John Mahoney Death
John passed away on February 4, 2018 at the age of 77 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. John's cause of death was Throat cancer.
When did John Mahoney die?
February 4, 2018How did John Mahoney die? What was the cause of death?
Throat cancerHow old was John Mahoney when died?
77Where did John Mahoney die? What was the location of death?
Chicago, Illinois, United States
John Mahoney Birthday and Date of Death
John Mahoney was born on June 20, 1940 and died on February 4, 2018. John was 77 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: June 20, 1940
Date of Death: February 4, 2018
Age at Death: 77
John Mahoney - Biography
John Mahoney (born 20 June 1940) is an English-born American actor. Born in Blackpool in North West England, Mahoney started his career on the stage in 1977 as the body double for Steve McQueen and moved into film in 1980. He played Martin Crane in the American sitcom Frasier on NBC from 1993 to 2004. He has also worked as a voice actor, and performed on Broadway and in Chicago theatre.
Mahoney was born in the Bispham area of Blackpool, England on June 20, 1940, the seventh of eight children. His paternal grandfather was Irish Catholic.
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, Illinois, before joining the United States Army. After graduating from Quincy, he lived in Macomb, Illinois, and taught English at Western Illinois University in the early 1970s, before settling in Forest Park, Illinois, and later in Oak Park, Illinois. He became a US citizen in 1971 and served as editor of a medical journal through much of the 1970s.
Mahoney died in a Chicago hospice on February 4, 2018, of complications from throat cancer, originally diagnosed in 2014. He was 77 years old. According to his friend Anna Shapiro: "He was fragile and he was supposed to be having a routine procedure. But having just beat Stage 3 throat cancer, I think he was just too weak… By the time he did The Rembrandt he was clean of cancer... But other health issues came up and he was just too fragile.”
Kelsey Grammer, who played Dr. Frasier Crane, remembered Mahoney, who played his TV dad, Martin Crane, with a poignant photo and an emotional statement. “He was my father. I loved him,” the actor wrote on Twitter, accompanied by a photo of the two embracing. In a statement Jane Leeves called Mahoney, “the dearest sweetest man I have ever known.”
Frasier co-star Peri Gilpin stated, "John singing at my wedding. Watch Moonstruck, Say Anything and/or Frasier or anything you can with him in it and raise a glass to John."
