RIP Clarence Gilyard Jr

[MikeD]

As Lt Marcus “Sundown” Williams, F-14A Naval Flight Officer, VF-111. Actor Clarence Gilyard Jr, amongst a host of other motion picture and TV roles. As well as being a professor at UNLV. Only 66 years old, 1956-2022

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Theo from Die Hard. And who can forget Walker Texas Ranger?


Sad

 

[Kingairer]

What do you mean it doesn’t look good?

 

[MikeD]

What do you mean it doesn’t look good?

Doesn’t get to look any better than that!

And with that easy horizontal presentation of that fight…….he was right.

 

[USMCmech]

Back in the 80s when he was hustling in bars on Okinawa



Before he joins the Texas Rangers

 

[Bandit_Driver]

Great actor. Gone too soon. Loved him as Jimmy Trivett on Walker.

Anyone know what he was suffering from?

 

[form810]

As Lt Marcus “Sundown” Williams, F-14A Naval Flight Officer, VF-111. Actor Clarence Gilyard Jr, amongst a host of other motion picture and TV roles. As well as being a professor at UNLV. Only 66 years old, 1956-2022

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I wonder if we would be noting the death of this guy, Ivan Triesault, who played Nero in the 1961 film, Barabbas had we been around in January of 1980, when he died.

After all, the Roman Emperor Nero is a helluva lot more exalted personage and part to play than some nugatory notable, yeah?

Pop culture and pop culture veneration is just exceedingly weird.