Name
Lance Kerwin
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1960-11-06
Deathday
2023-01-24 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
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- 1977 Cheering Section as Bob
- 1985 Enemy Mine as Joey Wooster
- 1985 The Fourth Wise Man as Passhur
- 1974 Reflections of Murder as Chip
- 1980 The Boy Who Drank Too Much as Billy Carpenter
- 1983 A Killer in the Family as Ray Tison
- 1976 The Loneliest Runner as John Curtis as a Youth
- 1982 The Mysterious Stranger as #44
- 1978 The Meanest Men in the West
- 1976 Amelia Earhart as David Putnam
- 1977 James at 15 as James Hunter
- 1981 Advice to the Lovelorn as Larry Ames
- 2022 The Wind & the Reckoning as Anderson
- 1977 The Death of Richie as Russell Werner
- 1980 Children of Divorce as Tony Malik
- 1981 Side Show as Nick Pallas
- 1974 The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer as Todd Swimmer
- 1975 Long Way Home as Ramey Holvak
- 1977 Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy as Joe, Jr. (Age 14)
- 1974 The Greatest Gift as Ramey Holvak
- 1995 Outbreak as American Mercenary
- 1991 Final Verdict as Harry Johnson
- 1974 The Healers as Kennedy Brown
- 1990 Challenger
- 1985 The Snow Queen as Kay
- 1974 Pssst! Hammerman's After You! as Ezzie
- 1979 Trapper John, M.D. ( 1 episode )
- 1974 Little House on the Prairie ( 1 episode ) as Danny Peters
- 1976 The Bionic Woman ( 1 episode )
- 1981 Simon & Simon ( 1 episode )
- 1982 Hotel ( 1 episode ) as Ron Kerwin
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Tommy Harker
- 1975 Wonder Woman ( 1 episode ) as Jeff Hadley
- 1972 Emergency! ( 1 episode ) as Wheeler Boy
- 1971 Cannon ( 1 episode )
- 1976 Battle of the Network Stars ( 2 episodes )
- 1977 James at 16 ( 21 episodes ) as James Hunter
- 1989 The New Lassie ( 1 episode )
- 1976 Good Heavens ( 1 episode )
- 1979 Salem's Lot ( 2 episodes ) as Mark Petrie
- 2005 100 Greatest Kid Stars ( 4 episodes )
- 1972 ABC Afterschool Special ( 1 episode ) as Ezzie
- 1975 The Family Holvak ( 10 episodes )
- 1979 CBS Library ( 1 episode ) as Russ
- 1972 ABC Afterschool Special ( 1 episode ) as Peter Finley
- 1972 ABC Afterschool Special ( 1 episode ) as Buzz
- 1972 ABC Afterschool Special ( 1 episode ) as Adam Rush
- 1982 Faerie Tale Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Kay
- 1984 Finder of Lost Loves ( 1 episode ) as Adam Hill
- 1973 Police Story ( 1 episode ) as Joey Jr.
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Eddie Frayne
- 1972 ABC Afterschool Special ( 1 episode ) as P.J. / The President's Son
- 2006 Child Star Confidential ( 1 episode ) as Self
