1960-11-06 ( 64 years old ) in Newport Beach, California, USA
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]
Movies
The Wind & the Reckoning
2022-09-24
Outbreak
1995-03-10
Final Verdict
1991-09-09
Enemy Mine
1985-12-12
The Fourth Wise Man
1985-03-30
A Killer in the Family
1983-10-30
The Mysterious Stranger
1982-10-11
Advice to the Lovelorn
1981-11-30
Side Show
1981-06-05
Children of Divorce
1980-11-24
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
1980-02-06
The Meanest Men in the West
1978-05-04
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
1977-09-18
James at 15
1977-09-05
Cheering Section
1977-08-19
The Death of Richie
1977-01-10
The Loneliest Runner
1976-12-20
Amelia Earhart
1976-10-25
Long Way Home
1975-09-07
Reflections of Murder
1974-11-24
The Greatest Gift
1974-11-04
The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
1974-11-01
The Healers
1974-05-22
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