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).

Filmography

• Our Flag Means Death — Writer
• 2013The Bathhouse — Thanks
• $#*! My Dad Says — Lt. Col. Wally Durham
• 2010Flipped — Chet Duncan
• Hot in Cleveland — Roy, Self
• In Treatment — Walter Barnett
• Burn Notice — Management
• 2007Dan in Real Life — Poppy
• 2006The Groomsmen — Paulie's Dad (uncredited), Thanks
• 2005Fathers and Sons — Gene
• 2005Kronk's New Groove — Papi (voice)
• 2004Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter — Martin Crane
• 2003Atlantis: Milo's Return — Whitmore (voice)
• Gary the Rat
• Foyle's War — Andrew Del Mar
• 2001Almost Salinas — Max Harris
• 2001Atlantis: The Lost Empire — Preston Whitmore (voice)
• 2000Intimate Enemies — Narrator (voice)
• Teacher's Pet
• 2000The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy — Jack
• 1999The Iron Giant — General Rogard (voice)
• 1998Antz — Grebs (Drunk Scout) (voice)
• Becker — Father Joe D'Andrea
• 3rd Rock from the Sun — Dr. Leonard Hamlin
• 1996Mariette in Ecstasy — Dr. Claude Baptiste
• 1996Primal Fear — Shaughnessy
• 1996She's the One — Mr. Fitzpatrick
• 1996Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond — Martin Crane
• 1995The American President — Leo Solomon
• 1994A Hard Rain — Ross Stewart
• ER — Bennett Cray
• 1994Reality Bites — Grant Gubler
• 1994The Hudsucker Proxy — Chief
• Frasier — Martin Crane
• 1993In the Line of Fire — Sam Campagna
• 1993Striking Distance — Vince Hardy
• 1992Article 99 — Dr. Henry Dreyfoos
• 1992Buying a Landslide — Walter Partin
• The Human Factor — Dr. Alec McMurtry
• 1992The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton — Robert Clayton Sr.
• 1992The Water Engine — Mason Gross
• 1992Unnatural Pursuits — Paddy Quinn
• 1991Barton Fink — W.P. Mayhew
• 1991The 10 Million Dollar Getaway — Jimmy Burke
• H.E.L.P. — Patrick Meacham
• 1990Love Hurts — Boomer
• 1990The Image — Irv Mickelson
• 1990The Russia House — Brady
• 1989Dinner at Eight — Oliver Jordan
• 1989Say Anything... — James Court
• The Simpsons — Robert Terwilliger, Sr. (voice)
• American Experience — (voice)
• 1988Betrayed — Shorty
• 1988Eight Men Out — Kid Gleason
• Favorite Son — Lou Brenner
• 1988Frantic — Williams
• 1987Moonstruck — Perry
• 1987Suspect — Judge Matthew Bishop Helms
• 1987The House of Blue Leaves — Artie Shaughnessy
• 1987The Hustler of Money — Eddie
• 1987Tin Men — Moe Adams
• ScreenPlay — Walter Partin
• 1986Streets of Gold — Linehan
• 1986The Manhattan Project — Lt. Col. Conroy
• 1986Trapped in Silence — Dr. Winslow
• 1985Code of Silence — Prowler Representative
• 1985First Steps — '60 Minutes' Producer
• 1984The Impostor — School Security Guard
• 1984The Killing Floor — Thomas Condon
• 1983Through Naked Eyes — Police Captain
• American Playhouse — Thomas Condon, Artie Shaughnessy
• Cheers — Sy Flembeck
• Chicago Story
• 1982Will: G. Gordon Liddy
• 1981Hudson Taylor
• Saturday Night Live — Paul Newman / Fast Eddie (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (9)

• 2016The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant — Self
• 2015Foyle's War Revisited — Self - Host
• 2006Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family — Self
• 2003Behind the Couch: The Making of 'Frasier' — Self
• 1999The Frasier Story — Self
• 1999The Making of 'The Iron Giant' — Self
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks — Self
• MADtv — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner, Self - Presenter