Lance Kerwin
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 6, 1960
- Died
- January 24, 2023 (aged 62)
- Birthplace
- Newport Beach, California, USA
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]
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Filmography
The Wind & the Reckoning
Movie · as Anderson
Child Star Confidential
TV · as Self · 1 ep
100 Greatest Kid Stars
TV · 4 eps
Outbreak
Movie · as American Mercenary
Final Verdict
Movie · as Harry Johnson
Challenger
Movie
The New Lassie
TV · 1 ep
Enemy Mine
Movie · as Joey Wooster
The Fourth Wise Man
Movie · as Passhur
The Snow Queen
Movie · as Kay
Finder of Lost Loves
TV · as Adam Hill · 1 ep
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Eddie Frayne · 1 ep
A Killer in the Family
Movie · as Ray Tison
The Mysterious Stranger
Movie · as #44
Hotel
TV · as Ron Kerwin · 1 ep
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV · as Kay · 1 ep
Advice to the Lovelorn
Movie · as Larry Ames
Side Show
Movie · as Nick Pallas
Simon & Simon
TV · 1 ep
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
Movie · as Billy Carpenter
Children of Divorce
Movie · as Tony Malik
Trapper John, M.D.
TV · 1 ep
Salem's Lot
TV · as Mark Petrie · 2 eps
CBS Library
TV · as Russ · 1 ep
The Meanest Men in the West
Movie
Cheering Section
Movie · as Bob
James at 15
Movie · as James Hunter
The Death of Richie
Movie · as Russell Werner
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Movie · as Joe, Jr. (Age 14)
James at 16
TV · as James Hunter · 21 eps
The Loneliest Runner
Movie · as John Curtis as a Youth
Amelia Earhart
Movie · as David Putnam
The Bionic Woman
TV · 1 ep
Battle of the Network Stars
TV · 2 eps
Good Heavens
TV · 1 ep
Long Way Home
Movie · as Ramey Holvak
Wonder Woman
TV · as Jeff Hadley · 1 ep
The Family Holvak
TV · 10 eps
Reflections of Murder
Movie · as Chip
The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
Movie · as Todd Swimmer
The Greatest Gift
Movie · as Ramey Holvak
The Healers
Movie · as Kennedy Brown
Pssst! Hammerman's After You!
Movie · as Ezzie
Little House on the Prairie
TV · as Danny Peters · 1 ep
Police Story
TV · as Joey Jr. · 1 ep
Emergency!
TV · as Wheeler Boy · 1 ep
ABC Afterschool Special
TV · as Ezzie, Buzz, Adam Rush, Peter Finley, P.J. / The President's Son · 1 ep
Cannon
TV · 1 ep
Gunsmoke
TV · as Tommy Harker · 1 ep