These Two Mahoney Guys Are Not Related
Q: We very much enjoy "Frasier" and wonder whether John Mahoney is related to movie star Jock Mahoney. Is his leg injury authentic or just for TV?
A: John Mahoney is a longtime character actor whose past credits include "Moonstruck," "Barton Fink," "Reality Bites," "In the Line of Fire," "She's the One," "Primal Fear," "The American President" and "Antz." He assumes a limp only for his TV role. Born in Manchester, England (home of "Frasier's" Daphne), Mahoney is not a relative of Jock Mahoney, the Hollywood stunt man who played Tarzan in the movies and Yancy Derringer on TV in the s. Jock Mahoney, who died in , does have a famous relation, though. He was stepfather to Sally Field.
Q: I say Perry Mason and Della Street were married in one of the later Perry Mason movies. My friend says no. Can you settle this?
A: Though private secretary Della Street was with lawyer Mason through all the reincarnations of the show from until , the two never married. The last of the Perry Mason movies starring Raymond Burr, "The Case of the Killer Kiss," aired after his death in Barbara Hale, who played Della, is the last surviving original cast member fr
John Mahoney was an award-winning American actor. He was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, the seventh of eight children of Margaret and Reg, a baker. His family was evacuated to the sea-side resort to avoid the Nazi bombing of their native Manchester. The Mancunian Mahoneys eventually returned to Manchester during the war. Visiting the States to see his older sister, a "war bride" who had married an American, the young Mahoney decided to emigrate and was sponsored by his sister. John eventually won his citizenship by serving in the U.S. Army.
Long interested in acting, Mahoney didn't make the transition to his craft until he was almost forty years old. Mahoney took acting classes at the St. Nicholas Theater and finally built up the courage to quit his day job and pursue acting full time. John Malkovich, one of the founders of the Second City's distinguished Steppenwolf Theatre, encouraged Mahoney to join Steppenwolf, and in , Mahoney won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves ().
Mahoney made his feature film debut in , but he was best known for playing the role of the father of
The Untold Truth Of John Mahoney
ByCarmen Ribecca
Veteran stage actor and sitcom star John Mahoney passed away on February 4, For 11 years, he played Martin Crane, the irascible father of Frasier and Niles Crane on NBC's hit Cheers spin off, Frasier. It was a completely against-type role for the congenial British actor, who was once described by a neighbor as "a delight." The role also turned Mahoney into an instant star, which afforded him the luxury of pursuing his lifelong passion, theater. But he actually didn't set foot on a professional stage until he was almost So what was he doing all those years before his Frasier fame, and how did the sitcom's success affect his left afterwards? This is the untold truth of John Mahoney.
Martin Crane was his role to refuse
In a guest entry for Frasier writer, Ken Levine's blog, Frasier co-creator, Peter Casey, recounted the story of how the show came together, including how they used — and eventually landed — their dream cast of David Hyde Pierce and Martin Crane in their pitch to NBC and Paramount Studios. "When we pitched the character of Martin, we said to picture John Mahoney. Warren
PICTURED: Frasier actor John Mahoney, 77, on stage just two months before his death as it's revealed he tragically spoke of his pride at beating cancer twice before succombing to 'complications' from the disease on Monday
John Mahoney said in a final interview a few months before his death that he thinks he was able to beat cancer twice because of how much he loved being an actor
John Mahoney said in a final interview a few months before his death that he thinks he was able to beat cancer twice because of how much he loved being an actor.
''I wasn't going to let this cancer get me. I waited too long to do this,' he told Fox News in a final interview about his life in October.
The year-old, who starred as the cranky patriarch Martin Crane on the popular TV sitcom 'Frasier,' died Monday in the hospital.
Mahoney's longtime manager, Paul Martino, said Monday that Mahoney died in Chicago after a brief spell in hospital.
The cause of death was not immediately announced, but The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where he served as an ensemble member for nearly 40 years, said it was related to cancer complications.
His friend Anna Shapiro said he was 'fragile,' at the time
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