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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
Frankenstein's Monster
for Frankenstein's Monster in Dark Universe: Night of the Monsters (1997) – Fan Cast
Suggested by kaueoliveira
In the fog-choked winter of 1897, a series of blood-soaked killings across Europe draws the attention of a secret Vatican order. They dispatch the weary, shotgun-toting hunter Abraham Van Helsing (Bruce Campbell) to investigate. His trail leads to a crumbling Black Forest estate where Count Vladislav (Julian Sands), a lonely and bitter vampire, has been unnaturally weakened by a stolen amulet—the same relic now sought by a resurrected Egyptian high priest, Imhotep (Oded Fehr). As Van Helsing digs deeper, he uncovers a conspiracy: a mad alchemist (Brad Dourif as Dr. Jekyll) is collecting monster specimens—Frankenstein's Creature (Clancy Brown), a captive werewolf (Mark Rolston), and even the Gill-man (Tom Noonan)—to create an unstoppable hybrid army for an occultist society. The amateur alliance of monsters breaks free during a thunderstorm, forcing Van Helsing to form a bloody, reluctant truce with Dracula and the tormented Bride (Sheryl Lee). Meanwhile, the Invisible Man (Timothy Carhart) sabotages both sides from the shadows, playing a dangerous double game. The climax explodes inside a flooded abbey laboratory, where Jekyll unleashes Hyde, the Mummy commands the dead, and the Creature makes a heartbreaking choice between revenge and humanity. In the end, no hero survives unscathed—and the Dark Universe is sealed not with a victory, but with a promise of eternal, crumbling darkness.
