Jan Michael Vincent DEAD at 74

Damn. His was truly a cautionary tale.

Over here

No thanks "So so is DEAD to me Troll".

I didn't realize he alcoholism goes way back. He's had so many car accidents, it's a miracle he even lived this long.

He used to be really hot back when he was in Big Wednesday. I've never seen anyone decline as bad as he has.

Wow. Another death that slipped by me. On another thread a few weeks back, I had no clue Roger Moore had died.

Nah, we just found out about it today, R7. No one knew until now.

Amateur.

Thx R8. Sis it only now hit the news? Did they keep it quiet for a month plus?

R10, if you take a look at the other thread, you might get a hint.

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and looked like complete shit

R12 that must be one for the record books.

R14 Yeah! Was he a planarian or something?

The Computer Wore a Body Bag

R16 that was Kurt Russell. Jan Michael was in The World's Greatest Athlete.

I had a poster of him tacked to the back of my bathroom door. Such a sad fall from those days.

He was like me only not good at the end

He was in a quite good film about father/son conflict, Going Home, with Mitchum.

Made 200 G per episode of Air Wolf.

Calling all Jan Michael Vincents....

It really is amazing he lived to be 74. And poor Luke Perry died at 52.

Growing up I remember watching him in Tribe and Sandcastles. I loved Sandcastles as a kid, I thought it was so spooky.

All these threads and no mention of BABY BLUE MARINE! He was at his peak then.

He had a long life for living so hard!

He was so dreamy back in the day.

Smokin' hot.

I had such a crush on him, and also Ted Neely.

A cautionary tale of living a life of excess, with alcohol and drugs. Even Jan- Michael who arguably was the most beautiful man in entertainment had unenviable physical conditions during his last 20 years of life.

Cautionary tale all right. Never have I seen such beauty go to waste so quickly.

I fell so hard for him in Buster & Billie.

I always wonder how someone in their prime would react after being shown a photo how they’ll end up if they stay on their current path. Horrified, I’m sure.

Weird that he died almost a month ago yet it wasn't reported until today.

I first saw him in the "Winds of War" miniseries and couldn't take my eyes off him.

I know someone who met him at a autograph signing last year and they said it was sad. JMV was nearly blind and could barely sign, basically just sign his own name and he required a lot of assistance from his female companion.

You should rent some of his stuff prior to that R35. He had already aged quite a bit even by 1983. Cigs, drugs...basically slow suicide.

I saw a video of him at an autograph signing and he was queeny as hell, it was an even bigger turn-off than his decrepit exterior.

In that link they said he stomped his girlfriend’s puppies to death.

But only because they ate his Lucky Charms!

He clearly had some issues that he was running from. How did he get his first roles? Who did he have to 'audition' for?

So much sun damage. Stay out of the sun guys!

He has joined Jon Erik Hexum and Philip Seymour Hoffman in three-name-actor heaven.

So many replies without a nude pic. Is that a record?

A picture of JMV at the signing last year. He probably shouldn't have been there, but needed the money.

:(

Was Jan a homosexual?

r47 Well looks like Princess Tinymeat is here!

I’m wondering how many threads we’re going to have on this topic.

Yea it's amazing he lived to be 74. Even though he was already dead for years. He was beautiful once. Addiction is a deadly disease.

From Wiki: Vincent was finishing a tour of duty in the California Army National Guard when a talent scout was struck by his looks. His first acting job was in the movie The Bandits (aka Los Bandidos), co-directed by and starring Robert Conrad, in 1967.

Vincent's career took off in the late 1960s when casting agent Dick Clayton signed him to Universal Studios. Clayton represented James Dean. Discovered Tab Hunter. Also repped Burt Reynolds.

He's still alive, every website shows he's 74 and still kicking.

I believe he was the first big star to do full frontal. Luke Perry also had an iconic full frontal. Don Johnson and Perry King you in danger , gurl.

[quote]he stomped his girlfriend’s puppies to death

Good Riddance. Rot in Hell.

I wish I hadn’t read that.

What the hell happened to JMV to turn him into such a crazed psychopath?

Talk about a once great looking guy who blew it all !

Did he leave a family? I know very little about him.

I’m sure he was married several times and had some kids. They are the first victims of an addict.

Even in the photos where he supposedly was still hot he looks drugged out and damaged. I wonder what his demons were.

I saw in recently in a surprisingly good cast horror movie The Ice Cream Man starring the horrible Clint Howard. He still had his looks about 20 years ago.

3 wives and 1 child according to IMDb

R59 According to his death certificate on TMZ, he is married to a woman named Patricia.

The Mechanic (1972) was an amazing movie. He is so charismatic and handsome in it. His 1992 car accident was bad, but it was his 1996 car accident where he broke his neck. He lived 23 years after that so that’s pretty good. Lucky he didn’t kill anyone with his reckless driving.

A fan on Twitter trying to have some fun. No doubt a Trump voter.

He was an incorrigible domestic abuser.

When I was a young gayling in the 60's (yes I'm an artifact) the to most sought after rent boys in Malibu were Jan Michael Vincent and Don Johnson. At Malibu parties they were passed around like whore d'oeuvres.

Hope he didn't charge by the inch ^^

He was a real cautionary tale about what booze can do to a person.

'Ya selling your buttock son?".... Sgt Joe Friday

He was gorgeous in The Mechanic, but my heart belonged to Charles Bronson

Jan had a "mentor" at Universal

Sucked cock better than Ethel Merman

Worked for Dink Flamingo.

Never heard the rumors about JMV being a rent boy in the 60s. But I could definitely believe it. Don Johnson goes without saying.

He ate bussey like a champ.

Tighty whities.

Thanks for the post.

[quote]All these threads and no mention of BABY BLUE MARINE! He was at his peak then.

Oh, my 70s memories are so mixed up. I had a crush on Vincent after I saw him in this. All these years later, I thought the movie was Summer of My German Soldier with Kristie McNichol (not Glynnis O'Connor). Both were made for TV around the same time.

R59, Dick Clayton? That says it all.

And tell us more R68 so we believe you.

Gay. His Senior prom date.

We shared 7/15 as a birthday so I always figured we were cosmic twins while I lusted for his body. He was the embodiment of the California surfer boy archetype. But they're wrong when they say he started using heavily after Air Wolf. IIRC they had to cancel it after 3 seasons because he was too fucked up to say lines ... not sure about that but he was using way before during and after the show. There was also a tragedy on the set when his stunt double burned to death in a helicopter crash.

Ever other guy in my class at Cocoa Beach High 1976.

The World's Gayest Athlete

He was way tighter than Florida.

JMV cover boy for early gay mag.

Talk was he was 10 years older than he claimed. Which would make him 84. He looked 104.

OMG. He looks worse than one of those propped up, post mortem corpse photographs from the 19th Century.

HIS PURTY MOUTH IS DEAD TO ME!

lotus position

Boy do you desperate queens fall for the average.

Better a has been than a never was R92

Cali surfer boy par excellence. Peace dude.

JMV has squinty eyes which make him look Asian. I hate that.

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JMV had descended testicles. I hate that.

I take.. Gary Bussey is the Top ..for 300 Alex.

Is the guy on the right in the the original Carrie? He had long curly hair in Carrie

He was so handsome in his youth. Stay away from the booze, kiddies!

R59, Dick Clayton "discovered" many big stars, about 1/3rd of them gay.

Good looking, but you can’t hide common.

One of my favorite underated "vigilante" movies is "Defiance" from 1980. JMV is great in it.

r45 is full of shit. The man in the pic has both of his legs.

Does anyone remember the short lived Survivors where he played the son of Lana Turner?

We're waiting, Susan Dey ...

Does anybody remember an Esquire piece on JMV from some years ago? He was in bad shape even then and I seem to recall the writer bought him some clothes. I guess the piece also got JMV some booze money. Really sad.

R104 That's him. I suppose he might have gotten a prostatic leg, notice how strange the one looks. I never met him, an online friend did. Here's another picture of him signing that day he posted.

R104 And he did have a prosthetic leg.

Jan-Michael Vincent

RIP

R110. Jan-Michael Vincent had quite a lot of TV and movie credits. J always remember seeing him naked in Buster and Billie.

He was pretty hot and pretty high on the list of men who should have been gay but weren't.

DL favorite Pamela Sue Martin, none other than Dynasty's Fallon Carrington, co-starred with Jan-Michael Vincent in 1974's "Buster and Billie."

Has Susan Dey weighed in yet? You would think she would have sent her condolences for Jan-Michael by now.

[quote]Has Susan Dey weighed in yet?

Why, is she getting fat?

Susan Dey is missing a sensitivity chip. She always has to be reminded to send her sympathy.

That picture @R91 tells you he was a handsome guy. He didn't even need hair and he was still handsome.

R74 that's like saying "better than a porcupine."

R90 Liv Tyler's twin

Yes, R99....the guy on the right is William Katt, who played Tommy in CARRIE, and was t.v.'s GREATEST AMERICAN HERO. He's aging a lot better than JMV & Busey have. Granted, he is six years younger. But still...he looks a hell of a lot better at 68 than JMV or Busey did at 68. (recent photo with his GAH stunt-double)

R120, isn’t the guy on the left William Katt?

r109

That is so 70s

r121 William Katt is on the right in r98.

Thank you, R123, but that’s not what I asked.

Former tennis pro Jan-Michael Gambill is named after JMV.

I am convinced, and I have argued about it on DL, that showing it all in B&B destroyed his career. Mainstream actors panicked at such a thought and didn't want to be under any sort of pressure to do likewise. Like an epidemic to be nipped dearly in the bud. There have been numerous replies on DL that it made absolutely no difference. Bullshit! It makes all the difference. I think it was Page Six that said Charlie Hunnan turned down an extra million to show it all in one of the Fifty Shades sequels. Yes, it was a career .killer for the stunning JMV.

Booze and drugs were the career killer of him.

B&B was made in 1974. He had numerous roles after that.

The vast majority of his roles, as a matter of fact...

R124 yes that's Katt. His parents were actors Bill Williams and Barbara " Della Street" Hale. I have a hunch that he grew up in a nurturing home.

Richard Gete showed it all and didn’t hurt him. Christian Bale. Ewan McGregor. Virgo. Sam Rockwell. Even Luke Perry at the time of his death he had two series and a part in a Quentin Taerntino movie.

Come, come, if male frontal nudity is so inconsequential in the movies, why are so many actors terrified of doing it? This eldergay sat through countless decades of going to an R rated with false hope and getting stuck with pussy while the leading man debates taking off his tie. The impact of a gorgeous actor showing it all was both earth shattering and frightening for a lot of people. Some old book about male nudity said that the Playboy issue of Sex in Cinema that showed the pic of JMV in B&B broke sales records.

Come, come, if male frontal nudity is so inconsequential, why are so many actors terrified of doing it? For decades this Candide went to R-rateds with false hopes only to see loads of pussy and the leading man debate taking off his tie. I read in some history of male nudity in the movies that the Sex in . Cinema issue of Playboy that showed JMV in B&B broke sales records.

I haven’t found any puppy-stomping story.

R121, I'm guessing William Katt is on the left in R120's photo (guy with white hair and glasses).

Big Wednesday came out in 1978 and starred (L to R) Gary Busey, Jan-Michael Vincent, and William Katt.

Sorry, you were so confused, R121. My reply to R99 was in reference to the photo at R98 (in which William Katt is on the right). I just forgot actually write, "in R98's photo." (which is why an edit function would be helpful)

Obviously, in the (current) photo I posted, William Katt is on the left.

R133 nor have I.

I think the only ones terrified of doing full frontal are the ones with small ones especially with those mean size queens haunting the intywho only penises they have seen are from porn actors. Most men have no problem whipping it out. It is agents and behind the scenes people who try to stop full nudity from men. Also there are a vast number of people even heterosexual women who think dicks are ugly.

Looking at those deeply sun-tanned/burned torsos in R134.....I do sometimes wonder what it's like to have suburned nips. Seriously, how do you guys deal with that? I can't even imagine.....

He's way before my time, and 74 is a damn good age considering how he lived.

That said, how could one be so beautiful and turn so ugly?

I've known addicts who keep their looks. But man, wow. He did not.

And of course RIP.

What killed his career is beating up women.

Has Jenny Garth commented yet?

[quote]yes that's Katt. His parents were actors Bill Williams and Barbara " Della Street" Hale. I have a hunch that he grew up in a nurturing home.

With plenty of visits from Raymond Burr, nighttime visits, unmentionable visits, carried out with the promise of a secret.

He was pursued by some kind of 'demons'. Just too miserable, and unable to cope w/o dope and booze.

John had that blond boyish slanty-eyed look that appeals to certain elderly homosexuals.

Yes looked like a few guys in my high school class. Good looking but did nothing for me. I would go for the cute jewish nerd type which would drive me nuts.

[quote]I think the only ones terrified of doing full frontal are the ones with small ones

Oh, really?

His looks suffered from sun damage, alcohol, and car accidents. Also, toward the end of his life he was in semi-poverty and probably couldn't afford all the medical care he needed. His hair was still pretty full, though, even at the end.

It's too bad that JMV was such a bad alcoholic and woman-beater. He could have played menacing villains up until the end, especially with that clouded eye, stringy hair and false leg. He could have been an anglo version of Danny Trejo

It was drugs as well as alcohol that scorched JMV.

someone reported a week or two ago that he was dead and searched the internet and posted the OP was wrong, JMV was still alive at 74. So someone on this board has good connections.