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Brian Haley is a Actor American born on 12 february 1963 at Seattle (USA)
Brian Carlo Haley (born February 12, 1963) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. His stand-up act is characterized by playing his all-American looks against manic outbursts and absurd situations. As an actor he may be best known for his roles as Veeko the incompetent kidnapper in the John Hughes movie Baby's Day Out, the over-the-top football father Mike Hammersmith (aka Spike's dad) in Little Giants, or Clint Eastwood's son Mitch in the movie Gran Torino.
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Haley owns the Frank Sinatra booth and several other items from Chasen's restaurant. He is active with the relief organization World VisionBest films
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Draft Day (2014)
, 1h49Directed by Ivan Reitman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Kevin Costner, Frank Langella, Jennifer Garner, Tom Welling, Joe Manganiello, Chadwick Boseman
Roles NFL Commissioner (uncredited)
Rating67%
On the morning of the 2014 NFL Draft in New York City, Chris Berman, Jon Gruden, Mel Kiper Jr., and other analysts discuss the consensus first overall pick: Wisconsin quarterback Bo Callahan, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner. Cleveland Browns general manager Sonny Weaver Jr., must decide how to use the seventh overall pick to improve his consistently losing team, but has other issues. He recently learned that his secret girlfriend Ali Parker, the team's salary cap analyst, is pregnant with his child. His father, Sonny Weaver Sr., coached the Browns before Weaver Jr. fired him, and died a week before the draft. His mother is upset at him for missing the reading of Weaver Sr.
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
, 1h45Directed by George Nolfi, George Nolfi
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Romance
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Political films, Films based on works by Philip K. Dick
Actors Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, Michael Kelly, John Slattery, Lauren Hodges
Roles Police Officer Maes
Rating69%
In 2006, Brooklyn Congressman David Norris unsuccessfully runs for the United States Senate. While rehearsing his concession speech, David meets Elise Sellas. They share a passionate kiss, though he does not get her name. Inspired by her, David delivers an unusually candid speech that is well-received, making him a favorite for the 2010 race.
Gran Torino (2009)
, 1h52Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about racism, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Gangster films
Actors Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Cory Hardrict, Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Hughes, Christopher Carley
Roles Mitch Kowalski
Rating80%
Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a cantankerous, retired Polish American assembly line worker and Korean War veteran, who has recently been widowed after 50 years of marriage, causing him to be a lapsed Catholic. His Highland Park, Michigan neighborhood in the Detroit area, formerly populated by working class white families, is now dominated by poor Asian immigrants, and gang violence is commonplace. Adding to the isolation he feels is the emotional detachment of his family.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
, 1h45Directed by Tony Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Rail transport films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Films about hijackings
Actors Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, John Turturro, Victor Gojcaj, Michael Rispoli
Roles Police Captain Hill (MTA)
Rating63%
A man calling himself Ryder hijacks Pelham 123, a New York City Subway 6 train that departed from Pelham Bay Park station at 1:23 p.m. Ryder is accompanied by three other heavily armed men; Bashkim, Emri, and former train operator Phil Ramos. They uncouple the front car from the rest of the train and take the passengers hostage. MTA employee Walter Garber is working the Rail Control Center as a train dispatcher and receives a ransom call from Ryder, who demands $10 million in cash be paid within 60 minutes. Ryder warns that every minute past the deadline they force him to wait, he will execute a hostage.
The Departed (2006)
, 2h30Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone
Roles Detective #2 Tailing Queenan
Rating82%
As a child, Colin Sullivan (Damon) had been introduced to organized crime by Irish-American mobster Frank Costello (Nicholson) in the Irish neighborhood of South Boston. Over the years, Costello grooms him to become a mole inside the Massachusetts State Police, until Sullivan is accepted into the Special Investigations Unit, which focuses on organized crime.
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
, 1h56Directed by Frères Coen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Noir, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Richard Jenkins, Scarlett Johansson, Adam Alexi-Malle
Roles Officer Krebs
Rating74%
In 1949, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) is a low-key barber in the town of Santa Rosa, California. He is married to Doris (Frances McDormand), a bookkeeper with a drinking problem, and works in a barber shop that belongs to his brother-in-law Frank (Michael Badalucco). A customer named Creighton Tolliver (Jon Polito) tells Ed that he's a businessman looking for investors to put up $10,000 in a new technology called dry cleaning. Ed decides to get the money by anonymously blackmailing Doris's boss, "Big Dave" Brewster (James Gandolfini), whom he knows to be having an affair with Doris. Dave embezzles money from his department store to pay the blackmail. However, he soon pieces together the scheme and beats Tolliver until he implicates Ed. Dave confronts Ed at the store and attempts to kill him, but Ed stabs Dave fatally with a cigar knife.
Pearl Harbor (2001)
, 3h3Directed by Michael Bay
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Jesse James, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore
Roles Training Captain
Rating62%
In 1923 Tennessee, two young boys, Rafe McCawley (Jesse James) and Danny Walker (Reiley McClendon), play together in the back of an old biplane, pretending to be soldiers fighting the Germans in World War I. After Rafe's father lands his biplane and leaves, Rafe and Danny climb into the plane and Rafe accidentally starts it, giving the boys their first experience at flight. Soon afterward, Danny's father (William Fichtner) comes to take him home. He calls Rafe a "stupid boy" and beats Danny. In an effort to protect Danny, Rafe hits Danny's father with an old propeller and calls him a "dirty German". Danny's father reacts by saying he fought the Germans in the trenches in France during World War I, and that he prays that no one will ever have to see the things he saw.
The Thirteenth Year (1999)
, 1h35Directed by Duwayne Dunham
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Mermaids in film, Children's films
Actors Chez Starbuck, Courtnee Draper, Brent Briscoe, Timothy Redwine, Dave Coulier, Brian Haley
Roles Coach
Rating59%
Cody Griffin is an adopted teenager; his birth mother is a mermaid who left him on the Griffins' boat when he was a baby to avoid being captured. As she left, she was spotted by Mr. Wheatly, a fisherman who became obsessed with finding mermaids. Cody establishes himself as a quick swimmer in the town he lives in, and has a girlfriend named Sam. He's under a lot of pressure from a big swim meet coming up and because he's failing biology, he's partnered with Jess Wheatly, the class geek who is a marine biology expert.
That Darn Cat (1997)
, 1h29Directed by Bob Spiers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Christina Ricci, Doug E. Doug, Dean Jones, Peter Boyle, Megan Cavanagh, Bess Armstrong
Roles Marvin
Rating47%
A pair of bumbling kidnappers break into the house of the president with the intention of kidnapping his wife and holding her for ransom. Things don't go according to plan when they mistakenly kidnap house maid Lizzie instead.
McHale's Navy (1997)
, 1h48Directed by Bryan Spicer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Tom Arnold, Dean Stockwell, David Alan Grier, Debra Messing, Tim Curry, Bruce Campbell
Roles Christy
Rating46%
The movie opens in the Caribbean, on the Island of San Moreno, where a trio of important looking men (a Chinese militant, a Russian General, and a European businessman) are meeting with the island's governor. After paying him a suitcase full of money for a special operation, the three men are joined, via helicopter, by Major Vladakov (Tim Curry), the second best terrorist in the world, who will be in charge of the operation. This entire event is witnessed by a young boy named Roberto who takes pictures of the governor, the Major, and his men.
Mars Attacks! (1996)
, 1h46Directed by Tim Burton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Politique, Mars in film, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Martiens, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films, White House in fiction
Actors Jack Nicholson, Lukas Haas, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Sylvia Sidney
Roles Mitch
Rating64%
In Kentucky, a family watches an enormous horde of cattle running past their home, having caught fire, and a flying saucer leaving Earth. The ship explodes before it returns to Mars, and hundreds of other Martian ships leave Mars and head towards Earth.
Baby's Day Out (1994)
, 1h39Directed by Patrick Read Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano, Lara Flynn Boyle, Cynthia Nixon, Brian Haley, Matthew Glave
Roles Veeko
Rating62%
Bennington Austin "Bink" Cotwell IV (Adam and Jacob Worton), a mischievous baby who lives in a huge mansion with his family, is just about to appear in the social pages of the newspaper. Three criminals, Eddie, Norby, and Veeko, pose as the photographers and kidnap him, demanding a ransom. After the kidnapping, however, they have difficulty controlling him. While trying to get Bink to fall asleep, Norby does so reading Bink's book titled "Baby's Day Out", leaving him unattended. Looking through it, Bink notices a bird on the page and then one by the open window. He follows it out and successfully gets away from his kidnappers, with Eddie falling off the building and into a garbage bin while chasing after him through the rooftop.
Clean Slate (1994)
, 1h47Directed by Mick Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Michael Gambon, Dana Carvey, Valeria Golino, Michael Murphy, Jayne Brook, James Earl Jones
Roles Patient
Rating57%
Maurice Pogue (Carvey) has retrograde amnesia, a form of amnesia that prevents him from remembering anything that happened to him the day before. He realizes from a recording he made for himself the previous night (Sunday) – to keep himself in the know – that he's a private investigator in Los Angeles, and acquired the condition after being injured during a case. Pogue tells himself not to reveal his condition to anyone, as he's the key witness in the case against the man responsible for his amnesia. Appearing on the recording is a strange woman, Sarah Novak (Golino), who informs him she has been living under the alias Beth Holly in San Francisco, and she has come to L.A. because she is being blackmailed. The police then come to Pogue's office, and take him to what turns out to be his birthday party. He tells his friend Dolby (Jones) that he's seen Sarah, and learns from Dolby that Sarah is dead. While at the party, Pogue also meets Anthony Doover (Michael Murphy), his doctor – the only person who knows of Pogue's condition.
Little Giants (1994)
, 1h46Directed by Duwayne Dunham
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill, Shawna Waldron, Devon Sawa, Susanna Thompson, Brian Haley
Roles Mike Hammersmith
Rating64%
Danny O'Shea (Rick Moranis) has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, Kevin (Ed O'Neill), a Heisman Trophy winner and a local football hero. The brothers live in their hometown of Urbania, Ohio. Kevin coaches the local "Pee-Wee Cowboys" football team. Despite being the best player, Danny's tomboy daughter Becky (Shawna Waldron), nicknamed Icebox, is cut during try outs because she is a girl. Also cut are Becky's less-talented friends, Rasheed Hanon (who can't catch anything), Tad Simpson (who can't run) and Rudy Zolteck (who's overweight and quite flatuent). After being ridiculed by the other players who made the team, she convinces her dad to coach a new pee-wee team of their own.
Into the Sun (1992)
, 1h41Directed by Fritz Kiersch
Origin USA
Genres War, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Michael Paré, Anthony Michael Hall, Deborah Moore, Terry Kiser, Brian Haley, Linden Ashby
Roles Lt. DeCarlo
Rating51%
Paul Watkins (Michael Paré) is an American pilot stationed in the Middle East, who is taken off his normal duties to show an actor about being a pilot in US Air Force. Tom Slade (Anthony Michael Hall) is an actor who wants to "get the feeling" before he plays the part in a movie about fighter pilots. But when Watkins takes Slade for a ride in an F-16 fighter, they are shot down and find themselves in a real combat situation.