Lance Kerwin
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]
Fotos
Filme (26)
The Wind & the Reckoning
2022 · Anderson
Outbreak
1995 · American Mercenary
Final Verdict
1991 · Harry Johnson
Challenger
1990
Enemy Mine
1985 · Joey Wooster
The Fourth Wise Man
1985 · Passhur
The Snow Queen
1985 · Kay
A Killer in the Family
1983 · Ray Tison
The Mysterious Stranger
1982 · #44
Advice to the Lovelorn
1981 · Larry Ames
Side Show
1981 · Nick Pallas
Children of Divorce
1980 · Tony Malik
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
1980 · Billy Carpenter
The Meanest Men in the West
1978
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
1977 · Joe, Jr. (Age 14)
James at 15
1977 · James Hunter
Cheering Section
1977 · Bob
The Death of Richie
1977 · Russell Werner
The Loneliest Runner
1976 · John Curtis as a Youth
Amelia Earhart
1976 · David Putnam
Long Way Home
1975 · Ramey Holvak
Reflections of Murder
1974 · Chip
The Greatest Gift
1974 · Ramey Holvak
The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
1974 · Todd Swimmer
The Healers
1974 · Kennedy Brown
Pssst! Hammerman's After You!
1974 · Ezzie
Serien (23)
Child Star Confidential
2006 · Self
100 Greatest Kid Stars
2005
The New Lassie
1989
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Eddie Frayne
Finder of Lost Loves
1984 · Adam Hill
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Kay
Hotel
1982 · Ron Kerwin
Simon & Simon
1981
Salem's Lot
1979 · Mark Petrie
CBS Library
1979 · Russ
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
James at 16
1977 · James Hunter
Battle of the Network Stars
1976
Good Heavens
1976
The Bionic Woman
1976
Wonder Woman
1975 · Jeff Hadley
The Family Holvak
1975
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · Danny Peters
Police Story
1973 · Joey Jr.
ABC Afterschool Special
1972 · Ezzie, Peter Finley, Buzz, Adam Rush, P.J. / The President's Son
Emergency!
1972 · Wheeler Boy
Cannon
1971
Gunsmoke
1955 · Tommy Harker