- published: 19 Dec 2006
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Brian Haley (born February 12, 1961) 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.
Haley was born in Seattle, Washington to a large Catholic family, the fifth of six children. His father was an airline executive and his mother was a homemaker and part time maid. His father is of Irish and Italian decent, which is where he gets his Italian middle name Carlo. At the age of three his family moved to Saint-Jovite, Quebec and he was put in a boarding home where he learned to speak fluent French. He disliked the experience so much that upon his return to Seattle 18 months later, he refused to speak the language except to translate for his younger sister, who only spoke French. He began acting as a child in the Seattle area doing community and school theater. As a teenager, he stumbled upon the film set of Scorchy (1976) in downtown Seattle. After seeing some of the movie being filmed, jumping into a few shots as an extra and meeting the star, Connie Stevens, he decided to pursue a career in show business.
Actors: Michael Constantine (actor), Steve Eastin (actor), George Peppard (actor), Walter Grauman (director), Alan Fudge (actor), Dana Elcar (actor), Martin Milner (actor), Fabian (actor), Don Murray (actor), Desi Arnaz Jr. (actor), J.J. Johnston (actor), Pat McNamara (actor), Selma Archerd (actress), William Dozier (actor), Robert Drasnin (composer),
Plot: The life of a stressed out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision which is causing the unhappiness of his wife.
Keywords: air-traffic-controller, airplane-accident, airportWe’re broken down on our knees
Broken down for all to see
Broken down nowhere to go
Not a prayer
Not a hope
Not a prayer to ever know
What the sun feels like
What it is to be alive
1, 2, 3, Go!
We won’t live forever
We won’t take it anymore
And the silence will be broken
We won’t live forever
We won’t take it anymore
And the silence will be broken here once more
We’re broken down, price to pay
Broken down another day
Broken down a life on hold
Lost our minds
Torn apart
Can’t find a way to make this ours
Look into these eyes
Now it’s time we come alive
1, 2, 3, Go!
We won’t live forever
We won’t take it anymore
And the silence will be broken
We won’t live forever
We won’t take it anymore
And the silence will be broken here once more
We don’t know where we go
It’s still in our souls
Nowhere to turn to
When will we give in? Yeah!
We won’t live forever
We won’t take it anymore
And the silence will be broken
We won’t live forever
We won’t take it anymore