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Jackie Earle Haley

Jackie Earle Haley
Jackie Earle Haley
Born: Jul 14, 1961 in Northridge, California
Occupation: Actor, Writer,
Active: '70s-??s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: Breaking Away, The Bad News Bears, Little Children
First Major Screen Credit: The Bad News Bears (1976)
12 Videos for Jackie Earle Haley
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Fragments (2008) Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993)
Human Target [TV Series] (2010) Semi-Pro (2008) Nemesis (1993)
Shutter Island (2010) All the King's Men (2006) Dollman (1991)
Watchmen (2009) Little Children (2006) Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: Season 01 (1972)
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Biography:

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.