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