Cliff DeYoung

Who is Cliff DeYoung?

Clifford Tobin DeYoung is an American actor and musician.

DeYoung was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended California State University.

Prior to his acting career, he was the lead singer of the 1960s rock group Clear Light, which played with more the famous artists like 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, about a young mother dying of cancer, 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 #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Chart in 1974. A sequel, Sunshine Christmas, was produced in 1977.

Since then, DeYoung has appeared in more than 80 films and television series, including Harry and Tonto, The 3,000 Mile Chase, Centennial, the Shock Treatment, the 1981 sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, where he played two twin characters and sang a duet with himself, and Flight of the Navigator as David's father, Bill. Blue Collar as an FBI agent.