Clifford Tobin DeYoung (born February , ) is an American actor and
musician.DeYoung was born in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of
California State University, Los Angeles.Before his acting career, he
was the lead singer of the s rock group Clear Light, which played the
same concerts with acts such as The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis
Joplin. After the band broke up, he starred in the Broadway production
of Hair and the Tony Award-winning Sticks and Bones. After four years
in New York, he moved back to California to star in the television
film Sunshine (), and featuring the songs of John Denver. There was
also a short-lived television series based on the film. The song "My
Sweet Lady" from the film reached # on the Billboard Hot in , # in
Canada and # in Australia. Sunshine Christmas, a sequel, was produced
in .Since then, DeYoung has appeared in more than films and
television series, including Harry and Tonto (), The Lindbergh
Kidnapping Case (), Captains and the Kings (), The , Mile Chase (),
Centennial () as John Skimmerhorn, Blue Collar () as an FBI agent,
Shock Treatment, the sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, where
he played twin characters who sang a duet with each other, Master of
the Game () as Brad Rogers, and Flight of the Navigator () in which he
played Bill, David's father. Also in the s, he made a guest appearance
on Murder, She Wrote, like fellow Navigator actor Joey Cramer. In he
guest-starred in the television show Beauty and the Beast as the
specialist in voodoo Professor Alexander Ross. In the Civil War film
Glory, he played Union Colonel James Montgomery. Other projects
included the films Suicide Kings () and Last Flight Out ().
musician.DeYoung was born in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of
California State University, Los Angeles.Before his acting career, he
was the lead singer of the s rock group Clear Light, which played the
same concerts with acts such as The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis
Joplin. After the band broke up, he starred in the Broadway production
of Hair and the Tony Award-winning Sticks and Bones. After four years
in New York, he moved back to California to star in the television
film Sunshine (), and featuring the songs of John Denver. There was
also a short-lived television series based on the film. The song "My
Sweet Lady" from the film reached # on the Billboard Hot in , # in
Canada and # in Australia. Sunshine Christmas, a sequel, was produced
in .Since then, DeYoung has appeared in more than films and
television series, including Harry and Tonto (), The Lindbergh
Kidnapping Case (), Captains and the Kings (), The , Mile Chase (),
Centennial () as John Skimmerhorn, Blue Collar () as an FBI agent,
Shock Treatment, the sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, where
he played twin characters who sang a duet with each other, Master of
the Game () as Brad Rogers, and Flight of the Navigator () in which he
played Bill, David's father. Also in the s, he made a guest appearance
on Murder, She Wrote, like fellow Navigator actor Joey Cramer. In he
guest-starred in the television show Beauty and the Beast as the
specialist in voodoo Professor Alexander Ross. In the Civil War film
Glory, he played Union Colonel James Montgomery. Other projects
included the films Suicide Kings () and Last Flight Out ().
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