Jacques Joseph OMahoney, 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 OMahoney or Jock OMahoney.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 Mahoneys films of the late 1940s and early 1950s were produced by Columbia Pictures. Like many Columbia contract players, Mahoney worked in the studios 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. Autrys 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 Derringers 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 Tarzans 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.
Commander Harold 'Alan' Roberts
Film 1957
Film 1956
Alvick
Film 1956
Coy Banton
Film 1960
Self
Film 1979
Immerman
Film 1958
Tarzan
Film 1962
Tarzan
Film 1963
Sgt. Berry
Film 1973
Smiley
Film 1967
Tulsa Jack Blake
Film 1949
Tex Kinnane
Film 1950
Cedric the Blacksmith
Film 1948
Guard
Film 1949
Elmer
Film 1950
John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens
Film 1956
Nick Rawlins
Film 1963
Cedric the Blacksmith
Film 1954
Marshal Allan Burnett
Film 1956
Duke Wallace
Film 1961
The Stranger
Film 1957
Jefferson Stark
Film 1964
Self
Film 1984
Duke Fisher
Film 1951
Arizona Kid
Film 1947
Slim Carter (Hugh Mack)
Film 1957
Big Jack Mahoney
Film 1952
Jack Mahoney
Film 1951
Stoney Rhodes
Film 1950
Self (archive footage)
Film 2015
Jack Mahoney
Film 1952
Lieutenant Peck (uncredited)
Film 1950
Lt. Jim Sorenson
Film 1964
The Colonel
Film 1970
Sandy
Film 1950
Waco (uncredited)
Film 1946
Henchman Tensleep (uncredited)
Film 1947
Full-House Patterson
Film 1949
Jack Mahoney
Film 1952
Tim Starling (uncredited)
Film 1949
Jack Mahoney
Film 1952
Swift Eagle
Film 1952
Don Michael O'Casey
Film 1963
Tod Jeffreys
Film 1950
Jim Archer
Film 1950
Jim Grant
Film 1951
Randy Minola
Film 1965
Jack Mahoney
Film 1952
Bill Beck
Film 1950
Lieutenant Hunter
Film 1949
Bill Grant
Film 1949
Rob Saunders
Film 1950
Crake
Film 1951
Pete Reagan
Film 1949
Joe Ward
Film 1954
Tavern Troublemaker
Film 1951
Captain Kenley (uncredited)
Film 1946
Oldtimer #1 in Saloon
Tv 1981
Hoyt Herrold
Tv 1972
Captain Brian Donahoe
Tv 1959
Barry James
Tv 1958
The Range Rider
Tv 1951
Hoby Wallington
Tv 1966
Tv 1979
Vance Ludlow
Tv 1955
Coley Bennett
Tv 1968
Andy Hagen
Tv 1953
Mark Richards
Tv 1984
Ernie McNally
Tv 1953
Kim Ryan
Tv 1953
Mike Elliott
Tv 1953
Jim Vessey
Tv 1953
Dan O'Hara
Tv 1953
Wild Dan Wilde
Tv 1981
Albert Bates
Tv 1972