
Jock Mahoney
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1919-02-07
Day of Death
1989-12-14 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Known For
Acting
(2017)
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
as Tarzan (Archive Footage)
(2015)
Salamat sa Alaala
as Self (archive footage)
(1984)
The Making of the Stooges
as Self
(1979)
(1973)
The Bad Bunch
as Sgt. Berry
(1970)
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
as The Colonel
(1968)
Bandolero!
as Stoner
(1967)
The Glory Stompers
as Smiley
(1965)
Runaway Girl
as Randy Minola
(1964)
The Walls of Hell
as Lt. Jim Sorenson
(1964)
Moro Witch Doctor
as Jefferson Stark
(1963)
Tarzan's Three Challenges
as Tarzan
(1963)
Marine Battleground / The Marines Who Never Returned
as Nick Rawlins
(1963)
California
as Don Michael O'Casey
(1962)
Tarzan Goes to India
as Tarzan
(1961)
Three Blondes In His Life
as Duke Wallace
(1960)
Tarzan the Magnificent
as Coy Banton
(1958)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
as Immerman
(1958)
The Last of the Fast Guns
as Brad Ellison
(1958)
Money, Women and Guns
as 'Silver' Ward Hogan
(1957)
Joe Dakota
as The Stranger
(1957)
Battle Hymn
as Maj. Frank Moore
(1957)
The Land Unknown
as Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts
(1957)
Slim Carter
as Slim Carter (Hugh Mack)
(1956)
(1956)
Away All Boats
as Alvick
(1956)
A Day of Fury
as Marshal Allan Burnett
(1956)
I've Lived Before
as John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens
(1956)
Showdown at Abilene
as Jim Trask
(1954)
Overland Pacific
as Ross Granger
(1954)
Gunfighters of the Northwest
as Joe Ward
(1954)
Knutzy Knights
as Cedric the Blacksmith
(1952)
Smoky Canyon
as Jack Mahoney
(1952)
The Rough, Tough West
as Big Jack Mahoney
(1952)
The Kid from Broken Gun
as Jack Mahoney
(1952)
Laramie Mountains
as Swift Eagle
(1952)
The Hawk of Wild River
as Jack Mahoney
(1952)
Junction City
as Jack Mahoney
(1951)
Santa Fe
as Crake
(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)
Pecos River
as Jack Mahoney
(1950)
The Nevadan
as Sandy
(1950)
Cody of the Pony Express
as Jim Archer
(1950)
Cow Town
as Tod Jeffreys
(1950)
Texas Dynamo
as Bill Beck
(1950)
Hoedown
as Stoney Rhodes
(1950)
The Kangaroo Kid
as Tex Kinnane
(1950)
Frontier Outpost
as Lieutenant Peck (uncredited)
(1950)
Punchy Cowpunchers
as Elmer
(1950)
Lightning Guns
as Rob Saunders
(1949)
The Doolins of Oklahoma
as Tulsa Jack Blake
(1949)
Horsemen of the Sierras
as Bill Grant
(1949)
Renegades of the Sage
as Lieutenant Hunter
(1949)
Rim of the Canyon
as Pete Reagan
(1949)
Bandits of El Dorado
as Tim Starling (uncredited)
(1949)
Fuelin' Around
as Guard
(1949)
The Blazing Trail
as Full-House Patterson
(1948)
Squareheads of the Round Table
as Cedric the Blacksmith
(1947)
Out West
as Arizona Kid
(1947)
The Stranger From Ponca City
as Henchman Tensleep (uncredited)
(1946)
The Fighting Frontiersman
as Waco (uncredited)
(1946)
Son of the Guardsman
as Captain Kenley (uncredited)
Crew
(1957)
Slim Carter
Stunts
(1952)
The World in His Arms
Stunt Double
(1951)
The Texas Rangers
Stunts
(1951)
The Lady and the Bandit
Stunt Double
(1950)
The Nevadan
Stunt Double
(1949)
Lust for Gold
Stunts
(1949)
Colorado Territory
Stunt Double
(1948)
Yellow Sky
Stunt Double
(1948)
Adventures of Don Juan
Stunts
(1948)
You Gotta Stay Happy
Stunt Double