With a surfer’s physique and charisma, Vincent entered films in the late 1960s and became a mainstay of action dramas. He was 74 by most accounts, but the certificate listed him as 73.

10 death - which was not publicly announced at the time - was confirmed by the Buncombe County Register of Deeds, which provided a death certificate listing the cause as cardiac arrest. Jan-Michael Vincent, a golden boy of Hollywood action films in the 1970s who starred in the mid-1980s TV adventure series “Airwolf” but saw his career crater amid drug and alcohol addiction, has died in Asheville, N.C.