1919-02-07 Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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Tarzan: Lord of the Movies | Tarzan (Archive Footage) | 2017-01-01 |
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Salamat sa Alaala | Self (archive footage) | 2015-08-09 |
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Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan | Tarzan (archive footage) | 1996-06-08 |
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The Making of the Stooges | Self | 1984-01-01 |
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When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion | Self | 1979-06-05 |
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Tom | Sgt. Berry | 1973-10-01 |
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Tarzan's Deadly Silence | The Colonel | 1970-07-03 |
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Bandolero! | Stoner | 1968-06-01 |
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The Glory Stompers | Smiley | 1967-11-22 |
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Runaway Girl | Randy Minola | 1965-05-10 |
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Intramuros | Lt. Jim Sorenson | 1964-03-07 |
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Moro Witch Doctor | Jefferson Stark | 1964-11-01 |
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California | Don Michael O'Casey | 1963-03-03 |
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Tarzan's Three Challenges | Tarzan | 1963-01-29 |
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돌아오지 않는 해병 | Nick Rawlins | 1963-04-11 |
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Tarzan Goes to India | Tarzan | 1962-07-01 |
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Three Blondes In His Life | Duke Wallace | 1961-12-31 |
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Tarzan the Magnificent | Coy Banton | 1960-07-20 |
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die | Immerman | 1958-07-09 |
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Money, Women and Guns | 'Silver' Ward Hogan | 1958-10-01 |
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The Last of the Fast Guns | Brad Ellison | 1958-07-01 |
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Joe Dakota | The Stranger | 1957-10-27 |
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Battle Hymn | Maj. Frank Moore | 1957-02-14 |
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The Land Unknown | Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts | 1957-10-15 |
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Slim Carter | Slim Carter (Hugh Mack) | 1957-11-01 |
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Away All Boats | Alvick | 1956-08-16 |
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Showdown at Abilene | Jim Trask | 1956-10-01 |
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Away All Boats | 1956-08-16 | |
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I've Lived Before | John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens | 1956-09-01 |
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A Day of Fury | Marshal Allan Burnett | 1956-05-02 |
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Knutzy Knights | Cedric the Blacksmith | 1954-09-02 |
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Gunfighters of the Northwest | Joe Ward | 1954-04-14 |
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Overland Pacific | Ross Granger | 1954-10-26 |
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Laramie Mountains | Swift Eagle | 1952-04-19 |
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The Kid from Broken Gun | Jack Mahoney | 1952-08-19 |
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The Rough, Tough West | Big Jack Mahoney | 1952-06-14 |
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Smoky Canyon | Jack Mahoney | 1952-01-31 |
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Junction City | Jack Mahoney | 1952-07-12 |
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The Hawk of Wild River | Jack Mahoney | 1952-02-28 |
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Roar of the Iron Horse | Jim Grant | 1951-05-31 |
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The Lady and the Bandit | Tavern Troublemaker | 1951-08-13 |
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Santa Fe | Crake | 1951-04-01 |
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Pecos River | Jack Mahoney | 1951-12-15 |
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The Texas Rangers | Duke Fisher | 1951-06-03 |
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Hoedown | Stoney Rhodes | 1950-06-01 |
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Lightning Guns | Rob Saunders | 1950-12-01 |
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Punchy Cowpunchers | Elmer | 1950-01-05 |
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The Kangaroo Kid | Tex Kinnane | 1950-10-22 |
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Cody of the Pony Express | Jim Archer | 1950-04-06 |
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Texas Dynamo | Bill Beck | 1950-06-01 |
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Cow Town | Tod Jeffreys | 1950-05-19 |
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The Nevadan | Sandy | 1950-01-11 |
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Frontier Outpost | Lieutenant Peck (uncredited) | 1950-12-29 |
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Rim of the Canyon | Pete Reagan | 1949-07-01 |
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Fuelin' Around | Guard | 1949-04-07 |
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The Doolins of Oklahoma | Tulsa Jack Blake | 1949-05-27 |
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The Blazing Trail | Full-House Patterson | 1949-06-05 |
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Bandits of El Dorado | Tim Starling (uncredited) | 1949-10-19 |
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Renegades of the Sage | Lieutenant Hunter | 1949-11-24 |
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Horsemen of the Sierras | Bill Grant | 1949-11-22 |
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Squareheads of the Round Table | Cedric the Blacksmith | 1948-03-04 |
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The Stranger From Ponca City | Henchman Tensleep (uncredited) | 1947-07-03 |
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Out West | Arizona Kid | 1947-04-24 |
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The Fighting Frontiersman | Waco (uncredited) | 1946-12-10 |
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Son of the Guardsman | Captain Kenley (uncredited) | 1946-10-23 |
