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Lanny Flaherty Biography (1942-)

Born July 27, 1942, in Pontotoc, MS; son of Lander (a farmer) and Beryl (maiden name, Maharrey) Flaherty.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Actor, writer

Birth Details

July 27, 1942

Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• Whitt Carmichael, The Lucky Spot, 1987
• William Curtis, Abundance, Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1990
• Big Albert Connor, The Stick Wife, Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1991
• Bogdan, soldier, and translator, Mad Forest, Perry Street Theatre,New York Theatre Workshop, New York City, 1992
• Barnardine, Measure for Measure, New York Shakespeare Festival, Central Park, Delacorte Theatre, New York City, 1993
• Kurt, Moe's Lucky Seven, Playwrights' Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1994
• In the Heart of America, Stage II, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven,CT, 1994-1995
• Made stage debut as Capulet, Romeo and Juliet, Dallas ShakespeareFestival, TX; and New York debut as Scotty, Sweet Bird of Youth, Harkness Theatre; appeared on Broadway in Requiem for a Heavyweight and asunderstudy for roles of Slim, Whit, Boss, and Carlson, Of Mice and Men; appeared off-off-Broadway as Hank, The Other Women, Judith AndersonTheatre, and as Owen, The Pickle, T.O.M.I.; appeared at the Actors Theatre of Louisville's New Play Festival, Louisville, KY, as Moore, Advice to the Players, as Mr. Vaughn, Courtship, as Roundhouse, Love Suicide, and as driver, Summer; appeared at Dallas Shakespeare Festival, Dallas, TX, as ghost, Hamlet, as Pistol, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and as Gremio, The Taming of the Shrew; also appeared as Junius Brutus Booth, At the Tavern of the Raven; Victor Velasco, Barefoot in the Park; Tilden, Buried Child, Pittsburgh Public Theatre,PA; Hamm, Endgame; governor and hanging judge, Hot Grog, Virginia Stage Company; John Brown, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, John Brown's Body; Krapp, Krapp's Last Tape; Henry II, The Lion in Winter; James Tyrone, Long Day's Journey into Night; Sir Sampson Legend, Love for Love; Lennie, Of Mice and Men, Actors Theatre of Louisville; Vershinen, Three Sisters; Lee, True West, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, KY, and Capitol Repertory Theatre; Malvolio,Twelfth Night; Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night; and General St. Pe, Waltz of the Toreadors.
• Film Appearances
• Gudger Wright, Winter People, Columbia, 1989
• Terry, Miller's Crossing, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1990
• Merlie Ryan, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Angelika, 1991
• Buck, Sommersby, Warner Bros., 1993
• Big Al, Bound by Honor (also known as Blood In ... Blood Out and Blood In, Blood Out ... Bound by Honor), Buena Vista, 1993
• Earl Hickey, Natural Born Killers, Warner Bros., 1994
• Trader number one, Waterworld, Universal, 1995
• Guide, Someone Else's America (also known as L'Amerique des autres, Paradies, Brooklyn, and Tudja Amerika), Channel Four Films, 1995
• Emmett, Tom and Huck (also known as The Adventures of Tom and Huck and Tom Sawyer), Buena Vista, 1995
• Duane, A Simple Wish (also known as The Fairy Gosmother), Universal, 1997
• Red Jackson, Home Fries, Warner Bros., 1998
• Louie, Double Parked, Castle Hill Productions, 2000
• Drunk, Maze (also known as Touched), 2000, Andora PicturesInternational, 2001
• Sheriff, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (also known as BW2and BWP2), Artisan Entertainment, 2000
• Also appeared as security guard, The Prof.
• Television Appearances
• Specials
• Virgil Slater, Home at Last, PBS, 1988
• Benny Hill's World Tour: New York! (also known as Benny Hill'sWorld: New York!), USA Network, 1991
• Episodic
• (As Lenny Flaherty) Kaboom Pickens, "The Case of the Calpurnian Kugel Caper," Mathnet, 1991
• Techie, "You Thought the Pope Was Something," New York News, CBS,1995
• Wink, "The Lost," Third Watch, NBC, 2000
• Appeared as Big Vinnie Nichols, As the World Turns, CBS, as a sheriff, The Edge of Night, CBS and ABC, and as Stan, Guiding Light, CBS; also appeared in John Locke, PBS.
• Other
• Soupy Jones, Lonesome Dove (miniseries), CBS, 1989
• First drunk, Third Watch (pilot), NBC, 1999
• Homeless guy, Homicide: The Movie, NBC, 2000
• WRITINGS
• Plays
• Showdown at the Adobe Motel, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Hartman Stage Company, 1979
• A Birthing at Nubbin Ridge, 1981
• Crisscrosscreeks, 1981
• Cedars Mark the Campground, 1983
• Also author of No More Topwaters at Little Owl Creek and Whilom.