Lanny Flaherty
Also Known As: Lenny Flaherty
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pontotoc, Mississippi, USA
Birthday: July 27, 1942
Deathday: February 18, 2024
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Gender: Male
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Miller's Crossing
Overview: Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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Sommersby
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-05
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Signs
Overview: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Genres: Drama Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-02
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Homicide: The Movie
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-13
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Bound by Honor
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-05
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Winter People
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-14
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Double Parked
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-26
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Overview: A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-28
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Cold in July
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-23
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A Simple Wish
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-11
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Forged
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-31
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Natural Born Killers
Overview: Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-26
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Someone Else's America
Overview: 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".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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Men in Black 3
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-23
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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-27
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Waterworld
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-28
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Tom and Huck
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Home Fries
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-25
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Ties to Rachel
Overview: Three stories about life in a small New England town, all with a common thread: a woman named Rachel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-25
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All Good Things
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-03
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Maze
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Benny Hill's World Tour: New York!
Overview: Mr. Hill's last TV work, taped and aired before his death, with outdoor scenes taped in New York City. Highlights of this show include "A Streetcar Named Desirée" (a Tennessee Williams takeoff) and a spoof of "Ask Dr. Ruth" (where he impersonated Dr. Ruth Westheimer and Roseanne).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-30
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Benny Hill's World Tour: New York!
Overview: Mr. Hill's last TV work, taped and aired before his death, with outdoor scenes taped in New York City. Highlights of this show include "A Streetcar Named Desirée" (a Tennessee Williams takeoff) and a spoof of "Ask Dr. Ruth" (where he impersonated Dr. Ruth Westheimer and Roseanne).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-30
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