John Mahoney
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.7351 |
| Birthday | 1940-06-20 |
| Place of Birth | Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1991
Barton Fink
7.46/1947
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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Barton Fink
1989
Say Anything...
7.003/1164
Average student and eternal optimist Lloyd Dobler seeks to capture the heart of Diane Court, a beautiful but unattainable valedictorian classmate. He...
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Say Anything...
1987
Moonstruck
6.84/1140
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, ev...
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Moonstruck
1990
The Russia House
6.065/339
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investiga...
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The Russia House
1996
Primal Fear
7.66/4152
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, ac...
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Primal Fear
1999
The Iron Giant
7.962/6367
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfi...
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The Iron Giant
1994
Reality Bites
6.537/815
A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As...
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Reality Bites
1987
Tin Men
6.3/146
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
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Tin Men
2001
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
7.05/5256
A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire
1993
Striking Distance
5.925/990
Demoted Pittsburgh cop Tom Hardy works river patrol while a serial killer targets women from his past, forcing him to conduct an unauthorized investig...
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Striking Distance
2000
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
6.282/101
A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood...
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The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
1988
Betrayed
6.066/145
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
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Betrayed
1994
The Hudsucker Proxy
7.064/1234
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
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The Hudsucker Proxy
2007
Dan in Real Life
6.581/1394
Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious...
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Dan in Real Life
1992
Article 99
6.1/69
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliv...
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Article 99
1998
Antz
6.2/4852
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a pa...
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Antz
1995
The American President
6.5/808
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wa...
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The American President
1986
Trapped In Silence
6.3/7
A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
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Trapped In Silence
1987
Suspect
6.576/256
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and...
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Suspect
2005
Kronk's New Groove
6.415/1381
After his adventures with Kuzco, Kronk opens his own diner, but struggling business and the impending visit from his father push him to hatch a risky...
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Kronk's New Groove
1988
Eight Men Out
6.8/290
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching...
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Eight Men Out
2010
Flipped
8.016/3413
When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give u...
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Flipped
1982
Will: G. Gordon Liddy
5/2
Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.
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Will: G. Gordon Liddy
1992
Buying a Landslide
0/0
Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky...
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Buying a Landslide
1992
The Water Engine
5.833/6
In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously...
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The Water Engine
1990
The Image
4.875/8
When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.
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The Image
1992
Unnatural Pursuits
0/0
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
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Unnatural Pursuits
1990
Love Hurts
4.611/9
The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family.
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Love Hurts
1992
The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
6.625/4
The new DA of a small town is given the job of prosecuting the alleged murderer of a stripper. Unfortunately, his own father is in charge of the defen...
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The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
1988
Frantic
6.708/1170
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicat...
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Frantic
2001
Almost Salinas
8/3
Life takes a strange turn when a group of outsiders come to the small town of Cholame, the famed site of James Dean's fatal car crash. Cholame's only...
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Almost Salinas
1986
The Manhattan Project
6.2/120
A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, wi...
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The Manhattan Project
1999
The Making of 'The Iron Giant'
6.75/10
Documentary of the making of the animated family film, The Iron Giant.
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The Making of 'The Iron Giant'
1996
She's the One
5.5/282
Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a...
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She's the One
2003
Atlantis: Milo's Return
6.327/3919
Milo and Kida reunite with their friends to investigate strange occurances around the world that seem to have links to the secrets of Atlantis.
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Atlantis: Milo's Return
1985
First Steps
8/1
Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new resear...
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First Steps
2006
The Groomsmen
5.2/75
Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with his groomsmen. Brother Jimbo, cousin Mike, and his p...
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The Groomsmen
2016
The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
8.2/8
A documentary about how the critically acclaimed film wound up being a box office disappointment, only to become regarded as a classic over a decade a...
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The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
1993
In the Line of Fire
7/1866
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirt...
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In the Line of Fire
1996
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
5.625/8
A star-studded tribute to Star Trek on its 30th anniversary, hosted by many of the stars and guest stars from all of the Trek series and movies. Also...
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Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
2000
Intimate Enemies
0/0
Life on the savannah of southern Tanzania is a study in contrast between rainy and dry seasons. When water is abundant, the wildebeest at the rivers p...
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Intimate Enemies
1994
A Hard Rain
0/0
A Hard Rain is the story of a revenge killing in a small Pacific NW island community.
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A Hard Rain
2004
Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter
8.333/6
Frasier Crane visits his therapist and reminisces over the events of the past 11 years since his move from Boston to Seattle, in a clip show designed...
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Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter
1991
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
6.4/5
Jimmy Burke and his friends steal 10 million from the Lufthansa office in New York. The FBI has no idea who the thieves are until Burke girlfriend giv...
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The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
1986
Streets of Gold
5.4/12
Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was a talented boxer in his day, but he was not allowed on the Soviet national team because he was a Je...
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Streets of Gold
1983
Through Naked Eyes
4.556/9
A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractiv...
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Through Naked Eyes
1996
Mariette in Ecstasy
8/1
In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, ru...
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Mariette in Ecstasy
1987
The Hustler of Money
7.5/4
A veteran bowling hustler tries to teach a young hotshot the finer points of playing the game for money.
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The Hustler of Money
2005
Fathers and Sons
5.125/8
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Antho...
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Fathers and Sons
1989
Dinner at Eight
5.5/2
Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husban...
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Dinner at Eight
2006
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
6/2
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families,...
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Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
1981
Hudson Taylor
6/2
The early years of the great missionary Hudson Taylor are portrayed in this drama. The movie details his work in China and the trails he endured. Huds...
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Hudson Taylor
1984
The Killing Floor
8/4
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the orga...
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The Killing Floor
1987
The House of Blue Leaves
8/2
On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, t...
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The House of Blue Leaves
1984
The Impostor
4.667/6
After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get h...
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The Impostor
1985
Code of Silence
5.92/273
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
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Code of Silence
1984
The Impostor
4.667/6
After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get h...
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The Impostor
1999
The Frasier Story
8/2
A retrospective look at how Frasier Crane first came to appear on Cheers, and how the series Frasier has evolved.
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The Frasier Story
2003
Behind the Couch: The Making of 'Frasier'
0/0
A documentary about the creation of Frasier (1993)
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