dbinia
Jock Mahoney

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.

Salamat sa Alaala

2015

as Self (archive footage)

The Master

1984

as Mark Richards

The Making of the Stooges

1984

as Self

Simon & Simon

1981

as Oldtimer #1 in Saloon

The Fall Guy

1981

as Wild Dan Wilde

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

1979

as Self

B. J. and the Bear

1979

The Bad Bunch

1973

as Sgt. Berry

Kung Fu

1972

as Davidson

The Streets of San Francisco

1972

The Streets of San Francisco

1972

as Mr. Morley

Banacek

1972

as Albert Bates

Emergency!

1972

as Hoyt Herrold

Tarzan's Deadly Silence

1970

as The Colonel

Hawaii Five-O

1968

as Coley Bennett

Bandolero!

1968

as Stoner

The Glory Stompers

1967

as Smiley

Tarzan

1966

as Hoby Wallington

Batman

1966

as Leo

Batman

1966

as H.L. Hunter

Runaway Girl

1965

as Randy Minola

Moro Witch Doctor

1964

as Jefferson Stark

Daniel Boone

1964

as O'Connor

The Walls of Hell

1964

as Lt. Jim Sorenson

Marine Battleground

1963

as Nick Rawlins

California

1963

as Don Michael O'Casey

Tarzan's Three Challenges

1963

as Tarzan

Tarzan Goes to India

1962

as Tarzan

Three Blondes In His Life

1961

as Duke Wallace

Tarzan the Magnificent

1960

as Coy Banton

Rawhide

1959

as Captain Brian Donahoe

77 Sunset Strip

1958

as Barry James

Yancy Derringer

1958

as Yancy Derringer

Money, Women and Guns

1958

as 'Silver' Ward Hogan

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

1958

as Immerman

The Last of the Fast Guns

1958

as Brad Ellison

Slim Carter

1957

as Slim Carter (Hugh Mack)

Joe Dakota

1957

as The Stranger

The Land Unknown

1957

as Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts

Battle Hymn

1957

as Maj. Frank Moore

Showdown at Abilene

1956

as Jim Trask

I've Lived Before

1956

as John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens

Away All Boats

1956

Away All Boats

1956

as Alvick

A Day of Fury

1956

as Marshal Allan Burnett

The Millionaire

1955

as Vance Ludlow

Overland Pacific

1954

as Ross Granger

Knutzy Knights

1954

as Cedric the Blacksmith

Gunfighters of the Northwest

1954

as Joe Ward

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Andy Hagen

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Ernie McNally

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Mike Elliott

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Jim Vessey

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Kim Ryan

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Dan O'Hara

The Kid from Broken Gun

1952

as Jack Mahoney

Junction City

1952

as Jack Mahoney

The Rough, Tough West

1952

as Big Jack Mahoney

Laramie Mountains

1952

as Swift Eagle

The Hawk of Wild River

1952

as Jack Mahoney

Smoky Canyon

1952

as Jack Mahoney

Pecos River

1951

as Jack Mahoney

The Lady and the Bandit

1951

as Tavern Troublemaker

The Texas Rangers

1951

as Duke Fisher

Roar of the Iron Horse

1951

as Jim Grant

The Range Rider

1951

as The Range Rider

Santa Fe

1951

as Crake

Frontier Outpost

1950

as Lieutenant Peck (uncredited)

Lightning Guns

1950

as Rob Saunders

The Kangaroo Kid

1950

as Tex Kinnane

Hoedown

1950

as Stoney Rhodes

Texas Dynamo

1950

as Bill Beck

Cow Town

1950

as Tod Jeffreys

Cody of the Pony Express

1950

as Jim Archer

The Nevadan

1950

as Sandy

Punchy Cowpunchers

1950

as Elmer

Renegades of the Sage

1949

as Lieutenant Hunter

Horsemen of the Sierras

1949

as Bill Grant

Bandits of El Dorado

1949

as Tim Starling (uncredited)

Rim of the Canyon

1949

as Pete Reagan

The Blazing Trail

1949

as Full-House Patterson

The Doolins of Oklahoma

1949

as Tulsa Jack Blake

Fuelin' Around

1949

as Guard

Squareheads of the Round Table

1948

as Cedric the Blacksmith

The Stranger From Ponca City

1947

as Henchman Tensleep (uncredited)

Out West

1947

as Arizona Kid

The Fighting Frontiersman

1946

as Waco (uncredited)

Son of the Guardsman

1946

as Captain Kenley (uncredited)