John Mahoney (20 June 1940 - 4 February 2018) was a Tony Award-winning English-American actor. Mahoney portrays Martin Crane on Frasier.
Career[]
Mahoney was born in Blackpool, UK, but on a visit to his older sister in the US decided to stay, and eventually acquired US citizenship after serving in the US Army.[1] There are occasional in-jokes on the series based on his being far closer to Mancunian than Jane Leeves, who is from Sussex.
Mahoney died in 2018, 5 years before the revival series aired. The series paid an homage to him - the new bar the characters go to is named "Mahoney's Taproom, since 1940" - a reference to his birth year.
Media[]
GIAF14 Interview With Frasier’s John Mahoney
Notes and references[]
- ↑ John Mahoney obituary (February 2018)