Cliff DeYoung

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Cliff De Young (born February 12, 1945) is an American character actor and musician, born Clifford Tobin DeYoung in Los Angeles, California.

Prior to his acting career, he was the lead singer of the sixties 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 TV movie Sunshine (1973) and the short-lived television series based on it. His song "My Sweet Lady" from the film reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Chart in 1974.

Since then De Young has made more than eighty films, including the 1981 sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shock Treatment, where he played two characters and sang a duet with himself. Recent projects include the films Suicide Kings (1997) and Last Flight Out (2004).

He guest-starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Vortex".