Clancy Brown
Clarence John \”Clancy\” Brown III is an American actor and voice actor. He is known for his roles as the Kurgan in Highlander, Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, Sargent Charles Zim Starship Troopers and Brother Justin Crowe on the HBO series Carnivàle. His career tends to alternate among mainstream television and cable; major studio and independent movies; and a large repertoire of voice work for animated and video game roles.
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Clarence John \”Clancy\” Brown III is an American actor and voice actor. He is known for his roles as the Kurgan in Highlander, Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, Sargent Charles Zim Starship Troopers and Brother Justin Crowe on the HBO series Carnivàle. His voice-over work includes Lex Luthor in various media, Doctor Neo Cortex in the Crash Bandicoot franchise, Mr. Krabs on SpongeBob SquarePants, Surtur in Thor: Ragnarok and Lt. Hank Anderson in Detroit: Become Human. Brown was born on January 5, 1959, in Urbana, Ohio, and had an older sister, Beth. His mother, Joyce Helen, was a conductor, composer and concert pianist. His father, Clarence J. \”Bud\” Brown Jr., was a newspaper publisher who helped manage the family-owned newspaper business started by Clancy’s grandfather, Congressman Clarence J Brown. From 1965 to 1983, Bud Brown also served as a congressman, in the same seat as his own father, and later as Chairman of the Board of Brown Publishing. He also starred as Albert Marconi in the film adaptation of the David Wong novel John Dies at the End, directed by Don Coscarelli.
He was a series regular on the science fiction series Earth 2 from 1994 to 1995, playing the role of John Danziger. His career tends to alternate among mainstream television and cable; major studio and independent movies; and a large repertoire of voice work for animated and video game roles. In 2011, he starred in Cowboys & Aliens alongside Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde. In the Company of Spies and the HBO film Deadly Spell, he played a conservative United States Attorney General Jeffcoat. He has also appeared as the front man on The Richesman, a key expansion to the Kentucky Educational Television Educational Network. In 2000, he was one of the primary antagonists in the episode ‘Desert Crossing’ of Star Trek: Enterprise. He appeared in the movie The Informant! opposite Matt Damon in which he played an attorney. He played a magical character credited as ‘The granter of wishes’ in the Hallmark version of Snow White. In 2007, he Played the Viking leader opposite Karl Urban in Pathfinder.
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