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person_profile-Jock Mahoney

Jock Mahoney Died at age: 70

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jock Mahoney

Date of Birth:

Feb 07, 1919

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Dec 14, 1989

Biography of

Jock Mahoney

    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 of

Jock Mahoney

Found 56 Movies in total

Tarzan: Lord of the Movies

Tarzan (Archive Footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

The Bad Bunch

Sgt. Berry ( Actor )

... 1973

Tarzan's Deadly Silence

The Colonel ( Actor )

... 1970

Bandolero!

Stoner ( Actor )

... 1968

The Glory Stompers

Smiley ( Actor )

... 1967

Runaway Girl

Randy Minola ( Actor )

... 1965

Moro Witch Doctor

Jefferson Stark ( Actor )

... 1964

The Walls of Hell

Lt. Jim Sorenson ( Actor )

... 1964

Marine Battleground

Nick Rawlins ( Actor )

... 1963

California

Don Michael O'Casey ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1963

Tarzan Goes to India

Tarzan ( Actor )

... 1962

Three Blondes In His Life

Duke Wallace ( Actor )

... 1961

Tarzan the Magnificent

Coy Banton ( Actor )

... 1960

Money, Women and Guns

'Silver' Ward Hogan ( Actor )

... 1958

... 1958

The Last of the Fast Guns

Brad Ellison ( Actor )

... 1958

Slim Carter

Slim Carter (Hugh Mack) ( Actor )

Stunts

... 1957

Joe Dakota

The Stranger ( Actor )

... 1957

The Land Unknown

Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts ( Actor )

... 1957

Battle Hymn

Maj. Frank Moore ( Actor )

... 1957

Showdown at Abilene

Jim Trask ( Actor )

... 1956

I've Lived Before

John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens ( Actor )

... 1956

Away All Boats

Alvick ( Actor )

... 1956

A Day of Fury

Marshal Allan Burnett ( Actor )

... 1956

Overland Pacific

Ross Granger ( Actor )

... 1954

... 1954

The Kid from Broken Gun

Jack Mahoney ( Actor )

... 1952

Junction City

Jack Mahoney ( Actor )

... 1952

The Rough, Tough West

Big Jack Mahoney ( Actor )

... 1952

Laramie Mountains

Swift Eagle ( Actor )

... 1952

The Hawk of Wild River

Jack Mahoney ( Actor )

... 1952

Smoky Canyon

Jack Mahoney ( Actor )

... 1952

Pecos River

Jack Mahoney ( Actor )

... 1951

The Lady and the Bandit

Tavern Troublemaker ( Actor )

Stunt Double

... 1951

The Texas Rangers

Duke Fisher ( Actor )

Stunts

... 1951

Roar of the Iron Horse

Jim Grant ( Actor )

... 1951

Santa Fe

Crake ( Actor )

... 1951

Frontier Outpost

Lieutenant Peck (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1950

Lightning Guns

Rob Saunders ( Actor )

... 1950

The Kangaroo Kid

Tex Kinnane ( Actor )

... 1950

Hoedown

Stoney Rhodes ( Actor )

... 1950

Texas Dynamo

Bill Beck ( Actor )

... 1950

Cow Town

Tod Jeffreys ( Actor )

... 1950

Cody of the Pony Express

Jim Archer ( Actor )

... 1950

The Nevadan

Sandy ( Actor )

Stunt Double

... 1950

Renegades of the Sage

Lieutenant Hunter ( Actor )

... 1949

Horsemen of the Sierras

Bill Grant ( Actor )

... 1949

Bandits of El Dorado

Tim Starling (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1949

Rim of the Canyon

Pete Reagan ( Actor )

... 1949

The Blazing Trail

Full-House Patterson ( Actor )

... 1949

The Doolins of Oklahoma

Tulsa Jack Blake ( Actor )

... 1949

The Stranger From Ponca City

Henchman Tensleep (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1947

The Fighting Frontiersman

Waco (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

Son of the Guardsman

Captain Kenley (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946