Lance Kerwin
Born
November 6, 1960
Died
January 24, 2023 (62 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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]

The Wind & the Reckoning
Anderson
2022
100 Greatest Kid Stars
(4 episodes)
2005

Outbreak
American Mercenary
1995

Final Verdict
Harry Johnson
1991

Challenger
1990

The New Lassie
(1 episode)
1989

Enemy Mine
Joey Wooster
1985

The Fourth Wise Man
Passhur
1985

Murder, She Wrote
Eddie Frayne · (1 episode)
1984

Finder of Lost Loves
Adam Hill · (1 episode)
1984

A Killer in the Family
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1983

The Mysterious Stranger
#44
1982

Faerie Tale Theatre
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1982

Hotel
(1 episode)
1982

Advice to the Lovelorn
Larry Ames
1981

Simon & Simon
(1 episode)
1981

Side Show
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1981

Children of Divorce
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1980

The Boy Who Drank Too Much
Billy Carpenter
1980

Salem's Lot
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1979

CBS Library
Russ · (1 episode)
1979

Trapper John, M.D.
(1 episode)
1979

The Meanest Men in the West
1978

Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
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1977

James at 15
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1977

James at 16
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1977

Cheering Section
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1977

The Death of Richie
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1977

The Loneliest Runner
John Curtis as a Youth
1976

Battle of the Network Stars
(2 episodes)
1976
Amelia Earhart
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1976

Good Heavens
(1 episode)
1976

The Bionic Woman
(1 episode)
1976

Wonder Woman
Jeff Hadley · (1 episode)
1975

Long Way Home
Ramey Holvak
1975
The Family Holvak
(10 episodes)
1975

Reflections of Murder
Chip
1974

The Greatest Gift
Ramey Holvak
1974

The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
Todd Swimmer
1974

Little House on the Prairie
(1 episode)
1974

The Healers
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1974

Police Story
Joey Jr. · (1 episode)
1973

ABC Afterschool Special
Ezzie · (1 episode)
1972

ABC Afterschool Special
Peter Finley · (1 episode)
1972

ABC Afterschool Special
Buzz · (1 episode)
1972

ABC Afterschool Special
Adam Rush · (1 episode)
1972

ABC Afterschool Special
P.J. / The President's Son · (1 episode)
1972

Emergency!
Wheeler Boy · (1 episode)
1972

Cannon
(1 episode)
1971

Gunsmoke
Tommy Harker · (1 episode)
1955