Airwolf star Jan-Michael Vincent dies aged 74 after suffering cardiac arrest
By Dailymail. com Reporter
11:03 EST 08 Mar 2019, updated 13:09 EST 08 Mar 2019
Jan-Michael Vincent, 1980s TV heartthrob and star of Airwolf, has died.
The actor passed away last month, on February 10, after suffering a cardiac arrest at a North Carolina hospital. He was 74.
TMZ, who obtained the death certificate, reports that no autopsy was performed and the star was later cremated.
The Denver born star had many credits to his name, with his career spanning back to the late 1960s.
His last role was in the 2002 drama White Boy.
But it was his role as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke in Airwolf that made him a star. The show, which ran from 1984 to 1986, earned him $200,000 per episode, making him the highest paid actor at the time.
At the height of his fame he admitted to issues with drugs and alcohol - which reportedly contributed to the cancellation of his the CBS series in 1986 - and confessed in recent years that he was still struggling with alcoholism.
The actor almost died in 2012 after an infection forced him to have his right leg amputated.
He also suffered his fair share of bad luck including two serious car accidents.
In the first incident in 1996, Vincent broke three vertebrae in his neck and sustained a permanent injury to his vocal cords that left him with a permanently raspy voice.
The second crash happened in 2008, but worse was to follow in 2012 when he contracted a leg infection as a result of complications from peripheral artery disease.
As a young actor, Vincent won rave reviews for his role in 1978 cult surfing movie Big Wednesday.
He also starred opposite Burt Reynolds in the 1978 film Hooper and co-starred with Kim Basinger in the 1981 film Defiance.
Vincent lived with his third wife Patricia Ann who he married in 1999.
The troubled actor was married twice before, first to Bonnie Poorman, his 'college classmate sweetheart' in 1969 from 1974 to 1975.
The pair had a daughter, Amber Vincent, who is now 45.
He was married to first wife Joanne Robinson from 1986 to 1997.
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