'SCTV' cast member, 'Back to the Future' actor Joe Flaherty dies at 82

April 2 (UPI) - Actor Joe Flaherty died Monday at age 82 after a brief illness. His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, confirmed the news to the Toronto Star and Variety .

Flaherty was part of the cast of the sketch comedy series which also featured Martin Short , John Candy , Eugene Levy , Catherine O'Hara and Rick Moranis. He re-teamed with Short as Count Floyd in live-action segments on Short's cartoon.

A recognizable face in comedies from comedies like , Flaherty was a regular on , playing father to the main character teens played by Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley.

Daley posted on X, formerly Twitter, "Joe Flaherty made me crack up so hard it ruined takes."

Flaherty's one scene in was memorable. He plays a Western Union deliverer who brings a letter Doc Brown wrote in 1885 to Marty McFly in 1955, setting up the plot of

Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on June 21, 1941, Flaherty joined Second City in Chicago and moved to Toronto when the comedy group established a Toronto chapter.

Flaherty's last credit was a 2014 Count Floyd short . TV host Joe Bob Briggs recalled Flaherty donning Count Floyd costume for a 1999 episode of his TNT show,