Jock Mahoney Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Jock Mahoney Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney (February 7, 1919 â€" December 14, 1989),

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.Mahoney was born in Chicago, Illinois, but reared in

Davenport, Iowa. He was of French and Irish descent, the only child of

Ruth and Charles O'Mahoney. He 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. Director

Vincent Sherman recalled staging the climactic fight scene in his 1948

film Adventures of Don Juan and could find only one stuntman who was

willing to leap from a high staircase in the scene. That man was

Mahoney, who demanded and received $1,000 for the dangerous stunt.
Jock Mahoney Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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