John Mahoney obituary

Actor who starred as Martin Crane, the cantankerous father in the hit US sitcom FrasierKelsey Grammer had star billing in the TV series Frasier, which took a character from another hit American sitcom, Cheers, the pretentious psychiatrist Frasier Crane, home to Seattle. There the actor John Mahoney, as Frasier’s cantankerous but charming father, Martin Crane, injected a crucial contrasting dimension into a programme lauded for its witty dialogue.Mahoney, who has died of complications from