Pat Flaherty 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 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.
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