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| Born | Clifford Tobin DeYoung (1945-02-12)February 12, 1945 (age 80) Los Angeles,California, U.S. |
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Clifford Tobin DeYoung (born February 12, 1945)[1] is an American actor and musician.
DeYoung was born inLos Angeles,California, United States.[2] He is a 1968 graduate ofCalifornia State University, Los Angeles.[3]
Before his acting career, he was the lead singer of the 1960s rock groupClear Light,[2] which played the same concerts with acts such asThe Doors,Jimi Hendrix, andJanis Joplin. After the band broke up, he starred in the Broadway production ofHair and the Tony Award-winningSticks and Bones. After four years in New York, he moved back to California to star in the television filmSunshine (1973), and featuring the songs ofJohn Denver.[2] There was also a short-lived television series based on the film.[2] The song "My Sweet Lady" from the film reached No. 17 on theBillboard Hot 100 in 1974,[2] No. 14 inCanada[4] and No. 42 in Australia.[5]Sunshine Christmas, a sequel, was produced in 1977.
Since then, DeYoung has appeared in more than 80 films and television series, includingHarry and Tonto (1974),The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976),Captains and the Kings (1976),The 3,000 Mile Chase (1977),Centennial (1978) as John Skimmerhorn,Blue Collar (1978) as an FBI agent,Shock Treatment (the 1981 sequel toThe Rocky Horror Picture Show) in which he played twin characters who sang a duet with each other,Master of the Game (1984) as Brad Rogers, andFlight of the Navigator (1986) in which he played Bill, David's father. Also in the 1980s, he made a guest appearance onMurder, She Wrote, like fellowNavigator actorJoey Cramer. In 1987, he guest-starred in the television showBeauty and the Beast as the specialist in voodoo Professor Alexander Ross. In the 1989 Civil War filmGlory, he played Union ColonelJames Montgomery. Other projects included the filmsSuicide Kings (1997) andLast Flight Out (2004).
He has guest-starred onStar Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Vortex"); as reporter Chuck DePalma in four episodes ofJAG; Rep. Kimball in the episode "The Day Before" onThe West Wing; and as John Bonacheck, Amber Ashby's kidnapper, onThe Young and the Restless in 2007.
In 2010, DeYoung appeared inMonte Hellman's independent romantic thrillerRoad to Nowhere.
In the 2014 filmWild, he played Ed, a summer resident of the Kennedy Meadows Campground on thePacific Crest Trail.
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