Cliff DeYoung

Clifford Tobin DeYoung born February 12 1945 is an American actor and musician Prior to his acting career he was the lead singer of the 1960s rock group Clear Light which played with The Doors Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin After the band broke up he starred in the Broadway production of Hair and the Tony Awardwinning 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 shortlived 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 made more than 80 films and television series including The 3000 Mile Chase 1977 Centennial 1978 the 1981 sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show Shock Treatment where he played two characters and sang a duet with himself and Flight of the Navigator 1986 In the 1989 Civil War film Glory he played the controversial Union Colonel James Montgomery Other projects include the films Suicide Kings 1997 and Last Flight Out 2004 He has gueststarred on Star Trek Deep Space Nine in the episode Vortex and as Amber Ashbys kidnapper John Bonacheck on The Young and the Restless in 2007 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia