Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown has appeared in 52 movies on CringeMDb. 20 contain sex scenes, nudity or sexual violence, and 32 do not.
- Most recent parent-safe movie: The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025)
- Most recent with adult content: Regretting You (2025)
Born January 5, 1959 · Known for acting
38.5% Featured Movie Cringe Score (52 movies)
Clancy Brown Movie Credits
Certified Parent-Safe
The Shawshank Redemption
...as Captain Byron T. Hadley
Pathfinder
...as Gunnar
The Guardian
...as Capt. William Hadley
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
...as Lex Luthor (voice)
The Informant!
...as Aubrey Daniel
A Nightmare on Elm Street
...as Alan Smith
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
...as Mr. Krabs (voice)
Flubber
...as Smith
The Express
...as Roy Simmons
Green Lantern
...as Parallax (voice)
The Burrowers
...as John Clay
In the Company of Spies
...as Dale Beckham
Last Light
...as Lt. Lionel McMannis
The Patron Saint of Liars
...as Son
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
...as Mr. Krabs / Pirate / Narrator
John Wick: Chapter 4
...as Harbinger
Vendetta
...as Chief Hennessy
Nothing Left to Fear
...as Kingsman
Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United
...as Taskmaster (voice)
When the Game Stands Tall
...as Mickey Ryan
Warcraft
...as Blackhand
The Hurricane
...as Lt. Jimmy Williams
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
...as Mr. Krabs (voice)
Audrey's Children
...as Dr. C. Everett Koop
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
...as Mr. Krabs (voice)
Hail, Caesar!
...as Gracchus
Thor: Ragnarok
...as Surtur (voice)
Chappaquiddick
...as Robert McNamara
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
...as Curly Joe (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs")
Lady and the Tramp
...as Isaac (voice)
Last Looks
...as Big Jim Cuddy
Highlander III: The Sorcerer
...as The Kurgan (cameo) (archive footage)
Certified Cringeworthy
Starship Troopers
...as Career Sergeant Zim
Pet Sematary II
...as Sheriff Gus Gilbert
Highlander
...as Victor 'The Kurgan' Kruger
Female Perversions
...as John
Cowboys & Aliens
...as Meacham
John Dies at the End
...as Dr. Albert Marconi
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
...as Red Death / Daisy (voice)
At Any Price
...as Jim Johnson
Hellbenders
...as Angus
Dumb Money
...as Steve Gill
Homefront
...as Sheriff Keith Rodriguez
Dead Man Walking
...as State Trooper
99 Homes
...as Mr. Freeman
Poolman
...as Theodore Hollandaise
Scrambled
...as Richard
Supercon
...as Adam King
Promising Young Woman
...as Stanley
Just Before I Go
...as Dad
Chump Change
...as The Man
Regretting You
...as Hank "Gramps" Adams Sr.
About Clancy Brown
Clarence John "Clancy" Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor. Prolific in film and television since the 1980s, Brown is often cast in villainous and authoritative roles.
His film roles include Rawhide in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), the Kurgan in Highlander (1986), Sheriff Gus Gilbert in Pet Sematary Two (1992), Capt. Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Sgt. Charles Zim in Starship Troopers (1997), Surtur in Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Stanley Thomas in Promising Young Woman (2020), and the Harbinger in John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023). On television, he has played Brother Justin Crowe on the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005), Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat on the Showtime series Billions (2018–2019, 2023), Kurt Caldwell on the Showtime series Dexter: New Blood (2021–2022), and Sal Maroni in The Penguin (2024).
In animation, Brown has voiced Lex Luthor in the DC Animated Universe (1996–2006) and Mr. Krabs on SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–present). His other animated roles include Long Feng in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006) and Savage Opress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2011–2013). He has also voiced video game characters such as Doctor Neo Cortex and Uka Uka in the Crash Bandicoot franchise (1997–2003) and Hank Anderson in Detroit: Become Human (2018).
Clarence J. Brown III was born on January 5, 1959, in Urbana, Ohio, and had an older sister, Beth, who died in 1964. Their mother, Joyce Helen (née Eldridge), was a conductor, composer and concert pianist. The siblings' father, Clarence J. "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. Brown. 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. The family continued to operate the business until 2010.
Brown graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and Northwestern University. At St. Albans, Brown performed the role of Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth in The Crucible.
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