Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
2017 · Movie
as Tarzan (Archive Footage)
Jock Mahoney
1919-02-07
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Filmography
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Salamat sa Alaala
2015 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
1996 · Movie
as Tarzan (archive footage)
The Making of the Stooges
1984 · Movie
as Self
The Master
1984 · TV Show
as Mark Richards
Simon & Simon
1981 · TV Show
as Oldtimer #1 in Saloon
The Fall Guy
1981 · TV Show
as Wild Dan Wilde
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979 · Movie
as Self
B. J. and the Bear
1979 · TV Show
The Bad Bunch
1973 · Movie
as Sgt. Berry
Emergency!
1972 · TV Show
as Hoyt Herrold
Kung Fu
1972 · TV Show
as Davidson
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · TV Show
as Mr. Morley
Banacek
1972 · TV Show
as Albert Bates
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
1970 · Movie
as The Colonel
Bandolero!
1968 · Movie
as Stoner
The Love Bug
1968 · Movie
as Driver
Hawaii Five-O
1968 · TV Show
as Coley Bennett
The Glory Stompers
1967 · Movie
as Smiley
Batman
1966 · TV Show
as Leo, H.L. Hunter
Tarzan
1966 · TV Show
as Hoby Wallington
Runaway Girl
1965 · Movie
as Randy Minola
Moro Witch Doctor
1964 · Movie
as Jefferson Stark
The Walls of Hell
1964 · Movie
as Lt. Jim Sorenson
Daniel Boone
1964 · TV Show
as O'Connor
Tarzan's Three Challenges
1963 · Movie
as Tarzan
California
1963 · Movie
as Don Michael O'Casey
Tarzan Goes to India
1962 · Movie
as Tarzan
Three Blondes In His Life
1961 · Movie
as Duke Wallace
Gunslinger
1961 · TV Show
as Halsey Roland
Tarzan the Magnificent
1960 · Movie
as Coy Banton
Rawhide
1959 · TV Show
as Captain Brian Donahoe, Vance
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1958 · Movie
as Immerman
Money, Women and Guns
1958 · Movie
as 'Silver' Ward Hogan
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958 · Movie
as Brad Ellison
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · TV Show
as Barry James
Yancy Derringer
1958 · TV Show
as Yancy Derringer
The Land Unknown
1957 · Movie
as Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts
Battle Hymn
1957 · Movie
as Maj. Frank Moore
Joe Dakota
1957 · Movie
as The Stranger
Slim Carter
1957 · Movie
as Slim Carter (Hugh Mack)
Away All Boats
1956 · Movie
as Alvick
Showdown at Abilene
1956 · Movie
as Jim Trask
I've Lived Before
1956 · Movie
as John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens
A Day of Fury
1956 · Movie
as Marshal Allan Burnett
The Millionaire
1955 · TV Show
as Vance Ludlow
Knutzy Knights
1954 · Movie
as Cedric the Blacksmith
Overland Pacific
1954 · Movie
as Ross Granger
Gunfighters of the Northwest
1954 · Movie
as Joe Ward
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · TV Show
as Driver
Letter to Loretta
1953 · TV Show
as Andy Hagen, Ernie McNally, Mike Elliott, Jim Vessey, Kim Ryan, Dan O'Hara
The Rough, Tough West
1952 · Movie
as Big Jack Mahoney
Smoky Canyon
1952 · Movie
as Jack Mahoney
The Hawk of Wild River
1952 · Movie
as Jack Mahoney
The Kid from Broken Gun
1952 · Movie
as Jack Mahoney
Laramie Mountains
1952 · Movie
as Swift Eagle
Junction City
1952 · Movie
as Jack Mahoney
The Texas Rangers
1951 · Movie
as Duke Fisher
Pecos River
1951 · Movie
as Jack Mahoney
Roar of the Iron Horse
1951 · Movie
as Jim Grant
Santa Fe
1951 · Movie
as Crake
The Lady and the Bandit
1951 · Movie
as Tavern Troublemaker
The Range Rider
1951 · TV Show
as The Range Rider
The Kangaroo Kid
1950 · Movie
as Tex Kinnane
Punchy Cowpunchers
1950 · Movie
as Elmer
Hoedown
1950 · Movie
as Stoney Rhodes
Frontier Outpost
1950 · Movie
as Lieutenant Peck (uncredited)
The Nevadan
1950 · Movie
as Sandy
Cow Town
1950 · Movie
as Tod Jeffreys
Cody of the Pony Express
1950 · Movie
as Jim Archer
Texas Dynamo
1950 · Movie
as Bill Beck
Lightning Guns
1950 · Movie
as Rob Saunders
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949 · Movie
as Tulsa Jack Blake
Fuelin' Around
1949 · Movie
as Guard
The Blazing Trail
1949 · Movie
as Full-House Patterson
Bandits of El Dorado
1949 · Movie
as Tim Starling (uncredited)
Renegades of the Sage
1949 · Movie
as Lieutenant Hunter
Horsemen of the Sierras
1949 · Movie
as Bill Grant
Rim of the Canyon
1949 · Movie
as Pete Reagan
Squareheads of the Round Table
1948 · Movie
as Cedric the Blacksmith
Out West
1947 · Movie
as Arizona Kid
The Stranger From Ponca City
1947 · Movie
as Henchman Tensleep (uncredited)
The Fighting Frontiersman
1946 · Movie
as Waco (uncredited)
Son of the Guardsman
1946 · Movie
as Captain Kenley (uncredited)
Crew Credits
Slim Carter
1957 · Movie
Stunts
The World in His Arms
1952 · Movie
Stunt Double
The Texas Rangers
1951 · Movie
Stunts
The Lady and the Bandit
1951 · Movie
Stunt Double
The Nevadan
1950 · Movie
Stunt Double
Lust for Gold
1949 · Movie
Stunts
Colorado Territory
1949 · Movie
Stunt Double
Yellow Sky
1948 · Movie
Stunt Double
Adventures of Don Juan
1948 · Movie
Stunts
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948 · Movie
Stunt Double
Silver River
1948 · Movie
Stunt Double
