Clarence J. Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor. He is known for his role as The Kurgan (also known as Victor Kruger) in the original Highlander movie, as Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants, and Dr. Neo Cortex for six years in the Crash Bandicoot series of games. January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Urbana is a city located in Champaign County, Ohio. ... The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American movie, written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the Stephen King novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... The Kurgan is a fictional character from the Highlander movies, portrayed by actor Clancy Brown. ... Highlander is an American film which opened on March 7, 1986. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Dr. Neo Cortex is a video game character, and very often a boss, from the Crash Bandicoot series. ... Crash Bandicoot Crash Bandicoot is a platform game made by Naughty Dog in 1996 for the PlayStation, featuring the character by the same name. ...

Biography

Early life

Brown was born in Urbana, Ohio. His mother, Joyce, was a concert pianist, while his father, Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr., was Ohio Congressman and chairman of the board of Brown Publishing Company, the family-owned newspaper business started by his grandfather, Congressman Clarence J. Brown. Brown graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and earned a scholarship to Northwestern University where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was inspired as a youth by a neighbor who showed him Shakespeare's works. Urbana is a city located in Champaign County, Ohio. ... Clarence J. Bud Brown Jr. ... The phrase Chairman of the Board has several meanings: Chairman of the Board is the term used to denote the leader of a corporations board of directors. ... Clarence J. Brown Sr. ... Clarence J. Brown Sr. ... For other schools with a similar name, see St. ... Nickname: Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - District Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2: Jack... This article is about scholarship (noun) and scholarship as a form of financial aid. ... Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. ... Sigma Chi (ΣΧ) is one of the largest and oldest all-male, college, Greek-letter social fraternities. ... Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ... Shakespeare redirects here. ...

Career

At 6 ft 3½ in tall (1.92 m) and possessing a deep voice, he is often typecast in roles of villains, such as Lex Luthor in Superman: The Animated Series and later in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. Other well-known roles include Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, Viking Lofgren in the 1983 hit drama movie Bad Boys, Rawhide in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984), Career Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers, the sinister preacher Brother Justin Crowe in the HBO series Carnivàle, and the antagonist, The Kurgan, in the first Highlander. For other meanings, see typecasting. ... For other uses of the term, see Villain (disambiguation). ... Lex Luthor is a fictional DC Comics supervillain. ... Superman: The Animated Series is the unofficial title given to Warner Bros. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Justice League Unlimited (or JLU) is the name of an American animated television series that was produced by and aired on Cartoon Network. ... The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American movie, written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the Stephen King novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Bad Boys is a 1983 juvenile delinquent melodrama set primarily in a tough reform school for boys. ... The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension or just Buckaroo Banzai is a cult film released in 1984, starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd, and Jeff Goldblum. ... Starship Troopers is a 1997 film directed by Paul Verhoeven, written by Edward Neumeier, and starring Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer and Denise Richards. ... Clancy Brown as Brother Justin Brother Justin Crowe is a fictional character from the HBO drama, Carnivàle played by Clancy Brown. ... Carnivàle, pronounced // (“car-nih-VAL”), was an American dramatic television series produced by HBO. Created by Daniel Knauf, it starred Nick Stahl and Clancy Brown. ... Highlander is an American film which opened on March 7, 1986. ...

He has voiced the corrupt Baron Praxis in the PlayStation 2 video game, Jak II, the psychopathic Doctor Neo Cortex and destructive Uka Uka in a number of the Crash Bandicoot video games until Crash Twinsanity (in which he was replaced by Lex Lang and Alex Fernandez), Montross, rival of Jango Fett, in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter and the aggressive alien villain Gorrath in the animated series Megas XLR. Brown was also the voice of Thrall in the cancelled video game Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. In the animated series Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, Brown voiced Raiden, a character that had been played by Christopher Lambert in the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie. He also gave his voice to various dragons Spyro rescues in Spyro the Dragon, as well the conniving Alderman Richard Hughes in the Xbox 360 game Saints Row. Baron Praxis is a fictional character from the video game Jak II (aka Jak II: Renegade), the second game in the Jak and Daxter series. ... The PlayStation 2 , abbreviated PS2) is Sonys second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. ... Jak II, called Jak II: Renegade in Europe, is a science fiction platform game developed by Naughty Dog. ... Doctor Neo Cortex, often shortened to N. Cortex, is a video game character and main antagonist of the Crash Bandicoot series. ... Uka Uka ) (sometimes referred to as The Great Uka Uka) is a fictional character from the Crash Bandicoot series. ... Crash Bandicoot is a video game series created by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin. ... Crash Twinsanity, released in Japan as Crash Bandicoot 5: Eeee Crash to Cortex no Yabou?!? , lit. ... Walter Alexis Lang, better known as Lex Lang, is an American voice actor, musician, singer, and co-founder of Love Planet Records. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about minor characters in the fictional Star Wars universe who are bounty hunters. ... Jango Fett is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe. ... Megas XLR is an American animated television series that aired on the Toonami block on Cartoon Network and is produced by Cartoon Network Studios. ... Thrall is a fictional character in the Warcraft universe, and one of the main protagonists of the games and books. ... Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans was an adventure computer game under development by Blizzard Entertainment that was to be set in the Warcraft Universe. ... Raiden (also Rayden) is a video game character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Christopher Lambert (born March 29, 1957 as Christophe Guy Denis Lambert) is an American-born French actor. ... Mortal Kombat is a 1995 action movie, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Xbox 360 is the successor to Microsofts Xbox video game console, developed in cooperation with IBM, ATI, Samsung and SiS. Information on the console first came through viral marketing campaigns and it was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005, with detailed launch and game information divulged... Saints Row is an action-adventure video game, available for the Xbox 360. ...

Brown has also had many guest appearances on various television shows including Star Trek: Enterprise and ER. He also had a recent appearance on Lost as Kelvin Inman, an American officer during Desert Storm who convinced Sayid, a soldier of the Republican Guard, to torture his commanding officer — and was later found to be a member of the The DHARMA Initiative stationed at "The Swan" with Desmond. His best known starring television role before Carnivàle was that of John Danzinger on Earth 2. He played former baseball player (and investment scam mark) Rudy Blue on The Riches. The starship Enterprise (NX-01) Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. ... ER is a long-running, Emmy Award winning American serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois. ... Lost is a popular American serial drama television series that follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a tropical island, after a passenger jet flying between Australia and the United States crashes somewhere in the South Pacific. ... The principal characters of the mid-third season of Lost; from left, Ben, Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Charlie, Jack, Sayid, Locke, Sun, Desmond, Hurley, Jin and Juliet. ... See also: 2003 invasion of Iraq and Gulf War (disambiguation) C Company, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, 1st UK Armoured Division The Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations led by the United States. ... Sayid Jarrah (Arabic: سعيد جراح) is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost, played by Naveen Andrews. ... Title card from a DHARMA Initiative orientation film featured in the Lost episode Orientation The DHARMA Initiative is a fictional research project featured in the American television series Lost. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Carnivàle, pronounced // (“car-nih-VAL”), was an American dramatic television series produced by HBO. Created by Daniel Knauf, it starred Nick Stahl and Clancy Brown. ... Earth 2 is a short-lived science fiction television series which aired on NBC from November 6, 1994 to June 4, 1995. ... The Riches (also spelled The Rı¢hes in promotional material) is an ongoing FX television series starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver. ...

Brown supplied the voice of Mister Freeze in The Batman. Beginning in 2000, he regularly played the roles of Captain Black and Ratso on Jackie Chan Adventures and occasionally took on the role of the talisman animated moose doll known as Super Moose. He has also voiced Principal Pangborn in All Grown Up, and Barkmeat in Catscratch and starred in Disney shows, playing roles such as Otto in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Alexander Paine in A.T.O.M. and the Dark Dragon in American Dragon: Jake Long. He also plays Long Feng in Avatar: The Last Airbender. He is the commercial spokesman for the Home Depot. Mister Freeze(Victor Fries) is of the Batman arch nemesis. ... The Batman is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. ... Jackie Chan Adventures was a successful childrens animated television series chronicling the adventures of a fictionalized version of action film star Jackie Chan. ... All Grown Up! is a Nickelodeon animated series, spun off from the popular series Rugrats and produced by Klasky Csupo Inc. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products. ...

Personal life

Brown is married to Jeanne Johnson, with whom he has two children. He is a collector of animation art and loves to read. Unlike The Kurgan, his signature role, Brown is reputed to be a warm, sensitive, and kind individual by all those who associate with him, professionally or casually. The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. ...

External links

• Clancy Brown's official website
• Clancy Brown at the Internet Movie Database
• Clancy Brown at the Voice Chasers Database
• Clancy Brown article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki