Clancy Brown
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Clarence J. Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor and voice actor.
Career
Brown, who is 6 ft 3½ in tall (1.92 m) and possesses a deep voice, is often typecast in roles of villains.
Notable roles
Well-known roles include Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, Viking Lofgren in the 1983 hit drama movie Bad Boys, Rawhide in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984), a cameo in the 1995 movie Dead Man Walking, Career Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers, (a role he would reprise in Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles), the sinister preacher Brother Justin Crowe in the HBO series Carnivàle, Captain William Hadley in The Guardian, and The Kurgan in the first Highlander.
He has voiced the corrupt Baron Praxis in the PlayStation 2 video game Jak II, an abusive stepfather-turned-zombie in Pet Sematary 2, Doctor Neo Cortex and Uka Uka in a number of the Crash Bandicoot video games until Crash Twinsanity (in which he was replaced by Lex Lang and Alex Fernandez/John DiMaggio), Montross in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter and Gorrath in the animated series Megas XLR. Brown was also the voice of Thrall in the cancelled video game Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans.
In the animated series Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, Brown voiced Raiden, a character that had been played by Christopher Lambert in the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie. He also gave his voice to various dragons Spyro rescues in Spyro the Dragon, as well the conniving Alderman Richard Hughes in the Xbox 360 game, Saints Row.
Brown has also made many guest appearances on various television shows including Star Trek: Enterprise as Zobral and ER. He also appeared on Lost as Kelvin Inman. He also played John Danzinger on Earth 2, and former baseball player (and investment scam mark) Rudy Blue on The Riches.
Beginning in 2000, he regularly played the roles of Captain Black and Ratso on Jackie Chan Adventures and occasionally took on the role of the talisman-animated moose doll known as Super Moose. He has also voiced Vice-Principal Pangborn in All Grown Up and Barkmeat in Catscratch. In Disney programs, he's played roles such as Otto in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Alexander Paine in A.T.O.M., and the Dark Dragon in American Dragon: Jake Long, as well as the Ugly Bald Guy in the movie Recess: School's Out. Brown also plays Long Feng in Avatar: The Last Airbender. He could be seen in the 2006 Cartoon Network movie Re-Animated, as Mr. Norm, the science teacher. He is the commercial spokesman for the Home Depot and Avis Rent a Car System.
Clancy Brown supplied the voice of Mr. Freeze in The Batman and Lex Luthor in Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited and The Batman .
Brown also supplies the voice for the money hungry Mr. Krabs on the Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants. He voices the police captain George Stacy in The Spectacular Spider-Man, along with the supervillain The Rhino.
He will appear in the 2008 horror film, The Burrowers.
