Biography
Lance Michael Kerwin (November 6, 1960 – January 24, 2023) was an American actor, known primarily for roles in television and film during his childhood and teen years in the 1970s. He played lead roles in the TV series James at 15, and the made-for-TV films The Loneliest Runner and Salem's Lot.
Kerwin was raised in Lake Elsinore, California. His father was an acting coach, who brought home scripts for his son to read. His mother was also a performer and, later, a talent agent. He was the youngest of five brothers. His brother Shane was his stand-in.
In the 1970s, Kerwin appeared in a number of made-for-TV movies and series. He was, said former theater critic and British Film Institute governor John Holmstrom, "probably America's leading boy actor of the late Seventies ... a handsome lad ... [with] considerable sensitivity as an actor". His serious acting roles often portrayed anguished characters facing difficult challenges, such as in The Loneliest Runner, The Boy Who Drank Too Much, and Children of Divorce.
Kerwin had a daughter with Kristen Lansdale, and four children with his wife Yvonne Kerwin. He gave up acting in the mid-1990s, but returned to the screen in 2022 for The Wind & the Reckoning, filmed in Hawaii.
In July 2010, it was reported that Kerwin was working as a pastor at Calvary Chapel in Kapaa, Hawaii, and a program leader at U-Turn for Christ, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization.
Kerwin died in San Clemente, California, on January 24, 2023, at the age of 62.
[preceding biography, edited, from Wikipedia]
Filmography
all 45
Movies 24
TV Shows 21
The Wind & the Reckoning (2022)
100 Greatest Kid Stars (2005)
Outbreak (1995)
Final Verdict (1991)
The New Lassie (1989)
Enemy Mine (1985)
The Fourth Wise Man (1985)
Finder of Lost Loves (1984)
A Killer in the Family (1983)
The Mysterious Stranger (1982)
Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
Hotel (1982)
Advice to the Lovelorn (1981)
Simon & Simon (1981)
Side Show (1981)
Children of Divorce (1980)
The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980)
Salem's Lot (1979)
CBS Library (1979)
Trapper John, M.D. (1979)
The Meanest Men in the West (1978)
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977)
James at 15 (1977)
James at 16 (1977)
Cheering Section (1977)
The Death of Richie (1977)
The Loneliest Runner (1976)
Battle of the Network Stars (1976)
Amelia Earhart (1976)
Good Heavens (1976)
The Bionic Woman (1976)
Wonder Woman (1975)
The Family Holvak (1975)
Long Way Home (1975)
Reflections of Murder (1974)
The Greatest Gift (1974)
The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer (1974)
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Pssst! Hammerman's After You! (1974)
The Healers (1974)
Police Story (1973)
ABC Afterschool Special (1972)
Emergency! (1972)
Cannon (1971)
Gunsmoke (1955)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1960-11-06
Deathday2023-01-24 (62 years old)
Birth PlaceNewport Beach, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsЛэнс Кервин, Lance Michael Kerwin
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