Stringfellow Hawke has died :(

[Fritzo]

https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/08/airwolf-star-jan-michael-vincent-dead/

Honestly, I thought he died a long time ago. He was a mess

 

[Thebobo]

Yea he had lost a leg and eye, recent pictures of him are sad, best to remember him as the virile young muscular lad.

RIP dude.

 

[zinfamous]

Bryan Cranston tells a truly bizarre (supposedly typical) story about his one-day experience on the set of Airwolf playing a bit part, where JMV was totally coked-up and blotto and essentially completely unable to sit up straight and engage with any lines--I think they strapped him to the cockpit chair and told Cranston to just say his lines and they'll fix it all in post...I think that was Cranston's first ever on-camera gig.

...I think this on a Fresh Air interview from some years ago

 

[stargazr]

RIP. He was good in the original The Mechanic film with Charles Bronson.

 

[dasherHampton]

What your mind remembers is kind of amazing at times. I'll forget something I did last month but I still remember the first time I saw JMV.

Our dad got one of the first satellite dishes in town and my brother and I would "surf the atmosphere" when he wasn't home. Nothing was scrambled, not even playboy channel. It was all out there for the watching. Sports broadcast were especially good because the announcers would talk freely during commercial breaks, sometimes saying pretty lewd things about girls in the audience, the opposing team etc.

Anyway - the first movie we found was a flick called "Defiance" (I had to look it up) on an HBO feed and we watched the whole thing. I can't remember if it was good or not, but JMV was great. I really liked him, and after that I went out my of my way to watch movies and TV that he was in.

Looks like he was fairly busy from the late 60's until 2002.He must have retired, or been forced into retirement at that time.

RIP I always enjoyed watching him.

 

[Fritzo]

What your mind remembers is kind of amazing at times. I'll forget something I did last month but I still remember the first time I saw JMV.

Our dad got one of the first satellite dishes in town and my brother and I would "surf the atmosphere" when he wasn't home. Nothing was scrambled, not even playboy channel. It was all out there for the watching. Sports broadcast were especially good because the announcers would talk freely during commercial breaks, sometimes saying pretty lewd things about girls in the audience, the opposing team etc.

Anyway - the first movie we found was a flick called "Defiance" (I had to look it up) on an HBO feed and we watched the whole thing. I can't remember if it was good or not, but JMV was great. I really liked him, and after that I went out my of my way to watch movies and TV that he was in.

Looks like he was fairly busy from the late 60's until 2002.He must have retired, or been forced into retirement at that time.

RIP I always enjoyed watching him.

He pretty much ruined his career by the late 80's. He cleaned up a bit and had a resurgence, but then his health went to hell and he officially retired.

 

[Mayne]

there goes another piece of my childhood

 

[lupi]

Loved airwolf as a kid. Watched part of one recently, hasn't aged well.

 

[Ichinisan]

First Ernest Borgnine, and now this. What's left of the team?

 

[SKORPI0]

RIP. He died last month, Feb 10th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Michael_Vincent

 

[kage69]

https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/08/airwolf-star-jan-michael-vincent-dead/

Honestly, I thought he died a long time ago. He was a mess

I missed this too.

I remember watching Airwolf, and liked him in The Mechanic. I think the last time I saw him on a screen was when he was on Howard Stern (right after getting in a serious car wreck IIRC), just remember feeling bad for the guy. Basically he was Tom Cruise who never pulled up out of the dive of success and excess. I'm a little surprised he lived as long as he did, given what he did to his body and the damage he sustained from accidents.

Like so many others have been noting lately, I too feel like the popular culture of my childhood is being retired, a slice at a time. It's sad. RIP Vincent, there are multitudes of women probably still crying over your passing.

 

[iRONic]

As a former helicopter mechanic we'd eviserate Airwolf at work all the time.