In 1997 he had a small guest role on Nash Bridges playing the title character's long-lost brother. His last film role was in the independent film White Boy, also titled Menace (for the US video version), released in March 2002.
As of 2007, Jan-Michael Vincent live quietly with his partner in Warren County, Mississippi, just north of Vicksburg. He is in poor health and has little contact with locals. Jan-Michael Vincent has a daughter, Amber Springbird Vincent, from his marriage to first wife Bonnie Portman.