Lance Kerwin
Actor
- Born
- November 6, 1960 · Newport Beach, California, USA
- Died
- January 24, 2023 (age 62)
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.
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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
Outbreak
March 10, 1995
Enemy Mine
December 12, 1985
The Fourth Wise Man
March 30, 1985
A Killer in the Family
October 30, 1983
The Meanest Men in the West
May 4, 1978
The Death of Richie
January 10, 1977
The Loneliest Runner
December 20, 1976
Reflections of Murder
November 24, 1974
Challenger
February 25, 1990
Cheering Section
August 19, 1977
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
February 6, 1980
The Mysterious Stranger
October 11, 1982
Acting26
- 2022The Wind & the Reckoning as Anderson
- 1995Outbreak as American Mercenary
- 1991Final Verdict as Harry Johnson
- 1990Challenger
- 1985Enemy Mine as Joey Wooster
- 1985The Fourth Wise Man as Passhur
- 1985The Snow Queen as Kay
- 1983A Killer in the Family as Ray Tison
- 1982The Mysterious Stranger as #44
- 1981Advice to the Lovelorn as Larry Ames