Lanny Flaherty

Lanny Flaherty

Born: July 27, 1942
Died: February 18, 2024
in Pontotoc, Mississippi, USA
Lanny Flaherty (July 27, 1942 – February 18, 2024) was an American actor.

Flaherty had roles in films and miniseries such as Lonesome Dove, Natural Born Killers, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 and Signs. He also had a brief role in Men in Black 3, and appeared as Jack Crow in Jim Mickles 2014 adaptation of Cold in July. Other film appearances include Winter People, Millers Crossing, Blood In Blood Out, Tom and Huck and Home Fries while television roles include guest appearances on The Equalizer, New York News and White Collar as well as a two-episode stint on The Education of Max Bickford as Whammo.

Flaherty was a graduate of Pontotoc High School, and attended University of Southern Mississippi after high school. He resided in New York City.

Movies for Lanny Flaherty...

Cold in July
Title: Cold in July
Character: Jack Crow
Released: May 23, 2014
Type: Movie
While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.
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Men in Black 3
Title: Men in Black 3
Character: Obadiah Price
Released: May 23, 2012
Type: Movie
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.
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All Good Things
Title: All Good Things
Character: Rooming House Landlord
Released: December 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
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Forged
Title: Forged
Character: Tom
Released: July 31, 2010
Type: Movie
Released from prison after serving a sentence for murdering his wife, Chuco returns to Scranton, Penn., where he meets his son, who naturally wants revenge. The two proceed to wrestle with their emotions and the past, forging an unlikely bond.
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Title: White Collar
Character: Motel Clerk
Released: October 23, 2009
Type: TV
In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke catch elusive white-collar criminals.
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Signs
Title: Signs
Character: Mr. Nathan
Released: August 2, 2002
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
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Maze
Title: Maze
Character: Drunk
Released: November 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But his life takes an unexpected turn when his friend Mike departs on a humanitarian mission, leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend Callie. She leans on Lyle for help, and before long he's Lamaze coach, pinch-hitting father-to-be and in love with Callie.
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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Title: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Character: Sheriff Cravens
Released: October 27, 2000
Type: Movie
Young adults become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.
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Homicide: The Movie
Title: Homicide: The Movie
Character: Homeless Guy
Released: February 13, 2000
Type: Movie
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
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Double Parked
Title: Double Parked
Character: Louie
Released: January 26, 2000
Type: Movie
A resourceful and high-spirited woman deals with financial distress and her asthmatic thirteen-year-old son when his life is gravely complicated by a new friendship with the son of her former drunken and abusive husband.
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Home Fries
Title: Home Fries
Character: Red Jackson
Released: November 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, she's pregnant and Dorian quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his scheming mother wants Sally dead. And Sally isn't sure she wants Dorian to be her child's father and also his brother.
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A Simple Wish
Title: A Simple Wish
Character: Duane
Released: July 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots.
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Ties to Rachel
Title: Ties to Rachel
Character: Stevens
Released: March 25, 1997
Type: Movie
Three stories about life in a small New England town, all with a common thread: a woman named Rachel.
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Tom and Huck
Title: Tom and Huck
Character: Emmett
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.
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Someone Else's America
Title: Someone Else's America
Character: Vodič
Released: September 9, 1995
Type: Movie
This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
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Waterworld
Title: Waterworld
Character: Trader
Released: July 28, 1995
Type: Movie
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
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Natural Born Killers
Title: Natural Born Killers
Character: Earl
Released: August 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
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Bound by Honor
Title: Bound by Honor
Character: Big Al
Released: February 5, 1993
Type: Movie
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
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Sommersby
Title: Sommersby
Character: Buck
Released: February 5, 1993
Type: Movie
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Title: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Character: Merlie Ryan
Released: March 28, 1991
Type: Movie
A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.
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Miller's Crossing
Title: Miller's Crossing
Character: Terry
Released: September 21, 1990
Type: Movie
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
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Winter People
Title: Winter People
Character: Gudger Wright
Released: April 14, 1989
Type: Movie
Wayland Jackson (Russell), a widower with a young daughter, moves to a small, impoverished mountain village in North Carolina, circa 1934. They are taken in by Collie Wright (McGillis), a single mother with an illegitimate baby, and she and Wayland soon fall in love. Trouble starts when the identity of her baby's father is revealed.
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Title: Lonesome Dove
Character: Soupy Jones
Released: February 5, 1989
Type: TV
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
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Title: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Character: Guard
Released: May 21, 1987
Type: TV
Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment living, love life and its consequences, and more.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Policeman
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.