

In 2007, he played the Viking leader opposite Karl Urban in Pathfinder. In 2001, he played a magical character credited as 'The granter of wishes' in the Hallmark version of Snow White. In 1989, he appeared in the action thriller Blue Steel.īrown has played prison officers in three films dealing with miscarriages of justice: the tyrannical Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, the sympathetic Lt. He also played a role in Flubber as one of the evil henchmen that get harmed by uncontrollably bouncing sports equipment. Brown is known for his role as the Kurgan in the 1986 film Highlander, his role as Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, Rawhide in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), Frankenstein's monster in The Bride (1985), Army mercenary Larry McRose in Extreme Prejudice, the role of a band manager in Thunder Alley (1985), vicious killer Steve in Shoot to Kill (1988), the police officer in Michael Jackson's short movie Speed Demon (1988), Dead Man Walking, Sheriff Gus Gilbert in Pet Sematary Two, Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers (a role he would reprise in the animated series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles), and Captain William Hadley in The Guardian. In Brown's first mainstream movie, he was cast as Viking Lofgren alongside Sean Penn in the 1983 crime drama Bad Boys. His career tends to alternate among mainstream television and cable major studio and independent movies and a large repertoire of voice work for animated and video game roles.

Career ĭue to his height and large frame, Brown is often cast in the roles of villains or authority figures. Albans, Brown performed the role of Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth in The Crucible. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and Northwestern University. The family continued to operate the business until 2010.īrown graduated from St. 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. "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. Their mother, Joyce Helen (Eldridge), was a conductor, composer and concert pianist. Clancy Brown was born on January 5, 1959, in Urbana, Ohio, and had an older sister, Beth who died in 1964.
