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Other names
  
D.R. Haney

Years active
  
1983-present


Name
  
Daryl Haney

Role
  
Actor

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Born
  
June 21, 1963 (age 60) (
1963-06-21
)
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Occupation
  
Actor, Screenwriter, Novelist, and Essayist

Movies
  
Friday the 13th Part VII: The N, Xtro 3: Watch the Skies, Lords of the Deep, Crime Zone, Concealed Weapon

Similar People
  
Harry Bromley Davenport, John Carl Buechler, Frank Mancuso - Jr, Jennifer Lynch, Luis Llosa

Daryl Haney (born June 21, 1963 in Charlottesville, Virginia), also known by the pen name D. R. Haney, is an American actor, screenwriter, novelist, and essayist.

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Film career

Born to a Virginia farming family, Haney relocated to New York City at age eighteen and studied acting with Mira Rostova and Frank Corsaro. He made his film debut in a NYU student short directed by Joseph Minion, who would later write the Golden Globe-nominated Martin Scorsese film After Hours (1985).

Soon after moving to New York, Haney was cast in his first starring role in a feature film, the Canadian thriller Self Defense (1983). A few years later, Haney was hired by Joseph Minion to write and star in the Roger Corman production Daddy's Boys, a period crime drama directed by Minion and made in order to utilize leftover sets from Big Bad Mama 2 (1987). For Haney, this began a six-year association with Corman's Concorde Pictures.

Immediately after completing Daddy's Boys, Haney was asked to write Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood for Paramount Pictures. As Haney recalls in Peter M. Bracke's book Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2005): "Barbara [Sachs, Associate Producer] was the first person I had contact with. I pitched her a few ideas and she shot them all down. I only had one more. I said, 'I notice that at the end of these movies, there's always a teenage girl who's left to battle Jason by herself. What if this girl had telekinetic powers?' Barbara immediately said, 'Jason vs. Carrie. Huh. That's an interesting idea.' Then we talked once or twice before I had to go back to New York. The next day I had literally just flown in and walked up the stairs of my old apartment, and the phone rang. It was Barbara saying: 'You got the job.'"

Haney relocated to Los Angeles, working often for Roger Corman, who continued his tradition of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations by asking Haney to write a new film version of Masque of the Red Death in 1989, in which Haney appeared as an actor, and he also had acting roles in Corman's Lords of the Deep (1989) and The Unborn (1991). He also wrote the film Dance with Death (1992) for Corman, which was based on a story by Poison Ivy creators Andy Ruben and his then-wife Katt Shea, and included an early performance by Lisa Kudrow. Around the same time, Haney landed a role in Sketch Artist (1992), which starred Drew Barrymore, Sean Young, and Jeff Fahey. In 1994, he wrote the story for the film Stranger by Night.

After Haney left Concorde, he was approached by British director-producer Harry Bromley Davenport to write the third installment of his Xtro franchise, Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995). This began a working relationship that resulted in Life Among the Cannibals (1996), a black comedy that garnered a cult following upon its release. Cannibals stars Kieran Mulroney, Juliet Landau, Mason Adams, Bette Ford, Wings Hauser, and Haney as Troy, a hypersensitive serial killer. The film was well received on the festival circuit, getting a Special Mention at the 1998 Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema, and nominated for Best Film at Fantasporto 1999 and a Grand Jury Prize at the Florida Film Festival 1997.

Haney and Bromley-Davenport followed Life Among the Cannibals with Erasable You (1998), another black comedy, this one starring Timothy Busfield, Melora Hardin from NBC's The Office (2005), and veteran actor M. Emmet Walsh. Next was Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001), based on the true story of Genie, a feral child who was confined to her bedroom by her mentally unstable father until California authorities discovered her, mute and uncivilized, at the age of thirteen.

In 2000, Haney temporarily relocated to Belgrade, Serbia, where he had a starring role in the Serbian film Rat uživo and became a recognizable actor in Belgrade. Back in the U.S., Haney appeared as a drug dealer in Jennifer Lynch's Surveillance (2008), which stars Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond. Haney also played a small part in Bromley-Davenport's Frozen Kiss (2008).

Literary career

While living in Belgrade, Haney began work on a novel, Banned for Life, which would take him nine years to complete, and for which he adopted the pen name D. R. Haney. Haney has explained the pen name by saying that he was embarrassed by some of the films on his resume: "I didn’t feel I could put my name on [Banned for Life]. I’d destroyed my name, or so I thought. At the same time, it would’ve killed me to use a pseudonym. How could I use a false name on a work so close to my heart?"

Banned for Life is about the search for a mysteriously vanished punk-rock icon, and the book, published by Vancouver's And/Or Press in May 2009, was praised by underground-music journals such as Maximum RocknRoll, Razorcake, and Big Wheel. The Big Wheel review referred to the book as a "thinly disguised memoir," about which Haney later said, "It’s not. I tried to make it read like one, but despite some biographical overlap, the narrator and I have led very different lives."

Following the publication of Banned for Life, Haney began to contribute essays to Brad Listi's literary website The Nervous Breakdown, quickly becoming one of the site's most popular writers. In October 2010, Subversia, a collection of Haney's essays for The Nervous Breakdown, was published as the inaugural title of the site's imprint, TNB Books.

Filmography

Writer
-
Goodbye Gandhi (pre-production)
2009
Sky Drops (Short) (writer)
2004
Fascination (based on a screenplay by)
2004
Michael Vs. Jason (Short) (characters)
2002
The Best Sex Ever (TV Series) (teleplay - 4 episodes)
- Housesitting (2002) - (teleplay)
- Mystery Writer (2002) - (teleplay)
- Private Eyes (2002) - (teleplay)
- Homework (2002) - (teleplay)
2001
Mockingbird Don't Sing (written by)
-
Lady Chatterley's Stories (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 2001) (teleplay - 1 episode, 2001)
- The Wager (2001) - (writer)
- The Manuscript (2001) - (teleplay)
2000
Baby Doll Forever
2000
Nightcap (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Sexual Competitors (2000) - (writer)
2000
The Voyeur (TV Series short)
2000
Bedtime Stories (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- The Regular (2000) - (writer)
- The Gift (2000) - (writer)
2000
Kama Sutra (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Women of the Royal Harem (2000) - (writer)
- Love Quarrels (2000) - (writer)
1999
Forbidden Sins (written by)
1999
Life Among the Cannibals (writer)
1998
Erasable You (writer)
1995
Xtro 3: Watch the Skies
1994
Stranger by Night (Video)
1994
Animal Instincts II (Video) (writer)
1994
Emmanuelle in Space (TV Movie) (screenplay)
1994
One Man Army (written by)
1993
Mirror Images II (Video) (written by)
1992
Crisis in the Kremlin
1992
Dance with Death (screenplay)
1991
To Die Standing
1990
Play Murder for Me (additional dialogue)
1989
Masque of the Red Death (screenplay)
1989
Lords of the Deep (writer)
1988
Friday the 13th Part VII: Deleted Scenes (Video short) (writer)
1988
Crime Zone (screenplay)
1988
Friday the 13th: The New Blood (written by)
1988
Daddy's Boys (writer)
Actor
-
Nine as
Guest 4
2014
My Johnny (Short) as
Sonny
2009
Frozen Kiss as
Scar-Faced Man
2009
Smile Pretty as
Peter (uncredited)
2008
Surveillance as
Drug Dealer (as D.R. Haney)
2004
Sands of Yore (Short) as
Barker
2004
The Curse of the Komodo as
Finton
2003
The Untitled Star Wars Mockumentary as
Various
2001
Mockingbird Don't Sing as
Butcher
2000
Baby Doll Forever as
Big Red
2000
War Live as
Harvi
1999
Life Among the Cannibals as
Troy
1998
Waking Up Horton as
Hank
1998
Erasable You as
Jack Henry
1995
Xtro 3: Watch the Skies as
Prvt. Hendricks
1994
Concealed Weapon as
Oliver Wright
1992
Sketch Artist (TV Movie) as
Kadane
1991
Uncaged as
John in Nova
1991
The Unborn as
Officer Lumley
1990
Watchers II as
Panhandler
1990
Marked for Murder (Video) as
Agent #1
1989
Masque of the Red Death as
Fabio
1989
Lords of the Deep as
O'Neill
1988
Drugi covek as
Oliver
1988
Daddy's Boys as
Jimmy
1983
Siege as
Chester (as Darel Haeny)
1981
The Office (Short) as
Crane
Producer
1999
Life Among the Cannibals (associate producer)
1995
Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (co-producer)
Miscellaneous
2013
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (Video documentary) (archival material)
Thanks
2020
Mike Garson and His 88 Friends (Documentary) (special thanks)
2019
After the Flesh (Short) (special thanks)
2018
Fatal Pulse (special mention - as Duke Haney)
Self
2008
Surveillance: The Watched Are Watching (Video documentary short) as
Self

References

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