This picture launched by the College of Nevada, Las Vegas exhibits Clarence Gilyard, Jr., affiliate professor of theater and movie at UNLV in Las Vegas on April 28, 2008. Gilyard Jr., a well-liked supporting actor whose credit embrace the blockbuster movies “Die Arduous” and “Prime Gun” and the hit tv collection “Matlock” and “Walker, Texas Ranger,” has died at age 66 Aaron Mayes, UNLV through Related Press
Clarence Gilyard, the actor greatest identified for his performances in “Die Arduous,” “Walker, Texas Ranger,” and “Prime Gun,” has died at 66.
His demise was confirmed in a press release from the College of Nevada, Las Vegas on Instagram. Gilyard had been working as a professor at UNLV School of Fantastic Arts instructing theatre and movie. Particulars about his demise haven't been launched.
“It's with profound disappointment that I share this information,” Dean Nancy Uscher mentioned within the assertion shared on Instagram. “His college students had been deeply impressed by him, as had been all who knew him. He had many extraordinary skills and was extraordinarily well-known within the college via his dedication to instructing and his skilled accomplishments.”
The UNLV movie chair, Heather Addison, remembered Gilyard as, “a beacon of sunshine and energy for everybody round him,” the Instagram assertion learn. “Each time we requested him how he was, he would cheerfully declare that he was ‘Blessed!’ However we're actually those who had been blessed to be his colleagues and college students for thus a few years. We love you and can miss you dearly, Professor G!”
Gilyard had a 30-year profession in movie. He performed Sunset within the authentic “Prime Gun” and likewise starred as Theo, the pc hacker in “Die Arduous.” He performed the personal investigator Conrad McMasters for 85 episodes in “Matlock” and starred with Chuck Norris in “Walker, Texas Ranger,” from 1993-2001, stories Deadline.
Based on Selection, Gilyard was born Dec. 24, 1955, in Moses Lake, Washington. He attended the Air Pressure Academy as a cadet for a 12 months earlier than transferring to California State College, Lengthy Seaside and California State College, Dominguez Hills, to earn a level in performing.
In 2006, Gilyard stepped away from performing and joined the UNLV theater division to work as an affiliate professor.
“I’m wired to show. And I’m knowledgeable, however the occupation has to feed the classroom. It’s what stimulates my characters as a result of I’m in contact with individuals’s lives within the twenty first century,” Gilyard informed the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal in 2017.