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Clancy Brown
Birthday: January 5, 1959 Birth
Place: Urbana, Ohio, USA Height: 6' 3"
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A tall, intense, hulking actor who was a natural to play Frankenstein's monster in The Bride (1985), Clancy Brown has utilized his naturally menacing exterior for a career's worth of villainous roles, most notably in films such as Highlander and The Shawshank Redemption. With good looks that could be described as somewhat Neanderthal in nature, he has also found the occasional sympathetic portrayal, and been equal to the task of acting it. Clancy Brown was born on January 5, 1959, in Urbana, OH, the son of a newspaperman-turned-U.S. congressman. He was raised in both Urbana and Washington, D.C., and claims to have been introduced to acting by a neighbor who got him into Shakespeare at a young age. Brown acted in high school and during his teenage summers before enrolling at Northwestern University on a track scholarship as a discus hurler. He graduated with a degree in speech and went on to mix drinks in Chicago while working in local theater. Brown's first film role established the trend for how his services would be used throughout his career. He appeared as Viking in the Sean Penn "juvy" drama Bad Boys (1983), in which he threw around his muscle as one of the detention center's intimidators. Next he appeared in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) as the cowboy Rawhide, then as Highlander's sword-wielding embodiment of evil, Kurgan, in the 1986 cult classic. A succession of roles as bruising heavies, often corrupt cops, followed during the late '80s and '90s, in films such as Dead Man Walking (1996) and The Hurricane (1999). The most memorable among these was Captain Byron Hadley, the crooked prison guard with the deadly billy club in the multiple-Oscar-nominated The Shawshank Redemption (1994). In 1997, he played one of his more infrequent good guy roles as Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers. From 1997-1998, he had a prominent recurring guest role as a doctor on NBC's ratings champ ER. His prolific television career also includes a role on the sci-fi series Earth 2 (1994). In 2002, Brown appeared among an ensemble cast in the HBO film The Laramie Project, which was about the beating death of gay Wyoming teen Matthew Shepard. The next year, he took on the prominant role of Brother Justin Crowe on HBO's cryptic period drama Carniv
Clancy Brown went to Northwestern University, where he was in the theater program.
For Highlander (1986), he said that he made a life-long friend in Bob Anderson, the sword-master for that film as well as the Star Wars trilogy. Clancy said if he hadn't been an actor he would have been (in order) a fireman, an aristocrat, an archaeologist/anthropologist, a scuba diver, and a circus acrobat.
On August 20 2002, Clancy Brown was named chairman of the board of Brown Publishing, a newspaper company owned by his family. He has been a board member since 1987.
Was hospitalized after becoming sick from the prosthetic make up he wore as Viktor in "The Bride". He was reluctant to don prostethics for his role in "Highlander".
Claims to have been introduced to acting by a neighbor who got him into William Shakespeare at a young age.
Collects animation art.
Describes himself as an avid reader who particularly enjoys the works of Frank Herbert.
Although his character Rawhide dies in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" (1984), Brown is still under contract to appear in a sequel to the film.
Due to his role of Kurgan in 'Highlander', his voice was featured on the Queen song "Gimme The Prize (Kurgan's Theme)". An alternate version appeared in the film itself, but samples of his voice are inlcuded on the 1986 studio album 'A Kind Of Magic'.
Has thrice played senior prison officers in movies dealing with miscarriages of justice: in the fictional The Shawshank Redemption (1994), the tyrannical Capt. Hadley; in true story The Hurricane (1999), the sympathetic Lt. Williams And in Last Light (1993) as Lt. McMannis
Member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity
Both his grandfather and father (Clarence J. Brown, Sr. & Jr.) were United States Representatives from the 7th District of Ohio. Clarence Sr. served from 1939 to 1965; Clarence Jr. from 1965 to 1983. Both were also candidates for governor of Ohio, both unsuccessful.
Often cast as a villain, but has been described as a very friendly man in real life.
According to the trivia track on the DVD of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) his character, Rawhide, did not die but went into a deep coma, and that he was expected to recover very soon.
In 1999, he spear-headed a charity campaign to raise funds for J. Madison Wright, the young girl who played his screen daughter in the TV show "Earth 2" (1994). Madison, then aged fifteen, had developed cardiomyopathy and was in dire need of a heart transplant, a very costly operation which exceeded her family's lifetime health insurance policy. Clancy offered to assist the Wrights' in their plight. He also bought young Madison a laptop computer for her Christmas in 1999. Tragically, Madison died seven years later, in July 2006, of a heart attack.
Is a patron of the Beth Brown Memorial Fund, a scholarship programme designed to assist poorer students who wish to study in the field of paediatric healthcare. The charity is in honour of his elder sister who died in childhood of leukaemia in 1964. It has since expanded to also offer the Clarence J. Brown Scholarship for students interested in pursuing careers in government and public service as well as the Robert Townsley Scholarship for students of journalism.
Originally auditioned for the role of Superman/Clark Kent on Bruce Timm's Superman: The Animated Series (1996), but Bruce Timm felt his voice was better suited to Lex Luthor, bringing the arch villain a smooth combination of menacing brute and charming manipulator. Tim Daly was then cast as Superman/Clark Kent instead.
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