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Baby-faced psychopathic A-hole


I remember him from the first time I saw him in a TV movie called Sandcastles when I was a teen. I always seemed to think of him as a kind of peace-loving hippie type, but his Wikipedia page is very revealing.

He had psychpathy and criminality all in his family.

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Vincent was charged with drunk driving again after his 1996 accident, and once again sentenced to rehabilitation and placed on probation. In an interview on the television program The Insider on September 18, 2007, when asked about his 1996 car accident, Vincent answered "Y'know, I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't remember being in an accident."[21][31]

In 2000, Vincent violated probation for his prior alcohol-related arrests by appearing drunk in public three times and assaulting his fiancée. As a result, he was sentenced to 60 days in the Orange County Jail.[32] Vincent was involved in yet another automobile accident in 2008.[33]

In an interview on October 24, 2014, with the National Enquirer, Vincent revealed that his right leg was amputated just below the knee in 2012 after he contracted a leg infection as a result of complications from peripheral artery disease.[34][35] After that, he walked with a prosthetic limb, although he was sometimes forced to use a wheelchair.[36]

Death
Vincent died on February 10, 2019, at the age of 74 in Asheville, North Carolina, due to cardiac arrest while hospitalized at Mission Hospital.[1][2] Bradycardia, a decreased heart rate, was listed as an underlying cause of death. His death was not publicly announced until March 8, when TMZ broke the news and showed a slightly redacted copy of Vincent's death certificate.[37][38][39]

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I do recall him being arrested several times.

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A lot of these weirdo Hollyood brats were real psychos.

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Yes I know all of this but I fail to see how all of this made him a “psychopathic A-hole” as you eloquently put it. Ok I can see why you’d consider him an a-hole but to me it just makes him nothing other than a man, that’s all. My impression of him was as an affable young man, no less. Never thought he was the hippie type even though he played one in “Tribes” but growing up I wish I had his good looks. I’ll always remember him fondly, sad to see the turn his life took but that’s par for the course as life is never perfect, neither are the people and things in it.

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sounds like he was an alcoholic

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Yeah, but...He was in:

The Mechanic
Buster & Billie
Hooper
Defiance
Enemy Territory
Hit-List
Buffalo 66


(Oh yeah...and Airwolf)

Surely a pass?

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I remember the first thing he was in was a TV movie ... cannot remember the name though. I was a supernatural romance.

OK, I looked it up, it was called Sandcastles.

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