Biography
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 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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Rocky Horror 45: The Movie
2021
as Self
Underground filmmaker Manny Velazquez dives into the immortal history and legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its lesser known sequel Shock Tr...

Life After The Navigator
2020
as Himself
A feature that not only celebrates the 1986 classic "Flight of the Navigator", but also looks at the life of its child star, Joey Cramer, and his roll...

Reality Queen!
2020
as Joe Logo
A comedy asking the question: is heiress/socialite London Logo a marketing genius, or simply the accidental beneficiary of an ignorant American public...

Wild
2014
as Ed
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Road to Nowhere
2010
as Cary Stewart / Rafe Taschen
A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme f...

Solar Flare
2008
as Dr. Kline
A young math genius discovers a huge solar storm on the verge of destroying the Earth's power grid and he must alert the world before a powerful busin...

2012 Doomsday
2008
as Lloyd
On December 21, 2012 four strangers on a journey of faith are drawn to an ancient temple in the heart of Mexico. For the Mayans it is the last recorde...

Stone & Ed
2008
as Mr. Schwartz
It's just another hazy day for STONE and his brother ED until they unwittingly discover they may not be brothers after all! With the help of their tec...

The Hunt
2006
as Jon Kraw
Bow hunting enthusiast Jack Hamberg, his eight-year old stepson Clint and former news cameraman Atticus Monroe are on a mission to make a deer hunting...

Love's Enduring Promise
2004
as Zeke LaHaye
In the 1800s frontier, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When ...

Last Flight Out
2004
as Tony Williams
Hot-shot pilot Dan Hogan is sent deep into the Colombian jungle to rescue missionary doctor Ann Williams. Caught between innocent villagers and a ruth...

Path to War
2003
as McGeorge Bundy
A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside t...

Almost a Woman
2002
as Mr. Burnett
A young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico. The transition is difficult due to the many challenges...

The Secret Life of Zoey
2002
as Larry
Marcia always thought her overachieving daughter Zoey was the dream child. But then she discovers that her perfect teen has a not-so-perfect drug addi...

Gale Force
2002
as Stuart McMahon
Renegade L.A. detective Sam (Williams) takes a role as a cast member in a reality TV show where he leads a quartet trying to find ten million dollars ...

The Runaway
2000
as Harlan Davis
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. ...

Deliberate Intent
2000
as Tom Kelley
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how...

The Last Man on Planet Earth
1999
as John Doe
During a war with Afghanistan, a weapon called the "Y-bomb" was used, which resulted in the deaths of 97% of the world's men. Feeling that they were b...

The Westing Game
1997
as Jake Wexler
A girl is angry about having to move to the city, but gets involved in a mystery when a rich neighbor is found dead. His will suggests that one of the...

Suicide Kings
1997
as Marty
Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo play...

George Wallace
1997
as Dr. Jeff McKinney
George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer...

The Craft
1996
as Mr. Bailey
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rival...

The Substitute
1996
as Matt Wolfson
When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend g...

Andersonville
1996
as Sgt. John Gleason
This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes o...

Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
1996
as Burstyn
True crime story of a Wisconsin teacher's aide who hired teenaged students to murder her estranged husband.

An Element of Truth
1995
as Norm
A beautiful woman uses her charms to dupe her new sweetheart and his buddies.

Carnosaur 2
1995
as Maj. Tom McQuade
A team of scientists go to a nuclear mining facility to investigate a possible meltdown and instead find a large amount of cloned dinosaurs.

Revenge of the Red Baron
1994
as Richard Spencer
The Red Baron returns in a toy plane to kill the former World War I ace that shot him down.

Terminal Voyage
1994
as Granier
It is 2035 A.D. and the final countdown has begun for a voyage that will reach across the vastness of outer space - to explore the nearest Earth-Like ...

RoboCop: The Future of Law Enforcement
1994
as Dr. Cray Z. Mollardo
While tracking a ruthless killer, RoboCop and Madigan uncover a conspiracy between insane genius Dr. Cray Mallardo and ruthless OCP executive Chip Cha...

Precious Victims
1993
as Don Groshong
Paula and Robert Sims are desperate: their 12 days old baby has been kidnapped! Since there's no trace of the kidnappers, they address the public for ...

The Skateboard Kid
1993
as Big Dan
No one could be more bored than Zack, the new kid in town with no friends in sight. When a gang of hip, skateboarding thrashers start cruising his nei...

Love Can Be Murder
1992
as Brad Donaldson
Elizabeth Bentley is a successful lawyer who suddenly has some "punkish" daydreams of being "Rambo" right around the time her clueless boyfriend Brad ...

Dr. Giggles
1992
as Tom Campbell
In 1957, Evan Rendell flees after his father is lynched for killing multiple patients in his effort to find a replacement heart for his ailing wife. A...

Nails
1992
as Stambusky
The wife of a wild Los Angeles police detective becomes a hostage of the heroin ring he and his partner have exposed.

Criminal Behavior
1992
as Darrel Smathers
A female lawyer is stalked by a killer. The last in a long line of con artists, defense lawyer Jessie Lee Stubbs has every intention of staying on the...

Immortal Sins
1991
as Mike
Cliff De Young is Michael, the heir to a cursed castle, who marries pretty Susan (Maryam d'Abo) and moves her in. Unfortunately for the newlyweds, an ...

To Die Standing
1991
as Shaun Broderick
Willis, a hardened DEA agent from the streets of New York, is given his toughest assignment -- to team up with a Colombian cop, Delgado, and find the ...

Fourth Story
1991
as Darryl McCoughlin
Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye Shepard to find him. Soon he discovers that David had a se...

NYPD Mounted
1991
as Captain Smithers
New York City cop becomes partners with a rodeo cowboy from Montana on the City's Mounted Police Department.

Flashback
1990
as Sheriff Rand Hightower
A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escor...

Where Pigeons Go to Die
1990
as Henry
Sentimental drama about an aging man's fond reminiscences of his relationship with his grandfather in 1950 midwest and the time they spent together ra...

Glory
1989
as Col. James M. Montgomery
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Rude Awakening
1989
as Agent Brubaker
In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who sees them as criminals. They hide in the jungle f...

Dance 'Til Dawn
1988
as Larry Johnson
It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending ...

In Dangerous Company
1988
as Blake
A beautiful woman seduces and tricks a hitman in order to save her own skin.

Forbidden Sun
1988
as Professor Lake
Olympic gymnastics coach Francine Lake and her twelve gorgeous students train on the Island of Crete. The rigors of training preclude most sexual acti...

Pulse
1988
as Bill Rockland
An intelligent pulse of electricity moves from house to house, terrorizing occupants through their own appliances. Having already destroyed one househ...

Fear
1988
as Don Haden
A family living in an isolated cabin in the woods are terrorized by a gang of escaped convicts. Their leader, a serial killer, is a disturbed Vietnam ...

Her Secret Life
1987
as Paul Goodwin
Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least ...

The Survivalist
1987
as Dr. Vincent Ryan
An atomic bomb falls in Siberia and the USA is blamed.

Hero in the Family
1986
as Digger Reed
A teenage son of an astronaut tries to help his father after he and a chimpanzee switch brains as the result of a space flight mis-hap in which the bo...

Flight of the Navigator
1986
as Bill Freeman
12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to hav...

F/X
1986
as Lipton
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross hi...

Annie Oakley
1985
as Frank Butler
Young Phoebe Mosey (Jamie Lee Curtis) defies expectations and proves herself to become "Little Miss Sure Shot" Annie Oakley, the legendary sharpshoote...

Secret Admirer
1985
as George Ryan
An anonymous love letter left in Michael Ryan's locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who comes in conta...

Deadly Intentions
1985
as Garner
Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take ...

Protocol
1984
as Hilley
A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.

Reckless
1984
as Phil Barton
Teenager Johnny Rourke is reckless. Born on the wrong side of the tracks, he breaks the law and girls' hearts with equal cool. Cheerleader Tracey Pres...

The Awakening of Candra
1983
as Thomas Leslie Brown
Based on the true-life story of teenage bride Candra Torres who was abducted in 1976 while on a honeymoon camping trip in the High Sierras.

The Hunger
1983
as Tom Haver
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he ...

Independence Day
1983
as Les Morgan
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but...

An Invasion of Privacy
1983
as Carl Slater
A woman on a remote island is raped by a local resident and finds her fight for justice impeded by community prejudice.

This Girl for Hire
1983
as Lieutenant Phil Hansen
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the ...

Shock Treatment
1981
as Brad Majors / Farley Flavors
Brad and Janet are now married and on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, the couple goes on the game show 'Marriage Maze' with the eccentric...

Scared Straight! Another Story
1980
as Paul Lipton
A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened crimina...

Fun and Games
1980
as Pete Dermot
A divorcee decides to fight back after her hopes of gaining a promotion are dashed by her rejection of the advances of her boss, and it is only after ...

The Seeding of Sarah Burns
1979
as Tim
A young woman volunteers to carry an embryo transplant for a couple that has tried and failed to have a baby. Soon, however, she begins to have second...

Blue Collar
1978
as John Burrows
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly ...

Sunshine Christmas
1977
as Sam Hayden
A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas wi...

The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977
as Matthew 'Matt' Considine / Marty Scanlon
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to ...

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976
as Charles Lindbergh
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, B...

The Night That Panicked America
1975
as Stefan Grubowski
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.

Harry and Tonto
1974
as Burt Coombes Jr.
Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way f...

Sunshine
1973
as Sam Hayden
A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her young daughter, discovers she has terminal cancer. She begins to ta...

Sticks and Bones
1973
A young man returns home from Vietnam blind. He is very bitter about the war and alienates his family and friends. This movie deals with the aftermath...

Pilgrimage
1972
as Garry
In this artsy drama, a nihilistic youth from a wealthy family involves himself with an assortment of troubled souls until his father (who may be behin...