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.)