Joe Flaherty Filmography

Robson Arms: Season 02

Home on the Range

Actors: Roseanne, Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Randy Quaid

Synopsis: Disney presents the animated musical Western Home on the Range, featuring an original musical score by Alan Menken. The Little Piece of Heaven family farm is about to go under and outlaw cattle rustler Alameda Slim (voice of Randy Quaid) sets his sights on it. Three dairy cows -- tough Maggie Read More

Phil the Alien

Synopsis: When an alcoholic extraterrestrial living in a small Northern Ontario town finds God, his spiritual journey leads him on tour with a local bar in the feature debut of director Rob Stefaniuk. Soon after crash-landing in a remote Ontario town, innocent alien Phil strikes up a warm friendship with an Read More

National Security

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Bill Duke, Eric Roberts, Timothy Busfield, Robinne Lee, Joe Flaherty

Synopsis: Adversaries become wary allies in this free-wheeling action comedy. Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) is a Los Angeles Police Department officer who finds himself out of a job after he becomes involved in a violent altercation with police academy flunk-out Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence), escalating Read More

Slackers

Actors: Devon Sawa, Jason Schwartzman, James King, Jason Segel, Michael C. Maronna, Laura Prepon

Synopsis: Three lifelong cheaters wise up in this gross-out college comedy, which marks the second feature role for Rushmore star Jason Schwartzman. It's the last semester of senior year for roomies Dave (Devon Sawa), Sam (Jason Segel), and Jeff (Michael C. Maronna), a trio of twenty-somethings whose Read More

Frasier: Frasier Has Spokane

Actors: Bill Hayes, Catherine Bruhier, Tom McGowan, Joe Flaherty, Leo Marks

Synopsis: Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) thinks he has scored a professional coup when his Seattle-based radio advice show is syndicated to a station in Spokane. No such luck! The Spokane audiences resent Frasier because his show has replaced the one hosted by popular and venerable local radio personality Sully (Bill Hayes Read More

Freaks and Geeks [TV Series]

Actors: Linda Cardellini, John Francis Daley, James Franco, Samm Levine, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Martin Starr, Joe Flaherty, Becky Ann Baker, Busy Philipps

Synopsis: Though it didn't even make it through its inaugural season on NBC, this 1999-2000 cult hit helped launch the career of many a fine young actor and attracted a huge new audience upon its elaborate DVD release in 2004. An ensemble comedy drama about a group of misfits growing up in the Detroit Read More

The Wrong Guy

Actors: Dave Foley, Jennifer Tilly, David Higgins, Colm Feore, Kevin McDonald

Synopsis: TV director David Steinberg (Mad About You, Seinfeld) helmed this Canadian comedy satirizing The Fugitive and similar actioners. Cleveland corporate climber Nelson Hibbert (Dave Foley) is confident his promotion to company prez is just around the corner, but when it doesn't happen, he goes postal Read More

Snowboard Academy

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Jim Varney, Corey Haim, Brigitte Nielsen

Synopsis: This goofy low-budget comedy follows a group of maverick misanthropes as they try to save the struggling title school from financial ruin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Happy Gilmore

Actors: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay, Carl Weathers

Synopsis: Adam Sandler's second popular starring vehicle after Billy Madison is a goofy lowbrow paean to golf, hockey, and the comic hysterics of its childlike star. In Happy Gilmore, Sandler plays the title character, a raw, determined, but ultimately untalented hockey player who keeps trying out for the Read More

Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare

Actors: Melissa Joan Hart, Jason Marsden, Susan French, Joe Flaherty, Romy Walthall

Synopsis: In this frenetic made-for-television outing, a young boy tries to get into the crazy, competitive spirit of his relatives' annual "Family Olympics," but finds himself more interested in the enigmatic runaway who seems to come out of nowhere. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Runaway Daughters

Actors: Paul Rudd, Julie Bowen, Dee Wallace, Jenny Lewis, Holly Fields

Synopsis: Some teen girls take to the road in this made-for-cable remake of the 1956 original. Set in 1957, three guy-crazy friends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he goes off into the Navy. The film is part of Showtime's "Rebel Highways" series of Read More

A Pig's Tale

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Graham Sack, Mike Damus

Synopsis: In this zany kid-oriented outing, a group of summer-camp misfits band together to get revenge upon their tormentors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of John Candy on SCTV

Synopsis: For many years, comedian John Candy was a staple of the prestigious Second City comedy troupe where he was known for creating such unforgettable characters as Johnny La Rue and Dr. Tongue. He was also a noted impressionist who had audiences rolling in the aisles with his take on such figures as Read More

Wedding Band

Actors: William Katt, Joyce Hyser, Tino Insana, Lance Kinsey, David Bowe

Synopsis: In this comedy, the members of the Shakers, an aspiring rock band, perform at a series of weird and wacky weddings. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

How to Make Funny Home Videos

Synopsis: Comedian Joe Flaherty appeared in a number of skits on Canada's SCTV series. Many fans still recall his character the Count, host of the fictitious Monster Chiller Horror Theatre. In this video, Flaherty appears as the Count, telling viewers how to turn mundane home videos into exciting ones by Read More

Looking for Miracles

Actors: Joe Flaherty

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Kevin Sullivan once more graces the small screen with a warm, deeply personal effort, this one titled Looking for Miracles. Set in 1935, the film details a sometimes painful family reunion. Two brothers, separated by the exigencies of the Depression, meet once more to compare Read More

Back to the Future Part II

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Harry Waters, Jr.

Synopsis: Things have barely settled from the excitement and resolve of the original Back to the Future, when in pops that crazy inventor Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) with news that in order to prevent a series of events that could ruin the McFly name for posterity, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox ) and Read More

Speed Zone

Actors: John Candy, Peter Boyle, Donna Dixon, Matt Frewer, Melody Anderson, Eugene Levy, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: A sheriff struggles vainly to keep the annual Cannonball Run cross-country race from taking place in this comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Who's Harry Crumb?

Actors: John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: John Candy's popularity from his appearances on the Canadian television series Second City TV did not translate into film success until he made the John Hughes comedy Uncle Buck. Who's Harry Crumb? was released just before the more well-known film, and some SCTV regulars make cameo appearances. In Read More

Married... With Children: Tooth or Consequences

Synopsis: Even 17 years of marriage is not nearly as painful as the toothache currently plaguing Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill). In desperation, Al visits his neighbor Marcy's (Amanda Bearse) dentist, who bears the Three Stoogelike name of Dr. Plierson (Joe Flaherty). As the session progresses, both Al and Plierson Read More

Blue Monkey

Actors: Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Susan Anspach, John Vernon, Joe Flaherty

Synopsis: This slick throwback to the giant-mutant-insect movies of the 1950's has built a small reputation solely on its irrelevant title -- the film contains no monkeys, blue or otherwise -- which confused both reviewers and viewers alike. (This dilemma was solved in its second video incarnation, under Read More

Innerspace

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis

Synopsis: Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction comedy with the visual razzle-dazzle and manic, goofball performances typical of his cartoon-inspired sensibilities. Navy test pilot Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) has volunteered for a highly dangerous medical experiment. A submersible craft Read More

One Crazy Summer

Actors: John Cusack, Demi Moore, Joel Murray, Curtis Armstrong, Bobcat Goldthwait

Synopsis: In this madcap comedy, Demi Moore plays Cassandra and John Cusack is Hoops McCann, two people who eventually fall in love and help each other out. Hoops is a cartoonist working on a teen love story that he hopes will get him accepted into art school. Cassandra is a troubled young woman about to Read More

Club Paradise

Actors: Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy

Synopsis: Robin Williams' comic shtick sabotages any attempt at comic development in Harold Ramis' patchy comedy farce Club Paradise. Williams plays Jack Moniker, a Chicago fireman injured in the line of duty, who uses his disability money to open up a run-down Caribbean resort. Jack eagerly awaits the Read More

Really Weird Tales

Synopsis: Originally telecast October 4, 1986, Really Weird Tales was meant to be a satirical spin on the old Twilight Zone series. SCTV regulars John Candy, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara and Joe Flaherty head the cast of this 90-minute comedy anthology. The tenor of the project can be gauged by the first Read More

Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird

Actors: Carroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Paul Bartel, Sandra Bernhard

Synopsis: The first film to be adapted from the popular children's television series Sesame Street, Follow That Bird follows the story of Big Bird after a social worker (Sally Kellerman) takes him away from Sesame Street to live with a family of birds in Illinois. Unhappy in his new surroundings, Big Bird Read More

SCTV Channel [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, John Hemphill

Synopsis: After wrapping production on the weekly, 90-minute NBC comedy-variety series SCTV Network, six members of the Canadian "Second City TV" comedy troupe reassembled for this cable-TV effort, which premiered November 22, 1983 on Cinemax. Seen in a weekly 45-minute slot, SCTV Channel proved an Read More

Going Berserk

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Alley Mills, Pat Hingle, Elizabeth Kerr

Synopsis: In this comedy, a stuffy congressman is dismayed when he discovers that his beloved daughter intends to marry limousine driver John Bourgignon (John Candy). While intending to put on a good show for his father-in-law to be, John is captured by some political opponents of the congressman. His Read More

The Best of SCTV [2]

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This is the second of three 90-minute NBC specials offering prized vignettes from SCTV's three seasons and the first season of SCTV: Network 90. Highlights include the hilariously irritating Canadian game show "High Q"; Funnyman Bobby Bittman's remake of "On the Waterfront"; "The Irwin Allen Read More

SCTV Network: Season 02

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Martin Short

Synopsis: The second and final season of NBC's 90-minute comedy-variety series SCTV Network finds the show's familiar acting troupe short of three members: Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, and Catherine O'Hara. Fortunately, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty, and Andrea Martin are still on hand, as is relative Read More

The Best of SCTV [3]

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This is the last of three 90-minute NBC specials offering prized vignettes from SCTV's three seasons and the first season of SCTV: Network 90. Highlights include Gregory Peck and Woody Allen's versions of Taxi Driver; the 2-minute adaptation of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Doug and Bob Read More

The Best of SCTV [1]

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This is the first of three 90-minute NBC specials offering prized vignettes from SCTV's three seasons and the first season of SCTV: Network 90. Highlights include "What's My Shoe Size?," "Play It Again, Bob," "Perry Como: Still Alive," "The Merv Griffith Show From Mayberry," "Leave It to Beaver Read More

SCTV Network 90: Season 01

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Expanding from 30 to 90 minutes per week in the process of "graduating" from Canada's Global Television Network to America's NBC, the popular sketch comedy series SCTV also boasts an expanded title -- SCTV: Network 90 -- as it launches its first NBC season. The "new" series' format is primarily Read More

Heavy Metal

Actors: Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Don Francks, Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis, Richard Romanus

Synopsis: Inspired by stories from the fantasy graphics magazine Heavy Metal, this five-part animated feature combines the talents of hundreds of artists and animators from 17 different countries. A glowing green orb called Loc-Nar that contains the sum total of all evil in the universe travels Read More

Stripes

Actors: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles, Sean Young, John Candy

Synopsis: Bill Murray decides to be all that he can be -- and it ain't pretty -- in this hit comedy. John Winger (Murray) is a quick-witted but unambitious loser who comes home after getting fired to discover that his car has been repossessed and his girlfriend is leaving him. With no idea of what to do Read More

SCTV: Season 02

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara

Synopsis: Although season two of SCTV appears to be higher-budgeted than season one, the series' strong suit is not its production polish but instead the brilliant ensemble work of John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, and Dave Thomas (Harold Ramis is largely absent this Read More

Used Cars

Actors: Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Frank McRae, Gerritt Graham, Deborah Harmon, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Used Cars is one of Robert Zemeckis' pre-Roger Rabbit and pre-Forrest Gump efforts starring Kurt Russell is a devious car salesman who goes to work for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Jack Warden. Warden's principal rival is his more prosperous twin brother, also played by Read More

SCTV: Season 03

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Although former stalwarts John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, and Harold Ramis are no longer part of the action, the third season of SCTV still boasts some of the Canadian-based sketch comedy series' best material. For starters, the season opener offers a special presentation of My Fair Lady...that is Read More

1941

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee, Nancy Allen

Synopsis: It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend the country to virtual blind panic in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thus begin several story threads that comprise the "plot" of this strange period Read More

The Lady in Red

Actors: Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad, Louise Fletcher, Christopher Lloyd, Laurie Heineman, Robert Hogan

Synopsis: Escaping from her childhood life of poverty and abuse on the farm, in the 1930s, Polly Franklin (Pamela Sue Martin) sets her sights on Hollywood as the promised land and leaves home. However, she doesn't get that far - she lands in Chicago instead. Taking the low-paying jobs which are available to Read More

SCTV [TV Series]

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Harold Ramis, John Candy, Eugene Levy

Synopsis: An outgrowth of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe, which was created in 1959, the Toronto branch of Second City invaded Canada's CBC in the fall of 1976 with a weekly, half-hour sketch comedy series, making up in talent and energy what it lacked in budget and production polish. Taped in Read More

Kojak: I Could Kill My Wife's Lawyer

Synopsis: Kojak (Telly Savalas) and his fellow detectives offer moral support to their police-officer colleague Richie Centorini (Joey Aresco), who is going through an unusually nasty divorce. The biggest thorn in Richie's side is his wife's sleazy attorney Everett Coughlin (played by future movie-studio Read More

Tunnel Vision

Actors: Philip Proctor, Howard Hesseman, Ernest Anderson, Edwina Anderson

Synopsis: This futuristic parody on television is made up of various sketches, and features some early performances of later well-known comics. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

SCTV: Season 01

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Harold Ramis, John Candy, Eugene Levy

Synopsis: The Canadian-based sketch comedy series SCTV wastes no time in setting its devastatingly satirical tone as it enters its first season. The opening episode begins with Dave Thomas' sidesplitting commercial for the "Laser-Matic Camera," then segues into the first session of "Johnny LaRue Exercise," Read More

Alex and the Gypsy

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Geneviève Bujold, James Woods, Gino Ardito, Robert Emhardt

Synopsis: Alexander Main (Jack Lemmon) is a tired, middle-aged bail bondsman who hears from his former girlfriend Maritza (Genevieve Bujold) for the first time in quite a while. The news isn't good: Maritza is accused of the attempted murder of her abusive lover, and she hopes that Alex can get her out of Read More

Kojak: Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred

Synopsis: The title of this episode refers to a phrase overheard during the failed hijacking of a painting-company truck. Kojak (Telly Savalas) intends to follow up this fragmentary clue to find out what the thieves are planning for the future. Meanwhile, would-be hijacker Augustine Pataki (Dick O'Neill) Read More

Delancey Street: The Crisis Within

Actors: Walter McGinn

Synopsis: San Francisco's Delancey Street is the locale of a halfway house for ex-convicts, former drug users, and other society castaways. The founder of this operation is himself a paroled convict (Walter McGinn), who hopes to help others get back on their feet as he has. His touchiest assignment is the Read More

The David Steinberg Show [TV Series]

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, David Steinberg, Dave Thomas, Bill Saluga