Jock Mahoney
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 7, 1919
- Died
- December 14, 1989 (aged 70)
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney, known professionally as Jock Mahoney, was an American actor and stuntman. He starred in two Western television series, The Range Rider and Yancy Derringer. He played Tarzan in two feature films and was associated in various capacities with several other Tarzan productions. He was sometimes credited as Jack O'Mahoney or Jock O'Mahoney. Jock entered the University of Iowa in Iowa City and excelled at swimming and diving, but dropped out to enlist in the United States Marine Corps when World War II began. He served as a pilot, flight instructor, and war correspondent. After his discharge from the Marine Corps, Mahoney moved to Los Angeles, and for a time was a horse breeder. However, he soon became a movie stuntman, doubling for Gregory Peck, Errol Flynn, and John Wayne. Most of Mahoney's films of the late 1940s and early 1950s were produced by Columbia Pictures. Like many Columbia contract players, Mahoney worked in the studio's two-reel comedies. Beginning in 1947, he starred with the Three Stooges in their films Out West, Squareheads of the Round Table (and its remake, Knutzy Knights), Fuelin' Around, and Punchy Cowpunchers. Beginning in 1950, Columbia management gave him starring roles in adventure serials. Mahoney contributed so much to this series that he was awarded featured billing and major supporting roles as well, first as villains and then as sympathetic characters. By 1952 Columbia was billing him as Jack Mahoney. Cowboy star Gene Autry, then working at Columbia, hired Mahoney to star in a television series. Autry's Flying A Productions filmed 79 half-hour episodes of the syndicated The Range Rider from 1951 to 1953. For the 1958 television season, he starred in the somewhat Western Yancy Derringer series for 34 episodes, which aired on CBS. Yancy Derringer was a gentleman adventurer living in New Orleans, Louisiana, after the American Civil War. He had a Pawnee Indian companion named Pahoo Katchewa ("Wolf Who Stands in Water"), who did not speak, played by X Brands. Pahoo had saved the life of Derringer, and thereafter was responsible for Derringer's life. In 1962, Mahoney became the 13th actor to portray Tarzan when he appeared in Tarzan Goes to India, shot on location in India. A year later, he again played the role in Tarzan's Three Challenges, shot in Thailand. Dysentery and dengue fever plagued Mahoney during the shoot in the Thai jungles, and he plummeted to 175 pounds. He needed a year and a half to regain his health. Owing to his health problems and the fact that producer Weintraub had decided to go for a "younger look" for the apeman, his contract was mutually dissolved. In the 1980s, Mahoney made guest appearances on the television series B. J. and the Bear and The Fall Guy. During the final years of his life, he was a popular guest at film conventions and autograph shows. Mahoney died of a second stroke at age 70, two days after being involved in an automobile accident in Bremerton, Washington. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
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Filmography
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
Movie · as Tarzan (Archive Footage)
Salamat sa Alaala
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
Movie · as Tarzan (archive footage)
The Making of the Stooges
Movie · as Self
The Master
TV · as Mark Richards · 1 ep
Simon & Simon
TV · as Oldtimer #1 in Saloon · 1 ep
The Fall Guy
TV · as Wild Dan Wilde · 1 ep
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Movie · as Self
B. J. and the Bear
TV · 2 eps
The Bad Bunch
Movie · as Sgt. Berry
Emergency!
TV · as Hoyt Herrold · 2 eps
Kung Fu
TV · as Davidson · 1 ep
The Streets of San Francisco
TV · as Mr. Morley · 1 ep
Banacek
TV · as Albert Bates · 1 ep
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
Movie · as The Colonel
Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Coley Bennett · 2 eps
Bandolero!
Movie · as Stoner
The Love Bug
Movie · as Driver
The Glory Stompers
Movie · as Smiley
Batman
TV · as Leo, H.L. Hunter · 2 eps
Tarzan
TV · as Hoby Wallington · 4 eps
Runaway Girl
Movie · as Randy Minola
Moro Witch Doctor
Movie · as Jefferson Stark
The Walls of Hell
Movie · as Lt. Jim Sorenson
Daniel Boone
TV · as O'Connor · 1 ep
Tarzan's Three Challenges
Movie · as Tarzan
California
Movie · as Don Michael O'Casey
Tarzan Goes to India
Movie · as Tarzan
Three Blondes In His Life
Movie · as Duke Wallace
Gunslinger
TV · as Halsey Roland · 1 ep
Tarzan the Magnificent
Movie · as Coy Banton
Rawhide
TV · as Captain Brian Donahoe, Vance · 1 ep
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Movie · as Immerman
Money, Women and Guns
Movie · as 'Silver' Ward Hogan
The Last of the Fast Guns
Movie · as Brad Ellison
77 Sunset Strip
TV · as Barry James · 1 ep
Yancy Derringer
TV · as Yancy Derringer · 34 eps
The Land Unknown
Movie · as Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts
Battle Hymn
Movie · as Maj. Frank Moore
Joe Dakota
Movie · as The Stranger
Slim Carter
Movie · as Slim Carter (Hugh Mack)
Away All Boats
Movie · as Alvick
Showdown at Abilene
Movie · as Jim Trask
I've Lived Before
Movie · as John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens
A Day of Fury
Movie · as Marshal Allan Burnett
The Millionaire
TV · as Vance Ludlow · 1 ep
Knutzy Knights
Movie · as Cedric the Blacksmith
Overland Pacific
Movie · as Ross Granger
Gunfighters of the Northwest
Movie · as Joe Ward
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Driver · 1 ep
Letter to Loretta
TV · as Andy Hagen, Ernie McNally, Kim Ryan, Mike Elliott, Jim Vessey, Dan O'Hara · 1 ep
The Rough, Tough West
Movie · as Big Jack Mahoney
Smoky Canyon
Movie · as Jack Mahoney
The Hawk of Wild River
Movie · as Jack Mahoney
The Kid from Broken Gun
Movie · as Jack Mahoney
Laramie Mountains
Movie · as Swift Eagle
Junction City
Movie · as Jack Mahoney
The Texas Rangers
Movie · as Duke Fisher
Pecos River
Movie · as Jack Mahoney
Roar of the Iron Horse
Movie · as Jim Grant
Santa Fe
Movie · as Crake
The Lady and the Bandit
Movie · as Tavern Troublemaker
The Range Rider
TV · as The Range Rider · 77 eps
The Kangaroo Kid
Movie · as Tex Kinnane
Punchy Cowpunchers
Movie · as Elmer
Hoedown
Movie · as Stoney Rhodes
Frontier Outpost
Movie · as Lieutenant Peck (uncredited)
The Nevadan
Movie · as Sandy
Cow Town
Movie · as Tod Jeffreys
Cody of the Pony Express
Movie · as Jim Archer
Texas Dynamo
Movie · as Bill Beck
Lightning Guns
Movie · as Rob Saunders
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Movie · as Tulsa Jack Blake
Fuelin' Around
Movie · as Guard
The Blazing Trail
Movie · as Full-House Patterson
Bandits of El Dorado
Movie · as Tim Starling (uncredited)
Horsemen of the Sierras
Movie · as Bill Grant
Renegades of the Sage
Movie · as Lieutenant Hunter
Rim of the Canyon
Movie · as Pete Reagan
Squareheads of the Round Table
Movie · as Cedric the Blacksmith
Out West
Movie · as Arizona Kid
The Stranger From Ponca City
Movie · as Henchman Tensleep (uncredited)
The Fighting Frontiersman
Movie · as Waco (uncredited)
Son of the Guardsman
Movie · as Captain Kenley (uncredited)