Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning writer and Second City alumnus who sparkled as Guy Caballero, Count Floyd, Big Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an original castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy series
SCTV, has died. He was 82.
His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty,
told the Canadian Press he died Monday after a brief illness.
A native of Pittsburgh, Flaherty also was known for his stint as A-1 Sporting Goods owner Harold Weir (the father of Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley’s characters) on the 1999-2000 NBC series
Freaks and Geeks and for his turn as a
Western Union man in
Back to the Future Part II (1989).