Actor john mahoney gay

In an interview with independent.ie, Mahoney said the original focus of the show was to be the dynamic between Frasier and Martin, but that all changed when audiences seemed to connect so well with Niles.

"I started wondering why I gave everything up just to say a couple of lines in an episode," Mahoney said, adding, "But they wouldn't let me out — they knew that Martin represented the audience, saying everything they wanted to say to these prim and precious brothers." Oof, that sounds...not good, although Mahoney has always been quick to add how much affection he has for not only the cast, but also for being a part of such a tremendous piece of television history.

Speaking with Broadway Buzz, Mahoney said he was ready for the show to end in order to preserve the "prestige and glory we had." He also predicted his exact future in the medium, saying, "I'm not that interested in getting in front of a camera again.

Well, she gets a sign…

Come on, can you blame a Roz??

Okay–taking a step back, this is a colossally petty thing for Roz to do not only to her best friend Daphne but also to her new boss. Of course Tom’s misconception could’ve been cleared up immediately during his talk with Roz, where he reveals that he thinks Frasier just asked him out on a date.

Tom’s finally getting his alone time with Frasier–and that’s when Frasier reveals that he’s straight. Novelist Joe Keenan made his Frasier debut with this one; he’d stay with the show until the very end, working his way up to executive producer.

It's geographical, totally. A devout Catholic and discreetly gay, he never publicly discussed his sexuality, but played many gay roles, notably an ageing drag queen in TV medical drama ER, a closeted business executive In Treatment and a gay elder in 2000 rom-com The Broken Hearts Club. Wouldn't discuss it, because I was afraid it would lead to an argument." He also once told Time Out Chicago, "Twenty-three years ago I had cancer of the colon.

There’s no printed confirmation that he was, although I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that it would truly mean the world to me if he was. But as “other” as Frasier seemed to me as a middle schooler, there was nothing explicitly gay about Frasier. Being gay isn’t the thing being laughed at here, but the awkward predicament it puts all the characters in is.

It is everything to me." In fact, his love of the stage was so strong that while he was starring on what was arguably one of the best sitcoms of all time, he still managed to get on stage for any live production he could squeeze in.

"I never stopped doing plays — even when I was on Frasier," Mahoney told Broadway Buzz.

For 11 years, he played Martin Crane, the irascible father of Frasier and Niles Crane on NBC's hit Cheers spin off, Frasier. It was there that he fell in love with the Second City's theater scene, as well as the "museums, miles of parks and beaches, the lake that's as big as an ocean," he told Broadway Buzz, adding, "They say home is where the heart is, and I always felt that it was home."

A Chicago Tribune portrait of Mahoney paints him as something of a low-key hero in his quiet Oak Park neighborhood, which is technically a tony suburb of the Windy City.

Honest mistake, apparently! After being discharged, he attended West Illinois University and became a high school English teacher. I certainly am not interested in doing another series. "I knew I was going to live in the US the rest of my life and I didn't want to be on the outside looking in," he told The Telegraph.

Frasier on the whole is not a stuffy and snooty intellectual tour-de-force. I'd do guest spots, but never another series."

With his longest run on a TV show after Frasier being seven episodes on the HBO drama, In Treatment, we'd say it was clear he wasn't joking around about that.