1976 The Loneliest Runner

The Loneliest Runner (tv 1976)

1976 The Loneliest Runner   Michael Landon Sub Esp

Nota de la administradora del blog. El libro I Promised my Dad, escrito en 1992 por la hija de Mike, Cheryl Pontrelli Landon, no tiene imagenes de la niñez y juventud de Mike. Releyendo con Mike dicho libro, hemos visto que tenemos a mano las fotos de The Loneliest Runner, una película autobiográfica y dirigida por Mike, y hemos elegido incorporar las fotos. Dan la visión creativa del camino recorrido por John Curtis y Nancy Ritzzi

Lance Michael Kerwin as John Curtis

Lance Kerwin  (Newport Beach, California, 6 de noviembre de 1960-San Clemente, California, 24 de enero de 2023) ​ fue un actor estadounidense de cine y televisión.

Nacido en Newport Beach en 1960, Kerwin obtuvo reconocimiento principalmente por su trabajo como actor infantil en la década de 1970. Interpretó papeles protagónistas en la serie James at 15 y en las películas para televisión The Loneliest Runner y Salem's Lo

Years active 1974-1995

Photo Michael Landon and Lance Kerwin 1976

Briant Keith as Amolt Curtis 

Robert Alba Keith: Bayonne, Nueva Jersey, 14 de noviembre de 1921 – Malibú, California, 24 de junio de 1997) fue un actor teatral, cinematográfico y televisivo estadounidense.

Sus padres eran los actores Robert Keith y Helena Shipman, esta última actriz teatral, nativa de Aberdeen (Washington) ​ 

Debutó como actor en la película mudo Pied Piper Malone (1924), con tres años de edad.

Entre 1927 y 1929, la madrastra de Keith fue Peg Entwistle, actriz que se hizo famosa por suicidarse saltando desde la "H" del Hollywood Sign (las famosas letras gigantes con el nombre de Hollywood). Tras estudiar en la high school en East Rockaway, Nueva York, se unió al Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos (1942-1945), y sirvió durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial como artillero aéreo, recibiendo una Medalla del Aire. 

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DeAnn Mears as Alice Curtis 

DeAnn Mears: Born in July 13, 1932. Died in New Milford, Connecticut, USA, January 31, 2016 

She was an actress: guest starred on Good Times as Julie Crebbins, the mother of Cindy Crebbins, a The Loneliest Runner as mother John... 

Melissa Sue Anderson as Nancy Rizzi

Melissa Sue Anderson (born September 26, 1962) is an American-Canadian actress. She began her career as a child actress after appearing in several commercials in Los Angeles. Anderson is known for her role as Mary Ingalls in the NBC drama series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983), for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series 

In 1976, Michael Landon asked Anderson if she would appear in his autobiographical film The Loneliest Runner. Anderson agreed to play Nancy Rizzi, the first girlfriend of John Curtis (based on Landon and played by Lance Kerwin), saying she was very thrilled to have been asked.

In 1977, she once again co-starred as the love interest opposite Kerwin in the television film James at 15. 

She was nominated for a 1978 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Leading Actress in a Drama Series for her work on Little House on the Prairie and won the Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine?, which aired as an ABC Afterschool Special in 1979. 

Also in 1979, she played the title role of Dana Lee Gilbert, a North Dakota transfer student to Los Angele's San Fernando Valley in CBS's television film Survival of Dana
Anderson married television writer and producer Michael Sloan (The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Equalizer and others) in 1990. The couple has two children, daughter Piper and son Griffin.The family moved to Montreal in 2002 and naturalized Canadians in 2007

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