Martin "Marty" Crane is a character on the American television show Frasier. He is played by Lancashire-born actor John Mahoney. Martin is the father of Frasier and Niles Crane.
Although Martin is first mentioned in an episode of the sitcom Cheers, his life history is mainly expanded on in the spinoff Frasier. In an eighth season Cheers episode ("Two Girls For Every Boyd"), Frasier claims that his father is dead and was a scientist in life. Both ...
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Martin "Marty" Crane is a character on the American television show Frasier. He is played by Lancashire-born actor John Mahoney. Martin is the father of Frasier and Niles Crane.
Although Martin is first mentioned in an episode of the sitcom Cheers, his life history is mainly expanded on in the spinoff Frasier. In an eighth season Cheers episode ("Two Girls For Every Boyd"), Frasier claims that his father is dead and was a scientist in life. Both claims are refuted in Frasier (in which Martin is portrayed as a vibrant and witty retired police officer), and this comment is retconned in the later show as being the result of bad feelings between Martin and Frasier at the time. (John Mahoney, the actor who played Martin in Frasier also appeared in Cheers as a piano player/jingle writer.)
Martin was born in Seattle and is a life-long resident of the city. At the age of 19, Martin either was drafted or enlisted into the U.S. Army, and served in the Korean War, where he later frequently...
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