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 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.
Fotos
Películas (71)
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
2017 · Tarzan (Archive Footage)
Salamat sa Alaala
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
1996 · Tarzan (archive footage)
The Making of the Stooges
1984 · Self
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979 · Self
The Bad Bunch
1973 · Sgt. Berry
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
1970 · The Colonel
The Love Bug
1968 · Driver
Bandolero!
1968 · Stoner
The Glory Stompers
1967 · Smiley
Runaway Girl
1965 · Randy Minola
Moro Witch Doctor
1964 · Jefferson Stark
The Walls of Hell
1964 · Lt. Jim Sorenson
California
1963 · Don Michael O'Casey
Tarzan's Three Challenges
1963 · Tarzan
Tarzan Goes to India
1962 · Tarzan
Three Blondes In His Life
1961 · Duke Wallace
Tarzan the Magnificent
1960 · Coy Banton
Money, Women and Guns
1958 · 'Silver' Ward Hogan
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1958 · Immerman
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958 · Brad Ellison
Slim Carter
1957 · Slim Carter (Hugh Mack), Stunts
Joe Dakota
1957 · The Stranger
The Land Unknown
1957 · Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts
Battle Hymn
1957 · Maj. Frank Moore
Showdown at Abilene
1956 · Jim Trask
I've Lived Before
1956 · John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens
Away All Boats
1956 · Alvick
A Day of Fury
1956 · Marshal Allan Burnett
Overland Pacific
1954 · Ross Granger
Knutzy Knights
1954 · Cedric the Blacksmith
Gunfighters of the Northwest
1954 · Joe Ward
The World in His Arms
1952 · Stunt Double
The Kid from Broken Gun
1952 · Jack Mahoney
Junction City
1952 · Jack Mahoney
The Rough, Tough West
1952 · Big Jack Mahoney
Laramie Mountains
1952 · Swift Eagle
The Hawk of Wild River
1952 · Jack Mahoney
Smoky Canyon
1952 · Jack Mahoney
Pecos River
1951 · Jack Mahoney
The Lady and the Bandit
1951 · Tavern Troublemaker, Stunt Double
The Texas Rangers
1951 · Duke Fisher, Stunts
Roar of the Iron Horse
1951 · Jim Grant
Santa Fe
1951 · Crake
Frontier Outpost
1950 · Lieutenant Peck (uncredited)
Lightning Guns
1950 · Rob Saunders
The Kangaroo Kid
1950 · Tex Kinnane
Hoedown
1950 · Stoney Rhodes
Texas Dynamo
1950 · Bill Beck
Cow Town
1950 · Tod Jeffreys
Cody of the Pony Express
1950 · Jim Archer
The Nevadan
1950 · Sandy, Stunt Double
Punchy Cowpunchers
1950 · Elmer
Renegades of the Sage
1949 · Lieutenant Hunter
Horsemen of the Sierras
1949 · Bill Grant
Bandits of El Dorado
1949 · Tim Starling (uncredited)
Rim of the Canyon
1949 · Pete Reagan
Colorado Territory
1949 · Stunt Double
Lust for Gold
1949 · Stunts
The Blazing Trail
1949 · Full-House Patterson
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949 · Tulsa Jack Blake
Fuelin' Around
1949 · Guard
Yellow Sky
1948 · Stunt Double
Adventures of Don Juan
1948 · Stunts
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948 · Stunt Double
Silver River
1948 · Stunt Double
Squareheads of the Round Table
1948 · Cedric the Blacksmith
The Stranger From Ponca City
1947 · Henchman Tensleep (uncredited)
Out West
1947 · Arizona Kid
The Fighting Frontiersman
1946 · Waco (uncredited)
Son of the Guardsman
1946 · Captain Kenley (uncredited)
Series (20)
The Master
1984 · Mark Richards
Simon & Simon
1981 · Oldtimer #1 in Saloon
The Fall Guy
1981 · Wild Dan Wilde
B. J. and the Bear
1979
Kung Fu
1972 · Davidson
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · Mr. Morley
Banacek
1972 · Albert Bates
Emergency!
1972 · Hoyt Herrold
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Coley Bennett
Tarzan
1966 · Hoby Wallington
Batman
1966 · Leo, H.L. Hunter
Daniel Boone
1964 · O'Connor
Gunslinger
1961 · Halsey Roland
Rawhide
1959 · Captain Brian Donahoe, Vance
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Barry James
Yancy Derringer
1958 · Yancy Derringer
The Millionaire
1955 · Vance Ludlow
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Driver
Letter to Loretta
1953 · Andy Hagen, Ernie McNally, Mike Elliott, Jim Vessey, Kim Ryan, Dan O'Hara
The Range Rider
1951 · The Range Rider