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Lance Kerwin

1960-11-06

The 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]

Lance Kerwin in

Movies

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Outbreak

6.556 average rating
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Enemy Mine

6.938 average rating
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The Loneliest Runner

6.9 average rating
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The Meanest Men in the West

4.1 average rating
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The Mysterious Stranger

8 average rating
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Amelia Earhart

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The Death of Richie

6.7 average rating
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The Fourth Wise Man

6.8 average rating
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Final Verdict

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The Wind & the Reckoning

10 average rating
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James at 15

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Reflections of Murder

7 average rating
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A Killer in the Family

6.3 average rating
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Long Way Home

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Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy

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Children of Divorce

6 average rating
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The Healers

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The Boy Who Drank Too Much

2 average rating
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The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer

6 average rating
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Advice to the Lovelorn

5 average rating