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Jock Mahoney

Jock Mahoney

cumpleaños: 1919-02-07 | lugar de nacimiento: 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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Lista de obras

año
título

rol

1967
The Glory Stompers

as    Smiley

1962
Tarzan Goes to India

as    Tarzan

1960
Tarzán el justiciero

as    Coy Banton

1958
Dinero, Mujeres y Armas

as    'Silver' Ward Hogan

1958
Tiempo de amar, tiempo de morir

as    Immerman

1958
Yancy Derringer

as    Yancy Derringer

1957
The Land Unknown

as    Cmndr. Harold 'Hal' Roberts

1957
Sediento de justicia

as    Joe Dakota

1957
Slim Carter

as    Slim Carter aka Hugh Mack

1957
Himno de batalla

as    le major Moore

1956
Zafarrancho de combate

as    Alvick

1956
I've Lived Before

as    John Bolan / Lt. Peter Stevens

1956
Un día de furia

as    Marshal Allan Burnett

1954
Knutzy Knights

as    Cedric the Blacksmith

1954
Amenaza en las vías

as    Ross Granger

1952
The Rough, Tough West

as    Big Jack Mahoney

1952
The Hawk of Wild River

as    Jack Mahoney (as Jack Mahoney)

1951
The Range Rider

as    The Range Rider (as Jack Mahoney)

1950
Punchy Cowpunchers

as    Elmer

1950
Cody of the Pony Express

as    Jim Archer

1950
Nevada

as    Sandy (as Jock O'Mahoney)

1949
Fuelin' Around

as    Guard

1949
Rim of the Canyon

as    Pete Reagan (as Jock O'Mahoney)