PAT FLAHERTY BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Pat Flaherty was born on  March 8th, 1897 in Washington, District of Columbia with the birth name Edmund P. Flaherty, born to Mary Rose Ella and Michael Joseph Flaherty.  After graduating from Eastern High School he earned a degree from Princeton University in 1918.  

He served during World War I in the United States military as a flying officer for the Signal Corps.  He later went on to play professional baseball in the minor leagues for various cities and followed with playing professional football with the Chicago Bears in 1923.
 
Once he finished playing professional sports he moved to New York and found work the DeSylva-Brown music publishing company.  In 1930 he moved again, this time to Los Angeles California where he found work as a producer with Fox Films.  When the Great depression hit, he lost his job with Fox and instead turned to acting to support himself.
 
Soon he began appearing in such films as, "Death of the Diamond" (1934), "A Day at the Races" (1937), "She's Got Everything" (1937), "Always in Trouble" (1938), "Code of the Streets" (1939), "Boys' Reformatory" (1939), "Black Diamonds" (1940), "Flight Command" (1940), "Meet John Doe" (1941) and "Affectionately Yours" (1941).
 
He took a brief break from acting to serve during World War II in the Marine Corps.  Upon his discharge from the military he returned back to his acting work and continued to add such film roles as, "Angel and the Badman" (1947) starring John Wayne, Gail Russell, Irene Rich, "The Babe Ruth Story" (1948) starring William Bendix, "The Stratton Story" (1949) starring James Stewart, June Allyson, "The Jackie Robinson Story" (1950) starring Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson, "The Winning Team" (1952) starring Ronald Reagan, "The Pride of the Yankees" (1952) starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea and "Latin Lovers" (1953).
 
Along with his film work, later in life he added a number of television credits to his resume such as, "The Life of Riley", "The Abbott and Costello Show" and "The Public Defender".

Pat Flaherty married twice, first to Dorothy Fiske, and they had one child together.  When this marriage came to an end, he wed Dorothea X. Fugazy and they had two children together.  After appearing on the television series, "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" (1954) and the films, "The Road to Denver" (1955) and "The Desperate Hours" (1955) starring Fredric March, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Middleton he then retired from the industry and passed away on December 2nd, 1970 in New York City, New York after suffering from a heart attack.     

Filmography

1955         The Desperate Hours
1955         The Road to Denver
1954         The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show 
1954         Athena
1954         Jungle Gents
1954         The Public Defender 
1953         Latin Lovers
1953         The Life of Riley 
1953         Off Limits
1953         The Abbott and Costello Show 
1952         Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952         Million Dollar Mermaid
1952         Ride the Man Down
1952         The Winning Team
1952         Pat and Mike
1952         The Pride of St. Louis
1952         Hoodlum Empire
1951         Meet Danny Wilson
1951         The Racket
1951         Detective Story
1951         Angels in the Outfield
1951         The Lemon Drop Kid
1951         Storm Warning
1950         Harvey
1950         Tea for Two
1950         The Petty Girl
1950         David Harding, Counterspy
1950         Three Little Words
1950         Bright Leaf
1950         The Asphalt Jungle
1950         The Jackie Robinson Story
1950         The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1950         The Good Humor Man
1950         Blondie's Hero
1949         Tell It to the Judge
1949         Roseanna McCoy
1949         It's a Great Feeling
1949         One Last Fling
1949         The Stratton Story
1949         Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1948         Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1948         The Babe Ruth Story
1948         Key Largo
1948         Give My Regards to Broadway
1948         Silver River
1948         The Cobra Strikes
1948         The Noose Hangs High
1948         April Showers
1948         All My Sons
1948         The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947         Where There's Life
1947         The Fabulous Texan
1947         The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947         Something in the Wind
1947         The Long Night
1947         New Orleans
1947         The Red House
1947         Angel and the Badman
1946         The Best Years of Our Lives
1946         Nocturne
1946         Shadowed
1946         Decoy
1946         Home, Sweet Homicide
1946         Step by Step
1946         The Last Crooked Mile
1946         It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1946         Rendezvous with Annie
1946         Dangerous Busines
1946         Joe Palooka, Champ
1946         Her Kind of Man
1946         The Madonna's Secret
1943         Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943         Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943         Stage Door Canteen
1943         Two Tickets to London
1943         Hit the Ice
1942         Two Mugs from Brooklyn
1942         Gentleman Jim
1942         Just Off Broadway
1942         The Pride of the Yankees
1942         Juke Girl
1942         Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942         Private Buckaroo
1942         My Favorite Spy
1942         It Happened in Flatbush
1942         Saboteur
1942         Who Is Hope Schuyler?
1942         About Face
1942         Captains of the Clouds
1942         Pardon My Stripes
1942         Fly-By-Night
1941         Ball of Fire
1941         Rise and Shine
1941         Unexpected Uncle
1941         We Go Fast
1941         Highway West
1941         Sergeant York
1941         Affectionately Yours
1941         The Devil and Miss Jones
1941         Dead Men Tell
1941         Meet John Doe
1941         The Strawberry Blonde
1940         Kitty Foyle
1940         Flight Command
1940         Sandy Gets Her Man
1940         The Great Dictator
1940         Knute Rockne All American
1940         City for Conquest
1940         Boom Town
1940         They Drive by Night
1940         Black Diamonds
1940         Sailor's Lady
1940         And One Was Beautiful
1940         My Son, My Son!
1940         Midnight Limited
1940         Castle on the Hudson
1940         The Grapes of Wrath
1940         His Girl Friday
1939         Invisible Stripes
1939         The Big Guy
1939         Miracle on Main Street
1939         The Man from Montreal
1939         Kid Nightingale
1939         Legion of Lost Flyers
1939         The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939         Sabotage
1939         Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
1939         Tell No Tales
1939         Only Angels Have Wings
1939         Boys' Reformatory
1939         Code of the Streets
1939         Dodge City
1939         Off the Record
1939         Convict's Code
1939         There's That Woman Again
1938         Newsboys' Home
1938         Secrets of a Nurse
1938         Always in Trouble
1938         You Can't Take It with You
1938         The Main Event
1938         Joy of Living
1938         Merrily We Live
1938         Hollywood Stadium Mystery
1937         She's Got Everything
1937         The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937         She Loved a Fireman
1937         Telephone Operator
1937         Submarine D-1
1937         Navy Blue and Gold
1937         Hold 'Em Navy
1937         Fight for Your Lady
1937         A Girl with Ideas
1937         Stand-In
1937         She Asked for It
1937         San Quentin
1937         On Again-Off Again
1937         A Day at the Races
1937         Parnell
1937         The Go Getter
1937         A Star Is Born
1937         Woman-Wise
1936         Flying Hostess
1936         Pigskin Parade
1936         Magnificent Brute
1936         End of the Trail
1936         The Luckiest Girl in the World
1936         My Man Godfrey
1936         Straight from the Shoulder
1936         Hearts in Bondage
1936         Counterfeit
1936         Sons o' Guns
1936         Love Before Breakfast
1935         Whipsaw
1935         Mutiny on the Bounty
1935         China Seas
1935         The Call of the Wild
1935         Air Hawks
1935         'G' Men
1935         Eight Bells
1935         It Happened in New York
1935         The Casino Murder Case
1935         Times Square Lady
1935         Naughty Marietta
1935         After Office Hours
1935         Shadow of Doubt
1935         Under Pressure
1935         Mystery Woman
1934         The Mighty Barnum
1934         Forsaking All Others
1934         Bright Eyes
1934         365 Nights in Hollywood
1934         Cheating Cheaters
1934         Death on the Diamond
1934         Have a Heart
1934         The Girl from Missouri
1934         The Thin Man
1934         Twentieth Century
1934         She Made Her Bed
1934         Come On, Marines!