Artist, potter and teacher, born in London. Went to evening classes at Clapham School of Art, winning a scholarship to Royal College of Art, 1931–5, initially concentrating on painting, then on pottery under the potter William Staite Murray. During the late 1930s Haile showed with Surrealist Group and AIA. From 1939–44 he lived in New York, where Haile, whose politics were left-wing and convictions pacifist, went to escape what he considered a capitalist struggle. In England he had taught at Leicester College of Art and in the London area and in America, as well as exhibiting and selling works to public collections, he taught at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, and at the College of Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.