
Age: 67
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Clarence John "Clancy" Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor. Prolific in film and television since the 1980s, Brown is often cast in villainous and authoritative roles. His film roles include Rawhide in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), the Kurgan in Highlander (1986), Sheriff Gus Gilbert in Pet Sematary Two (1992), Capt. Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Sgt. Charles Zim in Starship Troopers (1997), Surtur in Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Stanley Thomas in Promising Young Woman (2020), and the Harbinger in John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023). On television, he has played Brother Justin Crowe on the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005), Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat on the Showtime series Billions (2018–2019, 2023), Kurt Caldwell on the Showtime series Dexter: New Blood (2021–2022), and Sal Maroni in The Penguin (2024). In animation, Brown has voiced Lex Luthor in the DC Animated Universe (1996–2006) and Mr. Krabs on SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–present). His other animated roles include Long Feng in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006) and Savage Opress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2011–2013). He has also voiced video game characters such as Doctor Neo Cortex and Uka Uka in the Crash Bandicoot franchise (1997–2003) and Hank Anderson in Detroit: Become Human (2018). Clarence J. Brown III was born on January 5, 1959, in Urbana, Ohio, and had an older sister, Beth, who died in 1964. Their mother, Joyce Helen (née Eldridge), was a conductor, composer and concert pianist. The siblings' father, Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr., was a newspaper publisher who helped manage the Brown Publishing Company, 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. The family continued to operate the business until 2010. Brown graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and Northwestern University. At St. Albans, Brown performed the role of Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth in The Crucible.

Clancy Brown

The Monster
for The Monster in Calling All Monsters (1989)
Suggested by themaniax

One night, two graverobbers sneak into the local cemetery in hopes of finding any valuables that the recently deceased bare on them. However, they made their biggest mistake when one accidentally cuts themselves and the small droplet of blood slips into the crypt of the vampire king, himself. Count Dracula (Geordie Johnson) and bringing him back to life in the modern day, local school professor. Michael Van Helsing (Robert Englund), whose been teaching some of the class about urban myths. However, things get bleak as some of the students have gone missing. Locals in town as well and later that night, Michael starts to do some research on the reports to find only one thing in common. All of them had been drained of their blood from their neck, meanwhile Robert Frankenstein (Harold Ramis) has been starting up deranged experiments once the former doctor has been contacted by Dracula, creating a machine that has opened a portal to where even The Wolfman (Everett McGill) and Frankenstein's Monster (Clancy Brown) to join in the catastrophe while Michael gets some help from his students along the way in the form of Lance Charleston (Crispin Glover) and Cassidy Vance (Stacey Travis). Will the son of Van Helsing stop the looming Doomsday that comes with Dracula and the monsters or will it be too late?..