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Where Is Clu Gulager Son John Gulager Now? His Family And Children Today

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Jessica Cortez

Updated on March 08, 2026

Clu Gulager was an actor and director best known for his role as William H. Bonney in the 1960-1962 NBC television series The Tall Man.

Gulager later had a second career as a horror film actor, playing the lead in Dan O’Bannon’s The Return of the Living Dead (1985).

Where Is Clu Gulager’s Son John Gulager Now?

John Gulager was born in New York City on December 19, 1957, to Clu Gulager and Miriam Byrd-Nethery. He will be 65 years old and was born under the Sagittarius zodiac sign.

John is a renowned cinematographer and film director. He has worked as a cinematographer in the film industry since 1969.

Season three of Project Greenlight was primarily concerned with the production and filming of Feast. The Miramax-produced film had a limited theatrical run. On October 17, 2006, the DVD version of Feast was released. The actor was named Best Director for Feast at Fantastic Fest 2005.

He appeared in the 2007 film He Was a Quiet Man as Maurice Gregory, and provided the voice for Goldie, the fish.

Since 1986, Gulager has been married to Diane Ayala Goldner. His wife is an actress who prefers to work with him and her father-in-law’s productions which she refers to as “Gulageresque.”

John is not currently active on social media, so it is unknown where he is. But it appears he is still in New York, occupied by his demanding work schedule.

Info On Clu Gulager’s Family And Children

Clu Gulager was born on November 16, 1928, and is the son of John Delancy Gulager, a former actor practicing law in Muskogee.

His father was a cowboy entertainer. Martha Schrimsher Gulager, his paternal grandmother, was a sister of Mary Schrimsher, Will Rogers’ mother, making Gulager and Rogers’s first cousins once removed.

The actor is Cherokee because he is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. His father gave his Cherokee name in honor of the clu-clu birds that were nesting at the time of his birth.

Gulager received a one-year scholarship to study abroad in Paris, where he worked with French actor and director Jean Louis Barrault.

Clu is blessed with two children, John and Tom Gulager. Tom is well-known for his roles in his brother’s film series Feast, co-starred in The Candidate with Megan Markle. Tom was born on July 21, 1965, and is now 57.

Who Is Clu Gulager’s Wife Miriam Byrd-Nethery? How Was Clu Gulager’s Married Life?

Miriam Byrd-Nethery was an actress born in Lewisville, Arkansas, to Daniel Thompson “Tom” Nethery and Ruby Estelle Byrd.

Bound for Glory (1976), Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, and Across Five Aprils were some of her film roles.

Clu and Miriam married on June 19, 1952, for more than 50 years until Miriam died. Clu and Miriam may have dated before getting together and were both pleased to be together.

His wife died on January 6, 2003, in Los Angeles, at 73, after a long battle with a brain tumor that had also taken her sight in one eye.