Biography
Pat Flaherty, also credited as Edmund Joseph Flaherty, was an American actor who appeared in approximately 200 films, often in uncredited roles as policemen, guards or authority figures. Born in Washington, D.C., he attended Eastern High School and Dean College before graduating from Princeton University in 1918. After a career that included professional baseball, American football with the Chicago Bears, music publishing and an early attempt at film production, he turned to acting in the early 1930s.
Flaherty is credited as Mike Flaherty in My Man Godfrey (1936). He appeared in numerous classics, including uncredited parts in Modern Times (1936), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), The Great Dictator (1940), Saboteur (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Key Largo (1948) and Harvey (1950). He also worked as a technical adviser on baseball films and served in the US Marine Corps during the Second World War and the Korean War, attaining the rank of major.
