Thursday, June 16, 2011

Thrusty Thursday: Clancy Brown

This is another one of those posts where I give away my weakness for evil-looking dudes, and actors who are serially cast as baddies. I was driven to pick Clancy Brown after watching The Highlander over the weekend. I always felt guilty, thinking Brown was dish the many times I watched Shawshank (my all-time favorite movie, in which Brown plays the horrid Hadley, head of the prison guards) or creepier still, the way underrated and prematurely cancelled HBO series Carnivale. Those black contact lenses…shudder. I wonder if he'll get to play a good guy in Cowboys and Aliens…

But shifty or not, he's such a fox. An evil, alpha fox with a deadly voice, who makes six-three look like eight-foot-nine. He's been in a gazillion-and-one things and done even more voice-over work, so I won't bore you with a list. You can head to IMDb for that. Instead, let me show you his varied and progressive foxiness through the ages:


Oh and before you go, check it—Clancy Brown in this montage from 1987's Extreme Prejudice! If the still isn't warning enough, let me point out that it's a violent clip, though not explicitly gory. And far more importantly, Brown's sporting a beard, a cowboy hat, and a variety of guns! (If you're impatient, just skip to the 1:25 mark. Good stuff there.)

5 comments:

  1. Yay. My first husband (who has a Master's in Theater/performance) went to, I wanna say, grad school w/ this guy for awhile? Or something like that. Maybe it was summer stock? Anyway, he says Mr. Brown is also a very nice person, which I always think is a good thing to know about a person upon whom one chooses to thrust.

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  2. That's good to hear! Though he always seems to play creepsters, he does strike me as very down to earth and low-key, off-screen. He's been married to his wife since the early 90s and seems to keep out of the spotlight (despite being in every movie and TV show, ever) which endears me to no end.

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  3. All that said, he's still totally evil. Especially in The Highlander.

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  4. Have you ever seen The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension? Young Mr. Brown was in it, as Cowboy--my first exposure to him, in fact--he was one of the good guys...(The movie also has Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya...)

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  5. Hey, Katy! For some reason when you said "my first exposure to him" I immediately pictured him walking up to you in a raincoat. Though perhaps with that wording, it should have been you in the raincoat… In either case, pardon my dirty mind. I haven't seen it, but I do enjoy looking at him in a cowboy hat…he has a hat, right? I'll have to check it out!

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