1960-11-06 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]
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Outbreak | American Mercenary | 1995-03-10 |
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Final Verdict | Harry Johnson | 1991-09-09 |
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Enemy Mine | Joey Wooster | 1985-12-12 |
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The Fourth Wise Man | Passhur | 1985-03-30 |
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A Killer in the Family | Ray Tison | 1983-10-30 |
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The Mysterious Stranger | #44 | 1982-10-11 |
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Advice to the Lovelorn | Larry Ames | 1981-11-30 |
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Side Show | Nick Pallas | 1981-06-05 |
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Children of Divorce | Tony Malik | 1980-11-24 |
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The Boy Who Drank Too Much | Billy Carpenter | 1980-02-06 |
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The Meanest Men in the West | 1978-05-04 | |
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The Death of Richie | Russell Werner | 1977-01-10 |
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Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy | Joe, Jr. (Age 14) | 1977-09-18 |
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James at 15 | James Hunter | 1977-09-05 |
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Cheering Section | Bob | 1977-08-19 |
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Amelia Earhart | David Putnam | 1976-10-25 |
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The Loneliest Runner | John Curtis as a Youth | 1976-12-20 |
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Long Way Home | Ramey Holvak | 1975-09-07 |
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The Greatest Gift | Ramey Holvak | 1974-11-04 |
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The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer | Todd Swimmer | 1974-11-01 |
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Reflections of Murder | Chip | 1974-11-24 |
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The Healers | Kennedy Brown | 1974-05-22 |
