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Airwolf ran for three series between 1984 and 1986
Jan-Michael Vincent, best known for playing daredevil pilot Stringfellow Hawke in 1980s TV series Airwolf, has died at the age of 74, it has emerged.
The Denver-born actor also appeared with Charles Bronson in The Mechanic, with Burt Reynolds in Hooper and in seminal surfing film Big Wednesday.
He was nominated for a Golden Globe for 1971 film Going Home and again in 1984 for miniseries The Winds of War.
Vincent died on 10 February, according to a death certificate seen by TMZ.
The document states he was an inpatient at a hospital in North Carolina and is survived by his third wife, Patricia Ann Christ.
Vincent’s career waned after his Airwolf heyday and he retired from acting in 2009.
In 2012 a leg infection required him to have the lower half of his right leg amputated.
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