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Lance Kerwin
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…
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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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2022
The Wind & the Reckoning
Movie Anderson
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2006
Child Star Confidential
TV show Self
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2005
100 Greatest Kid Stars
TV show
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1995
Outbreak
Movie American Mercenary
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1991
Final Verdict
Movie Harry Johnson
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1990
Challenger
Movie
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1989
The New Lassie
TV show
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1985
Enemy Mine
Movie Joey Wooster
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1985
The Fourth Wise Man
Movie Passhur
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1985
The Snow Queen
Movie Kay
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Eddie Frayne
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1984
Finder of Lost Loves
TV show Adam Hill
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1983
A Killer in the Family
Movie Ray Tison
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1982
The Mysterious Stranger
Movie #44
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1982
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV show Kay
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1982
Hotel
TV show Ron Kerwin
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1981
Advice to the Lovelorn
Movie Larry Ames
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1981
Simon & Simon
TV show
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1981
Side Show
Movie Nick Pallas
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1980
Children of Divorce
Movie Tony Malik
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1980
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
Movie Billy Carpenter
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1979
Salem's Lot
TV show Mark Petrie
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1979
CBS Library
TV show Russ
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1979
Trapper John, M.D.
TV show
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1977
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Movie Joe, Jr. (Age 14)
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1977
James at 16
TV show James Hunter
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1977
James at 15
Movie James Hunter
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1977
Cheering Section
Movie Bob
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1977
The Death of Richie
Movie Russell Werner
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1976
The Loneliest Runner
Movie John Curtis as a Youth
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1976
Battle of the Network Stars
TV show
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1976
Amelia Earhart
Movie David Putnam
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1976
Good Heavens
TV show
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1976
The Bionic Woman
TV show
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1975
Wonder Woman
TV show Jeff Hadley
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1975
The Family Holvak
TV show
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1975
Long Way Home
Movie Ramey Holvak
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1974
Reflections of Murder
Movie Chip
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1974
The Greatest Gift
Movie Ramey Holvak
