Brian Haley(I)
- Actor
- Writer
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.
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.
