Charles John Mahoney (June 20, 1940 â€" February 4, 2018) was an
Englishâ€"American actor. He first became known for his roles in such
films as Moonstruck (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Say Anything...
(1989), Barton Fink (1991), and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). He was
best known for playing Martin Crane in the American sitcom Frasier,
which aired on NBC from 1993 to 2004. He also worked as a voice actor,
and was passionate about his stage work on Broadway and in Chicago
theatre. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1986
for his performance in The House of Blue Leaves.Charles John Mahoney
was born in the Bispham area of Blackpool on 20 June 1940, the seventh
of eight children. His father, Reg, was a baker who played classical
piano, and his mother, Margaret (née Watson), was a housewife who
loved reading. His paternal grandfather was Irish. The family had been
evacuated to Blackpool from their home city of Manchester when it was
heavily bombed during the Second World War. Mahoney started school at
St Joseph's College. After the war, the family moved back to
Manchester, where Mahoney grew up in the suburb of Withington and
discovered acting at the Stretford Children's Theatre. His parents'
marriage was not happy. They would not speak to each other for long
periods of timeâ€"and when they did, it often led to heated arguments.
The family situation, combined with the war, fuelled Mahoney's
interest in acting and he vowed to leave Manchester.Mahoney moved to
the United States aged 18 in March 1959, when his older sister Vera (a
war bride living in rural Illinois) agreed to sponsor him. He studied
at Quincy University before joining the United States Army. After
graduating from Quincy, he lived in Macomb, Illinois, and earned his
Master's degree in English from Western Illinois University, where he
went on to teach English in the late 1960s before settling in Forest
Park, Illinois, and later in Oak Park, Illinois. He became a U.S.
citizen in 1971 and served as editor of a medical journal through much
of the 1970s.
Englishâ€"American actor. He first became known for his roles in such
films as Moonstruck (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Say Anything...
(1989), Barton Fink (1991), and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). He was
best known for playing Martin Crane in the American sitcom Frasier,
which aired on NBC from 1993 to 2004. He also worked as a voice actor,
and was passionate about his stage work on Broadway and in Chicago
theatre. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1986
for his performance in The House of Blue Leaves.Charles John Mahoney
was born in the Bispham area of Blackpool on 20 June 1940, the seventh
of eight children. His father, Reg, was a baker who played classical
piano, and his mother, Margaret (née Watson), was a housewife who
loved reading. His paternal grandfather was Irish. The family had been
evacuated to Blackpool from their home city of Manchester when it was
heavily bombed during the Second World War. Mahoney started school at
St Joseph's College. After the war, the family moved back to
Manchester, where Mahoney grew up in the suburb of Withington and
discovered acting at the Stretford Children's Theatre. His parents'
marriage was not happy. They would not speak to each other for long
periods of timeâ€"and when they did, it often led to heated arguments.
The family situation, combined with the war, fuelled Mahoney's
interest in acting and he vowed to leave Manchester.Mahoney moved to
the United States aged 18 in March 1959, when his older sister Vera (a
war bride living in rural Illinois) agreed to sponsor him. He studied
at Quincy University before joining the United States Army. After
graduating from Quincy, he lived in Macomb, Illinois, and earned his
Master's degree in English from Western Illinois University, where he
went on to teach English in the late 1960s before settling in Forest
Park, Illinois, and later in Oak Park, Illinois. He became a U.S.
citizen in 1971 and served as editor of a medical journal through much
of the 1970s.
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