Byron Hadley

"You eat when we say you eat, you shit when we say you shit, and you piss when we say you piss! You got that, you maggot-dicked mother fucker!?"

- Hadley abusing a new inmate.

Captain Byron Hadley is the secondary antagonist of book and 1994 movie, The Shawshank Redemption. He is the top prison guard that serves as Warden Norton's right-hand man.

He was played by actor Clancy Brown, who also played the Kurgan, Connor's enemy and the main antagonist in the 1986 film Highlander.

Biography
Captain Hadley is a very cruel man who frequently abuses his authority by brutally beating inmates and sometimes killing them. However, he semmingly softens up to Andy a little when he offers to help Captain Hadley with his money. He even beats up Bogs Diamond, the head of "The Sisters" prison gang, after finding out that he had been raping and beating up Andy.

Later on, Warden Norton orders him to murder Tommy in order to keep him from proving Andy innocent. He is then arrested for this after Andy escapes with the ledger containing all the info about the corruption and the murder(s) that Hadley committed.

In the book, Hadley is a minor character whom retires a few years after receiving financial help from Andy after narrowly surviving a heart attack. He is also implied to be an abusive and controlling husband during his conversation with Andy, and he also never meets Norton.