Lance Kerwin
Lance Kerwin | |
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Born | Lance Michael Kerwin November 6, 1960 |
Died | January 24, 2023 San Clemente, California, U.S. | (aged 62)
Years active | 1974–1995; 2022 |
Spouse(s) | Kristen Lansdale (divorced) Yvonne Kerwin (m. 1998) |
Children | 5 |
Lance Michael Kerwin[1] (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[2] as well as the TV films The Loneliest Runner and Salem's Lot.
Early life and career
Kerwin was raised in Lake Elsinore, California.[3] His father, Don Kerwin, was an acting coach, who brought home scripts for his son to read.[4] His mother, Lois, was also a performer and later, a talent agent.[3][5] He was the youngest of five brothers. His brother Shane was his stand-in.
In the 1970s, Kerwin appeared in a number of 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".[6] 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.
In 1985, he co-starred in the "
Personal life and death
Kerwin had a daughter, Savanah Paige, 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
Kerwin died in
]Filmography
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- Emergency! (1973, TV series) – Wheeler Boy
- The Healers (1974, TV movie) – Kennedy Brown
- Little House on the Prairie (1974, TV series) – Danny Peters
- Shazam! (1974 TV series) – Season 1 Episode 2 – Chad Martin
- Cannon (1974 TV series) – Season 4 Episode 6 – Unnamed Delivery Boy
- The Greatest Gift (1974, TV movie) – Ramey Holvak
- Reflections of Murder (1974, TV movie) – Chip
- The Meanest Men in the West aka Bad Men of the West (1974, TV series)
- ABC Afterschool Specials(1974–1976, TV series) – P.J. / The President's Son / Buzz / Peter Finley / Adam Rush / Ezzie
- Gunsmoke (1975, TV series) – Tommy Harker
- Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) – Boy in Blue-Striped Shirt (uncredited)
- The Family Holvak (1975, TV series) – Ramey Holvak
- Sara(1976, TV series) – Derek
- Amelia Earhart(1976, TV movie) – David Putnam
- The Loneliest Runner (1976, TV movie) – John Curtis as a Youth
- The Death of Richie (1977, TV movie) – Russell Werner
- Wonder Woman (1977, TV series) – Jeff Hadley
- The Bionic Woman (1977, TV series) – Prince Ishmail
- Cheering Section (1977) – Bob
- Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977, TV movie) – Joe, Jr. (age 14)
- James at 15 (1977–1978, TV series) – James Hunter
- The Busters (1978, TV movie)
- Family (1978, TV series) - Dexter Bates
- Salem's Lot (1979, TV movie) – Mark Petrie
- Once Upon a Midnight Scary (1979, TV series)
- The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980, TV movie) – Billy Carpenter
- Children of Divorce (1980, TV movie) – Tony Malik
- Side Show (1981, TV movie) – Nick Pallas
- Advice to the Lovelorn (1981, TV movie) – Larry Ames
- CBS Schoolbreak Special (1982, TV series) – Billy Lee Daniels
- The Mysterious Stranger (1982, TV movie) – #44
- Trapper John, MD(1982–1985, TV series) – Gary Gordon/42
- A Killer in the Family (1983, TV movie) – Ray Tison
- Faerie Tale Theatre: The Snow Queen(1985, TV series) – Kay
- The Fourth Wise Man (1985, TV movie) – Passhur
- Enemy Mine (1986) – Wooster
- Murder, She Wrote (1989, TV series) – Eddie Frayne
- Final Verdict (1991, TV movie) – Harry Johnson
- Outbreak (1995) – American Mercenary
- The Wind & the Reckoning (2022) – Anderson
References
- ^ "Lance M Kerwin, Born 11/06/1960 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". Californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- ISBN 978-0879728212.
- ^ a b "Lance is 'Off And-Running'" The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.) January 15, 1977 p. 10.
- ^ The Instructor 1979 vol. 88; p. 18.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
- ISBN 978-0859551786.
- ^ "The Snow Queen (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV) (1985)". Filmaffinity.com. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
- ^ a b Lileks, James (July 28, 2010). ""James at 15" star pleads guilty". Star Tribune. Minneapolis.
External links
- Lance Kerwin at IMDb