John Mahoney
John Mahoney
20.06.1940 - 04.02.2018 (77 years) (Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK)
Charles John Mahoney (June 20, 1940 – February 4, 2018) was an English-American actor of stage, film, and television. Born in Blackpool, UK, and brought up in Manchester, Mahoney emigrated to the United States at the age of 19 and started his acting career on the stage in 1977, moving into film in 1980. He is known for his roles as a character actor in such films as Moonstruck (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Say Anything... (1989), and his roles in the Coen brothers films, Barton Fink (1991), and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). He was best known for playing the blue-collar patriarch Martin Crane in the American sitcom Frasier, which aired on NBC from 1993 to 2004. 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. Mahoney won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1986 for his performance in The House of Blue Leaves.