Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 06, 1960
Died
Jan 24, 2023
Place of Birth
Newport Beach, California, USA
Credits
49 titles
Lance Kerwin
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]
Known For
Filmography
The Wind & the Reckoning
Anderson
Child Star Confidential
Self
100 Greatest Kid Stars
Outbreak
American Mercenary
Final Verdict
Harry Johnson
Challenger
The New Lassie
Enemy Mine
Joey Wooster
The Fourth Wise Man
Passhur
The Snow Queen
Kay
Murder, She Wrote
Eddie Frayne
Finder of Lost Loves
Adam Hill
A Killer in the Family
Ray Tison
The Mysterious Stranger
#44
Faerie Tale Theatre
Kay
Hotel
Ron Kerwin
Advice to the Lovelorn
Larry Ames
Simon & Simon
Side Show
Nick Pallas
Children of Divorce
Tony Malik
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
Billy Carpenter
Salem's Lot
Mark Petrie
CBS Library
Russ
Trapper John, M.D.
The Meanest Men in the West
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Joe, Jr. (Age 14)
James at 16
James Hunter
James at 15
James Hunter
Cheering Section
Bob
The Death of Richie
Russell Werner
The Loneliest Runner
John Curtis as a Youth
Battle of the Network Stars
Amelia Earhart
David Putnam
Good Heavens
The Bionic Woman
Wonder Woman
Jeff Hadley
The Family Holvak
Long Way Home
Ramey Holvak
Reflections of Murder
Chip
The Greatest Gift
Ramey Holvak
The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
Todd Swimmer
Little House on the Prairie
Danny Peters
The Healers
Kennedy Brown
Pssst! Hammerman's After You!
Ezzie
Police Story
Joey Jr.
ABC Afterschool Special
Ezzie
Emergency!
Wheeler Boy
Cannon
Gunsmoke
Tommy Harker