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John Mahoney
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June 20, 1940 in Manchester, England
Biography:Though he most frequently plays American character roles on stage and television and in feature films, silver-haired "John Mahoney" was born and raised in England until he emigrated to the U.S. at age 19 in the 1950s and joined the Army. One of the first things he worked on was losing his British accent, something he succeeded at doing. Once out of the service, Mahoney earned a B.A. from Quincy College and then graduated from Western Illinois University with a master's in English. For the next decade and a half, Mahoney worked at different careers including college professor and medical journal editor in Chicago. Though he had appeared on-stage in his teens, Mahoney did not again become interested in acting until he was 37 and decided to enroll in classes at the St. Nicholas Theater, a Chicago institution co-founded by playwright/screenwriter "David Mamet". After performing in one of Mamet's plays,... Full Biography
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John Mahoney, left, and Dianne Wiest in "Dan in Real Life" (Buena Vista Pictures)
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