JOHN MAHONEY
Name: John Mahoney
Born: 20 June 1940 Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
John Mahoney (born June 20, 1940) is an award-winning English/American actor
known for playing the retired police officer father, Martin "Marty" Crane, of
Kelsey Grammer's character, Dr. Frasier Crane, in the popular American TV series
Frasier (NBC, 1993-2004).
Mahoney, the seventh of eight children, was born in Blackpool, England - the
town to where his mother was evacuated as the Mahoneys' home city of Manchester
was bombed during the Second World War. After the war, the Mahoneys moved back
to Manchester. Mahoney grew up in the Withington area of the city and discovered
acting at the Stretford Youth Theatre. His father, Reg, was a baker. Mahoney
moved to the United States as a young man 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 to speed up the citizenship
process and to become a U.S. citizen; he received citizenship in 1959. He
lived in Macomb, Illinois and taught English at Western Illinois University in
the early 1970s, before finally settling in Oak Park, Illinois. He served as
editor of a medical journal through much of the decade.
Name: John Mahoney
Born: 20 June 1940 Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
John Mahoney (born June 20, 1940) is an award-winning English/American actor
known for playing the retired police officer father, Martin "Marty" Crane, of
Kelsey Grammer's character, Dr. Frasier Crane, in the popular American TV series
Frasier (NBC, 1993-2004).
Mahoney, the seventh of eight children, was born in Blackpool, England - the
town to where his mother was evacuated as the Mahoneys' home city of Manchester
was bombed during the Second World War. After the war, the Mahoneys moved back
to Manchester. Mahoney grew up in the Withington area of the city and discovered
acting at the Stretford Youth Theatre. His father, Reg, was a baker. Mahoney
moved to the United States as a young man 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 to speed up the citizenship
process and to become a U.S. citizen; he received citizenship in 1959. He
lived in Macomb, Illinois and taught English at Western Illinois University in
the early 1970s, before finally settling in Oak Park, Illinois. He served as
editor of a medical journal through much of the decade.