Clancy Brown

Clancy Brown
Born	Clarence J. Brown III
Years active	1983-Present
Spouse	Jeanne Johnson
Website	http://www.clancybrown.com

Clarence J. Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor.

Biography

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 3½ in tall (1.92 m) and possesses a deep voice, is often typecast in roles of villains, such as Lex Luthor in Superman: The Animated Series and later in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. Other 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), Career Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers, (a role he would reprise in Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles), the sinister preacher Brother Justin Crowe in the HBO series Carnivàle, Captain William Hadley in The Guardian, and The Kurgan in the first Highlander.

He has voiced the corrupt Baron Praxis in the PlayStation 2 video game Jak II, an abusive stepfather-turned-zombie in Pet Sematary 2, 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 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.

Brown has also made many guest appearances on various television shows including Star Trek: Enterprise as Zobral and ER. He also had a recent appearance on Lost as Kelvin Inman. He also played John Danzinger on Earth 2, and former baseball player (and investment scam mark) Rudy Blue on The Riches.

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. He is the commercial spokesman for the Home Depot and Avis Rent a Car System.

Brown supplied the voice of Mr. Freeze in The Batman as well as reprising the role of Lex Luthor. He will appear in the 2008 horror film, The Burrowers.

Brown's most recognizable contribution to the animated world may be as the voice of the money hungry Mr. Krabs on the Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants. He voices the police captain George Stacy in The Spectacular Spider-Man, along with the supervillain The Rhino.

Personal life

Brown is married to Jeanne Johnson, with whom he has two children.

External links

• Clancy Brown at IMDb
• Clancy Brown at AllMovie
• Template:Voice actor
• Clancy Brown at Memory Alpha
• Clancy Brown's official website