Charles John Mahoney was an English-American actor.
27 Facts About John Mahoney
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John Mahoney was known for playing Martin Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier, and won a Screen Actors Guild Award for the role in 2000.
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John Mahoney received the Clarence Derwent Award as Most Promising Male Newcomer in 1986.
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John Mahoney additionally had voice roles in Antz, The Iron Giant, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Kronk's New Groove.
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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, later stating that he felt that he did not want 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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John Mahoney played a pivotal gay role in Greg Berlanti's 2000 GLAAD 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; 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'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 portrayed his last role in the play The Rembrandt, from September to November 2017.
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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 he died without marrying or having any children.
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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.