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John Mahoney (born June 20, 1940) is an English American actor, known for playing Martin "Marty" Crane, the retired police officer father of Kelsey Grammer`s Dr. Frasier Crane, in the American TV series Frasier (NBC, 1993–2004). Mahoney, the seventh of eight children, was born in Blackpool, England - the town to which his mother was evacuated as the Mahoneys` home city of Manchester was bombed during the Second World War and the town where he started school at St Joseph`s College, Blackpool. After the war, the Mahoneys moved back to Manchester. Mahoney grew up in the Withington area of the city and discovered acting at the Stretford Youth Theatre. His father, Reg, was a baker. Mahoney moved to the United States as a young man when his older sister, Vera, a war-bride living in rural Illinois, agreed to sponsor him. He studied at Quincy University, Illinois, before joining the United States Army to speed up the citizenship process and to become a U.S. citizen; he received citizenship in 1959. He lived in Macomb, Illinois and taught English at Western Illinois University in the early 1970s, before settling in Oak Park, Illinois. He served as editor of a medical journal through much of the decade. He appeared in Frasier from its inception in 1993 until the final episode in 2004, and received numerous Emmy and Golden Globe award nominations for this role. Mahoney also appeared in an episode of Cheers as an inept jingle writer, including a brief conversation with Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer), whose father he would later play.
Mahoney lost all traces of his original Mancunian accent while serving in the U.S. Army, but he did resurrect it once on Frasier, while mocking Daphne Moon (played by English actress Jane Leeves) in the episode Look Before You Leap. In 2003, he returned to his home in Oak Park, Illinois, to work with the Chicago Steppenwolf Theatre again. Mahoney is the uncle of Illinois State Senator John Sullivan. Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mahoney |
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Quotes We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch. I was going to be living there and I didn`t want to sound like a foreigner all my life. And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it`s like... it`s like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor. You can take the boy out of England, but you can`t take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England. But it was just like life was waiting for me to make that decision, and when I finally made it, it just took me places I never even believed existed. I`m a dog person, I`ve had dogs all my life. But you see, it`s not really a dog. It`s more like a little robot. It`s an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn`t know any of us even though we`ve done five seasons of Frasier. It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride. I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team. People say there`s no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn`t because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol. (on his decision to pursue an acting career) So I was the associate editor of a medical journal in Chicago, and I was thirty seven, and all of a sudden I just sort of started going through this dark night of the soul... where I just... . Is this going to be it for me, am I going to be spending the rest of my life writing about cataracts and hemorrhoids... and... . just not what I wanted to do, and I was just intensely depressed all the time.Trivia Lost his British accent after he joined the U.S. Army. (February 2007) Starring in Roundabout Theater Company production of "Prelude to a Kiss" at the American Airlines Theater in New York. (May 2004) Having wrapped up "Frasier" (1993), he returned to Chicago to play Tom Garrison in Steppenwolf Theatre Company`s "I Never Sang for My Father." Mahoney is an ensemble member of Steppenwolf. He and David Hyde Pierce play the father and brother, respectively, of Kelsey Grammer on `Fraiser (1993)(TV)`. In 1997, Pierce again played Grammer`s brother, this time by playing Sideshow Bob`Cecil on _The Simpsons (1989)(TV) s brother`. To complete the joke, a decade later, Pierce reprised his role on another episode of The Simpsons, this time with Mahoney as father to them both. He joined the ensemble at Steppenwolf Theatre in 1979 and has appeared in over 20 productions there, including "The Dresser," "I Never Sang For My Father," "The Drawer Boy," "Balm in Gilead," "Orphans," "Of Mice and Men," "Born Yesterday," "The Song of Jacob Zulu," "Death and the Maiden." "Supple in Combat," and "The Man Who Came to Dinner". He made his Steppenwolf directing debut in 1994 with "Talking Heads". He joined the Army after he moved to the U.S. Once out of the service, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Quincy College and a Master of Arts degree in English from Western Illinois University. His favourite sitcom is "Rising Damp" (1974). While approaching middle age, he finally decided to become an actor by quitting his job as a medical journalist and enrolling in acting classes at the St. Nicholas Theater, which has since closed. He was formerly an English professor who taught at many colleges. Came to the United States to visit his sister who was a war bride Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Ted Danson: "Cheers" (1982), "Frasier" (1993) and "Becker" (1998). Won Broadway`s 1986 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for The House of Blue Leaves (1987) (TV). After "Frasier" (1993) ended, Mahoney claims he was approached for other TV series offers, but declined. Citing that "Frasier" (1993) comfortably gave him enough money, he wanted to return to the theater, which he considers his home. Was a member of the Stretford Civic Theatre in Manchester, England in his teens. Met actor John Malkovich in a Chicago acting class, who encouraged him to join the Steppenwolf theater company. Received a bachelor of arts degree from Quincy College (Quincy, Illinois, now Quincy University) and a masters in English from Western Illinois University (Macomb, Illinois). Lost his English accent after he joined the U.S. Army. Although he later played Frasier`s father Martin Crane on "Frasier" (1993), John Mahoney appeared on a 1992 episode of "Cheers" (1982) as a pianist who was hired to write a jingle for the bar. | ||
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