Jock Mahoney
Known for Acting · 84 credits
- Born
- 1919-02-07
- Died
- 1989-12-14
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Jack Mahoney · Jack O'Mahoney · Jacques O'Mahoney · Jock O'Mahoney · Jacques Joseph O'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.
Known For
TV Shows (20)
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Coley Bennett
Batman
1966
as Leo / H.L. Hunter
Simon & Simon
1981
as Oldtimer #1 in Saloon
Emergency!
1972
as Hoyt Herrold
Daniel Boone
1964
as O'Connor
Rawhide
1959
as Captain Brian Donahoe / Vance
The Fall Guy
1981
as Wild Dan Wilde
77 Sunset Strip
1958
as Barry James
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
as Mr. Morley
Tarzan
1966
as Hoby Wallington
The Millionaire
1955
as Vance Ludlow
Banacek
1972
as Albert Bates
Yancy Derringer
1958
as Yancy Derringer
B. J. and the Bear
1979
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Driver
Letter to Loretta
1953
as Andy Hagen / Ernie McNally / Mike Elliott / Jim Vessey / Kim Ryan / Dan O'Hara
Gunslinger
1961
as Halsey Roland
The Master
1984
as Mark Richards
The Range Rider
1951
as The Range Rider
Kung Fu
1972
as Davidson
Movies (64)
The Love Bug
1968
as Driver
Bandolero!
1968
as Stoner
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
as Self
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1958
as Immerman
The Nevadan
1950
as Sandy
Tarzan's Three Challenges
1963
as Tarzan
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958
as Brad Ellison
Battle Hymn
1957
as Maj. Frank Moore
The Land Unknown
1957
as Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts
Away All Boats
1956
as Alvick
A Day of Fury
1956
as Marshal Allan Burnett
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
2017
as Tarzan (Archive Footage)
The Texas Rangers
1951
as Duke Fisher
Showdown at Abilene
1956
as Jim Trask
Joe Dakota
1957
as The Stranger
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
1970
as The Colonel
The Walls of Hell
1964
as Lt. Jim Sorenson
Hoedown
1950
as Stoney Rhodes
Frontier Outpost
1950
as Lieutenant Peck (uncredited)
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
as Tulsa Jack Blake
Overland Pacific
1954
as Ross Granger
Money, Women and Guns
1958
as 'Silver' Ward Hogan
The Kangaroo Kid
1950
as Tex Kinnane
The Kid from Broken Gun
1952
as Jack Mahoney
Slim Carter
1957
as Slim Carter (Hugh Mack)
Tarzan the Magnificent
1960
as Coy Banton
Roar of the Iron Horse
1951
as Jim Grant
Pecos River
1951
as Jack Mahoney
Santa Fe
1951
as Crake
The Lady and the Bandit
1951
as Tavern Troublemaker
The Glory Stompers
1967
as Smiley
Cody of the Pony Express
1950
as Jim Archer
I've Lived Before
1956
as John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens
Gunfighters of the Northwest
1954
as Joe Ward
Texas Dynamo
1950
as Bill Beck
Renegades of the Sage
1949
as Lieutenant Hunter
Runaway Girl
1965
as Randy Minola
Three Blondes In His Life
1961
as Duke Wallace
Rim of the Canyon
1949
as Pete Reagan
Tarzan Goes to India
1962
as Tarzan
Son of the Guardsman
1946
as Captain Kenley (uncredited)
Laramie Mountains
1952
as Swift Eagle
Out West
1947
as Arizona Kid
The Blazing Trail
1949
as Full-House Patterson
The Bad Bunch
1973
as Sgt. Berry
Lightning Guns
1950
as Rob Saunders
The Hawk of Wild River
1952
as Jack Mahoney
California
1963
as Don Michael O'Casey
Bandits of El Dorado
1949
as Tim Starling (uncredited)
The Stranger From Ponca City
1947
as Henchman Tensleep (uncredited)
Horsemen of the Sierras
1949
as Bill Grant
The Fighting Frontiersman
1946
as Waco (uncredited)
Moro Witch Doctor
1964
as Jefferson Stark
The Making of the Stooges
1984
as Self
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
1996
as Tarzan (archive footage)
Fuelin' Around
1949
as Guard
Knutzy Knights
1954
as Cedric the Blacksmith
The Rough, Tough West
1952
as Big Jack Mahoney
Punchy Cowpunchers
1950
as Elmer
Cow Town
1950
as Tod Jeffreys
Salamat sa Alaala
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Junction City
1952
as Jack Mahoney
Smoky Canyon
1952
as Jack Mahoney
Squareheads of the Round Table
1948
as Cedric the Blacksmith
About 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… With 84 credits spanning from 1946 to 2017, Jock Mahoney has appeared in 64 films and 20 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jock Mahoney Movies
- The Love Bug (1968) — as Driver
- Bandolero! (1968) — as Stoner
- When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (1979) — as Self
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) — as Immerman
- The Nevadan (1950) — as Sandy
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