Clarence Gilyard

Actor, Film actor

1955 –

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Who is Clarence Gilyard?

Clarence Darnell Gilyard, Jr. is a former American actor and a current college professor who has been featured in movies and television since 1980. He is sometimes credited as Clarence A. Gilyard. He is also an author.

Gilyard is known for his roles as Ben Matlock's second private investigator Conrad McMasters, on the 1980s legal drama series, Matlock:; as Pastor Bruce Barnes in the Left Behind movie trilogy; as Cordell Walker's Texas Ranger partner, James "Jimmy" Trivette, on the 1990s crime drama, Walker, Texas Ranger, as Theo, the terrorist computer expert, in Die Hard and as Lieutenant Marcus "Sundown" Williams in Top Gun.

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Born
Dec 24, 1955
Moses Lake
Also known as
  • Clarence Darnell Gilyard, Jr.
  • Clarence Darnell Gilyard Jr.
  • Clarence A. Gilyard
  • Clarence Gilyard Jr.
Parents
Siblings
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Catholicism
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Sterling College
  • United States Air Force Academy
  • California State University, Dominguez Hills
  • Eisenhower High School
Lived in
  • Washington

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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