Jock Mahoney

Actor + Military Person

Male

Born Feb 7, 1919

Hometown Chicago, Illinois

Died Dec 14, 1989

Death Place Bremerton, Washin...

Other Names Jacques O'Mahoney

Jock Mahoney was an American actor and stuntman of Irish, French, and Cherokee ancestry. Born Jacques O'Mahoney, he was credited variously as Jock Mahoney, Jack O'Mahoney or Jock O'Mahoney. He starred in two television series, both westerns. He played… Read More

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Yvonne De Carlo
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A Movie Star Feels Out A New Home On The Stage
NYTimes - Nov 04, 2002

When the lights come up on a movie star at the start of a Broadway show, the audience usually applauds. But when the lights came up on Sally Field at a recent matinee performance of Edward Albee's Tony Award-winning play, ''The Goat,'' there was only silence. Although there was no hidden meaning, one might interpret it as notoriously tough New York
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Film; Sticking To It, One Way Or Another
NYTimes - Sep 24, 2000

BEAUTIFUL'' may be the title of the new movie that marks her debut as a film director, but it's not an adjective Sally Field has heard much during her 36-year career in Hollywood. ''I was never pretty enough, I was never sexy enough,'' says Ms. Field, 53, in the den of her cozy, modest Brentwood home, where her two Oscars and one Emmy sit
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Corrections
NYTimes - Apr 17, 2000

An obituary last Monday about the Hollywood producer Sy Weintraub, who modernized the adventures of Tarzan after acquiring screen rights in 1958, misidentified the actor who played the role in the first two Weintraub productions. He was Gordon Scott. (Jock Mahoney was the first of Mr. Weintraub's Tarzans to appear in a non-African setting, in the
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Sy Weintraub, 76, Movie Producer Who Broadened Tarzan's Vocabulary
NYTimes - Apr 10, 2000

Sy Weintraub, the film producer who in the 1950's breathed new life into Tarzan's flagging celluloid career, died Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 76. The cause was pancreatic cancer, Reuters reported. Under the tutelage of Mr. Weintraub, who bought the rights to the Tarzan franchise in 1958, Edgar Rice Burroughs's jungle hero
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1919 Birth Born on February 7, 1919.

TWENTIES

1947 28 Years Old Like many Columbia contract players, Mahoney worked in the studio's two-reel comedies. Beginning in 1947, writer-director Edward Bernds cast Mahoney in slapstick comedies starring The Three Stooges. … Read More

THIRTIES

1950 31 Years Old Columbia management noticed Mahoney's acting skills and gave him starring roles in adventure serials, beginning in 1950. … Read More

1952 33 Years Old Mahoney was married three times, first to Lorraine O'Donnell, with whom he had two children. After his divorce from O'Donnell, he married actress Margaret Field in 1952. … Read More

1958 39 Years Old 1 More Event

In the 1958 western Money, Women and Guns, Mahoney played the starring role. … Read More

FORTIES

1960 41 Years Old 1 More Event

In 1960, he appeared as Coy Banton, a villain in Tarzan the Magnificent, starring Gordon Scott. … Read More

1968 49 Years Old Mahoney and Field divorced in June 1968.

FIFTIES

1969 50 Years Old In 1969, Mahoney married actress Autumn Russell; the couple remained married until his death.

1978 59 Years Old As Margaret Field's husband, Mahoney was stepfather to Richard Field and Sally Field. Mahoney and Sally Field appeared together in the 1978 film Hooper. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1981 62 Years Old In 1981, Mahoney returned to the Tarzan film series as the stunt coordinator on the John Derek-directed remake of Tarzan, the Ape Man. … Read More

1989 71 Years Old Died on December 14, 1989.

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