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.
Known For
Credits
- 2015 · Salamat sa Alaala as Self (archive footage)
- 1984 · The Master as Mark Richards
- 1984 · The Making of the Stooges as Self
- 1981 · Simon & Simon as Oldtimer #1 in Saloon
- 1981 · The Fall Guy as Wild Dan Wilde
- 1979 · When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion as Self
- 1979 · B. J. and the Bear as
- 1973 · The Bad Bunch as Sgt. Berry
- 1972 · Kung Fu as Davidson
- 1972 · The Streets of San Francisco as
- 1972 · The Streets of San Francisco as Mr. Morley
- 1972 · Banacek as Albert Bates
- 1972 · Emergency! as Hoyt Herrold
- 1970 · Tarzan's Deadly Silence as The Colonel
- 1968 · Hawaii Five-O as Coley Bennett
- 1968 · Bandolero! as Stoner
- 1967 · The Glory Stompers as Smiley
- 1966 · Tarzan as Hoby Wallington
- 1966 · Batman as Leo
- 1966 · Batman as H.L. Hunter
- 1965 · Runaway Girl as Randy Minola
- 1964 · Moro Witch Doctor as Jefferson Stark
- 1964 · Daniel Boone as O'Connor
- 1964 · The Walls of Hell as Lt. Jim Sorenson
- 1963 · Marine Battleground as Nick Rawlins
- 1963 · California as Don Michael O'Casey
- 1963 · Tarzan's Three Challenges as Tarzan
- 1962 · Tarzan Goes to India as Tarzan
- 1961 · Three Blondes In His Life as Duke Wallace
- 1960 · Tarzan the Magnificent as Coy Banton
- 1959 · Rawhide as Captain Brian Donahoe
- 1958 · 77 Sunset Strip as Barry James
- 1958 · Yancy Derringer as Yancy Derringer
- 1958 · Money, Women and Guns as 'Silver' Ward Hogan
- 1958 · A Time to Love and a Time to Die as Immerman
- 1958 · The Last of the Fast Guns as Brad Ellison
- 1957 · Slim Carter as Slim Carter (Hugh Mack)
- 1957 · Joe Dakota as The Stranger
- 1957 · The Land Unknown as Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts
- 1957 · Battle Hymn as Maj. Frank Moore
- 1956 · Showdown at Abilene as Jim Trask
- 1956 · I've Lived Before as John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens
- 1956 · Away All Boats as
- 1956 · Away All Boats as Alvick
- 1956 · A Day of Fury as Marshal Allan Burnett
- 1955 · The Millionaire as Vance Ludlow
- 1954 · Overland Pacific as Ross Granger
- 1954 · Knutzy Knights as Cedric the Blacksmith
- 1954 · Gunfighters of the Northwest as Joe Ward
- 1953 · Letter to Loretta as Andy Hagen
- 1953 · Letter to Loretta as Ernie McNally
- 1953 · Letter to Loretta as Kim Ryan
- 1953 · Letter to Loretta as Mike Elliott
- 1953 · Letter to Loretta as Jim Vessey
- 1953 · Letter to Loretta as Dan O'Hara
- 1952 · The Kid from Broken Gun as Jack Mahoney
- 1952 · Junction City as Jack Mahoney
- 1952 · The Rough, Tough West as Big Jack Mahoney
- 1952 · Laramie Mountains as Swift Eagle
- 1952 · The Hawk of Wild River as Jack Mahoney
- 1952 · Smoky Canyon as Jack Mahoney
- 1951 · Pecos River as Jack Mahoney
- 1951 · The Lady and the Bandit as Tavern Troublemaker
- 1951 · The Texas Rangers as Duke Fisher
- 1951 · Roar of the Iron Horse as Jim Grant
- 1951 · The Range Rider as The Range Rider
- 1951 · Santa Fe as Crake
- 1950 · Frontier Outpost as Lieutenant Peck (uncredited)
- 1950 · Lightning Guns as Rob Saunders
- 1950 · The Kangaroo Kid as Tex Kinnane
- 1950 · Texas Dynamo as Bill Beck
- 1950 · Hoedown as Stoney Rhodes
- 1950 · Cow Town as Tod Jeffreys
- 1950 · Cody of the Pony Express as Jim Archer
- 1950 · The Nevadan as Sandy
- 1950 · Punchy Cowpunchers as Elmer
- 1949 · Renegades of the Sage as Lieutenant Hunter
- 1949 · Horsemen of the Sierras as Bill Grant
- 1949 · Bandits of El Dorado as Tim Starling (uncredited)
- 1949 · Rim of the Canyon as Pete Reagan
- 1949 · The Blazing Trail as Full-House Patterson
- 1949 · The Doolins of Oklahoma as Tulsa Jack Blake
- 1949 · Fuelin' Around as Guard
- 1948 · Squareheads of the Round Table as Cedric the Blacksmith
- 1947 · The Stranger From Ponca City as Henchman Tensleep (uncredited)
- 1947 · Out West as Arizona Kid
- 1946 · The Fighting Frontiersman as Waco (uncredited)
- 1946 · Son of the Guardsman as Captain Kenley (uncredited)