Clifford Tobin DeYoung (born February 12, 1945)According to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com is an American actor and musician.

Early life, family and education DeYoung was born in Los Angeles, California. He is a 1968 graduate of California State University, Los Angeles.

Career Before his acting career, he was the lead singer of the 1960s rock group Clear Light, which played the same concerts with acts such as The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin. After the band dissolved, he starred in the Broadway production of Hair and the Tony Award-winning Sticks and Bones.

After four years in New York City, he moved back to California to star in the television film Sunshine (1973), and featuring the songs of John Denver. There was a short-lived television series based on the film. The song "My Sweet Lady" from the film reached No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974, No. 14 in Canada and No. 42 in Australia. Sunshine Christmas, a sequel, was produced in 1977.

Since then, DeYoung has appeared in more than 80 films and television series, including Harry 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 to The 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, and Flight of the Navigator (1986) in which he played Bill, David's father.

Also in the 1980s, he made a guest appearance on Murder, She Wrote, like fellow Navigator actor Joey Cramer. In 1987, he guest-starred in the television show Beauty and the Beast as the specialist in voodoo Professor Alexander Ross. In the 1989 Civil War film Glory, he played Union Colonel James Montgomery. Other projects included the films Suicide Kings (1997) and Last Flight Out (2004).

He has guest-starred on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Vortex"); as reporter Chuck DePalma in four episodes of JAG; Rep. Kimball in the episode "On the Day Before" on The West Wing; and as John Bonacheck, Amber Ashby's kidnapper, on The Young and the Restless in 2007.

In 2010, DeYoung appeared in Monte Hellman's independent romantic thriller Road to Nowhere.

In the 2014 film Wild, he played Ed, a summer resident of the Kennedy Meadows Campground on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Filmography

Film

Pilgrimage (1972) - Garry Harry and Tonto (1974) - Burt Jr. Blue Collar (1978) - John Burrows Shock Treatment (1981) - Brad Majors / Farley Flavors Independence Day (1983) - Les Morgan The Hunger (1983) - Tom Haver Reckless (1984) - Phil Barton Protocol (1984) - Hilley Secret Admirer (1985) - George Ryan F/X (1986) - FBI agent Martin Lipton Flight of the Navigator (1986) - Bill Freeman The Survivalist (1987) - Dr. Vincent Ryan Pulse (1988) - Bill Forbidden Sun (1988) - Professor Lake In Dangerous Company (1988) - Blake Fear (1988) - Don Haden Rude Awakening (1989) - Agent Brubaker Glory (1989) - Col. James M. Montgomery Flashback (1990) - Sheriff Hightower To Die Standing (1991) - Shaun Broderick Immortal Sins (1991) - Mike Crackdown (1991) - Shaun Broderick Dr. Giggles (1992) - Tom Campbell The Skateboard Kid (1993) - Big Dan Revenge of the Red Baron (1994) - Richard Spencer Terminal Voyage (1994) - Granier Carnosaur 2 (1995) - Maj. Tom McQuade The Substitute (1996) - Wolson The Craft (1996) - Mr. Bailey Andersonville (1996) - Sgt. John Gleason Suicide Kings (1997) - Marty Get a Clue (1997) - Jake Wexler Last Flight Out (2004) - Tony Williams Stone and Ed (2008) - Mr. Schwartz Solar Flare (2008) - Dr. Kline 2012: Doomsday (2008) - Lloyd Road to Nowhere (2010) - Cary Stewart / Rafe Taschen Wild (2014) - Ed Reality Queen! (2020) - Joe Logo

Television Sunshine (1973, TV Movie) - Sam Hayden The Night That Panicked America (1975, TV Movie) - Stefan Grubowski Centennial (1978-1979) - John Skimmerhorn Family (1979, Episode 6: "Whispers") - Alex Canfield King (1978, TV Miniseries) - Robert F. Kennedy Beauty and the Beast (1987, Episode 9: "Dark Spirit") - Alexander Ross The Twilight Zone (1986, Episode 31: "The Road Less Traveled") - Jeff McDowell Murder, She Wrote (1988-1992) - Mason Porter / Carlton Reid / Father Patrick Francis Young Riders (1990, Season 1, episode 16 "Unfinished Business") - Evan Crandall The Tommyknockers (1993, TV Mini-Series) - Joe Paulson Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993, Season 1 - Episode 12) - Croden The X-Files (1993, Episode 1: "Pilot") - Dr. Jay Nemman Heaven and Hell (North and the South book III, mini-series) 1994 - Gettys RoboCop: The Series (1994) - Dr. Cray Z. Mallardo Diagnosis: Murder (1995, Season 2, Episode 19 "How to Murder Your Lawyer") - Jeffrey T. Canfield Andersonville 1996 TV movie- Sgt. Gleason Deliberate Intent (2000, TV Movie) - Tom Kelly Alias (2005, Season 4, Episode 11 "The Road Home") Threshold (2005, Season 1, Episode 4 "The Burning") - Charlie Miller Grey's Anatomy (2008, Season 5, Episodes 1 & 2 "Dream a little dream of me" Parts 1 & 2) - Phil Loomis In Plain Sight (2009, Season 2, Episodes 6 "One Night Stan") - Chief Inspector Malone

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