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.
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.
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