George Francis 'Pat' Flaherty, Jr. (January 6 1926 - April 9 2002) was an American racecar driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1956.
Born in Glendale, California, Flaherty died of cancer in Oxnard, California. He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1950, 1953-1956, 1958-1958, and 1963 seasons with 19 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 races in 1950, 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1959. He finished in the top ten 9 times, with victories in 1955 and 1956 at Milwaukee as well as the 1956 Indianapolis 500.
Pat Flaherty is an American Football coach. He is currently the offensive line coach for the New York Giants of the National Football League.
Pat Flaherty (March 8, 1897 - December 2, 1970) was an American actor known for playing uncredited roles as forces of the law.
Film credits include Come on Marines, The Main Event, Convict's Code, Boys' Reformatory, Legion of Lost Flyers, His Girl Friday, The Grapes of Wrath, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Good Humor Man, and The Desperate Hours.
He died of a heart attack at the age of 73.
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 Day at the Races, A (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 (I) how to pitch for his role in Pride of the Yankees, The (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.
