
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.

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Oliver Tillman
for Oliver Tillman in Man on the Run (video game)
Suggested by kylecooke

Rating: M for Mature The game focuses on the story of the game’s main protagonist, a young computer hacker named Brian Tillman, who has been living with his sister, Vanessa since the death of their mother eight years ago, and since their father(a skilled carpenter)was put in a penitentiary a year ago for tax evasion, and they both live in New York. One night, Brian’s closest cousin, Roland is murdered in a convenience store holdup, and Brian is framed for the murder by the criminal mastermind, Stephen Castle(who leads a rag tag team of crime members). So in the middle of the night, Brian and Vanessa sneak out in the middle of the night and drive off to abandon the police and U.S. Marshals after them. Tagging along with them for the ride include Brian’s heist teammate, Samantha “Sam” Fitzgerald(who secretly has a crush on Brian), Brian’s best friend, Ethan Asher and demo expert, William Richards(who uses a fake alias, and Brian is unaware that William is William Castle, son of Stephen). Along the way, they recruit more people for their team, including discharged marine, Jake Silver, NYPD cop, Reggie Sanders, retired bank robber, Warner James, FBI agent, Patrick Graham, Undercover CIA agent, Connie Schumacher, drifter, Alice Carson, weapons expert, forensics detective, Monica Kane, and fellow hacker, Lorraine Reynolds.