Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.
And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.
But it was just like life was waiting for me to make that decision, and when I finally made it, it just took me places I never even believed existed.
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.
It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.
You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.
I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.
Provided the voices for a few characters in the 1998 film Antz.
He has never married.
He appeared in the 1995 movie The American President.
Made his film debut in 1980.
For much of the 1970's, he served as editor for a medical journal publisher
He studied at Quincy University, Illinois.
He is of Irish-Scottish Catholic extraction.
He grew up in Manchester, England.
He went to the United States to visit his sister, who was a war bride, and decided to stay.
Prior to acting, he was an English professor teaching in many different colleges.
Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Ted Danson: Cheers, Frasier and Becker.
Was a member of the Stretford Civic Theatre in Manchester, England in his teens.
Received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Quincy College (Quincy, Illinois, now Quincy University) and a Masters in English from Western Illinois University (Macomb, Illinois).
Although he later played Frasier's father Martin Crane on Frasier, John Mahoney appeared on a 1992 episode of Cheers as a pianist who was hired to write a jingle for the bar.
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