Jock Mahoney

Jock Mahoney

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.

Place of Birth: Not available

Birthday: February 07, 1919

Deathday: December 14, 1989

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Known For

The Land Unknown
The Land Unknown

1957-10-15

Away All Boats
Away All Boats

1956-08-16

Away All Boats
Away All Boats

1956-08-16

Tarzan the Magnificent
Tarzan the Magnificent

1960-07-20

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

1979-06-05

Battle Hymn
Battle Hymn

1957-02-14

A Time to Love and a Time to Die
A Time to Love and a Time to Die

1958-07-09

Tarzan Goes to India
Tarzan Goes to India

1962-07-01

Tarzan's Three Challenges
Tarzan's Three Challenges

1963-01-29

The Bad Bunch
The Bad Bunch

1973-10-01

The Glory Stompers
The Glory Stompers

1967-11-22

Money, Women and Guns
Money, Women and Guns

1958-10-01

Showdown at Abilene
Showdown at Abilene

1956-10-01

The Doolins of Oklahoma
The Doolins of Oklahoma

1949-05-27

The Kangaroo Kid
The Kangaroo Kid

1950-10-22

Squareheads of the Round Table
Squareheads of the Round Table

1948-03-04

Fuelin' Around
Fuelin' Around

1949-04-07

Punchy Cowpunchers
Punchy Cowpunchers

1950-01-05

I've Lived Before
I've Lived Before

1956-09-01

Marine Battleground
Marine Battleground

1963-04-11

Knutzy Knights
Knutzy Knights

1954-09-02

A Day of Fury
A Day of Fury

1956-05-02

The Last of the Fast Guns
The Last of the Fast Guns

1958-07-01

Three Blondes In His Life
Three Blondes In His Life

1961-12-31

Joe Dakota
Joe Dakota

1957-10-27

Overland Pacific
Overland Pacific

1954-10-26

Moro Witch Doctor
Moro Witch Doctor

1964-11-01

The Making of the Stooges
The Making of the Stooges

1984-01-01

The Texas Rangers
The Texas Rangers

1951-06-03

Out West
Out West

1947-04-24

Slim Carter
Slim Carter

1957-11-01

The Rough, Tough West
The Rough, Tough West

1952-06-14

Pecos River
Pecos River

1951-12-15

Hoedown
Hoedown

1950-06-01

Salamat sa Alaala
Salamat sa Alaala

2015-08-09

Bandolero!
Bandolero!

1968-06-01

Smoky Canyon
Smoky Canyon

1952-01-31

Frontier Outpost
Frontier Outpost

1950-12-29

The Walls of Hell
The Walls of Hell

1964-03-07

Tarzan's Deadly Silence
Tarzan's Deadly Silence

1970-07-03

The Nevadan
The Nevadan

1950-01-11

The Fighting Frontiersman
The Fighting Frontiersman

1946-12-10

The Stranger From Ponca City
The Stranger From Ponca City

1947-07-03

The Blazing Trail
The Blazing Trail

1949-06-05

The Hawk of Wild River
The Hawk of Wild River

1952-02-28

Bandits of El Dorado
Bandits of El Dorado

1949-10-19

The Kid from Broken Gun
The Kid from Broken Gun

1952-08-19

Laramie Mountains
Laramie Mountains

1952-04-19

California
California

1963-03-03

Cow Town
Cow Town

1950-05-19

Cody of the Pony Express
Cody of the Pony Express

1950-04-06

Roar of the Iron Horse
Roar of the Iron Horse

1951-05-31

Runaway Girl
Runaway Girl

1965-05-10

Junction City
Junction City

1952-07-12

Texas Dynamo
Texas Dynamo

1950-06-01

Renegades of the Sage
Renegades of the Sage

1949-11-24

Horsemen of the Sierras
Horsemen of the Sierras

1949-11-22

Lightning Guns
Lightning Guns

1950-12-01

Santa Fe
Santa Fe

1951-04-01

Rim of the Canyon
Rim of the Canyon

1949-07-01

Gunfighters of the Northwest
Gunfighters of the Northwest

1954-04-14

The Lady and the Bandit
The Lady and the Bandit

1951-08-13

Son of the Guardsman
Son of the Guardsman

1946-10-23