Born in Denver Colorado, 1944
Raised in California.
"I would have completed college, but the registration clerk literally shut the window in his face for the lunch hour and Vincent instead took his $200 and went to Mexico to party."
* The Bandits
* The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk
* Dragnet 1968
* The Banana Splits
* The Survivors
* The Undefeated
* Lassie
* Bonanza
70's
* Tribes
* The Soldier Who Declared Peace
* Going Home
* Gunsmoke
* The Mechanic
* Sandcastles
* The World's Greatest Athlete
* Marcus Welby, M.D.
* Buster and Billie (full frontal nudity)
* Bite the Bullet
* White Line Fever (trucker film)
* Shadow of he Hawk
* Damnation Alley
* Big Wednesday (surfing)
* Hooper
* Defiance
* The Return (sci-fi)
* Hard Country
* Last Plane Out
* Winds of War
* Airwolf ($200,000 per episode, highest of any actor)
Drugs and alcohol.
* Traci Lords
* Raw Nerve
* Ice Cream Man (cult status as unintentional comedy)
* Ipi Tombi
Hospitalized
* Red Line (swollen face and scars, still wearing hospital band)
* Nash Bridges
* Buffalo '66
* White Boy (titled Menace in the U.S.)
* referenced in Rick and Morty
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* battled alcoholism and intravenous drug use much of his life
* 1979 arrested for possession of cocaine
* 1984, 1985 arrested after two bar brawls
* 1986 felony assault charge (acquitted)
* 1988 arrested for drunk driving, entered rehab
* 1990's three severe automobile collisions (barely survived)
* 1996 broke 3 vertebrae, permanent injury to vocal cords medical procedure (raspy voice)
* 1996 drunk driving, rehab again
* 2000, $374,000 judgement for physical assault that caused miscarriage
* 2000 violated probation, sentenced 60 days in Orange County Jail.
* 2008 automobile accident
* 2012 leg amputated
* 2012 tax debt $70,000
* 2019 died Feb. 10. Cardiac arrest.
In a quiet introspective meditative and prayerful moment Michael Vincent's mind split in two in which Michael held dialogue with God.
God: So, Michael, was it worth it?
Michael Vincent: Was what worth what?
God: Was the intensity of all the drugs and alcohol and fights and turmoil you did worth the toll it took on your body and your life?
Michael sat there lost in thought with God at his side and he suddenly cracked up laughing so hard his sides hurt. Still laughing and choking he removed his ventilator mask and verbalized audibly "Yes, God. Yes, it was worth it."
12 comments:
He was stumped by that question.
Date of death is wrong.
Nope, he just got high and he missed it:
Jan-Michael Vincent (July 15, 1944 – February 10, 2019).
God only knows what was going on inside such an affectless type.
I was kind of wondering the same thing - he lead a life of reckless dissipation without any concern for his own welfare nor the safety of others, yet he died peacefully in bed at the age of 74. I should live so long!
I could care less about this guy but a real tragedy was reported today: Tom Seaver has dementia. Terrible for him and terrible for those of us who watched him in his prime. Tom Terrific. The Franchise. It comes to all of us but most of us?...who cares. A few, a very few.......
And by "lead", of course, I meant "led".
Seaver is only 74 - that is sad. And that is a terrible way to go for all involved.
He had 300 wins - that is something that will never happen again, am I right? And even though I lived near Memorial Stadium I was never an Orioles fan. Ya done good, Tom. Showed them who was boss.
Anent Vincent's filmography: missed one.
Journey To Shiloh
Starred a couple of unknowns - James Caan, Harrison Ford
I'll go with "stumped with the question". From my vantage point he'd been in a fight to survive since birth, with alcoholism and addiction leading him down roads he found difficult to resist. To wrap all that in some kind of "it was worth it" story" doesn't do justice to the amount of pain that was perpetrated by others and perpetuated by the choices and decisions he made as an adult. Is the high from an addiction worth the destruction and chaos that results?
I see a convenient story, a possible a lie, a tell or at the very least a twist in perception, in the first line, where the belief is expressed that he would have completed college if the clerk hadn't shut the window in his face and gone to lunch. Really? There has to be more to that story. And indeed there was. He was ready to leave and unable to walk the path set out before him. He went with the addictive high and release of surfing and drugs rather than enter into the relational risks and pitfalls ahead of him.
He grew up as the son of an alcoholic whose paternal father was also an alcoholic and worse yet "a brutal and unforgiving man who would sacrifice anyone and everything within his reach if he felt the slightest risk to himself including his sons..a notorious criminal, a bank robber and a counterfeiter. What were the genetic, emotional and physical realities involved with that?
Plus his dad, as an alcoholic adult child of an alcoholic, was a B25 bomber pilot in WW2 which may have included additional trauma or baggage. His mom was 16 when she married his dad who was six years older than she was.
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Jan missed a year of school in grade five, lost in "no man's land" when his family moved
He ran away from home for three days when he was in the eighth grade.
In the ninth grade, he quit football when he found the coach "to be a sadistic drill Sargent who confused coaching with corporal punishment".
Days before making the decision to leave college and go surfing in Mexico, he'd rolled and wrecked his VW. He was also on the brink of marriage to a girl he loved. It wasn't just a closed window that made him walk away without a word of explanation to her, other than "I'll keep in touch" which he didn't do, only to be surprised when he returned after six months to find she was no longer available.
And here it is, a single sentence that adds on to the above and opens a window into what may have bedeviled him as a child:
Over the years, various women, including his second wife, accused him of physical assault.
Thanks for researching, MamaM. I was curious about him.
$374,000 judgement for physical assault that caused miscarriage
I had wondered what the chances were that he was trying to kill the baby. After reading your comment they seem even greater.
R.I.P.
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