David Hyde Pierce studied classical piano before becoming an actor. When you see Niles playing on Frasier, you can see he's really playing!
The actor also revealed that he plays several musical instruments, but "none of them well." The piano, though, is his best instrument: "It's contemplative for me. It's an avocation, rather than anything I make a living out of," he told Charlotte Green. "I love it."
Pierce declined to be credited for his Hellboy role because he felt it was the performance of Doug Jones, and not his own voice, which ultimately brought the character of Abe Sapien to life.
Actor Kelsey Grammer's rock star talent shines in 'The Space Between' Kelsey Grammer sings and plays the piano for his role in "The Space Between" as an eccentric has-been rock musician who loses his grip on reality.
It was the Andante from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467.
Maris Crane is Niles Crane's wife for much of the series, though she is never fully seen onscreen (much like Norm Peterson's wife, Vera, on Cheers). She is the most notable of the show's never-seen characters, and often the subject of many jokes. Her family is not revealed on the series.
Also like his brother, Niles is highly intelligent. His IQ is 156, well over the Mensa threshold, and much higher than Frasier's (129).
David Hyde Pierce studied classical piano before becoming an actor. When you see Niles playing on Frasier, you can see he's really playing!
Grammer portrays fictional Chicago Mayor Tom Kane, who last season was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia (LBD), the second most common form of progressive dementia.
The cast of Frasier were notably close. Grammer calls Pierce the brother he never had. Along with the late John Mahoney, who played their dad, Martin, Pierce is godfather to Leeves's son.
Origins: Originally owned by the great spirit Anum that watched over earth's birth, the indestructible Right Hand of Doom was grafted onto Hellboy when he was just a child by his father Azzael.
The two earned raves for 2004's “Hellboy” and 2008's “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” but the sequel didn't crack $200 million at the worldwide box office and thus the studio pulled the plug on del Toro's plan for a trilogy-ending third movie.
Rupert Evans (Agent John Myers from Hellboy (2004)) couldn't reprise his role, due to his casting in a stage version of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" in London in 2007 and was written out of the sequel.
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Between rock climbing and surfing, he loves to play the piano when he is at home.
Unlike many other series where characters' pregnancies were written in to accommodate the actress becoming pregnant in real life, this was not the case with Roz. Hers was purely a storyline invention, Peri Gilpin was not pregnant in real life.
Over the weekend, the season premiere pulled in 915,000 viewers, just under the 1.1 million average in the first season. The show's low ratings are cited as the main reason for its cancellation.
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Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a disease associated with abnormal deposits of a protein called alpha-synuclein in the brain. These deposits, called Lewy bodies, affect chemicals in the brain whose changes, in turn, can lead to problems with thinking, movement, behavior, and mood.
Mahoney had no such limp in real life, but the character's injury and the physical limitations it caused were a necessary part of the “Frasier” scenario since it explained the presence in the Frasier Crane household of Daphne Moon, a physical therapist and home health aide.
John Lithgow turned down the part of Frasier Crane in 'Cheers' when he was going through a “snobbish” phase.
Rosalinda Doyle (born May 5 1963 or 1964) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier. Roz is the producer of Frasier Crane's Dr.
One member of Frasier's cast received more fan mail than anyone else: Eddie the dog!