Lance Kerwin

Known for ActingBorn 1960-11-06Died 2023-01-24 Newport Beach, California, USA

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]Read more

Movies & web series

CBS Library

The Wind & the Reckoning

The Family Holvak

The Healers

Side Show

Faerie Tale Theatre

Emergency!

Little House on the Prairie

Murder, She Wrote

The Mysterious Stranger

Children of Divorce

100 Greatest Kid Stars

The New Lassie

The Loneliest Runner

Enemy Mine

The Fourth Wise Man

James at 15

Good Heavens

Wonder Woman

The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer

The Bionic Woman

Police Story

The Death of Richie

Hotel

Salem's Lot

Finder of Lost Loves

Simon & Simon

James at 16

Outbreak

Reflections of Murder

Challenger

Cannon

Trapper John, M.D.

A Killer in the Family

ABC Afterschool Special

Gunsmoke

Battle of the Network Stars

The Greatest Gift

Advice to the Lovelorn

The Boy Who Drank Too Much

Cheering Section

The Meanest Men in the West

Child Star Confidential

Final Verdict

The Snow Queen

Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy

Amelia Earhart

Long Way Home