That Guy Actor of the Week: Clancy Brown
All of you might know him best as the hard nosed screwball guard in Shawshank Redemption but I’ve been following Clancy Brown since the early 80s when he played a foul mouth, blond haired punk in Bad Boys with Sean Penn (the real Bad Boys). You might also remember him as the psycho diamond stealing killer in Shoot to Kill.
Clancy’s been around for a long time. He’s got 182 titles to his name on IMDB so he certainly deserves a spot on this site. There are some actors that you just sort of like every time you see them. Brown is definitely that guy for me.
Check out a sweet clip of Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNj1yR9eEY
This is one of his more underground fun roles. He played a weird dude named Kurgan in Highlander.
Clancy Brown is awesome, my mind exploded when i realized he is Mr. Krabbs on Spongebob.
What a coincidence. I got Carnivale shipping from Netflix as we speak. BTW nobody does a better Lex Luthor.
He is also going to be the voice of The Goon when Eric Powell gets a major studio to buy his film. Here’s a link to the trailer
http://goon.movie-trailer.com/
Are you kidding me? You didn’t mention THE ROLL Clancy Brown is famous for; The Kurgan!
If you don’t know who that is, look it up and then watch the movie and then thank me later…
Oh, should have watched the clipped. My bad
Way to reference his voice acting roles.
Pet Semetary 2 anyone?
Am I the only one who thinks that ever single actor in the main cast of Carnivàle acts better (at least there) than pretty much the entire acting elite?
Go see The Highlander right now! It might be dated in some parts, but its awesome.
And pick up, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (with Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum & Christopher Lloyd)
Clancy Brown is also the voice of Lex Luthor in all those great Justice League cartoons.
To this day, typical conversation with my wife:
Me: Hey! Clancy Brown is in this movie…
Her: Who?
Me: The Kurgan.
Her: Ohhhh… Nice.
His voice work is also great. As some people have mentioned, nobody does a better Lex Luthor.
When was he Lex Luthor?? I’m trying to remember this, or was it just the voice-over in a cartoon?
@J5 Yep.
Laughing at the dinner table with food falling out of his mouth.
CLANCY MOTHERF*CKIN’ BROWN! HELL YEAH! IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME!
Clancy Brown is and will always be Lex Luthor.
There can be only one!