Lance Michael Kerwin was an American actor best known as a child star playing the title role in the 1970s coming-of-age drama James at 15 and a vampire hunter in a mini-series based on the Stephen King novel Salem’s Lot. Kerwin was born in Newport Beach, California to an acting coach father and talent search mother. He would often read out loud the scripts his father bought home which sparked his interest in him to pursue acting. His acting career began in the 1970s with small roles on televisio... moreLance Michael Kerwin was an American actor best known as a child star playing the title role in the 1970s coming-of-age drama James at 15 and a vampire hunter in a mini-series based on the Stephen King novel Salem’s Lot. Kerwin was born in Newport Beach, California to an acting coach father and talent search mother. He would often read out loud the scripts his father bought home which sparked his interest in him to pursue acting. His acting career began in the 1970s with small roles on television shows like Little House on the Prairie, Gunsmoke and Wonder Woman. James at 15 was the show that cemented his stardom and made him a teenage idol. Kerwin continued acting through the 1980s and into 1990 appearing in the 1985 movie titled Enemy Mine and Outbreak. He took a break from acting in the mid 1990s following his battle with drug addiction. He returned to the screen in 2022 for The Wind & the Reckoning, filmed in Hawaii.
