Caption | John Mahoney, September 2007 |
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Birth date | June 20, 1940 |
Birth place | Bispham, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1980–present |
John Mahoney (born 20 June 1940) is a British born 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).
He made his film debut in 1980, and has played supporting roles in such films as The Manhattan Project as Lt Col Conroy, (1986), Suspect and Moonstruck (both 1987 and both starring Cher), Eight Men Out, Frantic and Betrayed (all three 1988), Say Anything... (1989), Barton Fink (1991), The Water Engine (1992), In the Line of Fire (1993), Striking Distance (1993), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), The American President (1995), Primal Fear (1996), She's the One (1996), and The Broken Hearts Club (2000). Although he has often played "straight-arrow good guy" roles, Mahoney has occasionally gone into villain territory, for example in Reality Bites, in which he played a diva talk show host who torments Winona Ryder's character. He also appeared as infamous New York gangster Jimmy Burke in The Ten Million Dollar Getaway in 1991 and as hateful and insufferable college professor Dr. Leonard Hamlin on an episode of the NBC sit-com 3rd Rock From the Sun.
Mahoney also appeared in an episode of Cheers as an inept jingle writer named Sy Flembeck in the eleventh season, episode 5, including a brief conversation with Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer), whose father he would later play.
Mahoney joined the cast of the HBO drama, In Treatment, for the show's (2009) second season, portraying a frenetic CEO, overwhelmed by his personal and professional responsibilities, who experiences chronic physical anxiety attacks and arrives for therapy demanding a "quick fix", because his time is of the essence.
In 2010 he made a guest appearance on $#@! My Dad Says as an anti-gay retired naval officer, Lt. Cdr. Wally Durham.
Despite all the numerous successes throughout his career, Mahoney has maintained that his early work in Lyle Kessler's play Orphans has " affected people more than any other play I've ever done. I still get mail from it, I still get people stopping me on the street, and it's twenty years later".
Beginning in April of 2011, Mahoney began rehearsing The Outgoing Tide a new play by Bruce Graham at Northlight Theatre in Skokie, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago). The play also stars fellow Chicago actors Rondi Reed and Thom Cox.
Along with on-screen son, David Hyde Pierce, John is godfather to Frasier co-star Jane Leeves's son, Finn.
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.
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