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.

Filmography

• Sheriff Country — Wes Fox
• 2024Shirley — George Wallace
• 2024The Dead Don't Hurt — Alan Kendall
• Hello Tomorrow! — Big Fred
• Paul T. Goldman — Royce Rocco
• Fire Country — Wes Fox
• 2021American Sausage Standoff — Jimmy Jerry Lee Jones Jr.
• Hacks — Michael
• 2021No Man of God — Warden Wilkenson
• The Book of Boba Fett — Weequay Proprietor
• The Ghost and Molly McGee — Lord Doom (voice)
• 2021The Unforgivable — Mac Whelan
• 2019Deadwood: The Movie — Dan Dority
• 2019I Lost My Mother's Ashes — Mortician
• Reprisal — Witt
• The Boys — Reverend Greg Dupree
• 2019The Highwaymen — Ivy Methvin
• The Mandalorian — Weequay Proprietor
• 2018Dad Band — Jimbo, Producer, Writer
• Yellowstone — Deputy Spears
• Superstition — The Dredge
• Preacher — Hugo Root
• 2016Spaceman — Dick Dennis
• American Crime — Tom Carlin
• 2015Black Mass — John Martorano
• Wicked City — Captain Dan Wilkinson
• 2014Chasing Ghosts — Roger Simons
• 2014Draft Day — Ralph Mowry
• True Detective — Detective Teague Dixon
• 2014Wild — Frank
• 2013A Single Shot — Puffy
• 2013Alice in Chains: AIC 23 — Alan Poole McLard, Writer
• Bates Motel — Keith Summers
• 2013Beneath the Harvest Sky — Roger Cyr
• 2013Brother's Keeper — Turner Monroe
• Rectify — The Stranger
• 2013The Lone Ranger — Mustached Ranger
• 2013The Sixth Gun — General Oliander Hume
• 2012Blue-Eyed Butcher — Thomas Dean
• Chicago Fire — Dave Bloom
• Longmire — R.J. Watts
• Perception — Frank Prentice
• 2012The Master — Fighting Businessman
• 2012The Sessions — Rod
• American Horror Story — Phil Critter
• 2010Bloodworth — Brady Bloodworth, Screenplay, Producer
• Justified — Cal Wallace
• Miami Medical
• 2010Pickin' and Grinnin' — Parson
• 2010The Last Rites of Ransom Pride — Matthew
• Archer — Head Biker (voice)
• Hawthorne — Mr. Deegan
• 20081% — Sailor
• The Mentalist — Rulon Farnes
• Burn Notice — Zechariah
• Psych — Dwayne Tancana
• Grey's Anatomy — Herb Cramer
• 2005Kids in America — Boss McGinn
• Numb3rs — Abner Stone
• 2005The Big White — Jimbo
• Deadwood — Dan Dority, Writer
• 2004Killer Diller — Holister
• 2004The Alamo — David Burnet
• 2004The Last Shot — Willie Gratzo
• Cold Case — Victor Lake
• 2003Dunsmore — Ronny Roy Pritcher
• 2003Pauly Shore Is Dead — Bucky from Kentucky
• CSI: Miami — Jesse Kramer
• Push, Nevada
• 2001Dancing at the Blue Iguana — Bobby
• Six Feet Under — Pete
• 2001Sugar & Spice — Hank 'Terminator' Rogers
• 2001Vanilla Sky — Barman
• Wolf Lake — Bruce Cates
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Thomas Pickens / Roger Peet, Slick
• FreakyLinks
• 2000Lost Souls — William Kelson
• 2000Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back — Meat Loaf
• Angel — Menlo
• 1999Being John Malkovich — First J.M. Inc. Customer
• Charmed — Shadow / Warlock
• 1998Deep Impact — McCloud (uncredited)
• Martial Law — Larry Gambozza
• 1998There's Something About Mary — Warren Jensen
• 1997Bella Mafia — Fredrico Luciano
• 1997Kiss the Girls — Locksmith
• Smart Guy — Sonny
• A Season in Purgatory — Fatty Malloy
• Profiler — Raymond Boudreaux
• 1996Project: ALF — Ernie
• 1996Scream — Kenny
• 1996The Cherokee Kid — Calloway
• 1996Wiseguy — Dubois
• Caroline in the City — Floyd Gerber
• Nowhere Man — Roy
• The Single Guy — Cabbie
• 1995Vampire in Brooklyn — Thrasher
• 1995Without Evidence — Grace
• Chicago Hope — Harry Cram
• 1994Dead Air — Ken
• Ellen — Customer
• 1994Lily in Winter — Sheriff Boyd
• 1994Wes Craven's New Nightmare — Morgue Attendant
• Diagnosis: Murder — Dusty Wilton
• 1993Excessive Force — Vinnie DiMarco
• 1993Rookie of the Year — Billy Frick
• The Untouchables
• 1993The Woman Who Loved Elvis — Pete
• The X-Files — Robert M. Fassl
• 1992The Babe — Herb Pennock
• 1991Backdraft — Paramedic, Dialect Coach
• Seinfeld — Al
• Murder, She Wrote — Guard
• Red Blooded — Deputy Joe Paul
• Roadside Picnic — Buzzard

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2017The Legend of 420 — Himself
• 2013Grounded: Making The Last of Us — Self
• 2011Scream: The Inside Story — Self
• 2011Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective — Self