Trivia

Harper Flaherty was often depicted as one of Shiloh's ranch hands, but when he was serving as Doug McClure's stunt double he would be part of a small crew taken by the episode second director to film action scenes generally without the stars. This proved to be a cost efficient way to get the action scenes done. At times stuntmen were credited as Action Coordinators when they staged a fist fight or other close quarters battle.

Doug McClure was knocked out and badly injured once by Harper Flaherty. Hal Needham came off a stagecoach and Harper Flaherty fell off a horse. McClure was sitting in a chair, just observing the action, when Flaherty's horse fell and landed on him. McClure's back was fractured.

Behind the Scenes in Hollywood by Harrison Carroll wrote that a "wild brawl" in Universal's "The Winning Position" resulted in actor David Hartman being knocked out by stuntman Harper Flaherty who in turn broke his hand.

Harper and Dorothia Flaherty had one child, Catherine Flaherty, in 1951. Dorothia was only forty years old in 1953 when during her fifth month of pregnancy she unexpectedly died of a heart attack at her mother's home in Evanston, Illinois, USA.

The Hollywood TV Ticker by Rob Hull reported that Harper Flaherty suffered three broken ribs while riding his motorbike in a race.

Harper Flaherty married his first wife, Dorothie Littlefield (September 16, 1912 - August 24, 1953), in 1946. She was choreographer for the Hollywood Ice Revue and with her brother, Carl, served as choreographer for the Ice Capades. She was a member of the Littlefield Ballet and the Philadelphia Ballet Company. She also taught at the Littlefield Ballet School in Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA.

After the 1944 Hollywood Ice Revue closed Harper Flaherty joined the ice skating cast of Stars on Ice. Stars on Ice played at New York City's Radio City's Center Theater, now known as Radio City Music Hall.

Sonja Henie's seventh annual Hollywood Ice Revue at Madison Garden ran from January 18 thru February 4, 1944. Harper Flaherty was one of the ice skating cast members.

Harper Flaherty was in a cast of seventy-five skaters in the 1948 Hollywood Ice Revue starring Sonja Henie at Madison Square Garden. It was reported that the revue ran for seventeen days from January 22 thru February 10, 1948.