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'Frasier' dad John Mahoney dead at 77
UPI ^ | February 5, 2018

Posted on 02/05/2018 4:36:26 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

Feb. 5 (UPI) -- SAG- and Tony-winning actor John Mahoney died in Chicago at the age of 77, his publicist announced Monday.

The publicist confirmed to TMZ Mahoney's death in hospice care Sunday. No cause was specified in the report.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: death; frasier; hollywood; johnmahoney; mahoney; obituary
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R.I.P.

"Frasier" was one of the few TV shows I enjoyed from recent years.

1 posted on 02/05/2018 4:36:26 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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I just saw this! So sad! We LOVE that show. Watch it on Hulu all the time. If we just have a half hour to watch something we often choose a Frasier episode. Best writing in tv.

He was amazing on this show. He was actually a gay actor from Manchester, England with a heavy accent. He OWNED that tough sweet American wounded cop role. So well done. His accent was so good most people don’t know he was British. Absolutely amazing. And if you see the outtakes the guy had a wicked sense of humor.

Rest In Peace, you brought us many hours of joy.


2 posted on 02/05/2018 4:41:07 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: ConservativeStatement

I liked him in a movie he did with Bruce Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker back in the early 90s, “Striking Distance”.


3 posted on 02/05/2018 4:41:30 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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he was in “Eight Men Out” too. I thought he was great in that.


4 posted on 02/05/2018 4:43:41 PM PST by fhayek
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To: ConservativeStatement

That's the sister of Kelsey Grammer.

And that scum is the guy who abducted her, then over the course of DAYS, tortured her to death.

For no reason.

5 posted on 02/05/2018 4:43:45 PM PST by gaijin
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To: ConservativeStatement

I read somewhere a long time back that he had cancer. Certainly haven’t seen that one blurb repeated, or even confirmed.

He was in MOONSTRUCK, as well, with Cher and Nicolas Cage, Olivia Dukakis, and other great stars.


6 posted on 02/05/2018 4:44:31 PM PST by RitaOK (n)
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To: Yaelle

I agree about the show’s writing. I didn’t know the actor was British-born. His off-camera laugh when he found out Frasier’s male co-worker had a romantic interest with the unknowing Frasier was priceless.


7 posted on 02/05/2018 4:45:20 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("Silence is violence.")
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I always thought the best ones on Frazier were Niles, Martin and Roz.


8 posted on 02/05/2018 4:46:36 PM PST by euram
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To: ConservativeStatement

9 posted on 02/05/2018 4:47:18 PM PST by Flick Lives
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Man! I love Marty! RIP See you at Dukes


10 posted on 02/05/2018 4:47:25 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of he Masses Could Be Farts)
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Yes. Fantastic scriptwriting.
11 posted on 02/05/2018 4:50:34 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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I haven’t seen Frasier in so long, but I remember when that was “must-see TV”. I liked him in the movie “She’s the One.”


12 posted on 02/05/2018 4:51:09 PM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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He was a fag? Darn. My favorite episode was when he got free tickets to Sonics games when Niles was hypno helping the star player. The other was when Frasier tried to get rid of the CHAIR.

And the tone of the episode turned dramatic when he said “I was on that chair when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. I was on that chair when USA hockey team won in 80. and I was on that chair when I brought you boys home after birth from the hospital”.


13 posted on 02/05/2018 4:51:41 PM PST by beergarden
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To: ConservativeStatement

RIP funny man.

Thanks for the MANY laughs.


14 posted on 02/05/2018 4:52:31 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Enjoyed his work. RIP.


15 posted on 02/05/2018 4:55:10 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Flick Lives

Well, they are back together again. RIP.


16 posted on 02/05/2018 4:57:49 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
I saw the headline and thought this was about John Mulaney, who had a shorter, less celebrated sitcom career, with his Seinfeld-type show.

Fun Fact: John Mahoney wasn't really old enough to be Kelsey Grammar's father, so they gave him a cane and a limp.

Fun Fact: John Mahoney actually was born closer to Manchester, England, than Jane Leeves,whose character was supposed to be from there.

17 posted on 02/05/2018 5:00:10 PM PST by x
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The International Movie Database has this info on Kelsey Grammar: "His father was murdered, in 1968, in the Virgin Islands. His sister, Karen Elisa Grammer, was murdered, in 1975, while finishing a shift working at a Red Lobster in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Had two stepbrothers (from his father's second marriage) that were killed in a shark/scuba accident."

You mentioned his sister. Are the other deaths factual?

18 posted on 02/05/2018 5:00:31 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: fhayek

And “Barton Fink”. Great film.


19 posted on 02/05/2018 5:00:56 PM PST by fhayek
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Interesting. IIRC, the mother on Good Times was 20 years older in real life than her TV husband.


20 posted on 02/05/2018 5:02:00 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("Silence is violence.")
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