Humble Beginnings
The actor was born Allen Kelsey Grammer on February 21, 1955, on the island of Saint Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. His mother Sally worked as a singer and actress, while his father Frank was a musician and owner of a bar and grill called Greer’s Place. When Grammer was two years old, his parents divorced.
His mother packed up their belongings and uprooted Grammer and his little sister Karen to live with her father in New Jersey. A few years later, the actor’s family relocated to Pompano Beach, Florida, and that’s when the string of family deaths began. After Grammer’s 12th birthday, his grandfather passed away from cancer. He was only 63 years old at the time.