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Jan-Michael Vincent: Pressure ActorBy BftUCS CA5TOJJan-Mictael Vincent reels he has lo overwork to be at his finest - the actor has made four pictures in only one year!His latest, “White Line Fever/' he describes as a “western with trucks ir^tc-id ef horses/’Despite the innumerable violent scenes in the film, he sees it as a picture fur the whole family.‘This is the firsL movie my daughter has seen me in,” says J a n-Mi eh ad. “She sat through the whole thing. There's more violence on Saturday morning TV cartoons.*Tve made four pictures in H months — ‘White Line Fever, ‘Bite the Bullet/ ‘Baby Blue Murine’ anil ‘Vigilante Force/“f’d just finished ‘Baby Blue Marine’ on Ml Shasta in Washington State and then 1 had to drive all night Saturday and all Sunday tn eel to Los Angeles, and then I started shooting ‘Vigilante Force’ on Monday.“Yuu get up at A in the morning to he oil the set at K and we often work 18-hour days. 1 thiuk I've been going tui throe huurs sleep a night fur six months.“But that’s how 1 work best. If the pressure's not on me I uon’t function as well.“Now I waul to be a little more selective about what 3 ■In. I want to do some really good films, maybe eventually try writing, directing and producing, sii 3 can really stretch myself on a creative level/’Jan-Michael was trying to establish himself as a commercial artist when a friend suggested that ho audition Tor TV commercials.“I was introduced to Dick Clayton, who is now my manager, and he asked me if I was interested in acting. I said, lXn. thank you. I’m u little shy to be doing that and besides 3’in going into service/ When Vincent got out of the Naljunal Guard, he looked upClayton and told him he had changed his mind — he was given an audition Tor a Robert Conrad western.“1 got Hie part. recounts Jan-Michael today, “and 1 didn’t even know what an actor did.“I derided 1 could adapt to iiiui hie very easily. Alter that, I did study some, then 1 started getting TV roles and then movies.“You learn a lul just making movies — ihere are so many different relationships, arguments, a constant give-and-take — It's exciting.“As an actor you have to bo shi many people — businessman, politician, artist, have a skin as thick as an elephant/'JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT IN fllTE THE BULLET1One of four morie roles in the Iasi 12 months11-6 (Oakland ^Tribune Sun., Dec. 21, 1?75
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Sun, Dec 21, 1975
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