Lance Kerwin

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
    Acting
    Place of birth
    Newport Beach, California, USA
    Birthday
    11/6/1960
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Cheering Section
2
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Enemy Mine
6.9
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The Fourth Wise Man
6.8
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Reflections of Murder
7
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
2
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A Killer in the Family
6.3
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The Loneliest Runner
6.9
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8
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The Meanest Men in the West
4.1
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0
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Advice to the Lovelorn
5
The Wind & the Reckoning
The Wind & the Reckoning
10
The Death of Richie
The Death of Richie
6.7
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6
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7
The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
6
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Long Way Home
0
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
0
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The Greatest Gift
0
Outbreak
Outbreak
6.6
Final Verdict
Final Verdict
0
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The Healers
0
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