Comedian legend Joe Flaherty dead – he starred in “Back to the Future” and “Police Academy”. His daughter Gudrun confirmed this: “After a short illness he left us yesterday and since then I have had to struggle with this immense loss” He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1941.
He came to Chicago in the mid-1960s. He took part in a number of sketch comedy shows on TV. He was seen on the “David Steinberg Show”, “Second City TV” and the sequels “SCTV Network 90’ and ‘SCTV Channel’