Lance Kerwin

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 madeforTV films The Loneliest Runner and Salems 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 standin In the 1970s Kerwin appeared in a number of madeforTV movies and series He was said former theater critic and British Film Institute governor John Holmstrom probably Americas 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 mid1990s 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 UTurn 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