Pat Flaherty (actor)

Pat Flaherty
Pat Flaherty in My Man Godfrey (1936)
Born	Edmund Joseph Flaherty (1897-03-08)March 8, 1897 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died	December 2, 1970(1970-12-02) (aged 73) New York City, U.S.
Cause of death	Heart attack
Years active	1930s–1950s
Spouse(s)	Dorothy Fiske (1 child) Dorothea Xaviera Fugazy (1929-1970) (his death) (2 children)
Children	Edmund Flaherty Jr. (1919-1995) Patrick Joseph Flaherty Frances X. Flaherty Knox

Pat Flaherty (March 8, 1897 – December 2, 1970) was an American film actor who appeared in about 200 movies.

Flaherty was born Edmund Joseph Flaherty in Washington, D.C.; the son of Mary Rose Ella (née Wilson) and Michael Joseph Flaherty. He was the older brother of writer Vincent X. Flaherty. Flaherty had Irish ancestry. Pat attended Eastern High School, and Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts. After playing baseball, he attended Princeton University and graduated on January 26, 1918. Flaherty served in the United States Army during the Pancho Villa Expedition and then as a pilot in World War I.

Flaherty was a popular Washington, D.C. athlete and coach, who went on to become a professional baseball and football player who pitched for John McGraw's New York Giants, and punted for George Halas' Chicago Bears. After his professional athletic career ended, he went into the music publishing business with the legendary DeSylva, Brown and Henderson during the time of Mayor Jimmy Walker in New York.

Flaherty relocated to Hollywood to take a position as a producer at 20th Century Fox for the owner Joseph P. Kennedy when the Great Depression began. Subsequently, he found work as an actor and technical advisor in over 200 motion pictures. Flaherty can be seen in roles both large and small in films such as Death on the Diamond (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Sergeant York (1941), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), It Happened in Flatbush (1942), and a bit appearance as a bewildered Marine in Stage Door Canteen.