1919-02-07 ( 106 years old ) in 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.
Movies
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
2017-01-01
Salamat sa Alaala
2015-08-09
The Making of the Stooges
1984-01-01
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979-06-05
The Bad Bunch
1973-10-01
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
1970-07-03
Bandolero!
1968-06-01
The Glory Stompers
1967-11-22
Runaway Girl
1965-05-10
Moro Witch Doctor
1964-11-01
The Walls of Hell
1964-03-07
Marine Battleground
1963-04-11
California
1963-03-03
Tarzan's Three Challenges
1963-01-29
Tarzan Goes to India
1962-07-01
Three Blondes In His Life
1961-12-31
Tarzan the Magnificent
1960-07-20
Money, Women and Guns
1958-10-01
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1958-07-09
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958-07-01
Slim Carter
1957-11-01
Joe Dakota
1957-10-27
The Land Unknown
1957-10-15
Battle Hymn
1957-02-14
Showdown at Abilene
1956-10-01
I've Lived Before
1956-09-01
Away All Boats
1956-08-16
Away All Boats
1956-08-16
A Day of Fury
1956-05-02
Overland Pacific
1954-10-26
Knutzy Knights
1954-09-02
Gunfighters of the Northwest
1954-04-14
The Kid from Broken Gun
1952-08-19
Junction City
1952-07-12
The Rough, Tough West
1952-06-14
Laramie Mountains
1952-04-19
The Hawk of Wild River
1952-02-28
Smoky Canyon
1952-01-31
Pecos River
1951-12-15
The Lady and the Bandit
1951-08-13
The Texas Rangers
1951-06-03
Roar of the Iron Horse
1951-05-31
Santa Fe
1951-04-01
Frontier Outpost
1950-12-29
Lightning Guns
1950-12-01
The Kangaroo Kid
1950-10-22
Hoedown
1950-06-01
Texas Dynamo
1950-06-01
Cow Town
1950-05-19
Cody of the Pony Express
1950-04-06
The Nevadan
1950-01-11
Punchy Cowpunchers
1950-01-05
Renegades of the Sage
1949-11-24
Horsemen of the Sierras
1949-11-22
Bandits of El Dorado
1949-10-19
Rim of the Canyon
1949-07-01
The Blazing Trail
1949-06-05
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949-05-27
Fuelin' Around
1949-04-07
Squareheads of the Round Table
1948-03-04
The Stranger From Ponca City
1947-07-03
Out West
1947-04-24
The Fighting Frontiersman
1946-12-10
Son of the Guardsman
1946-10-23
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