- Acting films
- 19
- Acting avg
- 5.64
- Peak run
- 1978’85
Acting films, by TMDB rating
The career
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 25+ votes
William by the numbers
Average
5.64
8 rated films
Vote weighted
5.67
bigger films count more
Median
5.6
half are better
Consistency
±0.88
rating spread
Career
33y
1953 to 1985
Total votes
1.37K
across every film
Best
6.6
Absence of Malice
Worst
4.2
Barracuda
Newest first
Filmography
| 1985 |  The Heavenly Kid | Suburbanite | 6.6 | 133 |
| 1983 |  Porky's II: The Next Day | Boa Man (as Rooney Kerwin) | 5.7 | 377 |
| 1981 |  Absence of Malice | Walker | 6.6 | 261 |
| 1979 |  The Evictors | Harry Richardson | 6.4 | 34 |
| 1978 |  Barracuda | Sheriff Ben Williams | 4.2 | 39 |
| 1977 | Whiskey Mountain | Homer | · | 7 |
| 1974 |  Impulse | Soldier | · | 21 |
| 1972 |  Dear Dead Delilah | Burke (uncredited) | · | 20 |
| 1971 |  Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things | Detective (as Thomas Wood) | · | 19 |
| 1968 | The Hooked Generation | FBI Man #1 | · | 11 |
| 1967 |  A Taste of Blood | Dr. Hank Tyson (as Thomas Wood) | · | 15 |
| 1964 |  Two Thousand Maniacs! | Tom White | 5.5 | 143 |
| 1963 |  Scum of the Earth | Harmon Johnson | 5.3 | 25 |
| 1963 |  Goldilocks and the Three Bares | Tommy Sweetwood | · | 17 |
| 1963 |  Blood Feast | Detective Pete Thornton | 4.8 | 205 |
| 1962 | Five Finger Exercise | Mark (uncredited) | · | 4 |
| 1958 |  Tread Softly Stranger | Michael | · | 15 |
| 1955 | The Eternal Sea | Cole | · | 8 |
| 1953 | The Moonlighter | Tony | · | 12 |
Better together?
William Kerwin's regulars
- Herschell Gordon LewisDirector and actor · 5 films · 5.20 avg●+0.01
- William GreféDirector and actor · 2 films
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: Herschell Gordon Lewis and William Kerwin movies · William Grefé and William Kerwin movies
Takes