1. Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney, known professionally as Jock Mahoney, was an American actor and stuntman.
22 Facts About Jock Mahoney
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Jock Mahoney played Tarzan in two feature films and was associated in various capacities with several other Tarzan productions.
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Jock Mahoney was credited variously as Jacques O'Mahoney, Jock O'Mahoney, Jack Mahoney, and finally Jock Mahoney.
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Jock Mahoney was of French and Irish descent, the only child of Ruth and Charles O'Mahoney.
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Jock Mahoney 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.
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That man was Jock Mahoney, who demanded and received $1,000 for the dangerous stunt.
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Jock Mahoney had large speaking roles in these films, and often played his scenes for laughs.
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Jock Mahoney succeeded stuntman Ted Mapes as the double for Charles Starrett in Columbia's The Durango Kid Western series.
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The Durango Kid wore a mask covering much of his face, enabling Jock Mahoney to replace Starrett in the action scenes.
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Jock Mahoney's daring stunts made it seem that the older Starrett grew, the more athletic he became.
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Jock 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.
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Jock Mahoney had a Pawnee companion named Pahoo Katchewa, played by actor X Brands.
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In 1948, Jock Mahoney auditioned to play Tarzan after the departure of Johnny Weissmuller, but the role went to Lex Barker.
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In 1962, Jock Mahoney became the 13th actor to portray Tarzan when he appeared in Tarzan Goes to India, shot on location in India.
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Jock Mahoney needed a year and a half to regain his health.
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In 1981, Jock Mahoney returned to the Tarzan film series as the stunt coordinator on the John Derek-directed remake of Tarzan, the Ape Man.
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Jock Mahoney was cast as an engineer, Andy Prentis, in the 1954 episode, "Husband Pro-Tem," on the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews.
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In February 1953, Jock Mahoney co-starred with his wife Margaret Field in the Death Valley Days episode "Swamper Ike".
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In 1960, Jock Mahoney guest-starred in the Rawhide episode "Incident of the Sharpshooter".
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Jock Mahoney appeared in television guest-starring roles on such series as Batman, the Ron Ely Tarzan series, Hawaii Five-O, Laramie, and The Streets of San Francisco.
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Jock Mahoney died of a second stroke at age 70 on December 14,1989, two days after being involved in an automobile accident in Bremerton, Washington.
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Jock Mahoney was married three times, with three children and five stepchildren.