Biography
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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
2016
as Self
A documentary about how the critically acclaimed film wound up being a box office disappointment, only to become regarded as a classic over a decade a...

Flipped
2010
as Chet Duncan
When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give u...

Dan in Real Life
2007
as Poppy
Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious...

The Groomsmen
2006
as Paulie's Dad (uncredited)
Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with his groomsmen. Brother Jimbo, cousin Mike, and his p...

The Groomsmen
2006
Thanks
Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with his groomsmen. Brother Jimbo, cousin Mike, and his p...

Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
2006
as Self
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, ...

Kronk's New Groove
2005
as Papi (voice)
Kronk, now chef and Head Delivery Boy of Mudka's Meat Hut, is fretting over the upcoming visit of his father. Kronk's father always disapproved of you...

Fathers and Sons
2005
as Gene
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Antho...
Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter
2004
as Martin Crane
Frasier Crane visits his therapist and reminisces over the events of the past 11 years since his move from Boston to Seattle, in a clip show designed ...

Atlantis: Milo's Return
2003
as Whitmore (voice)
Milo and Kida reunite with their friends to investigate strange occurances around the world that seem to have links to the secrets of Atlantis.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire
2001
as Preston B. Whitmore (voice)
A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.

Almost Salinas
2001
as Max Harris
Life takes a strange turn when a group of outsiders come to the small town of Cholame, the famed site of James Dean's fatal car crash. Cholame's only ...

Intimate Enemies
2000
as Narrator (voice)
Life on the savannah of southern Tanzania is a study in contrast between rainy and dry seasons. When water is abundant, the wildebeest at the rivers p...

The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
2000
as Jack
A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood...

The Iron Giant
1999
as General Rogard (voice)
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfi...

The Making of 'The Iron Giant'
1999
as Self
Documentary of the making of the animated family film, The Iron Giant.

Antz
1998
as Grebs (Drunk Scout) (voice)
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a pa...

Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
1996
as Martin Crane
A star-studded tribute to Star Trek on its 30th anniversary, hosted by many of the stars and guest stars from all of the Trek series and movies. Also ...

She's the One
1996
as Mr. Fitzpatrick
Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a...
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996
as Dr. Claude Baptiste
In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, ru...

Primal Fear
1996
as Shaughnessy
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has ...

The American President
1995
as Leo Solomon
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wa...

The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
as Chief
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Reality Bites
1994
as Grant Gubler
A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As...
A Hard Rain
1994
as Ross Stewart
A Hard Rain is the story of a revenge killing in a small Pacific NW island community.

Striking Distance
1993
as Lt. Vince Hardy
Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on ...

In the Line of Fire
1993
as Sam Campagna
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirt...

Buying a Landslide
1992
as Walter Partin
Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky ...

The Water Engine
1992
as Mason Gross
In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously ...

The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
1992
as Robert Clayton Sr.
The new DA of a small town is given the job of prosecuting the alleged murderer of a stripper. Unfortunately, his own father is in charge of the defen...

Article 99
1992
as Dr. Henry Dreyfoos
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliv...

Unnatural Pursuits
1992
as Paddy Quinn
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.

Barton Fink
1991
as W.P. Mayhew
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
1991
as Jimmy Burke
Jimmy Burke and his friends steal 10 million from the Lufthansa office in New York. The FBI has no idea who the thieves are until Burke girlfriend giv...

The Russia House
1990
as Brady
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investiga...

Love Hurts
1990
as Boomer
The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family.

The Image
1990
as Irv Mickelson
When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.

Dinner at Eight
1989
as Oliver Jordan
Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husban...

Say Anything...
1989
as James Court
Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about ev...

Eight Men Out
1988
as Kid Gleason
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching...

Betrayed
1988
as Shorty
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.

Frantic
1988
as Williams
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicat...

Moonstruck
1987
as Perry
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, ev...

Suspect
1987
as Judge Matthew Bishop Helms
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and ...

The House of Blue Leaves
1987
as Artie Shaughnessy
On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, t...

The Hustler of Money
1987
as Eddie
A veteran bowling hustler tries to teach a young hotshot the finer points of playing the game for money.

Tin Men
1987
as Moe Adams
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.

The Manhattan Project
1986
as Lt. Col. Conroy
A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, wi...

Trapped In Silence
1986
as Dr. Winslow
A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.

Streets of Gold
1986
as Linnehan
Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was a talented boxer in his day, but he was not allowed on the Soviet national team because he was a Je...

Code of Silence
1985
as Prowler Representative
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

First Steps
1985
as '60 Minutes' Producer
Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new resear...

The Impostor
1984
After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get h...

The Impostor
1984
as School Security Guard
After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get h...

The Killing Floor
1984
as Thomas Condon
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the orga...

Through Naked Eyes
1983
as Police Captain
A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractiv...

Will: G. Gordon Liddy
1982
Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.

Hudson Taylor
1981
The early years of the great missionary Hudson Taylor are portrayed in this drama. The movie details his work in China and the trails he endured. Huds...