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Clarence Gilyard Jr Cause Of Death, Top Gun Star Dies Aged 66

Top Gun star Clarence Gilyard jr dies aged 66. Walker, Texas Ranger Clarence Gilyard recently died at the age of 66 years. The actor is known for Die Hard, Top Gun, Sundown, and many more movies. 

Who was Clarence Gilyard jr? 

University professor, performer, and author Clarence Darnell Gilyard Jr. was an American actor. In his capacity as a performer, he made appearances on stage, on screen, and in television productions. Gilyard, the son of Barbara and U.S.

Clarence Gilyard Sr, was born on the evening of Christmas into a military family in Moses Lake, Washington. The second of six kids. Gilyard was a young adult who resided in Rialto and went to Eisenhower High School.

After graduating from high school in 1974 with honors, he spent a year as a cadet at the Air Force Academy before leaving the military to enroll in Sterling College.

Clarence Gilyard jr Cause of Death, Top Gun star dies aged 66

Gilyard was well-known for his performances as Pastor Bruce Barnes in the Left Behind film trilogy and as Conrad McMasters, Ben Matlock’s right-hand man and second private eye, on the legal drama series Matlock from 1989 to 1993.

He dies at the age of 66 age due to a prolonged illness.

Clarence Gilyard jr Cause of Death

Clarence Gilyard Jr Wife, Kids

Gilyard had six kids from two different marriages. After the dissolution of his first marriage to Catherine Dutko, he wed Elena in 2001.

He provided advice to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ communications committee. at the age of 66, Gilyard passed away on November 28, 2022. After a protracted illness.

Clarence Gilyard Career, Early Life

Gilyard shifted to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career in 1979. Before transitioning to television roles, he had a number of parts, including one in the play Bleacher Bums that made him what one magazine termed the first black actor to play a cheerleader.

As Lt. Marcus Sundown Williams, an F-14 Tomcat radar intercept operator, Gilyard made his acting debut in Top Gun in 1986.

In the 1986 motion picture The Karate Kid Part, he also played a military man. And after his achievement, He taught theatre as an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas College of Fine Arts.

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Reaction to Clarence Gilyard jr Death

R.I.P. Clarence Gilyard Jr.?
The world that San knows is slowly fading away… pic.twitter.com/q1wg4bVG5o

— SanEscobarCitizen (@CitizenEscobar) November 29, 2022

RIP KING CLARENCE GILYARD JR.

The quarterback is toast. pic.twitter.com/0rgDS6eN5z

— alex ? (@harveykeitel on hive) (@menace2snacks) November 29, 2022

Rest in power, Clarence Gilyard Jr. from tv/films like “Walker Texas Ranger,” (one of my mom’s favorite shows) to “Die Hard” and theatre professor at University of Nevada. His students will probably miss him immensely as well as former Hollywood colleagues and fans all over. 🙁 pic.twitter.com/r1YdTazU7A

— journey to the past©️™️ (@femfilmrogue) November 29, 2022

Embarrassed to say that I was today years old when I learned that Sundown in Top Gun is the same actor who portrayed Theo, my favorite henchmen of Hans Gruber.

Rest in Power Clarence Gilyard Jr.

Thank you for the memories. pic.twitter.com/iLO3dKsjzC

— David Lew (@davidlew) November 29, 2022

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Update: 2024-05-20