Jackie Earle Haley
Jackie Earle Haley
The career of Jackie Earle Haley should be inspirational for any former child star or out-of-work actor. In his preteen years, Haley earned his living as a TV commercial actor and voice-over artist (he voiced the son on Hanna-Barbera's animated All in the Family clone Wait Till Your Father Gets Home). At 13, Haley was cast as the juvenile delinquent with home-run power in Michael Ritchie's superb little-league comedy The Bad News Bears, earning a cult following for his portrayal of the swaggering, cool loner. He repeated the iconic role in two sequels, one of the few members of the original cast to do so. Peter Yates cast Haley, alongside future celebrities Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern, as a member of the bike-racing team in the Oscar-winning Breaking Away (1979). Earle disappeared from screens after some fitful television work through the '80s, but stayed busy behind the camera as a writer and an accomplished director of commercials. After more than a decade off the big screen, Haley made a spectacular return in 2006, first as the menacing bodyguard/driver Sugar Boy in All the King's Men, and then with an Oscar-nominated turn as a suburban pedophile in Todd Field's Little Children. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Jackie Earle Haley:
- Losin' It with Tom Cruise , John Stockwell , Shelley Long , Henry Darrow , Rick Rossovich , Joe Spinell
- Watchmen with Billy Crudup , Matthew Goode , Carla Gugino , Patrick Wilson
- Dollman with Tim Thomerson
- The Day of the Locust with Donald Sutherland , Karen Black , Burgess Meredith , William Atherton , Geraldine Page , Richard A. Dysart , Pepe Serna , Billy Barty , John Hillerman , Bill Baldwin , Norman Leavitt , Natalie Schafer , Queenie Smith , Nita Talbot , William Castle , Dennis Dugan , David Ladd , Paul Stewart
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