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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
Character:Tarzan (Archive Footage)
Release Date:01/01/2017
Salamat sa Alaala
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:09/08/2015
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
Character:Tarzan (archive footage)
Release Date:08/06/1996
The Making of the Stooges
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1984
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Character:Self
Release Date:05/06/1979
The Bad Bunch
Character:Sgt. Berry
Release Date:01/10/1973
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
Character:The Colonel
Release Date:03/07/1970
The Love Bug
Character:Driver
Release Date:23/12/1968
Bandolero!
Character:Stoner
Release Date:01/06/1968
The Glory Stompers
Character:Smiley
Release Date:22/11/1967
Runaway Girl
Character:Randy Minola
Release Date:10/05/1965
Moro Witch Doctor
Character:Jefferson Stark
Release Date:01/11/1964
The Walls of Hell
Character:Lt. Jim Sorenson
Release Date:07/03/1964
California
Character:Don Michael O'Casey
Release Date:03/03/1963
Tarzan's Three Challenges
Character:Tarzan
Release Date:29/01/1963
Tarzan Goes to India
Character:Tarzan
Release Date:01/07/1962
Three Blondes In His Life
Character:Duke Wallace
Release Date:31/12/1961
Tarzan the Magnificent
Character:Coy Banton
Release Date:20/07/1960
Money, Women and Guns
Character:'Silver' Ward Hogan
Release Date:01/10/1958
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Character:Immerman
Release Date:09/07/1958
The Last of the Fast Guns
Character:Brad Ellison
Release Date:01/07/1958
Slim Carter
Character:Slim Carter (Hugh Mack)
Release Date:01/11/1957
Joe Dakota
Character:The Stranger
Release Date:27/10/1957
The Land Unknown
Character:Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts
Release Date:15/10/1957
Battle Hymn
Character:Maj. Frank Moore
Release Date:14/02/1957
Showdown at Abilene
Character:Jim Trask
Release Date:01/10/1956
I've Lived Before
Character:John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens
Release Date:01/09/1956
Away All Boats
Character:
Release Date:16/08/1956
Away All Boats
Character:Alvick
Release Date:16/08/1956
A Day of Fury
Character:Marshal Allan Burnett
Release Date:02/05/1956
Overland Pacific
Character:Ross Granger
Release Date:26/10/1954
Knutzy Knights
Character:Cedric the Blacksmith
Release Date:02/09/1954
Gunfighters of the Northwest
Character:Joe Ward
Release Date:14/04/1954
The Kid from Broken Gun
Character:Jack Mahoney
Release Date:19/08/1952
Junction City
Character:Jack Mahoney
Release Date:12/07/1952
The Rough, Tough West
Character:Big Jack Mahoney
Release Date:14/06/1952
Laramie Mountains
Character:Swift Eagle
Release Date:19/04/1952
The Hawk of Wild River
Character:Jack Mahoney
Release Date:28/02/1952
Smoky Canyon
Character:Jack Mahoney
Release Date:31/01/1952
Pecos River
Character:Jack Mahoney
Release Date:15/12/1951
The Lady and the Bandit
Character:Tavern Troublemaker
Release Date:13/08/1951
The Texas Rangers
Character:Duke Fisher
Release Date:03/06/1951
Roar of the Iron Horse
Character:Jim Grant
Release Date:31/05/1951
Santa Fe
Character:Crake
Release Date:01/04/1951
Frontier Outpost
Character:Lieutenant Peck (uncredited)
Release Date:29/12/1950
Lightning Guns
Character:Rob Saunders
Release Date:01/12/1950
The Kangaroo Kid
Character:Tex Kinnane
Release Date:22/10/1950
Hoedown
Character:Stoney Rhodes
Release Date:01/06/1950
Texas Dynamo
Character:Bill Beck
Release Date:01/06/1950
Cow Town
Character:Tod Jeffreys
Release Date:19/05/1950
Cody of the Pony Express
Character:Jim Archer
Release Date:06/04/1950
The Nevadan
Character:Sandy
Release Date:11/01/1950
Punchy Cowpunchers
Character:Elmer
Release Date:05/01/1950
Renegades of the Sage
Character:Lieutenant Hunter
Release Date:24/11/1949
Horsemen of the Sierras
Character:Bill Grant
Release Date:22/11/1949
Bandits of El Dorado
Character:Tim Starling (uncredited)
Release Date:19/10/1949
Rim of the Canyon
Character:Pete Reagan
Release Date:01/07/1949
The Blazing Trail
Character:Full-House Patterson
Release Date:05/06/1949
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Character:Tulsa Jack Blake
Release Date:27/05/1949
Fuelin' Around
Character:Guard
Release Date:07/04/1949
Squareheads of the Round Table
Character:Cedric the Blacksmith
Release Date:04/03/1948
The Stranger From Ponca City
Character:Henchman Tensleep (uncredited)
Release Date:03/07/1947
Out West
Character:Arizona Kid
Release Date:24/04/1947
The Fighting Frontiersman
Character:Waco (uncredited)
Release Date:10/12/1946
Son of the Guardsman
Character:Captain Kenley (uncredited)
Release Date:23/10/1946
Television Appearances
The Master
Character:Mark Richards
Simon & Simon
Character:Oldtimer #1 in Saloon
The Fall Guy
Character:Wild Dan Wilde
B. J. and the Bear
Character:
Kung Fu
Character:Davidson
The Streets of San Francisco
Character:
The Streets of San Francisco
Character:Mr. Morley
Banacek
Character:Albert Bates
Emergency!
Character:Hoyt Herrold
Hawaii Five-O
Character:Coley Bennett
Tarzan
Character:Hoby Wallington
Batman
Character:Leo
Batman
Character:H.L. Hunter
Daniel Boone
Character:O'Connor
Gunslinger
Character:Halsey Roland
Rawhide
Character:Captain Brian Donahoe
Rawhide
Character:Vance
77 Sunset Strip
Character:Barry James
Yancy Derringer
Character:Yancy Derringer
The Millionaire
Character:Vance Ludlow
Letter to Loretta
Character:Andy Hagen
Letter to Loretta
Character:Ernie McNally
Letter to Loretta
Character:Kim Ryan
Letter to Loretta
Character:Mike Elliott
Letter to Loretta
Character:Jim Vessey
Letter to Loretta
Character:Dan O'Hara
The Range Rider
Character:The Range Rider
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