1- who is Lance Kerwin?
Lance Kerwin is an American actor, known for his role as James in the 1976 television series "James at 15".
- Born Lance M. Kerwin November 6, 1960 Newport Beach, California,U.S
- Died January 24, 2023 (aged 62) San Clemente, California, U.S
- Years active 1974–1995, 2022
- Spouse(e) Kristen Lansdale (divorced) Yvonne(m. 1998)
- Children 5
2- Lance Kerwin early life and his career
Kerwin is an actor who was raised in Lake Elsinore, California. His father was an acting coach and his mother was a performer and talent agent. He is the youngest of five brothers and his brother Shane was his stand-in. In the 1970s, he appeared in made-for-TV movies and series. He was known for his anguished characters facing difficult challenges in his serious acting roles, such as in The Loneliest Runner, The Boy Who Drank Too Much, and Children of Divorce. He was considered to be "probably America's leading boy actor of the late Seventies" by former theater critic and British Film Institute governor John Holmstrom.
3- Lance Kerwin personal life and death
Kerwin was an actor who 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 a movie called The Wind & the Reckoning, filmed in Hawaii. In July 2010, it was reported that he was working as a pastor at Calvary Chapel in Kapaa, Hawaii and a program leader at U-Turn for Christ, a drug and alcohol rehab organization. However, it was also reported that he and his wife Yvonne pleaded guilty to falsifying documents to obtain state medical assistance in Hawaii, after neglecting to report his ownership of three properties on the mainland. He was sentenced to five years probation and 300 hours of community service and publicly apologized. Kerwin died in San Clemente, California, on January 24, 2023, at the age of 62.
4- Lance Kerwin filmography
- 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)
- 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) - Ka
- 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