In Brown's first mainstream movie, he was cast as Viking Lofgren alongside Sean Penn in the 1983 crime drama Bad Boys. His career tends to alternate among mainstream television and cable major studio and independent movies and a large repertoire of voice work for animated and video game roles. Career ĭue to his height and large frame, Brown is often cast in the roles of villains or authority figures. Albans, Brown performed the role of Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth in The Crucible. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and Northwestern University. The family continued to operate the business until 2010.īrown graduated from St. 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. '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. Their mother, Joyce Helen (Eldridge), was a conductor, composer and concert pianist.
Clancy Brown was born on January 5, 1959, in Urbana, Ohio, and had an older sister, Beth who died in 1964.
