Frasier Crane
| Dr. Frasier Crane | |
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| Cheers and Frasier character | |
Dr. Frasier Crane doing his radio show at KACL in the Frasier episode "Shrink Wrap" (episode 50, 1995)
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| First appearance |
Cheers: "Rebound (Part 1)" (episode 3.01) |
| Last appearance |
Frasier: "Goodnight, Seattle" (episode 11.24) |
| Created by |
Glen Charles Les Charles |
| Portrayed by |
Kelsey Grammer Kendall Schmidt (flashbacks) |
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| Nickname(s) | Doc, Dr. Crane, Frase |
| Gender | Male |
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| Children | Frederick Crane (son, with Lilith Sternin) |
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| Religion | Episcopalian |
| Nationality | American |
Frasier Winslow Crane is a fictional character on the American television sitcoms Cheers and Frasier, portrayed by Kelsey Grammer. Grammer received award recognitions for portraying this character in these two shows, in addition to a 1992 one-time appearance in Wings.
The character debuts in the Cheers third season premiere, "Rebound (Part 1)" (1984), as Diane Chambers's love interest, part of the Sam and Diane story arc. Intended to appear for only a few episodes, Grammer's performance for the role was praised by producers, prompting them to expand his role and to increase his prominence. Later in Cheers, Frasier is married to Lilith Sternin (Bebe Neuwirth) with a son, Frederick, and resides in Boston. After Cheers ended, the character moved to his spin-off series Frasier, the span of his overall television appearances therefore totaling twenty years. In the spin-off, Frasier moves back to his birthplace Seattle after his divorce from Lilith, who retained custody of Frederick in Boston, and is reunited with a newly created family: his estranged father Martin and brother Niles. In the series finale, he is supposed to depart to San Francisco for his proposed talk show, but instead he goes to Chicago, where one of his love interests resides.
Frasier Crane, an alumnus of Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and Oxford University, debuts in the two-part episode "Rebound" (1984), the premiere of Cheers season three (1984–85), as a psychiatrist to help bartender Sam Malone recover from a brief return to his alcoholism and to help him cope with his breakup with Diane Chambers. Also Diane's fiancé throughout the third season, he and Diane are supposed to wed in Italy in "Rescue Me" (1985), the finale of season three. However, in "Birth, Death, Love, and Rice" (1985), the premiere of season four (1985–86), Frasier enters the bar and tells Sam that he was jilted by Diane at the altar in Europe. A despondent Frasier loses his license and his job. Later in season four, he begins to regularly attend Cheers for drinks and finds himself depending more and more on alcohol. In "The Triangle" (1986), Sam feigns symptoms of depression, planned by Diane, to help Frasier recover from alcoholism and regain his own self-confidence. This leads Frasier to conclude that Sam's symptoms indicate his love for Diane. However, upon arrival Frasier sees Sam and Diane arguing in the bar office, Sam admits the whole plan. Furious, Frasier declares himself to be sober, refuses to be a part of their relationship, and vows to practice psychiatry again.
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