Clancy Brownedit
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| Birth name: | Clarence J. Brown III |
| Gender: | Male |
| Date of birth: | 5 January 1959 |
| Place of birth: | Urbana, Ohio, USA |
| Character(s): | Zobral |
Clancy Brown (born 5 January 1959; age 51) is the American actor who played Zobral in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Desert Crossing". He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Highlander, The Shawshank Redemption, and Starship Troopers. He is also known for his work as a voice actor, with his best-known voice-over roles being Mr. Krabs on Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants and the DC Comics supervillain Lex Luthor on Superman: The Animated Series and the Justice League cartoons.
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[edit] Personal life
Brown was born in Urbana, Ohio. He graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, DC, and received a BA from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.
He is married to Jeanne Johnson, with whom he has two children. They have been married since 1993.
[edit] Career
[edit] Films
He made his film debut in 1983's Bad Boys, which also starred Star Trek Generations actor Alan Ruck. The following year he played the character of Rawhide in the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th Dimension. Co-starring with him in this film were fellow Star Trek alumnus Peter Weller (in the title role), Christopher Lloyd, Robert Ito, Vincent Schiavelli, and Jonathan Banks.
Brown is perhaps best known for playing Connor MacLeod's nemesis, The Kurgan, in the 1986 science fiction film Highlander. He is also known for his role as Captain Byron Hadley in the acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated 1994 drama The Shawshank Redemption. This film featured many other Star Trek alumni in the cast, namely Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Mark Rolston, Jude Ciccolella, Don McManus, Bill Bolender, Dion Anderson, and Brian Brophy.
Another of Brown's well-known film roles is Sergeant Zim in the 1997 science fiction action adventure Starship Troopers. His co-stars in this film included Dina Meyer, Brenda Strong, Lenore Kasdorf, and Bruce Gray. That same year, Brown was seen in the family film Flubber, along with Star Trek: The Next Generation actors Christopher McDonald and Wil Wheaton.
Brown's subsequent film credits include: 1999's The Hurricane, with Harris Yulin; 2002's The Laramie Project, featuring Richard Riehle; and 2006's The Guardian, co-starring Star Trek: First Contact actor Neal McDonough. He was more recently seen in the 2007 adventure film Pathfinder, alongside Karl Urban. He also appeared in the 2009 comedy The Informant!, in which his Enterprise co-star Scott Bakula played the second lead.
[edit] Television
Brown played John Danziger in the short-lived cult science fiction series Earth 2, on which Terry O'Quinn was a frequent guest performer. In 2003 and 2005, Brown played Brother Justin Crowe in the HBO series Carnivàle. His co-stars on this series included Adrienne Barbeau, K Callan, John Fleck, John Carroll Lynch, Scott MacDonald, Diane Salinger, and John Savage. In addition, Brown has appeared on such hit TV series as ER (on which he had a recurring role as Dr. Ellis West), The Practice, and J.J. Abrams' Lost.
Currently, Brown is starring as Hart Sterling on the legal drama The Deep End. The series premiered on ABC in January 2010 with a pilot episode which guest-starred William Schallert.
[edit] Voice-over work
Brown is also recognized for his voiceover roles in a number of animated television series. Perhaps his most notable voice over role is that of Mr. Krabs on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants, a role he has played since the series debuted in 1999. He is also the current voice of Lex Luthor (a role previously voiced by Sherman Howard and Michael Bell) on the animated Superman and Justice League shows and movies.
In addition, Brown was among the many Star Trek actors to do voice work on the animated series Gargoyles. Others who had voice roles on this show include Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Kate Mulgrew, Avery Brooks, Nichelle Nichols, Paul Winfield, David Warner, Michael Dorn, and LeVar Burton.
Brown also voiced in the series Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles, along with James Horan, and Battle Force: Andromeda, with Jennifer Lien and Kurtwood Smith. He recently voiced Mr. Freeze on The Batman (a character previously voiced by Michael Ansara) and did voice work in two episodes of Seth MacFarlane's American Dad! series on FOX.
Other animated shows he has worked on include Jackie Chan Adventures (as Captain Black and Ratso), Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (as Otto), Avatar: The Last Airbender (as Long Feng), Biker Mice from Mars (as Cataclysm), Wolverine and the X-Men (as Mr. Sinister), and The Spectacular Spider-Man (as Rhino, George Stacy, and Alex O'Hirn). His role of George Stacy on the latter series was originally played by James Cromwell in the 2007 film Spider-Man 3.
[edit] External links
- Clancy Brown at Wikipedia
- Clancy Brown at the Internet Movie Database
- Clancy Brown at the DC Animated Wiki
