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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

Qasim ibn Hasan
for Qasim ibn Hasan in The Message: Karbala(1976)
Suggested by ziyahuseynov2

Set in the turbulent years following the death of Muawiya ibn Abu Sufyan, The Message: Karbala follows the events that lead to the tragedy of Karbala. When Yazid ibn Muawiya demands allegiance from Imam Hussein ibn Ali, Hussein refuses and leaves Medina for Mecca before answering the call of the people of Kufa. The story follows Muslim ibn Aqil's mission in Kufa, the rise of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, the journey of Imam Hussein and his companions, and the confrontation at Karbala. The film also explores the aftermath of the tragedy, including the imprisonment of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi and the political consequences that reshape the Muslim world.