Vincent made his film debut in 1982 as ‘Mick’ in Just a Walk in the Dark, written and directed by Udayan Prasad (Brothers in Trouble, My Son the Fanatic, Gabriel & Me, The Yellow Handkerchief). T.V work then followed including two episodes of Nigel William’s Johnny Jarvis for the B.B.C and an episode of Minder for Thames Television in 1984 with Dennis Waterman and George Cole. In it he played ‘Barney’ the delinquent son of ‘Joaney’, played by June Brown. Video work includes the comic rock opera Shock Opera by acclaimed screen writer Howard Schuman (Rock Follies, Nervous Energy, Upline) playing ‘Denis Jonston’, a psychopathic skinhead ‘banged up’ in borstal for arson, and Brand Values Go Dotty, alongside Prunella Scales, for supermarket giant TESCO.

As well as playing ‘Push Button Pete’ in summer repertory theatre as part of the acclaimed Push Button Click children’s theatre group at Butlin’s Holiday Camps and a number of pantomime appearances playing princes and villains, stage performances include ‘Bob Cratchit’ in the King’s Theatre Southsea production of the Charles Dicken’s classic A Christmas Carol, opposite Bryan (Looking Hi-Hi-Hi) Johnson, and ‘Craig’, the cockney wide-boy, ideas man and male stripper, in Newpalm Production’s 1996 national tour of the ‘cult’ comedy classic Ladies Night, which allegedly inspired the hit film The Full Monty.