Dr. Frasier Winslow Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. (born 1952) is a fictional character on American television sitcoms Frasier and Cheers. He was played by Kelsey Grammer for twenty years, tying the record for the longest-running character on prime-time American television, which was set by James Arness, who played Marshal Matt Dillon on the show Gunsmoke. Grammer received Emmy Award nominations for portraying Crane on three different NBC shows, incl...
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Dr. Frasier Winslow Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. (born 1952) is a fictional character on American television sitcoms Frasier and Cheers. He was played by Kelsey Grammer for twenty years, tying the record for the longest-running character on prime-time American television, which was set by James Arness, who played Marshal Matt Dillon on the show Gunsmoke. Grammer received Emmy Award nominations for portraying Crane on three different NBC shows, including a 1992 guest appearance on Wings.
Many of the details of his early life are introduced and elaborated on in the Cheers spinoff, Frasier.
It is established in Frasier that Frasier Winslow Crane was born in Seattle to Hester Rose Crane (née Palmer) (a psychiatrist) and Martin Crane (a police detective). The Crane family background is Russian and British.
The details of Frasier's birth are erratic and changing.
As a child, Frasier was unusually sensitive, and as such was a frequent target for bullies, frequently the Kriezel siblings. His...
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