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Hollywood’s fall guys took their bows at the first Stuntman Awards, and honored a colleague killed in a helicopter crash while filming an air chase last month.
Feb. 5, 1985
Obituaries
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.
March 8, 2019
The Directors Guild of America’s decision to accept a percentage of the profits, rather than a flat sum, as residual compensation for hourlong series programming in syndication may rescue some television episodes from languishing on the shelves--but it will probably not cause a boom in the production or distribution of hourlong TV series, industry spokesmen said Tuesday.
July 15, 1987
California
The stuntman who perished in a helicopter crash near Newhall Friday morning while filming an action sequence for the television series “Airwolf” burned to death, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Saturday.
Jan. 20, 1985
Television
The best of 1985’s rough-and-tumble on the big and little screens fell into the limelight at the second annual Stuntman Awards, with CBS-TV’s “Airwolf” and the film “Beverly Hills Cop” winning the most honors.
March 25, 1986
Actor Jan-Michael Vincent, the blue-eyed bad-boy star of the 1978 cult surfing movie “Big Wednesday” and numerous other films and made-for-TV movies, will have a new role Friday as grand marshal of the city’s New Year’s Eve party at Van Nuys Airport.
Dec. 30, 1999
Celebrations: The ‘Airwolf’ star, making a comeback from a series of personal problems, will be grand marshal of city’s Van Nuys millennium party.
A helicopter being used in filming of the television series “Airwolf” crashed and burned on a hillside near Newhall on Friday, killing a stuntman and injuring the pilot, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies said.
Jan. 19, 1985
A mistrial was declared Friday in a suit brought by a stunt woman injured while filming an “Airwolf” TV episode, because a witness testified she was on the set as an undercover drug investigator--a fact the judge ruled earlier was inadmissible.
Dec. 2, 1989
Saying she is through with stunt work for good, 28-year-old Desiree Kerns filed a $10-million suit today against Airwolf Production Co. and Universal City Studios, claiming that their negligence resulted in her being seriously burned during filming of a stunt last Feb. 25.
March 28, 1985