Niles Crane, M. D., Ph. D., A. P. A.

Niles is the father of David, the younger brother of Dr. Frasier Crane, the son of Det.

Niles was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1957, to Hester Crane, a psychiatrist, and Martin Crane, a police officer.

Pierce is best known for playing the psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the hit NBC sitcom Frasier, for which he won four Emmy Awards during the series ' run.

In part due to his close physical resemblance to Kelsey Grammer, the producers of the Cheers spin-off Frasier created the role of Niles Crane ( Frasier Crane's younger brother ) for him.

Besides this episode, throughout the spin-off, none of her former relatives, Martin Crane ( John Mahoney ) and Niles Crane ( David Hyde Pierce ), are pleased to see her.

Martin is the father of Frasier and Niles Crane.

** Niles Crane ( son, with Hester ) married to Maris Crane ( daughter-in-law, divorced ), Mel Crane ( daughter-in-law, divorced ) and to Daphne Moon ( daughter-in-law )

* In the 2003 Frasier episode ' Father and Sons ', Roz chooses Ichabod Crane as the fictional name for Niles Crane and Daphne's future child.

Her relationship with Frasier's brother Niles Crane was a major dramatic plotline during the run of the series, progressing from Niles ' secret infatuation at the beginning of the show to their marriage at the beginning of season ten.

This American version of a " posh " accent is now obsolescent, if not wholly obsolete, even among the American upper classes, but an example of a Mid-Atlantic accent can be found on the television sitcom Frasier as used by both Frasier Crane and his brother Niles Crane, and is reminiscent of the Boston Brahmin accent of the character of Charles Emerson Winchester III on M * A * S * H. More recent Groton alumni, even those with careers on the stage such as Sam Waterston, no longer use such an accent.

Although he is looking forward to restarting his life as a bachelor, unfortunately for him fate ( and his younger brother, Dr. Niles Crane ) have other plans.

* Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce – Briefly playing Daphne Moon and Niles Crane, their characters from the NBC sitcom Frasier at the end of the 1995 episode " Caroline and the Bad Back ;" Hyde Pierce later appeared on the series again in 1996's " Caroline and the Cat Dancer " as an accountant hoping to win a role alongside Caroline's best friend Annie Spadaro in Broadway's Cats.

* Frasier ( Niles Crane )

* David Hyde Pierce, 1981, actor, best known for playing the role of Niles Crane on " Fraiser "

* David Crane, the son of Niles Crane and Daphne Moon in the sitcom Frasier

* Niles the Butler, a character in the US television series The Nanny

* Niles Standish, a character in Crank Yankers

* Chief ( comics ), also known as Dr. Niles Caulder, a DC Comics character

Ken Niles was the show's longtime announcer, doubling as an exasperated foil to Abbott and Costello's mishaps ( and often fuming in character as Costello routinely insulted his on-air wife ).

He is almost surely a relative of Winston Niles Rumfoord, a character in a previous novel by Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan.

The puppets are then constructed based on the various marks ' voices, and, along with a series of stock characters ( such as " Niles Standish ", " Bobby Fletcher ", and " Special Ed ") based on the performers ' character voices, the calls are re-enacted for the skits.

When Niles goes to a costume party as Martin and is asked to name his biggest disappointment in life, Niles ' response ( in character and slightly inebriated ) turns this into a speech of his distaste for his and Frasier's pretentiousness, snobbery, and lack of athleticism before finally saying " if I had to choose my two biggest disappointments ".

Davis played his most famous character, Niles the butler on the television series The Nanny, throughout its run from 1993 to 1999 and in its Reunion Special in 2004 ( in cameo flashbacks only ).

Niles was known for his frequent use of deadpan one-liners, usually insulting character C. C.

Jane became a spokesperson for Steve Niles and the cover model for comic book character Cal McDonald in 2006.

* The train depot where Belushi's character says goodbye to Blair's character, but later gets back on the train is the Michigan Central Railroad Niles Depot in Niles, Michigan about 90 miles east of Chicago.

It runs from the Niles area at a junction with US Highway 12 ( US 12 ) to the Jackson area where it ends at Interstate 94 ( I-94 ).

M-60 starts at an interchange along US 12 southeast of Niles in southwestern Cass County.

The freeway runs to the south and west of Elkhart and South Bend and Niles and consists of segments of U. S. Route 31 ( US 31 ) and US 20 ; those two highway designations run concurrently at the southwestern rim of the South Bend metropolitan area.

West of Niles, the Parkway meets US 12 and continues northwesterly running west of Berrien Springs.

BUS US 31 was created along the former routing in Niles and Walton Road was rebuilt as a state trunkline connection between the northern end of the freeway and the former two-lane routing of US 31.

The segment from Niles south was used for the routing of US 31 in 1926.

From there the trunkline runs north through an interchange with US Highway 12 ( US 12 ) into Niles along a route that was once part of Business US 12 ( BUS US 12 ).

In 1971, all of M-40 south of I-94 to Niles was reassigned the designation M-51 while M-40 was shifted to the east to take over the routing of the contemporary M-119 between Paw Paw and its intersection with US 12 in Porter Township near Mottville.

The routing of M-51 was extended down to the state line in April 1998 when US 33 was decommissioned out of the state of Michigan ; the extension formed a concurrency with Business US 12 ( BUS US 12 ) through Niles in the process.

In early 2010, the central section of BUS US 12 was transferred to the City of Niles .< ref name = MoU2010 >

US 33 formerly ended in St. Joseph, Michigan, at the junction of the old U. S. Highway 12, was extended to a junction with Interstate 196 near Lake Michigan Beach, Michigan, north of St. Joseph, but later truncated south of Niles, Michigan ( junction U. S. Highway 12 ), then in April 1998 at Elkhart, Indiana.

Reg Niles, Directory of Hospitals, Orphanages, Adoption Agencies and Maternity Homes was published in 1981 and contains information about most US and Canadian facilities.

On July 1, 1919, the first M-58 was a highway in Berrien County connecting M-40 ( now M-51 ) in downtown Niles with M-11 ( later US 12, and presently Business Loop I-94 ) south of downtown St. Joseph.

All of M-63's routing was part of US 33 before that highway's truncation south of Niles in 1986.

Before the designation, US 33 ran north into Michigan south of Niles.