FrameThrower · Actors · Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown
15 films · 1,386 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1986–2024
Born 5 January 1959 · Urbana, Ohio, USA
Clarence John "Clancy" Brown III is an American actor. Prolific in film and television since the 1980s, Brown is often cast in villainous and authoritative roles.
His film roles include Rawhide in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), the Kurgan in Highlander (1986), Sheriff Gus Gilbert in Pet Sematary Two (1992), Capt. Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Sgt. Charles Zim in Starship Troopers (1997), Surtur in Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Stanley Thomas in Promising Young Woman (2020), and the Harbinger in John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,386 frames from the 15 films we hold. This is the look of the work Clancy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 15 films we hold, 44% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Clancy takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Curly Joe (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs")
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
2009 · Lex Luthor (voice)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
2004 · Mr. Krabs (voice)
Highlander
1986 · Victor 'The Kurgan' Kruger
SpongeBob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp
2024 · Mr. Krabs / Anchovies (voice)
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023 · Harbinger
Last Looks
2022 · Big Jim Cuddy
Promising Young Woman
2020 · Stanley
Stronger
2017 · Jeff Bauman Sr
Warcraft
2016 · Blackhand
The Informant!
2009 · Aubrey Daniel
The Hurricane
1999 · Lt. Jimmy Williams
Starship Troopers
1997 · Career Sergeant Zim
The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Captain Byron T. Hadley
Cast a Deadly Spell
1991 · Harry Bordon
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,386 frames from Clancy Brown's 15 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.