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Lance Kerwin‌

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1960-11-06

Popularity

star5.4

Lance Kerwin

Newport Beach, California, USA

Lance Kerwin

Newport Beach, California, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1960-11-06

Popularity

star5.4

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]

Movie Credits

Cheering Section

Cheering Section‌
star2.0
calendar 1977

Enemy Mine

Enemy Mine‌
star6.9
calendar 1985

The Fourth Wise Man

The Fourth Wise Man‌
star6.8
calendar 1985

Reflections of Murder

Reflections of Murder‌
star7.0
calendar 1974

The Boy Who Drank Too Much

The Boy Who Drank Too Much‌
star2.0
calendar 1980

A Killer in the Family

A Killer in the Family‌
star6.3
calendar 1983

The Loneliest Runner

The Loneliest Runner‌
star6.9
calendar 1976

The Mysterious Stranger

The Mysterious Stranger‌
star8.0
calendar 1982

The Meanest Men in the West

The Meanest Men in the West‌
star4.1
calendar 1978

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart‌
star0.0
calendar 1976

James at 15

James at 15‌
star0.0
calendar 1977

Advice to the Lovelorn

Advice to the Lovelorn‌
star5.0
calendar 1981

The Wind & the Reckoning

The Wind & the Reckoning‌
star10.0
calendar 2022

The Death of Richie

The Death of Richie‌
star6.7
calendar 1977

Children of Divorce

Children of Divorce‌
star6.0
calendar 1980

Side Show

Side Show‌
star7.0
calendar 1981

The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer

The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer‌
star6.0
calendar 1974

Long Way Home

Long Way Home‌
star0.0
calendar 1975

Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy

Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy‌
star0.0
calendar 1977

The Greatest Gift

The Greatest Gift‌
star0.0
calendar 1974

Outbreak

Outbreak‌
star6.6
calendar 1995

Final Verdict

Final Verdict‌
star0.0
calendar 1991

The Healers

The Healers‌
star0.0
calendar 1974

Tv Credits

Trapper John, M.D.

Trapper John, M.D.‌
star6.3
calendar 1979

Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie‌
star8.0
calendar 1974

The Bionic Woman

The Bionic Woman‌
star7.0
calendar 1976

Simon & Simon

Simon & Simon‌
star6.7
calendar 1981

Hotel

Hotel‌
star6.7
calendar 1982

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman‌
star7.0
calendar 1975

Emergency!

Emergency!‌
star7.8
calendar 1972

Cannon

Cannon‌
star6.5
calendar 1971

Battle of the Network Stars

Battle of the Network Stars‌
star7.2
calendar 1976

James at 16

James at 16‌
star6.1
calendar 1977

The New Lassie

The New Lassie‌
star7.0
calendar 1989

Good Heavens

Good Heavens‌
star5.5
calendar 1976

Salem's Lot

Salem's Lot‌
star6.8
calendar 1979

100 Greatest Kid Stars

100 Greatest Kid Stars‌
star0.0
calendar 2005

ABC Afterschool Special

ABC Afterschool Special‌
star6.3
calendar 1972

The Family Holvak

The Family Holvak‌
star0.0
calendar 1975

CBS Library

CBS Library‌
star10.0
calendar 1979

ABC Afterschool Special

ABC Afterschool Special‌
star6.3
calendar 1972

ABC Afterschool Special

ABC Afterschool Special‌
star6.3
calendar 1972

ABC Afterschool Special

ABC Afterschool Special‌
star6.3
calendar 1972

Faerie Tale Theatre

Faerie Tale Theatre‌
star8.4
calendar 1982

Finder of Lost Loves

Finder of Lost Loves‌
star5.7
calendar 1984

Police Story

Police Story‌
star7.1
calendar 1973

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote‌
star7.6
calendar 1984

ABC Afterschool Special

ABC Afterschool Special‌
star6.3
calendar 1972