Clarence John "Clancy" Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor and voice actor, active in film and television since the 1980s and frequently cast as villains or figures of authority. His film roles include Rawhide in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), the Kurgan in Highlander (1986), Capt. Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Sgt. Zim in Starship Troopers (1997), Surtur in Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and the Harbinger in John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023). On television he played Brother Justin Crowe in Carnivale (HBO, 2003-2005) and Sal Maroni in The Penguin (2024); since 1999 he has voiced Mr. Krabs on SpongeBob SquarePants.
In Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 on Netflix, he voices the character Weak Kingsley, a former hired fighter.
In the one-hour Christmas special Merry Christmas, Mr. Plankton on Paramount+, he returns to the role of Captain Krabs.
In the full-length film The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, he voiced Captain Krabs again and also appeared in a live opening scene as a pirate narrator.
He played Hank Adams' grandfather in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's novel Regretting You.
He joined the cast of the second season of the Fallout series, continuing his role from the video game source material.
