nurse "Cuddles" in A Star is Born (1937). One of Flaherty's most unusual roles was in Wheeler & Woolsey's Off Again, On Again (1937), in which his character finds his wife (played by actress Patricia Wilder) in a compromising position with Bert Wheeler; he does not pummel the hapless Wheeler as expected, but instead meekly apologizes for his wife's flirtatiousness. Personal life Pat Flaherty was married twice. His first wife was the former Dorothy Fiske. The couple had one child, Edmund Flaherty, Jr. who was born in 1919 and died in 1995, by which time his name had been changed to Edmund Graham. On January 19, 1929, Flaherty married Dorothea Xaviera Fugazy, the daughter of boxing promoter Jack Fugazy aka Humbert Fugazy. They had two children, Patrick Joseph Flaherty and Frances X. Flaherty Knox. Flaherty died on December 4, 1970, in New York City of a heart attack. Selected filmography References External links Pat Flaherty – CITWF 1897 births 1970 deaths 20th-century American male actors American World War I pilots American aviators American male film actors American male television actors American people of Irish descent Male actors from New York City Male actors from Washington, D.C. Princeton University alumni United States Army personnel of World War I United States Marine Corps officers United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II United States Marine Corps personnel of the Korean War Eastern High School (Washington, D.C.) alumni