
Clarence J. "Clancy" Brown III (born January 5, 1959 height 6' 3½" (1,92 m)) is an American film, television and voice actor. He is known for his live-action roles as Captain Byron Hadley in the award-winning The Shawshank Redemption; The Kurgan in the film Highlander; Brother Justin Crowe in HBO's critically acclaimed Carnivàle and Career Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers. Brown is most famous for providing the voices of animated characters such as Mr. Eugene H. Krabs in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants; Lex Luthor throughout various DC projects; Captain Black and Ratso in Jackie Chan Adventures; Otto in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!; Dr. Neo Cortex in the original Crash Bandicoot video games and Savage Opress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Early life Brown was born in Urbana, Ohio in 1959 and had an older sister Beth (1958–1965). Their mother Joyce (née Eldridge) was a conductor, composer, and concert pianist. Their father Clarence J. "Bud" Brown, Jr. 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 US Congressman, and later as chairman of the board of Brown Publishing. The family operated the business until 2010.Brown graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., as his family lived there much of the time when his father served in Congress. He earned a scholarship to Northwestern University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Brown is often cast in roles of villains or authority figures. His career has tended to alternate among mainstream TV/cable; major-studio and independent-studio movies; and a large repertoire of voice work for animated and video game roles. Personal life Brown has been married to Jeanne Johnson since 1993; they have a son and daughter.
Series | Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years | Eugene H. Krabs (voice) | 2020-12-31 |
Movie | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run | Mr. Krabs (voice) | 2020-08-14 |
Movie | Promising Young Woman | Stanley | 2020-12-13 |
Movie | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Himself | 2020-10-06 |
Movie | The Mortuary Collection | Montgomery Dark | 2020-10-08 |
Movie | Lady and the Tramp | Isaac (voice) | 2019-11-12 |
Series | Spongebob Zombie Survival | Mr. Krabs | 2019-10-21 |
Movie | The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween | Mr. Ree | 2019-10-08 |
Series | Emergence | Ed | 2019-09-24 |
Movie | SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout | Mr. Krabs (voice) / Unhappy Guy (voice) / Party Guest #2 (voice) / Mr. Slabs / Manager | 2019-07-12 |
Movie | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Curly Joe (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs") | 2018-11-09 |
Movie | Supercon | Adam King | 2018-04-27 |
Movie | Chappaquiddick | Robert McNamara | 2018-04-06 |
Movie | Thor: Ragnarok | Surtur (voice) | 2017-10-25 |
Movie | The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom | Mr. Krabs / Fish Man / Eyes (voice) | 2017-10-13 |
Movie | Stronger | Jeff Bauman Sr | 2017-09-22 |
Movie | Little Evil | Reverend Gospel | 2017-08-08 |
Series | Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure | King Frederic (voice) | 2017-03-24 |
Movie | Tangled: Before Ever After | King Frederic (voice) | 2017-03-10 |
Movie | Hail, Caesar! | Gracchus | 2016-02-05 |
Movie | Warcraft | Blackhand | 2016-05-25 |
Movie | Thank Gosh It's Monday! | Mr Crabs | 2015-02-06 |
Movie | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Mr.Krabs (voice) | 2015-01-28 |
Series | Star Wars Rebels | Ryder Azadi (voice) | 2014-10-13 |
Movie | 99 Homes | Mr. Freeman | 2014-10-09 |
Movie | When the Game Stands Tall | Mickey Ryan | 2014-08-22 |
Movie | Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United | Taskmaster (voice) | 2014-07-29 |
Movie | Water & Power | Turnvil | 2014-05-02 |
Movie | Just Before I Go | Dad | 2014-04-24 |
Movie | Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise | Gorilla Grodd (voice) | 2014-04-06 |
Movie | The Trip to Bountiful | Sheriff | 2014-03-08 |
Movie | SpongeBob & Friends: Patrick SquarePants | Mr. Krabs | 2014-01-14 |
Movie | I Know That Voice | Himself | 2014-01-07 |
Movie | Nothing Left to Fear | Kingsman | 2013-09-26 |
Movie | Sparks | Archer | 2013-03-01 |
Movie | Lego Batman: The Movie - DC Super Heroes Unite | Lex Luthor (voice) | 2013-05-21 |
Movie | Homefront | Sheriff Keith Rodrigue | 2013-11-12 |
Movie | Hellbenders | Angus | 2013-10-18 |
Movie | Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics | Himself | 2013-10-23 |
Series | Rick and Morty | Risotto Groupon (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
Movie | The Trials of Cate McCall | Brinkerhoff | 2013-11-28 |
Movie | Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Darth Maul Returns | Savage Opress (voice) (archive footage) | 2012-09-11 |
Movie | At Any Price | Jim Johnson | 2012-08-30 |
Movie | John Dies at the End | Dr. Albert Marconi | 2012-01-23 |
Movie | The Frontier | Jack Ramsay / Lamazee | 2012-01-01 |
Movie | It's a SpongeBob Christmas! | Mr. Crabs | 2012-11-23 |
Movie | Cowboys & Aliens | Meacham | 2011-07-29 |
Movie | Green Lantern | Parallax (voice) | 2011-06-16 |
Movie | Thor: Tales of Asgard | Frost Giant (voice) | 2011-05-16 |
Movie | SpongeBob SquarePants: Triton's Revenge | Mr. Krabs | 2010-07-13 |
Movie | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Alan Smith | 2010-04-30 |
Series | The Deep End | Hart Sterling | 2010-01-21 |
Movie | SpongeBob's Truth or Square | Mr. Krabs (voice) | 2009-11-06 |
Movie | SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongicus | Patrick Star (voice) | 2009-01-27 |
Movie | Superman/Batman: Public Enemies | Lex Luthor (voice) | 2009-09-29 |
Movie | The Informant! | Aubrey Daniel | 2009-09-18 |
Movie | The Express | Roy Simmons | 2008-10-10 |
Movie | Blank Slate | Agent Miles Mcavoy | 2008-09-09 |
Movie | The Burrowers | John Clay | 2008-09-09 |
Series | The Spectacular Spider-Man | George Stacy | 2008-03-08 |
Movie | SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis | Mr. Krabs | 2007-04-28 |
Series | El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera | 2007-03-03 | |
Movie | Pathfinder | Gunnar | 2007-01-11 |
Movie | The Guardian | Capt. William Hadley | 2006-09-28 |
Movie | SpongeBob SquarePants - "Where's Gary?" | Eugene H. Krabs | 2005-11-11 |
Series | A.T.O.M. | 2005-08-27 | |
Movie | SpongeBob SquarePants - The Seascape Capers | Mr. Krabs (voice) | 2004-01-06 |
Movie | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | Mr. Krabs (voice) | 2004-11-14 |
Series | Justice League Unlimited | Lex Luthor / Guardians of the Universe | 2004-07-31 |
Series | Carnivàle | Brother Justin | 2003-09-14 |
Series | Spider-Man: The New Animated Series | Policeman / Raymond | 2003-08-01 |
Movie | Atlantis: Milo's Return | Volgud | 2003-02-25 |
Movie | Spongebob Squarepants Tales from the Deep | Eugene Krabs | 2003-01-28 |
Movie | Normal | Frank | 2003-01-21 |
Movie | SpongeBob SquarePants - Sea Stories | Eugene Krabs | 2002-11-05 |
Movie | Red Skies | Edgar Sterling | 2002-08-07 |
Series | Breaking News | Peter Kozyck | 2002-07-17 |
Movie | SpongeBob SquarePants - Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies | Eugene Krabs | 2002-03-12 |
Movie | The Laramie Project | 2002-01-10 | |
Movie | Buckaroo Banzai Declassified | Himself | 2002-01-01 |
Movie | Recess: School's Out | Bald Guy (voice) | 2001-01-27 |
Series | Lloyd in Space | 2001-02-03 | |
Movie | Boss of Bosses | Andris Kurins | 2001-06-03 |
Movie | Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature | Himself | 2001-09-08 |
Movie | Snow White: The Fairest of Them All | The Granter of Wishes | 2001-10-28 |
Series | Justice League | Lex Luthor (voice) | 2001-11-17 |
Series | Heavy Gear | 2001-09-22 | |
Movie | Christmas Who? | Mr. Krabs | 2000-12-06 |
Movie | Yesterday's Children | Doug Cole | 2000-10-15 |
Movie | The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea | Undertow (voice) | 2000-01-23 |
Movie | Chump Change | 2000-01-01 | |
Series | SpongeBob SquarePants | Mr. Krabs (voice) | 1999-05-01 |
Movie | The Night of the Headless Horseman | Hessian Trooper | 1999-10-28 |
Movie | Vendetta | Chief Hennessy | 1999-09-12 |
Movie | The Hurricane | Lt. Jimmy Williams | 1999-09-17 |
Series | Voltron: The Third Dimension | 1998-09-12 | |
Movie | The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest | Lex Luthor (voice) | 1998-08-18 |
Movie | The Patron Saint of Liars | Son | 1998-04-05 |
Movie | The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story | Akela the Wolf (voice) | 1998-01-01 |
Series | The Legend of Calamity Jane | 1997-09-13 | |
Movie | Starship Troopers | Career Sergeant Zim | 1997-11-07 |
Movie | Annabelle's Wish | Lawyer / Sherriff (voice) | 1997-10-21 |
Movie | Flubber | Smith | 1997-11-26 |
Movie | Female Perversions | John | 1996-11-21 |
Series | Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm | Raiden (voice) | 1996-09-21 |
Series | Superman: The Animated Series | Lex Luthor (voice) | 1996-09-06 |
Series | Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series | 1996-09-06 | |
Movie | Superman - The Last Son of Krypton | Lex Luthor (voice) | 1996-09-06 |
Movie | Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off | Seige (voice) | 1996-09-06 |
Movie | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Hakon | 1996-05-02 |
Movie | Dead Man Walking | State Trooper | 1995-12-29 |
Series | Earth 2 | John Danziger | 1994-11-06 |
Movie | The Shawshank Redemption | Captain Byron T. Hadley | 1994-09-23 |
Movie | Last Light | Lt. Lionel McMannis | 1993-08-22 |
Movie | Bloodlines: Murder in the Family | Ben Guardino | 1993-03-01 |
Movie | Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story | Dave Chattelier | 1993-01-18 |
Movie | Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation | Clarence - Gas Station Attendant | 1992-06-10 |
Movie | Pet Sematary II | Sheriff Gus Gilbert | 1992-08-28 |
Movie | Ambition | Albert Merrick | 1991-06-02 |
Series | Love, Lies and Murder | David Brown | 1991-02-16 |
Movie | Cast a Deadly Spell | Harry Bordon | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | Past Midnight | Steve Lundy | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | Johnny Ryan | Johnny Ryan | 1990-07-29 |
Movie | Blue Steel | Nick Mann | 1990-03-16 |
Movie | Shoot to Kill | Steve | 1988-02-12 |
Movie | The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains | Flagg | 1987-10-31 |
Movie | Extreme Prejudice | MSgt. Larry McRose | 1987-04-24 |
Movie | The Room Upstairs | Kevin | 1987-01-31 |
Movie | Highlander | Victor 'The Kurgan' Kruger | 1986-03-07 |
Movie | The Bride | Viktor | 1985-08-16 |
Movie | Thunder Alley | Weasel | 1985-08-01 |
Movie | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Rawhide | 1984-08-15 |
Movie | Bad Boys | Viking Lofgren | 1983-03-25 |