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Clarence Gilyard died yesterday after a long illness at the age of 66.\u00a0 Although best known as an actor, Clarence Gilyard was also an athlete, director and University Professor.\u00a0 After high school Clarence Gilyard received a scholarship to play tennis.\u00a0 He also played football in college.\u00a0 He attended Sterling college before transferring to California State University where he majored in acting and received a bachelor’s degree.<\/p>\n
In 1979, Mr. Gilyard moved to Los Angeles to find work.\u00a0 In 1981, Clarence Gilyard appeared in two episodes of Diff’rent Strokes<\/em>.\u00a0 Mr. Gilyard’s big break came the following year with a co-starring role on the final season of CHiPs<\/em>.\u00a0 Clarence Gilyard’s career continued with roles on television and in feature films.<\/p>\n Television appearances include: Diff’rent Strokes, CHiPs<\/em> (20 episodes), The Duck Factory<\/em> (13 episodes), Riptide, Simon & Simon, The Facts of Life, Matlock<\/em> (85 episodes), Walker, Texas Ranger<\/em> (196 episodes),Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion<\/em> and\u00a0Walker Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire<\/em>.<\/p>\n Feature film appearances include: Top Gun, The Karate Kid Part II, Die Hard<\/em> and The Beast<\/em>.<\/p>\n Clarence Gilyard was also an associate professor in the College of Fine Arts \u2013 Department of Theatre at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n When I think of Clarence Gilyard I think of his performance in Die Hard<\/em>.\u00a0 He was young, cocky and came off as the brightest person in the movie.\u00a0 Mr. Gilyard’s long runs on CHiPs, Matlock<\/em> and Walker, Texas Ranger<\/em> are evidence of his professionalism and ability as an actor.<\/p>\n Our thoughts and prayers go out to Clarence Gilyard’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Clarence Gilyard died yesterday after a long illness at the age of 66.\u00a0 Although best known as an actor, Clarence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31131,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31130\/revisions\/31131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}