1. Charles John Mahoney was an English-American actor.
31 Facts About John Mahoney
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John Mahoney played retired police officer Martin Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1993 to 2004, receiving nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
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John Mahoney earned the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in the 1986 Broadway revival of John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves, and went on to achieve wider recognition for his roles in the films Suspect and Moonstruck.
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John Mahoney voiced roles in animated films such as Antz, The Iron Giant, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
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Charles John Mahoney was born in Blackpool, England, on June 20,1940, the seventh of eight children.
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John Mahoney's father, Reg, was a baker who played classical piano, and his mother, Margaret, was a housewife who loved reading.
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John Mahoney moved to the United States aged 18 in 1959 when his older sister Vera agreed to sponsor him.
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John Mahoney studied at Quincy University before joining the United States Army.
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John Mahoney became a US citizen in 1971 and served as an associate editor of the Quality Review Bulletin medical journal through much of the late 1970s.
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John Mahoney made a concerted effort to lose his English accent after joining the US Army, not wanting to "stand out" in his new adopted country.
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John Mahoney spoke with an American accent for the rest of his life.
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Dissatisfied with his career, John Mahoney took acting classes at St Nicholas Theatre, which inspired him to resign from his day job and pursue acting full-time.
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John Mahoney did so and went on to win the Clarence Derwent Award as Most Promising Male Newcomer in 1986.
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In 1988, John Mahoney portrayed Kid Gleason in the sports drama Eight Men Out, and the following year portrayed the protective father in the Cameron Crowe teen coming of age film Say Anything.
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John Mahoney portrayed Secret Service Director Sam Campagna in the Wolfgang Petersen directed drama In the Line of Fire, Grant Gubler in Ben Stiller's romance film Reality Bites, environmental lobbyist Leo Solomon in Rob Reiner's political romance film The American President and John Shaughnessy in the legal mystery thriller Primal Fear.
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John Mahoney is known for his collaboration with the Coen brothers in films such as the period black comedy Barton Fink and the screwball comedy The Hudsucker Proxy.
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John Mahoney played a pivotal gay role in Greg Berlanti's 2000 GLAAD Media Award-winning film The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy.
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John Mahoney appeared in Frasier from its debut in 1993 until the final episode in 2004.
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John Mahoney received two Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations for the role of Martin Crane, the father of Frasier Crane and Niles Crane.
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John Mahoney appeared as a priest in Becker, which starred Cheers star Ted Danson.
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John Mahoney provided the voices for several characters in Antz, Preston Whitmore in Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Atlantis: Milo's Return, General Rogard in The Iron Giant, and Papi in Kronk's New Groove.
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In 2007, John Mahoney provided the voice of Dr Robert Terwilliger, Sr.
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John Mahoney co-starred as the Old Man in the Broadway revival of Prelude to a Kiss at the American Airlines Theater in a limited-run engagement running from previews on February 17,2007, through to April 29,2007.
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John Mahoney appeared as an elderly drag queen in the ER season 13 episode "Somebody to Love," and co-starred with Steve Carell as the father of Carell's character in Dan in Real Life.
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John Mahoney made two appearances on USA Network's Burn Notice in the second and third season finales.
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John Mahoney's character, referred to only as "Management," is a senior intelligence agency official who is the apparent main mover of the conspiracy which blacklisted Michael Westen.
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John Mahoney was a featured ensemble cast member in The Birthday Party, playing in Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre from January 24 to April 28,2013.
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John Mahoney lived in Oak Park, Illinois, and suffered from colon cancer in the mid-1980s.
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John Mahoney rarely spoke publicly about his private life, and died without marrying or having any children.
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John Mahoney was a Catholic who called Christianity "probably the most important facet of my life".
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John Mahoney died in a Chicago hospice on February 4,2018, due to complications from throat cancer, originally diagnosed in 2014.