![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: July 15, 1944 in Denver, CO Biography:Ventura City College grad "Jan-Michael Vincent" had just finished serving in the National Guard when he was tapped for potential film stardom by a talent agent. At first billed simply as Michael Vincent, the novice actor's "official" screen debut was the 1968 western "Journey to Shiloh," though in fact he'd already had a shakedown cruise, as it were, in the Mexican film "Los Bandidos" (1967). He went on to co-star in the "Danger Island" segment of Hanna-Barbera's Saturday morning TV show The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, and in the prime time serial "The Survivors" (1969) before graduating to stardom as the hippie-dippie Marine recruit in the popular TV movie "Tribes" (1970). Subsequent film assignments like "The Mechanic" (1972) and "Bite the Bullet" (1975) seemed to bode well for his future as a "reluctant hero" action star, while his work in such productions as "Buster and Billie" (1974) proved that... Full Biography
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