Brian Haley

Brian Haley was born on Feb 12, 1963 in USA. Brian Haley's big-screen debut came with The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial directed by Robert Altman in 1988, strarring Party Guest. Brian Haley is known for Gran Torino directed by Clint Eastwood, Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Kowalski and Christopher Carley as Father Janovich. The upcoming new movie Brian Haley plays is Draft Day which will be released on Apr 11, 2014.

Began his professional career as a stand up comic in the Seattle area in the mid '80s, though was acting in Seattle theater since a child. He got his proverbial 'big break' in 1990 as a stand up on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. An HBO special followed as well as a two year deal for his own show at Fox television, which did not produce a series. While at Fox he wrote and starred in several short films for the TV show The Sunday Comics (1991) which led to a starring role in the film Bébé part en vadrouille (1994). Several other movies followed including Les petits géants (1994) where he played overzealous father Mike Hammersmith (aka Spike's Dad), the presidents secret service agent Mitch in Mars Attacks! (1996) and muscular dope Christie in McHale's Navy: y a-t-il un commandant à bord? (1997).During the 1995 Super Bowl he was in a popular Miller Lite beer commercial where he played hard luck quarterback Elmer Bruker, the man who was on every winning Super Bowl team, but never played. In 1996 he replaced Lowell the mechanic (played by Thomas Haden Church on the NBC series Wings (1990) and in 1999 he played bartender Tom Vanderhulst on the short lived CBS series Maggie Winters (1998) with Faith Ford.He has also played more serious rolls, including playing a detective in both Martin Scorsese's Les infiltrés (2006) and the Cohen brothers film The barber: l'homme qui n'était pas là (2001). He lives in New York and has a production company Sky Blue House Productions.