First Name
Joe
Last Name
Flaherty
Date of Birth
21 May 1941
Build
Average
Hair Color
Black
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, PA
Star Sign
Taurus
Ethnicity
White
Claim to Fame
SCTV
Gender
Male
Nationality
American
Wikipedia Text
Joe Flaherty (born June 21, 1941) is an American-Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV, from 1976 to 1984, and as Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks. He is currently a judge on The Second City's Next Comedy Legend.
Couple Profile
Flaherty was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but moved to Chicago where he started his comedy career with the Second City Theater as Joe O`Flaherty. After seven years in Chicago, he moved to Toronto, Ontario to help establish the Toronto Second City theatre troupe. During those years, he was one of the original writer/performers on SCTV, where he spent eight years on the show, playing such characters as Big Jim McBob (of Farm Film Report fame), Count Floyd/Floyd Robertson (the latter being a spoof of CBC newsman Lloyd Robertson), and station owner/manager Guy Caballero who goes around in a wheelchair simply for the respect therein.
Other memorable Flaherty characterizations included emotional talk show host Sammy Maudlin, seedy saxophonist Vic Hedges, aggressive elocution lecturer Norman Gorman, myopic public television host Hugh Betcha and "crazy as a snake" ex-convict Rocco.
SCTV ceased production in 1984.
Throughout his film career, Flaherty has appeared in a number of cult favorites, most notably playing the part of the Western Union postal worker who delivers Doc Brown`s 70-year-old letter to Marty McFly in the climax of 1989`s Back to the Future Part II. Younger audiences may know him best as the heckler who taunts Happy Gilmore with under-his-breath intonations of `Jackass!`.
In 1999, Flaherty joined the cast of Freaks and Geeks, an NBC hour-long dramedy in which he played Harold Weir, the irascible father of two teens. (He would often lecture them with cautionary tales concluding, `You know where he is now? He`s dead!`) Despite a dedicated cult following, the show only lasted one season. He makes appearances on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens as Father McAndrew, Priest at the Heffernan`s Church. He currently stars on the BITE TV original program called Uncle Joe`s Cartoon Playhouse, and serves as a judge on the CBC program Second City`s: Next Comedy Legend
As of 2004, Flaherty is a member of the faculty at Humber College, where he teaches a comedy writing course. He is also on the program`s Advisory Committee.
Flaherty`s brother is comedy writer David Flaherty. He also has a daughter, Gudrun Flaherty.
Couple Profile Source
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Flaherty
Full Name at Birth
Joe Flaherty
Count - Awards
12
Role ID
Actor/Actress, Writer, Producer
Has Detailed Data (New)
1
Height
73
Age
70
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