
John Mahoney
Department: Acting
Biography
Charles John Mahoney (June 20, 1940 – February 4, 2018) was an English-American actor. He 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. After moving from England to the United States, Mahoney began his career in Chicago as a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He 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 (both 1987). Other notable credits included Tin Men (1987), Frantic, Eight Men Out (both 1988), Say Anything... (1989), Barton Fink (1991), Striking Distance, In the Line of Fire (both 1993), Reality Bites (1994), The American President (1995), Primal Fear (1996), and The Broken Hearts Club (2000). He also voiced roles in animated films such as Antz (1998), The Iron Giant (1999), and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001).
Known For

Barton Fink
1991

Say Anything...
1989

Moonstruck
1987

The Russia House
1990

Primal Fear
1996

The Iron Giant
1999

Reality Bites
1994

Tin Men
1987

Atlantis: The Lost Empire
2001

Striking Distance
1993

The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
2000

Betrayed
1988

The Hudsucker Proxy
1994

Dan in Real Life
2007

Article 99
1992

Antz
1998

The American President
1995

Trapped In Silence
1986

Suspect
1987

Kronk's New Groove
2005

Eight Men Out
1988

Flipped
2010

Will: G. Gordon Liddy
1982

Buying a Landslide
1992

The Water Engine
1992

The Image
1990

Unnatural Pursuits
1992

Love Hurts
1990

The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
1992

Frantic
1988

Almost Salinas
2001

The Manhattan Project
1986

The Making of 'The Iron Giant'
1999

She's the One
1996

Atlantis: Milo's Return
2003

First Steps
1985

The Groomsmen
2006

The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
2016

In the Line of Fire
1993

Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
1996

Intimate Enemies
2000

A Hard Rain
1994

Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter
2004

The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
1991

Streets of Gold
1986

Through Naked Eyes
1983

Mariette in Ecstasy
1996

The Hustler of Money
1987

Fathers and Sons
2005

Dinner at Eight
1989

Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
2006

Hudson Taylor
1981

The Killing Floor
1984

The House of Blue Leaves
1987

The Impostor
1984

Code of Silence
1985

The Impostor
1984

The Frasier Story
1999

Behind the Couch: The Making of 'Frasier'
2003

The Simpsons
1989

H.E.L.P.
1990

Teacher's Pet
2000

Frasier
1993

Burn Notice
2007

MADtv
1995

ER
1994

Chicago Story
1982

The Human Factor
1992

3rd Rock from the Sun
1996

Favorite Son
1988

In Treatment
2008

$#*! My Dad Says
2010

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996

Becker
1998

Hot in Cleveland
2010

Hot in Cleveland
2010

American Experience
1988

Cheers
1982

Foyle's War
2002

Gary the Rat
2003

Saturday Night Live
1975

Tony Awards
1956

Tony Awards
1956