John Mahoney

John Mahoney (June 20, 1940 – February 4, 2018) was an English-born American actor. He became best known to the masses for his portrayal of retired cop Martin Crane in the TV series Frasier; He was also a leading figure in the Chicago theater scene.

From teaching to stage

He was born in Blackpool. In 1959, at the age of eighteen, she immigrated to join her older sister in Illinois and became a US citizen in 1971. He studied at Quincy University, and after receiving his master's degree in English from Western Illinois University, he taught at the same school for a while; He also worked as an editor in a medical journal. He turned to acting in his late thirties and joined the cast of Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago.

He made his stage debut with Orphans; In 1986, he received a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The House of Blue Leaves. In the cinema, he starred in films such as Moonstruck (1987), Say Anything... (1989), Barton Fink (1991) and In the Line of Fire (1993); He did voice-over work in the animations The Iron Giant and Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Frasier and the last years

In Frasier, which aired from 1993 to 2004, he played Martin Crane, the grumpy father who settles into his son's stylish Seattle apartment, for eleven seasons. He received two Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations for this role. After the series, he continued to act on Chicago stages. He died in Chicago on February 4, 2018, at the age of 77.