Character actor John Mahoney, who was best known for playing the character Martin Crane on the 1990s sitcom “Frasier,” died Sunday in Chicago at the age of 77. Mahoney’s manager, Paul Martino, confirmed to Variety that the actor died while he was in hospice care. Born in Blackpool, England, in 1940, Mahoney decided to move to the U.S. at age 19 after visiting his war bride sister in the states. “It was so bleak and dark in England ― those gray and foggy postwar years,” he told the Chicago Tribune in 1996. During that time, Mahoney was nominated for two Emmys and two Golden Globes, and won a SAG Award in 2000.

Source: Huffington Post February 06, 2018 00:44 UTC