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Jock Mahoney‌

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Birthday

calendar1919-02-07

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Jock Mahoney

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Jock Mahoney

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1919-02-07

Popularity

star5.1

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.

Movie Credits

The Land Unknown

The Land Unknown‌
star5.7
calendar 1957

Away All Boats

Away All Boats‌
star5.1
calendar 1956

Away All Boats

Away All Boats‌
star5.1
calendar 1956

Tarzan the Magnificent

Tarzan the Magnificent‌
star5.6
calendar 1960

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion‌
star0.0
calendar 1979

Battle Hymn

Battle Hymn‌
star6.4
calendar 1957

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

A Time to Love and a Time to Die‌
star7.2
calendar 1958

Tarzan Goes to India

Tarzan Goes to India‌
star4.1
calendar 1962

Tarzan's Three Challenges

Tarzan's Three Challenges‌
star4.9
calendar 1963

The Bad Bunch

The Bad Bunch‌
star5.3
calendar 1973

The Glory Stompers

The Glory Stompers‌
star5.4
calendar 1967

Money, Women and Guns

Money, Women and Guns‌
star5.3
calendar 1958

Showdown at Abilene

Showdown at Abilene‌
star5.2
calendar 1956

The Doolins of Oklahoma

The Doolins of Oklahoma‌
star6.8
calendar 1949

The Kangaroo Kid

The Kangaroo Kid‌
star6.0
calendar 1950

Squareheads of the Round Table

Squareheads of the Round Table‌
star6.7
calendar 1948

Fuelin' Around

Fuelin' Around‌
star7.0
calendar 1949

Punchy Cowpunchers

Punchy Cowpunchers‌
star5.3
calendar 1950

I've Lived Before

I've Lived Before‌
star5.5
calendar 1956

The Marines Who Never Returned

The Marines Who Never Returned‌
star7.1
calendar 1963

Knutzy Knights

Knutzy Knights‌
star6.5
calendar 1954

A Day of Fury

A Day of Fury‌
star5.5
calendar 1956

The Last of the Fast Guns

The Last of the Fast Guns‌
star5.2
calendar 1958

Three Blondes In His Life

Three Blondes In His Life‌
star3.6
calendar 1961

Joe Dakota

Joe Dakota‌
star5.5
calendar 1957

Overland Pacific

Overland Pacific‌
star4.9
calendar 1954

Moro Witch Doctor

Moro Witch Doctor‌
star4.0
calendar 1964

The Making of the Stooges

The Making of the Stooges‌
star0.0
calendar 1984

The Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers‌
star5.7
calendar 1951

Out West

Out West‌
star7.0
calendar 1947

Slim Carter

Slim Carter‌
star0.0
calendar 1957

The Rough, Tough West

The Rough, Tough West‌
star5.5
calendar 1952

Pecos River

Pecos River‌
star5.0
calendar 1951

Hoedown

Hoedown‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Salamat sa Alaala

Salamat sa Alaala‌
star0.0
calendar 2015

Bandolero!

Bandolero!‌
star6.5
calendar 1968

Smoky Canyon

Smoky Canyon‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

Frontier Outpost

Frontier Outpost‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

The Walls of Hell

The Walls of Hell‌
star4.6
calendar 1964

Tarzan's Deadly Silence

Tarzan's Deadly Silence‌
star4.0
calendar 1970

The Nevadan

The Nevadan‌
star5.8
calendar 1950

The Fighting Frontiersman

The Fighting Frontiersman‌
star0.0
calendar 1946

The Stranger From Ponca City

The Stranger From Ponca City‌
star6.0
calendar 1947

The Blazing Trail

The Blazing Trail‌
star0.0
calendar 1949

The Hawk of Wild River

The Hawk of Wild River‌
star5.2
calendar 1952

Bandits of El Dorado

Bandits of El Dorado‌
star0.0
calendar 1949

The Kid from Broken Gun

The Kid from Broken Gun‌
star5.0
calendar 1952

Laramie Mountains

Laramie Mountains‌
star5.0
calendar 1952

California

California‌
star3.0
calendar 1963

Cow Town

Cow Town‌
star4.0
calendar 1950

Cody of the Pony Express

Cody of the Pony Express‌
star6.0
calendar 1950

Roar of the Iron Horse

Roar of the Iron Horse‌
star6.0
calendar 1951

Runaway Girl

Runaway Girl‌
star0.0
calendar 1965

Junction City

Junction City‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

Texas Dynamo

Texas Dynamo‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Renegades of the Sage

Renegades of the Sage‌
star0.0
calendar 1949

Horsemen of the Sierras

Horsemen of the Sierras‌
star0.0
calendar 1949

Lightning Guns

Lightning Guns‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Santa Fe

Santa Fe‌
star6.8
calendar 1951

Rim of the Canyon

Rim of the Canyon‌
star5.2
calendar 1949

Gunfighters of the Northwest

Gunfighters of the Northwest‌
star0.0
calendar 1954

The Lady and the Bandit

The Lady and the Bandit‌
star6.0
calendar 1951

Son of the Guardsman

Son of the Guardsman‌
star5.0
calendar 1946

Tv Credits

Simon & Simon

Simon & Simon‌
star6.7
calendar 1981

Emergency!

Emergency!‌
star7.8
calendar 1972

Batman

Batman‌
star7.3
calendar 1966

Rawhide

Rawhide‌
star7.0
calendar 1959

Kung Fu

Kung Fu‌
star7.6
calendar 1972

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip‌
star6.7
calendar 1958

The Range Rider

The Range Rider‌
star6.8
calendar 1951

Tarzan

Tarzan‌
star6.7
calendar 1966

B. J. and the Bear

B. J. and the Bear‌
star5.5
calendar 1979

The Millionaire

The Millionaire‌
star5.0
calendar 1955

The Streets of San Francisco

The Streets of San Francisco‌
star7.0
calendar 1972

Yancy Derringer

Yancy Derringer‌
star6.0
calendar 1958

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O‌
star7.1
calendar 1968

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone‌
star6.9
calendar 1964

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

The Master

The Master‌
star4.9
calendar 1984

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

The Streets of San Francisco

The Streets of San Francisco‌
star7.0
calendar 1972

The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy‌
star7.5
calendar 1981

Batman

Batman‌
star7.3
calendar 1966

Banacek

Banacek‌
star8.6
calendar 1972