Jan-Michael Vincent died February 10th. His death wasn't reported widely until Friday, March 8th.
His first role was playing Tony Prito, the Hardy Boys' friend, in The Mystery of the Chinese Junk (1967), made as a pilot for a TV series that never came to be. The first thing I remember seeing him in was "Danger Island" on The Banana Splits on Saturday mornings. A few years later, there was Disney's The World's Greatest Athlete.
I heard that he was known for never flubbing a line. But alcoholism got the best of him.
Bryan Cranston told about appearing on Airwolf. He described doing a poor man's process shot. They would film Vincent in the helicopter as it sat on the ground with the blue sky in the background so viewers couldn't tell if it was on the ground or in the air. When they were ready to film, the director would gesture to Cranston. It was his signal to wake Vincent up so the they could shoot the scene.
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