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Clarence J. "Clancy" Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor and voice actor.
n was born in Urbana, Ohio. His mother, Joyce, was a conductor, composer, and concert pianist, while his father, Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr., was an Ohio Congressman and chairman of the board of the Brown Publishing Company, the family-owned newspaper business started by his grandfather, Congressman Clarence J. Brown. Brown graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and earned a scholarship to Northwestern University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
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Clarence J. "Clancy" Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor and voice actor.
Early life
Brown was born in Urbana, Ohio. His mother, Joyce, was a conductor, composer, and concert pianist, while his father, Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr., was an Ohio Congressman and chairman of the board of the Brown Publishing Company, the family-owned newspaper business started by his grandfather, Congressman Clarence J. Brown. Brown graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and earned a scholarship to Northwestern University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was inspired to become an actor by a neighbor who showed him Shakespeare's works.
Career
Brown, who is 6 ft 3― in tall (1.92 m) possesses a deep voice and large frame, and is often typecast in roles of villains. His career has tended to alternate between mainstream TV/cable; major-studio and independent-studio movies; and a large repertoire of voicework for animated and video game roles.
Movie roles
Well-known roles include Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, Viking Lofgren in the 1983 hit drama movie Bad Boys, Rawhide in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984), a cameo in the 1995 movie Dead Man Walking, Career Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers, (a role he would reprise in the animated television series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles), Captain William Hadley in The Guardian, and The Kurgan in the first Highlander. In two movies he played a prison guard: The Shawshank Redemption, and The Hurricane.
He starred in several independent films in 2008: The Burrowers, screened at the Toronto Film Festival in 2008, and scheduled for release in the US in March 2009; and The Twenty, which is currently awaiting screening.
Television roles
Brown was notable as the sinister preacher Brother Justin Crowe in the HBO series Carnivāle. He also starred in the Showtime production In the Company of Spies.
He has also made many guest appearances on various television shows including Star Trek: Enterprise as Zobral, ER, Lost as Kelvin Inman, John Danzinger on Earth 2, and former baseball player (and investment scam mark) Rudy Blue on The Riches.
Notable voice roles
He has voiced the corrupt Baron Praxis in the PlayStation 2 video game Jak II, Doctor Neo Cortex and Uka Uka in a number of the Crash Bandicoot video games until Crash Twinsanity (in which he was replaced by Lex Lang and Alex Fernandez/John DiMaggio), Montross in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter and Gorrath in the animated series Megas XLR. Brown was also the voice of Thrall in the cancelled video game Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans.
In the animated series Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, Brown voiced Raiden, a character that had been played by his Highlander co-star Christopher Lambert in the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie. He also gave his voice to various dragons Spyro rescues in Spyro the Dragon, as well the conniving Alderman Richard Hughes in the Xbox 360 game, Saints Row.
Beginning in 2000, he regularly played the roles of Captain Black and Ratso on Jackie Chan Adventures and occasionally took on the role of the talisman-animated moose doll known as Super Moose. He has also voiced Vice-Principal Pangborn in All Grown Up and Barkmeat in Catscratch. In Disney programs, he's played roles such as Otto in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Alexander Paine in A.T.O.M., and the Dark Dragon in American Dragon: Jake Long, as well as the Ugly Bald Guy in the movie Recess: School's Out. Brown also plays Long Feng in Avatar: The Last Airbender. He could be seen in the 2006 Cartoon Network movie Re-Animated, as Mr. Norm, the science teacher.
Brown played the role of Lex Luthor throughout the DC Animated Universe of Bruce Timm:Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited and The Batman , for a total of 10 years. Clancy Brown supplied the voice of Mr. Freeze in The Batman. Clancy Brown provide the voice of the Drill Sergeant of Smile Away in Phineas and Ferb.
He voices 5 of the 6 members of Legion Ex Machina in the animated series Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot.
Brown also supplies the voice for Mr. Krabs on the Nickelodeon animated comedy SpongeBob SquarePants. He voices the police captain George Stacy in The Spectacular Spider-Man, along with the supervillain The Rhino.
Recently he voiced the villain Mr. Sinister in Wolverine and the X-Men.
Commercial spokesman
He is the commercial spokesman for the Home Depot and Avis Rent a Car System.
Personal life
Brown is married to Jeanne Johnson, with whom he has two children.
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