John Mahoney

John Mahoney

Birthday: 1940-06-20

Place of Birth: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

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).

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Barton Fink
Barton Fink

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the he...

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Say Anything...
Say Anything...

Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty ...

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Moonstruck
Moonstruck

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

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The Russia House
The Russia House

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for ...

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Primal Fear
Primal Fear

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...

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The Iron Giant
The Iron Giant

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-ol...

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Reality Bites
Reality Bites

A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about li...

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Tin Men
Tin Men

A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man ver...

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Atlantis: The Lost Empire

A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost ...

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Striking Distance
Striking Distance

Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. To...

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The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy

A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the deat...

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Betrayed
Betrayed

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who live...

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The Hudsucker Proxy
The Hudsucker Proxy

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock sc...

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Dan in Real Life
Dan in Real Life

Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brot...

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Article 99
Article 99

Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. ...

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Antz
Antz

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches ...

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The American President
The American President

Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he w...

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Trapped In Silence
Trapped In Silence

A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one ...

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Suspect
Suspect

When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to...

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Kronk's New Groove
Kronk's New Groove

Kronk, now chef and Head Delivery Boy of Mudka's Meat Hut, is fretting over the upcoming visit of hi...

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Eight Men Out
Eight Men Out

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning ...

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Flipped
Flipped

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying...

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Will: G. Gordon Liddy
Will: G. Gordon Liddy

Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate ...

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Buying a Landslide
Buying a Landslide

Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face h...

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The Water Engine
The Water Engine

In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to ge...

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The Image
The Image

When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own met...

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Unnatural Pursuits
Unnatural Pursuits

An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway...

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Love Hurts
Love Hurts

The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family....

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The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton

The new DA of a small town is given the job of prosecuting the alleged murderer of a stripper. Unfor...

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Frantic
Frantic

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web ...

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Almost Salinas
Almost Salinas

Life takes a strange turn when a group of outsiders come to the small town of Cholame, the famed sit...

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The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project

A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home t...

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The Making of 'The Iron Giant'
The Making of 'The Iron Giant'

Documentary of the making of the animated family film, The Iron Giant....

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She's the One
She's the One

Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are e...

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Atlantis: Milo's Return
Atlantis: Milo's Return

Milo and Kida reunite with their friends to investigate strange occurances around the world that see...

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First Steps
First Steps

Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelch...

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The Groomsmen
The Groomsmen

Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with hi...

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

A documentary about how the critically acclaimed film wound up being a box office disappointment, on...

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In the Line of Fire
In the Line of Fire

Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kenned...

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Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond

A star-studded tribute to Star Trek on its 30th anniversary, hosted by many of the stars and guest s...

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Intimate Enemies
Intimate Enemies

Life on the savannah of southern Tanzania is a study in contrast between rainy and dry seasons. When...

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A Hard Rain
A Hard Rain

A Hard Rain is the story of a revenge killing in a small Pacific NW island community....

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Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter
Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter

Frasier Crane visits his therapist and reminisces over the events of the past 11 years since his mov...

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The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway

Jimmy Burke and his friends steal 10 million from the Lufthansa office in New York. The FBI has no i...

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Streets of Gold
Streets of Gold

Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was a talented boxer in his day, but he was not allow...

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Through Naked Eyes
Through Naked Eyes

A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite...

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Mariette in Ecstasy
Mariette in Ecstasy

In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the c...

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The Hustler of Money
The Hustler of Money

A veteran bowling hustler tries to teach a young hotshot the finer points of playing the game for mo...

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Fathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons

Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of ...

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Dinner at Eight
Dinner at Eight

Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious ...

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Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family

Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It als...

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Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor

The early years of the great missionary Hudson Taylor are portrayed in this drama. The movie details...

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The Killing Floor
The Killing Floor

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaug...

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The House of Blue Leaves
The House of Blue Leaves

On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation,...

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The Impostor
The Impostor

After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When sh...

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Code of Silence
Code of Silence

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants...

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The Impostor
The Impostor

After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When sh...

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The Frasier Story
The Frasier Story

A retrospective look at how Frasier Crane first came to appear on Cheers, and how the series Frasier...

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Behind the Couch: The Making of 'Frasier'
Behind the Couch: The Making of 'Frasier'

A documentary about the creation of Frasier (1993)...

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