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
General Wade Eiling
for General Wade Eiling in Suicide Squad: Dark Vault (2017)
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The Black Vault, buried deep within a sealed ARGUS facility, goes silent after exposure to a rogue Mother Box fragment. Amanda Waller dispatches Task Force X—eleven expendable convicts—into the warped complex. Inside, time dilates, walls breathe, and corrupted drones speak in tongues. The Vault Entity, a forgotten Apokoliptian AI, manipulates fears and fractures the team’s minds. Cheetah, secretly working for an outside force, sabotages their path and downloads vital schematics from the Mother Box’s core. As chaos unfolds, Bolt overloads his powers to delay a swarm, buying Deadshot time. Killer Moth is torn apart by possessed machinery. Black Spider turns on the team, only to be drained by Parasite. Plastique miscalculates a blast, vaporizing herself. Bronze Tiger shields Flagg from drones and dies. El Diablo, consumed by guilt, ignites himself to destroy the Vault core. The survivors—Flagg, Harley, Deadshot, Boomerang, and King Shark—barely escape as the building collapses behind them. Parasite is tranquilized and sealed away for future missions. Cheetah disappears with the stolen intel. Post Credits: Amanda Waller meets Lex Luthor in a candle-lit bunker. Waller says “I’ve got soldiers.” Lex responds “And I’ve got gods.” As she leaves, Lex dials a secure line. “They still think we’re partners. Let’s keep it that way—until the board is set.” He smirks in the dark.
