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W. Earl Brown

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Biography

William Earl Brown (born September 7, 1963) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, musician, and songwriter. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Kenny in the film Scream (1996), Warren in the film There's Something About Mary (1998), Dan Dority on the HBO series Deadwood (2004–2006), and the voice and motion capture of Bill in the video game The Last of Us (2013). He has appeared in films such as Backdraft, The Master, Being John Malkovich, The Sessions, Vanilla Sky, The Lone Ranger, and Bloodworth (which he also wrote and produced), as well as series such as Seinfeld, NYPD Blue, C.S.I., C.S.I. Miami, The X-Files, Six Feet Under, Preacher, Bates Motel, True Detective, American Horror Story, Chicago Fire, and The Mandalorian.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Scream

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Being John Malkovich

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Sessions

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Vanilla Sky

As Barman

Draft Day

As Ralph Mowry

There's Something About Mary

As Warren Jensen

The Lone Ranger

As Mustached Ranger

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Bogeyman Never Dies

From Elm Street to Halloween, Scream to Candyman, horror icons keep returning in new forms. Freddy's Dead marked a strange end that became a beginning.

8 films

The Threshold of Nowhere

From a furniture store's hidden door to the endless corridors of the mind, this chain maps the liminal spaces where dread and wonder collide.

8 films

The Long Way Home, and Who Pays For It

A chain about sex work, disability and survival that keeps its camera on the worker's face rather than the client's wallet. It begins with a lift shared between...

8 films

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