1970s film star Lance Kerwin has passed away at the age of 62 in San Clemente, California with no cause of death given at this time. His daughter Savanah Kerwin announced the news on Tuesday via a social media post.
The actor began his career as a child and is best known for the telemovie “The Loneliest Runner” and the lead role of a teenager dealing with the struggles of growing up in “James at 15”. Though running for just twenty or so episodes, the Dan Wakefield-created series turned Kerwin into a teen sensation in the 1970s.
To many, his most famous work was starring as Mark Petrie in Tobe Hooper’s adaptation of Stephen King’s second novel “Salem’s Lot”. Released as a mini-series in the U.S. and a feature overseas, David Soul and James Mason co-starred in the vampire-themed work.
Kerwin steadily worked on shows and films in the 1980s, including “Enemy Mine,” “Simon & Simon,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Gunsmoke,” “The Bionic Woman,” “Shazam!,” “Wonder Woman,” “A Killer in the Family,” “Final Verdict” and more.
He mostly retired from the screen by the 1990s when he did have a role in the pandemic thriller “Outbreak” and then returned to the screen last year in David L. Cunningham’s western drama “The Wind and the Reckoning”.
He was also a pastor in Hawaii and is survived by his wife of over twenty years, Yvonne, and five children. Daughter Savanah says in her posting: “Lance Kerwin passed away yesterday morning. We appreciate all the kind words, memories, and prayers that have been shared.”
Source: THR
