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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 6, 1960
Died
January 24, 2023
Place of Birth
Newport Beach, California, USA
Also Known As
- Лэнс Кервин
- Lance Michael Kerwin
- لنس کروین
Lance Kerwin
0.6 Popularity
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]
Known For
Credits
The Wind & the Reckoning
as Anderson
2022
10.0
🎬
100 Greatest Kid Stars
2005
0.0
Outbreak
as American Mercenary
1995
6.6
Final Verdict
as Harry Johnson
1991
0.0
Challenger
1990
6.2
The New Lassie
1989
6.7
Enemy Mine
as Joey Wooster
1985
6.9
The Fourth Wise Man
as Passhur
1985
7.0
The Snow Queen
as Kay
1985
0.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Eddie Frayne
1984
7.5
Finder of Lost Loves
as Adam Hill
1984
5.7
A Killer in the Family
as Ray Tison
1983
6.5
The Mysterious Stranger
as #44
1982
8.0
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Kay
1982
8.1
Hotel
1982
6.8
Advice to the Lovelorn
as Larry Ames
1981
5.0
Simon & Simon
1981
6.7
Side Show
as Nick Pallas
1981
7.0
Children of Divorce
as Tony Malik
1980
6.0
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
as Billy Carpenter
1980
2.0
Salem's Lot
as Mark Petrie
1979
6.8
CBS Library
as Russ
1979
10.0
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
6.5
The Meanest Men in the West
1978
4.1
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
as Joe, Jr. (Age 14)
1977
0.0
James at 15
as James Hunter
1977
0.0
James at 16
as James Hunter
1977
6.1
Cheering Section
as Bob
1977
2.0
The Death of Richie
as Russell Werner
1977
6.7
The Loneliest Runner
as John Curtis as a Youth
1976
6.9
Battle of the Network Stars
1976
6.0
Amelia Earhart
as David Putnam
1976
0.0
Good Heavens
1976
5.5
The Bionic Woman
1976
6.9
Wonder Woman
as Jeff Hadley
1975
7.0
Long Way Home
as Ramey Holvak
1975
0.0
🎬
The Family Holvak
1975
0.0
Reflections of Murder
as Chip
1974
6.3
The Greatest Gift
as Ramey Holvak
1974
2.0
The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
as Todd Swimmer
1974
6.0
Little House on the Prairie
as Danny Peters
1974
7.9
The Healers
as Kennedy Brown
1974
0.0
Police Story
as Joey Jr.
1973
6.9
ABC Afterschool Special
as Ezzie
1972
6.4
ABC Afterschool Special
as Buzz
1972
6.4
ABC Afterschool Special
as Adam Rush
1972
6.4
ABC Afterschool Special
as Peter Finley
1972
6.4
ABC Afterschool Special
as P.J. / The President's Son
1972
6.4
Emergency!
as Wheeler Boy
1972
7.8
Cannon
1971
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Tommy Harker
1955
6.6