Jock Mahoney
Acting
Born: February 7, 1919 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: December 14, 1989 (aged 70)
Highest Rated
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
The Love Bug
1968
Batman
1966
Kung Fu
1972
The Fall Guy
1981
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Bandolero!
1968
Yellow Sky
1948
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1958
Simon & Simon
1981
Colorado Territory
1949
Emergency!
1972
Photos (3)
Movies (62)
The Love Bug
Driver
Bandolero!
Stoner
The Texas Rangers
Duke Fisher
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Immerman
Away All Boats
1956
Away All Boats
Alvick
Battle Hymn
Maj. Frank Moore
Knutzy Knights
Cedric the Blacksmith
The Land Unknown
Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts
Santa Fe
Crake
Tarzan Goes to India
Tarzan
The Last of the Fast Guns
Brad Ellison
Joe Dakota
The Stranger
Showdown at Abilene
Jim Trask
The Nevadan
Sandy
Tarzan the Magnificent
Coy Banton
Out West
Arizona Kid
Tarzan's Three Challenges
Tarzan
A Day of Fury
Marshal Allan Burnett
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
The Colonel
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Tulsa Jack Blake
Gunfighters of the Northwest
Joe Ward
Money, Women and Guns
'Silver' Ward Hogan
The Glory Stompers
Smiley
Pecos River
Jack Mahoney
Overland Pacific
Ross Granger
Moro Witch Doctor
Jefferson Stark
Rim of the Canyon
Pete Reagan
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
Tarzan (Archive Footage)
Cody of the Pony Express
Jim Archer
The Kangaroo Kid
Tex Kinnane
Lightning Guns
Rob Saunders
Fuelin' Around
Guard
Squareheads of the Round Table
Cedric the Blacksmith
Slim Carter
Slim Carter (Hugh Mack)
Son of the Guardsman
Captain Kenley (uncredited)
Three Blondes In His Life
Duke Wallace
The Lady and the Bandit
Tavern Troublemaker
Roar of the Iron Horse
Jim Grant
I've Lived Before
John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens
The Walls of Hell
Lt. Jim Sorenson
The Kid from Broken Gun
Jack Mahoney
Frontier Outpost
Lieutenant Peck (uncredited)
Bandits of El Dorado
Tim Starling (uncredited)
Smoky Canyon
Jack Mahoney
The Hawk of Wild River
Jack Mahoney
Laramie Mountains
Swift Eagle
Renegades of the Sage
Lieutenant Hunter
Runaway Girl
Randy Minola
The Blazing Trail
Full-House Patterson
Horsemen of the Sierras
Bill Grant
Junction City
Jack Mahoney
Hoedown
Stoney Rhodes
California
Don Michael O'Casey
The Bad Bunch
Sgt. Berry
Texas Dynamo
Bill Beck
The Rough, Tough West
Big Jack Mahoney
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
Tarzan (archive footage)
Punchy Cowpunchers
Elmer
Cow Town
Tod Jeffreys
The Stranger From Ponca City
Henchman Tensleep (uncredited)
The Fighting Frontiersman
Waco (uncredited)
TV Shows (28)
Hawaii Five-O
Coley Bennett · 2 eps
Simon & Simon
Oldtimer #1 in Saloon · 1 eps
Batman
Leo · 2 eps
Batman
H.L. Hunter · 1 eps
Emergency!
Hoyt Herrold · 2 eps
Rawhide
Captain Brian Donahoe · 1 eps
Rawhide
Vance · 1 eps
Daniel Boone
O'Connor · 1 eps
The Streets of San Francisco
1 eps
The Streets of San Francisco
Mr. Morley · 1 eps
Tarzan
Hoby Wallington · 4 eps
The Fall Guy
Wild Dan Wilde · 1 eps
The Millionaire
Vance Ludlow · 1 eps
77 Sunset Strip
Barry James · 1 eps
B. J. and the Bear
2 eps
Banacek
Albert Bates · 1 eps
Yancy Derringer
Yancy Derringer · 34 eps
The Master
Mark Richards · 1 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
Driver · 1 eps
The Range Rider
The Range Rider · 77 eps
Gunslinger
Halsey Roland · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Andy Hagen · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Ernie McNally · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Kim Ryan · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Mike Elliott · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Jim Vessey · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Dan O'Hara · 1 eps
Kung Fu
Davidson · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (2)
Other Crew (11)
Adventures of Don Juan
Stunts
The Texas Rangers
Stunts
Lust for Gold
Stunts
Yellow Sky
Stunt Double
Silver River
Stunt Double
Colorado Territory
Stunt Double
The World in His Arms
Stunt Double
The Nevadan
Stunt Double
You Gotta Stay Happy
Stunt Double
Slim Carter
Stunts
The Lady and the Bandit
Stunt Double