Height: 6' 4" (1.93 m) Son of former Congressman from Ohio. Graduated from prestigious St. Albans Prep School in Washington DC, and earned scholarship to Northwestern. Clancy Brown went to Northwestern University, where he was in the theater program. For Highlander (1986), he said that he made a life-long friend in Bob Anderson, the sword-master for that film as well as the Star Wars trilogy. Clancy said if he hadn\'t been an actor he would have been (in order) a fireman, an aristocrat, an archaeologist/anthropologist, a scuba diver, and a circus acrobat. On August 20 2002, Clancy Brown was named chairman of the board of Brown Publishing, a newspaper company owned by his family. He has been a board member since 1987. Was hospitalized after becoming sick from the prosthetic make up he wore as Viktor in \"The Bride\". He was reluctant to don prostethics for his role in \"Highlander\". Claims to have been introduced to acting by a neighbor who got him into William Shakespeare at a young age. Collects animation art. Describes himself as an avid reader who particularly enjoys the works of Frank Herbert. Although his character Rawhide dies in \"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension\" (1984), Brown is still under contract to appear in a sequel to the film. Due to his role of Kurgan in \'Highlander\', his voice was featured on the Queen song \"Gimme The Prize (Kurgan\'s Theme)\". An alternate version appeared in the film itself, but samples of his voice are inlcuded on the 1986 studio album \'A Kind Of Magic\'. Has twice played senior prison officers in movies dealing with miscarriages of justice: in the fictional The Shawshank Redemption (1994), the tyrannical Capt. Hadley; in true story The Hurricane (1999), the sympathetic Lt. Williams Personal quotes [On the making of Highlander] \"For the scene we did in the church there could have been a wonderful dialogue - \'God, this doesn\'t compare to the Greek Orthodox Church,\' or \'I liked it better when they did it in Latin,\' or any type of thing. There\'s all sorts of twists that could have been done. I like the little twists like that because they make the audience think. \'Highlander\' still has its action and everything, but that\'s really all we went for here, the good guy/bad guy, cops and robbers type of thing.\" [On Buckaroo Banzai] \"I think it could have done well, but it got mixed up in one of those Hollywood studio game things, where they all change places. \'Buckaroo Banzai\' was just so strange that nobody really knew how to approach it. It really is way ahead of its time.\"