Pat Flaherty

Pat Flaherty

actor, additional crew

Pat Flaherty was born on Mar 08, 1897 in USA. Pat Flaherty's big-screen debut came with Come On, Marines! directed by Henry Hathaway in 1934, strarring Peewee. Pat Flaherty is known for The Desperate Hours directed by William Wyler, Humphrey Bogart stars as Glenn Griffin and Fredric March as Daniel Hilliard. The upcoming new movie Pat Flaherty plays is The Road to Denver which will be released on Nov 22, 1955.

Pat Flaherty served in the military during the Mexican border campaign in 1916 and was a flying officer for the Signal Corps in World War I. He then played professional baseball in the minor leagues in Des Moines, San Francisco, Shreveport, Indianapolis, Akron and for other teams. He played professional football for the Chicago Bears in 1923. After his sports career was finished he went to New York, where he became very successful with the DeSylva-Brown music publishing company. There he married Dorothea X. Fugazy, the daughter of a famous boxing promoter. In 1930 he came to Hollywood to work as a producer for Joseph P. Kennedy at Fox Films, but the Great Depression resulted in his position being eliminated, and he turned to acting. In Un jour aux courses (1937), he played a plainclothes detective who leads a group of policemen chasing Groucho Marx. His clipped East Coast accent and gruff demeanor often caused him to be cast as tough cops, prison guards, foremen, or other types of authority figures. In addition to his career as a character actor, he was a technical advisor on baseball pictures; for example, he taught Gary Cooper how to pitch for his role in Vainqueur du destin (1942). In World War II he received a commission in the Marine Corps. He also served in Korea and was discharged with the rank of major.

  • Birthday

    Mar 08, 1897
  • Place of Birth

    Washington, District of Columbia, USA

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