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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