Jock Mahoney

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Jock Mahoney, an American actor and stuntman, was born in 1929, 1919 – 1989).

The Range Rider and Yancy Derringer were two western television series starring him.

He appeared in two feature films and was involved in several other Tarzan productions.

He was sometimes credited as Jack O'Mahoney or Jock O'Mahoney.

Service in the early years, education, and military.

Mahoney was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Davenport, Iowa. He was of French and Irish descent, and he was Ruth and Charles O'Mahoney's only child. He attended the University of Iowa in Iowa City and excelled at swimming and diving, but he was unable to enlist in the United States Marine Corps until World War II began. He served as a pilot, flight instructor, and war correspondent.

Personal life

Mahoney was married three times, with three children and five stepchildren. Lorraine O'Donnell's first wife, Joseph O'Mahoney and Jim O'Mahoney, had two children before his divorce, and he had two children, Kathleen O'Mahoney and Jim O'Mahoney. In 1952, he met actress Margaret Field. Princess O'Mahoney's daughter was born six months later. Margaret Field had two young children, Richard D. Field and Sally Field, from her first marriage. In June 1968, Mahoney and Field divorced. Sally Field's book In Pieces, she wrote that Mahoney exposed her to sexual abuse throughout her childhood. Autumn Russell, a three-year-old girl, married Carmen Botefuhr, Jr., and Andrea Botefuhr in 1979. They lived together until his death.

Princess O'Mahoney, Mahoney's daughter, later became a television and film assistant director.

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Career

Mahoney retired from the Marine Corps, and for a time, he worked in Los Angeles and worked as a horse breeder. However, he soon became a movie stuntman, doubling for Gregory Peck, Errol Flynn, and John Wayne. Director Vincent Sherman recalled staging the climactic fight scene in his 1948 film Adventures of Don Juan, but only one stuntman was able to leap from a high staircase in the scene. Mahoney was the man who demanded and was paid $1,000 for the dangerous stunt.

Columbia Pictures made the bulk of Mahoney's films from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Mahoney, like many other Columbia employees, appeared in the studio's two-reel comedies. Mahoney was cast in slapstick comedies starring the Three Stooges beginning in 1947. Mahoney appeared in these films and often played his scenes for humour. Often starring Christine McIntyre, Mahoney appeared in the Stooge films Out West (1948), Out West (1948) (and its 1954 sequel, Knutzy Knights), and Punchy Cowpunchers (1950). Mahoney, who is depicting a heroic role, will suddenly get clumsy, tripping over something, or having sprawling pratfalls.

Columbia executives noticed Mahoney's acting skills early in 1950 and gave him leading roles in two adventure serials, Cody of the Pony Express (1950) and Roar of the Iron Horse (1951). In Columbia's The Durango Kid Western film, Mahoney replaced stuntman Ted Mapes as the double for Charles Starkt. The Durango Kid had a mask over his face, enabling Mahoney to replace Startt in the action scenes. Mahoney's daring stunts made it appear that the older Star Wars were getting more active. Mahoney's contribution to this series was sorely rewarded that he was given both main title and main supporting roles, first as villains and then as sympathetic characters. Jack Mahoney was already known as Jack Mahoney by 1952.

Columbia decided to replace Charles Starkoff with Mahoney, opposite Starkick Smiley Burnette's sidekick Smiley Burnette after his contract came to an end in 1952. The first film was made but never released; Columbia canceled the film in June 1952, putting an end to the series's long history of B-Western production.

Gene Autry, a Cowboy who was then living in Columbia, has hired Mahoney to appear in a television series. Flying A Productions of Autry filmed 79 half-hour episodes of the syndicated The Range Rider from 1951 to 1953. A lost episode was shown six years after the series had ended in 1959. He was described as Jack Mahoney. Range Rider was the character's name, but not others. Dick Jones, who played Dick West in his series co-star, was his series co-star.

Mahoney appeared in the 1958 Western film Money, Women and Guns. Kim Hunter appeared in the film as well.

He appeared in the outdoor-adventure series Yancy Derringer for 34 episodes, which aired on CBS for the 1958 television season. After the American Civil War, Yancy Derringer, a gentleman adventurer living in New Orleans, Louisiana, was a gentleman explorer during the American Civil War. Pahoo Katchewa ("Wolf Who Stands in Water"), a Pawnee Indian companion who did not speak, was a brand ambassador for X Brands. Pahoo saved the life of Derringer and was later blamed for the death of Derringer.

Jock O'Mahoney appeared in 64 feature films.

Mahoney auditioned to play Tarzan after Johnny Weissmuller's departure, but Lex Barker took the lead.

In Coy Banton, a villain, starring Gordon Scott, he appeared in Tarzan the Magnificent in 1960. Mahoney's strong presence, work ethic, and lean (6 foot, 4 inch, 220 pounds) frame impressed producer Sy Weintraub, who wanted a "new glance" for the fabled apeman.

Mahoney was the 13th actor to portray Tarzan when he appeared in Tarzan Goes to India in 1962. A year later, he was back in Tarzan's Three Challenges as a filmmaker in Thailand. Mahoney, 44, became the oldest male to play the jungle king, defeating Weissmuller and P. Dempsey Tabler, a record that has yet to be broken. During the gunfight in the Thai jungles, Dysentery and dengue fever plagued Mahoney, and his weight dropped to 175 pounds. He needed a year and a half to recover his health. His employment was mutually terminated due to his health problems and the fact that producer Weintraub had chosen a "new look" for the apeman.

Mahoney appeared on three occasions on Ron Ely Tarzan's The Ultimate Weapon (1966) (a two-part series that was later turned into a feature film) and Mask of Rona (1967).

Mahoney resurfaced as the stunt coordinator on the John Derek-directed remake of Tarzan, the Ape Man, in 1981. He was branded "Jack O'Mahoney" by the time.

In the 1954 episode, "Husband Pro-Tem," directed by Stanley Andrews, Mahoney was cast as an engineer. Prentis is recruited by a railroad executive Alonzo Phelps (1898–1983) to broker a private deal with the Indian Chief Black Hawk (Lane Bradford) so that a railroad can be built across Indian lands. Prentis' daughter, Evelyn (Gloria Marshall), becomes involved in his role soon. Mahoney appeared on the Death Valley Days episode "Swamper Ike" in February 1953.

Mahoney appeared in the Rawhide episode "Incident of the Sharpshooter" in 1960. He has appeared on television guest-starring roles on such programs as Batman, the Ron Ely Tarzan series, Hawaii Five-O, Laramie, and The Streets of San Francisco. He suffered a stroke at the age of 54 while filming an episode of Kung Fu in 1973, but he recovered.

Later career and death

Mahoney made guest appearances on television shows B. J. and the Bear and The Fall Guy in the 1980s. He appeared at film conventions and autograph shows during his remaining years. Mahoney died of a second stroke on December 14, 1989, two days after being involved in a car accident in Bremerton, Washington. His remains were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

On the website of marksman Joe Bowman of Houston, a close Mahoney friend, was awarded a "Coming Home" tribute to Mahoney. The poem was read at a memorial service to Mahoney at the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City, California, on February 6, 1990. Bowman is among the more than 350 people present at the festival. Autumn O'Mahoney, Mahoney's widow, conducteds the reading.

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