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John Mahoney (born
June 20,
1940) is an
English American actor, best known for playing
Martin "Marty" Crane, the retired
police officer father of
Kelsey Grammer's Dr.
Frasier Crane, in the
American TV series Frasier (
NBC, 1993-2004).
Biography
Early life
Mahoney, the seventh of eight children, was born in
Blackpool,
England - the town to which his mother was evacuated as the Mahoneys' home city of
Manchester was bombed during the
Second World War and the town where he started school at
St Joseph's College, Blackpool. 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.
[John Mahoney (Martin Crane)] 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.
[John Mahoney Biography (1940-)] He lived in
Macomb, Illinois and taught
English at
Western Illinois University in the early 1970s, before settling in
Oak Park, Illinois. He served as editor of a
medical journal through much of the decade.
