{"id":3195,"date":"2018-02-08T22:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T03:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2018-02-19T22:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T03:27:15","slug":"john-mahoney-actor-best-known-for-frasier-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/08\/john-mahoney-actor-best-known-for-frasier-dies-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mahoney, Actor Best Known for &#8216;Frasier,&#8217; Dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3188\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-john-mahoney-dead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-john-mahoney-dead.jpg 550w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-john-mahoney-dead-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-john-mahoney-dead-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-john-mahoney-dead-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>John Mahoney, a veteran character actor best known for playing the curmudgeonly dog-loving father of the title character in TV&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Frasier<\/em>,&#8221; died in a Chicago hospice on February 4, 2018, of complications from throat cancer, originally diagnosed in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>John Mahoney, a British-born character actor won a Tony Award on Broadway and had roles in films including \u201c<em>Moonstruck<\/em>,\u201d \u201c<em>In the Line of Fire<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>Say Anything<\/em>\u201d but was best known as Kelsey Grammer\u2019s father and the voice of common sense in the long-running NBC sitcom \u201c<em>Frasier<\/em>,\u201d<\/p><div id=\"morty-4065309538\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3191\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3191 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney-160x185.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Mahoney plays Martin Crane on FRASIER on NBC. Photo: Paramount by BR Renzel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Born in Blackpool, England, Mahoney started his career on the stage in 1977 and moved into film in 1980. He was best known for playing the blue-collar patriarch Martin Crane in the American sitcom <em>Frasier<\/em>, which aired on NBC from 1993 to 2004.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his film and television work, Mahoney also worked as a voice actor and was particularly passionate about his stage work on Broadway and in Chicago theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Mahoney was born in the Bispham area of Blackpool, England on June 20, 1940, the seventh of eight children in an Irish Catholic family.<\/p>\n<p>The family had been evacuated to Blackpool from the Mahoneys&#8217; home city of Manchester, when it was heavily bombed during the Second World War. He started school at St Joseph&#8217;s College, Blackpool. After the war, the family moved back to Manchester. Mahoney grew up in the Withington area of the city and discovered acting at the Stretford Children&#8217;s Theatre.<\/p><div id=\"morty-1014711259\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>His Irish father, Reg, was a baker who played classical piano, and his mother Margaret was a housewife who loved reading. His parents&#8217; marriage was not happy and they either would not speak to each other or have heated arguments. The family situation, combined with the war, fueled Mahoney&#8217;s interest in acting and he vowed to leave Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>Mahoney moved to the United States aged 18 in March 1959 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.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from Quincy, he lived in Macomb, Illinois, and taught English at Western Illinois University in the early 1970s, before settling in Forest Park, Illinois, and later in Oak Park, Illinois. He became a US citizen in 1971 and served as editor of a medical journal through much of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<h3>Early Work<\/h3>\n<p>Dissatisfied with his career, Mahoney took acting classes at St. Nicholas Theatre, which inspired him to resign from his day job and pursue acting full-time. After a stage production in Chicago in 1977, John Malkovich encouraged him to join the Steppenwolf Theatre. He did so and went on to win the Clarence Derwent Award as Most Promising Male Newcomer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3193\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_suspect.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3193 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_suspect-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_suspect-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_suspect-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_suspect-1024x669.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_suspect-560x366.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_suspect-260x170.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_suspect-160x105.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_suspect.jpg 1470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Mahoney plays Judge Matthew Helms in the suspense thriller, SUSPECT from Tri-Star Pictures coming to theatres October 1987.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gary Sinise said in an interview for Bomb Magazine that Lyle Kessler&#8217;s play Orphans &#8220;kicked John Mahoney, Kevin Anderson and Terry Kinney off into the movie business&#8221; after their Steppenwolf performance of the play for which he won the Derwent Award and the Theatre World Award. Mahoney won Broadway&#8217;s Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in John Guare&#8217;s <em>The House of Blue Leaves<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3192\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_barton_fink.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3192 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_barton_fink-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_barton_fink-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_barton_fink-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_barton_fink-560x384.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_barton_fink-260x178.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_barton_fink-160x110.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_barton_fink.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Mahoney plays W. P. Mayhew, a great Southern novelist with a drinking problem and Judy Davis plays his secretary, Audrey, who seems to be more than just a secretary, in Joel and Ethan Cohen&#8217;s new comedy, BARTON FINK, which won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor Awards at this year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival. (1991)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mahoney&#8217;s first major film role was in the 1987 Barry Levinson film <em>Tin Men<\/em>. He went on to have prominent roles in a number of acclaimed films throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, including <em>Moonstruck<\/em>, <em>Eight Men Out<\/em>, <em>Say Anything&#8230;<\/em>, In the <em>Line of Fire<\/em>, <em>Reality Bites<\/em>, and <em>The American President<\/em>. He appeared in two Coen brothers films, <em>Barton Fink<\/em> and <em>The Hudsucker Proxy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frazier_cast_kelsey_grammar_david_hyde_pierce_john_mahoney_jane_leeves_rachel_york.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3194 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frazier_cast_kelsey_grammar_david_hyde_pierce_john_mahoney_jane_leeves_rachel_york-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frazier_cast_kelsey_grammar_david_hyde_pierce_john_mahoney_jane_leeves_rachel_york-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frazier_cast_kelsey_grammar_david_hyde_pierce_john_mahoney_jane_leeves_rachel_york-768x608.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frazier_cast_kelsey_grammar_david_hyde_pierce_john_mahoney_jane_leeves_rachel_york-560x443.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frazier_cast_kelsey_grammar_david_hyde_pierce_john_mahoney_jane_leeves_rachel_york-260x206.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frazier_cast_kelsey_grammar_david_hyde_pierce_john_mahoney_jane_leeves_rachel_york-160x127.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frazier_cast_kelsey_grammar_david_hyde_pierce_john_mahoney_jane_leeves_rachel_york.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Frasier<\/h3>\n<p>Mahoney appeared in Frasier from its debut in 1993 until the final episode in 2004; Mahoney received two Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations for the role of Martin Crane, the father of Frasier Crane and Niles Crane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_on_set.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3190 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_on_set-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_on_set-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_on_set-560x568.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_on_set-260x264.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_on_set-160x162.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john_mahoney_on_set.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a>NBC executives held Mahoney in such high esteem that Warren Littlefield declared he was pre-approved when the Frasier creative team suggested casting him as the father. Prior to appearing on the series, Mahoney had appeared in an episode of <em>Cheers<\/em> \u2013 from which Frasier was a spin-off \u2013 as an inept jingle writer who has a brief conversation with Frasier. Mahoney also appeared as a priest in <em>Becker<\/em>, which starred <em>Cheers<\/em> star, Ted Danson.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"medfordtrails-20\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"manual\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_design = \"enhanced_links\";\namzn_assoc_asins = \"B00S89IRH8\";\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"aaa9dc6cccf1d738d97e18b599024418\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Voice Acting<\/h3>\n<p>Mahoney&#8217;s first voice job was in W. B. Yeats&#8217; &#8220;<em>The Words upon the Window-Pane<\/em>&#8221; for the award-winning National Radio Theater of Chicago. He provided the voices for several characters in Antz (1998), Preston Whitmore in Atlantis: <em>The Lost Empire and Atlantis: Milo&#8217;s Return<\/em>, General Rogard in <em>The Iron Giant<\/em> (1999), and Papi in <em>Kronk&#8217;s New Groove<\/em> (but was succeeded by Jeff Bennett in <em>The Emperor&#8217;s New School<\/em> for an unknown reason).<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Mahoney provided the voice of Dr. Robert Terwilliger, Sr. (Sideshow Bob&#8217;s father) in <em>The Simpsons<\/em> episode &#8220;Funeral for a Fiend.&#8221; This reunited him with his <em>Frasier<\/em> co-stars Kelsey Grammer (Sideshow Bob) and David Hyde Pierce (Cecil, Sideshow Bob&#8217;s brother).<\/p>\n<h3>Post-Frasier<\/h3>\n<p>Mahoney co-starred as the Old Man in the Broadway revival of <em>Prelude to a Kiss<\/em> at the American Airlines Theater in a limited-run engagement running from previews on February 17, 2007, through to April 29, 2007. He appeared as an elderly drag queen in the <em>ER<\/em> season 13 episode &#8220;Somebody to Love,&#8221; and co-starred with Steve Carell (himself a veteran of Chicago theatre) as the father of Carell&#8217;s character in <em>Dan in Real Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2008, he opened in the world premiere of <em>Better Late<\/em> at the Northlight Theatre. He was also the narrator for Midwest Airlines commercials.<\/p>\n<p>Mahoney also made two appearances on USA&#8217;s <em>Burn Notice<\/em> in the second (2009) and third (2010) season finales. His character, referred to only as &#8220;Management,&#8221; is a senior intelligence agency official who is the apparent main mover of the conspiracy which blacklisted Michael Westen.<\/p>\n<p>Mahoney joined the cast of In <em>Treatment<\/em> for the series&#8217; second season (2009) as a frenetic CEO who is overwhelmed by his personal and professional responsibilities and experiences chronic physical anxiety attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, he made a guest appearance on <em>$#@! My Dad<\/em> Says as homophobic retired naval officer Lt. Commander Wally Durham.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the numerous successes throughout his career, Mahoney has maintained that his early work in Lyle Kessler&#8217;s play <em>Orphans<\/em> has &#8220;affected people more than any other play I&#8217;ve ever done. I still get mail from it, I still get people stopping me on the street, and it&#8217;s 20 years later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in April 2011, Mahoney began rehearsing <em>The Outgoing Tide<\/em>, a new play by Bruce Graham at Northlight Theatre in Skokie, Illinois (suburban Chicago). The play also stars fellow Chicago actors Rondi Reed and Thom Cox.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, he had two guest appearances on <em>Hot in Cleveland<\/em> as Roy, a waiter and a love interest for Betty White&#8217;s character Elka. This reunited him with his <em>Frasier<\/em> co-star Jane Leeves, as well as Wendie Malick whose character he eventually married in <em>Frasier<\/em> and his co-star in the movie <em>The American President<\/em>. Mahoney was a featured ensemble cast member in <em>The Birthday Party<\/em>, playing in Chicago&#8217;s Steppenwolf Theatre from January 24 to April 28, 2013. Mahoney portrayed his last role in the play <em>The Rembrandt<\/em>, from September to November 2017.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john-mahoney-obit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3189 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john-mahoney-obit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john-mahoney-obit.jpg 691w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john-mahoney-obit-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john-mahoney-obit-560x325.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john-mahoney-obit-260x151.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john-mahoney-obit-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/a>Personal Life<\/h3>\n<p>Along with David Hyde Pierce, Mahoney was godfather to Frasier co-star Jane Leeves&#8217; son Finn. Mahoney rarely spoke publicly about his private life, but in a 2002 article, he revealed he had been in several relationships, although he had never married, citing his parents&#8217; unhappy marriage as something he feared he would repeat. He suffered from colon cancer in the mid-1980s and felt unable to have sex following a colostomy. His Catholic faith was at the center of his life and work.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"medfordtrails-20\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"manual\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_design = \"enhanced_links\";\namzn_assoc_asins = \"B000EHRVOW\";\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"3de1fd77d0a2bff24ba4950a9c90a2e0\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Death<\/h3>\n<p>Mahoney died in a Chicago hospice on February 4, 2018, of complications from throat cancer, originally diagnosed in 2014. He was 77 years old.<\/p>\n<p>According to his friend Anna Shapiro: &#8220;He was fragile and he was supposed to be having a routine procedure. But having just beat Stage 3 throat cancer, I think he was just too weak\u2026 By the time he did <em>The Rembrandt<\/em> he was clean of cancer&#8230; But other health issues came up and he was just too fragile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Grammer, who played Dr. Frasier Crane, remembered Mahoney, who played his TV dad, Martin Crane, with a poignant photo and an emotional statement. \u201cHe was my father. I loved him,\u201d the actor wrote on Twitter, accompanied by a photo of the two embracing. In a statement, Jane Leeves called Mahoney, \u201cthe dearest sweetest man I have ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Frasier<\/em> co-star Peri Gilpin stated, &#8220;John singing at my wedding. 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