Jock Mahoney Filmography

The End

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin, David Steinberg

Synopsis: At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's dying from "the same thing Ali MacGraw had in Love Story." Lawson's first reaction is to cry uncontrollably, much to the discomfort of his fellow elevator passengers. He heads to a nearby church Read More

Their Only Chance

Synopsis: This adventure, based on a true-story, chronicles the amazing ability of a young man who can communicate with wild animals. He uses his gift to help heal wounded animals and send them back to their wilderness homes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Blockade

Synopsis: With only fragmentary evidence at their disposal, Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) search for the person who raped and murdered a young waitress. Meanwhile, the killer (Don Stroud) and his reluctant accomplice (Charles Martin Smith) are holed up in the home of two innocent Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: One Last Shot

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen is the guest star in the season-three opener of Streets of San Francisco. Nielsen is cast as Joe Landers, an alcoholic police officer whose drunken bungling has caused the death of his longtime partner. Going to desperate and dangerous lengths to cover up his negligence, Officer Read More

The Bad Bunch

Actors: Aldo Ray, Greydon Clark

Synopsis: This early '70s effort from veteran exploitation director Greydon Clark attempts to create a more socially conscious variation on the blaxploitation genre, but devotes most of its time to thrills of the most lurid variety. The story begins with Jim (director and co-writer Clark), a liberal-minded Read More

Emergency!: Boot

Synopsis: An explosion in Rampart's hospital lab not only endangers the workers, but also some valuable documents. A young woman who is trying to impress her boyfriend and his mother with a homecooked meal falls victim to one kitchen accident after another, ultimately resulting in a call to Squad 51. Dr. Read More

Emergency!: Mascot

Synopsis: Originally telecast the week following the premiere of its two-hour "TV movie" pilot, the opening episode of Emergency wastes no time getting down to business. Squad 51 of the LA County Fire Department's Paramedical Rescue Service is kept busy with a heart-attack victim (Jock Mahoney) whose Read More

Banacek: Let's Hear it For a Living Legend

Synopsis: An insurance investigator looks into the mysterious disappearance of a professional football player during a live, televised game. An episode of the "Banacek" TV series. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Made for Each Other

Actors: Joseph Bologna

Synopsis: In this semi-autobiographical romantic comedy starring Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor (who also wrote the script together) two lonely hearts find each other in group therapy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tarzan's Deadly Silence

Actors: Ron Ely, Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode, Manuel Padilla, Gregorio Acosta

Synopsis: Tarzan (Ron Ely) tries to stop a bloodthirsty Colonel (Jock Mahoney) from taking over an African village with his soldiers of fortune. The ape-man has been rendered deaf by an exploding hand grenade, effectively limiting one of his keen senses. Tarzan relies on his telepathic powers to stop a Read More

Bandolero!

Actors: James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Andrew Prine

Synopsis: James Stewart and Dean Martin are atypically cast as outlaws in Bandolero! The film begins as Dee Bishop (Martin) and his gang are about to be hanged. The Scripture-spouting executioner turns out to be Dee's brother Mace (Stewart), who helps the desperadoes escape. They are pursued by a sheriff (George Kennedy Read More

The Glory Stompers

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jody McCrea, Chris Noel, Jock Mahoney, Jim Reader

Synopsis: Chino (Dennis Hopper) is the tough leader of a motorcycle gang who starts off a war when he abducts and mistreats the leader of the enemy biker gang, Darryl (Jody McCrea), and his girlfriend Chris (Chris Noel). When Darryl comes back for revenge, things get violent. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Read More

Marine Battleground

Synopsis: In this documentary, an American nurse in Vietnam tells her story to a war correspondent. Flashbacks ensue as the film chronicles her childhood in Korea during the 1950s. During the battle at Inchon, her mother was killed and she was taken in by helpful Marines. When all but two of the kindly Read More

Runaway Girl

Synopsis: In this drama, a stripper leaves the stage and becomes a grape picker at a California vineyard. There she soon arouses the suspicion of her co-workers; things get worse when the vineyard manager and his brother begin vying for her affection. Eventually tells her female co-workers who she is; she Read More

Moro Witch Doctor

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Margia Dean, Pancho Magalona, Michael Parsons

Synopsis: In this campy low-budget actioner, an Intepol agent heads to the Philippines to investigate the murders of two Americans whose corpses where found on an opium plantation. With the assistance of one of the victim's sisters he is led into the hellish religion of a charismatic, ruthless witchdoctor Read More

The Walls of Hell

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Michael Parsons, Paul Edwards, Jr.

Synopsis: Fort Santiago in the Philippines, built in 1574, was called "Intramuros, the walled city of Manila." This action feature is centered around Intramuros and the events that occurred there in February of 1945. After Japanese troops were finally showing defeat in Manila, they retreated into the Read More

California

Synopsis: Allegedly based on the 1946 film starring Ray Milland but bearing no real resemblance to it, this is the story of the fight for statehood in California. The Californians want to break from Mexico, but Mexico doesn't want them to. This tale brings to the screen two brothers who are fighting on Read More

Tarzan's Three Challenges

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Earl Cameron

Synopsis: Jock Mahoney makes his second appearance as the loinclothed one in Tarzan's Three Challenges. Tarzan is in Thailand this time, rescuing a young prince (Ricky Der) from his wicked uncle. Highlights include a fast-paced machete fight; lowlights include the scenes with a cute baby elephant named Read More

Tarzan Goes to India

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Leo Gordon, Mark Dana, Feroz Khan

Synopsis: One of a seemingly endless production of Tarzan movies -- still going strong decades later-- this tale by director and co-scripter John Guillermin places the hero in India. Tarzan (Jock Mahoney) is still physically musclebound, but his speech and attitude reflect more of his noble British origins Read More

Three Blondes in His Life

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Greta Thyssen, Jesse White, Elaine Edwards, Anthony Dexter

Synopsis: Another low-budget, clichéd detective yarn, Three Blondes in his Life features Jock Mahoney as a private eye who is intent on figuring out the reasons for the death of one of his acquaintances, an insurance investigator. As the detective gets to work on the case, he uncovers the investigator's Read More

Tarzan the Magnificent

Actors: Gordon Scott, Betta St. John, Jock Mahoney, John Carradine, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Gordon Scott's fifth and last appearance as Tarzan came in this 1960 installment of the long-running movie series featuring the adventures of the legendary ape man. Neither Jane nor son Boy appear in the film. Tarzan is hired to escort a hardened criminal, Coy Banton (Jock Mahoney), through the Read More

Yancy Derringer

The Last of the Fast Guns

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Gilbert Roland, Linda Cristal, Eduard Franz, Lorne Greene

Synopsis: When a millionaire discovers that he is going to lose half of his business if his missing brother isn't found to keep it out of the ruthless hands that want it, he sends the "last of the fast guns" out in search of him. Finding him won't be the hard thing for our gunfighter, however. Keeping him Read More

Money, Women and Guns

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Kim Hunter, Tim Hovey, Gene Evans, Tom Drake

Synopsis: In this curious blend of Western and detective melodrama, Jock Mahoney plays a frontier gumshoe named Hogan. When an old prospector is murdered, Hogan takes on the assignment of finding the four heirs to the prospector's fortune. Briefly sidetracked by a romance with Mary Kingman (played by Kim Hunter Read More

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

Actors: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Keenan Wynn, Erich Maria Remarque, Don DeFore, Thayer David, Jock Mahoney

Synopsis: Douglas Sirk directed this doomed World War II love story, seen from the German side of the war, as filtered through a distinctly late-'50s Hollywood banality. The film is based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the author of the classic World War I anti-war novel All Quiet On the Western Read More

Joe Dakota

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Luana Patten, Charles McGraw, Barbara Lawrence, Claude Akins

Synopsis: A tall horseman (Jock Mahoney) rides into the small town of Arborville, deserted except for redheaded Jody (Luana Patten), who's uncomfortable about it. Outside town, the rider finds all the townspeople working on an oil rig on a small ranch. They're led by Cal Moore (Charles McGraw), and include Read More

The Land Unknown

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Shawn Smith, William Reynolds, Henry Brandon, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Generous portions of The Secret Land, the 1948 documentary on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, were worked into the action of The Land Unknown. Jock Mahoney and William Reynolds play Hal and Jack, leaders of an expedition to the South Pole. Along for the ride is girl reporter Maggie (Shawn Smith) Read More

Slim Carter

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Julie Adams, Tim Hovey, William Hopper, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: This parody of Hollywood westerns centers on a boorish hellion of a cowboy star who makes life for the studio people around him a waking nightmare. His press agent is particularly beleaguered as she has been assigned to try to keep the errant star in line. She really has her work cut out for her Read More

A Day of Fury

Actors: Dale Robertson, Mara Corday, Jock Mahoney, Jan Merlin

Synopsis: A Day Of Fury stars Jock Mahoney as town marshal Alan Burnett, whose life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade (Dale Robertson), a gunslinger just returned after years away, who finds when he gets into town that he can't abide the peace that has been Read More

Showdown at Abilene

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer, Lyle Bettger, David Janssen, Grant Williams

Synopsis: In this western, the ex-sheriff of Abilene returns from the Civil War a changed man. Traumatized by the horrors of war, the man wants little to do with guns and killing. The veteran sheriff is further disturbed by the fact that during a great battle, he accidentally killed the brother of an old Read More

Battle Hymn

Actors: Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Martha Hyer

Synopsis: Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during World War II, Hess inadvertently releases a bomb which destroys a German orphanage. Tortured by guilt, Hess relocates in Korea after the war to offer Read More

I've Lived Before

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Leigh Snowden, John McIntire, Ann Harding, Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: The "Bridey Murphy" craze of the 1950s was the catalyst for I've Lived Before. Jock Mahoney plays a contemporary pilot who survives a plane crash. Upon awakening, he is under the delusion that he is another airman, who died during the first World War. The authorities pass this insistence off as Read More

Away All Boats

Actors: Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Julie Adams, Lex Barker, Keith Andes

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Kenneth M. Dodson, Away All Boats stars Jeff Chandler as a tough Navy captain who takes charge of a group of raw, undisciplined sailors during World War 2. To keep his men from getting on each other's nerves, Chandler makes himself the target of their excess hatred by Read More

Gunfighters of the Northwest [Serial]

Synopsis: Yet another serial from penny-pinching producer Sam Katzman, the fifteen chapter Gunfighters of the Northwest suffered from the usual Katzman shortcomings, including grainy stock-footage and slapdash writing. As an added economy measure, not a single scene was filmed indoors! {$Jock Mahoney plays Read More

Knutzy Knights

Synopsis: A remake of the Three Stooges' earlier Squareheads of the Round Table, this two-reel comedy features the boys as troubadours attempting to save Princess Elaine (Christine McIntyre) from a fate worse than death. Miss McIntyre, who had retired by 1954, and Jock Mahoney as the romantic leads appeared Read More

Smoky Canyon

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Jock Mahoney, Dani Sue Nolan, Tristram Coffin

Synopsis: Although Smoky Canyon is officially an entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series, the film is essentially a showcase for the talents of Jack (later Jock) Mahoney, who'd been a supporting player and stunt double in the Starrett films for several years. Mahoney plays a sheepman who's Read More

The Rough, Tough West

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Jock Mahoney, Carolina Cotton, Marshall Reed

Synopsis: Charles Starrett returns as the Durango Kid in Columbia's Rough, Tough, West. For most of the film, however, Starrett is known as "Steve Holden," a former Texas Ranger who comes to a wide-open mining town to visit an old friend (Jack -- later Jock -- Mahoney). Alas, said friend has turned bad, and Read More

Laramie Mountains

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Jock Mahoney, Fred Sears, Marshall Reed

Synopsis: Charles Starrett is back as The Durango Kid in Laramie Mountains. The villains this time are a group of white outlaws who disguise themselves as Indians to stage raids on various U.S. army posts. Their plan is to foment an all-out war for their own profit. Government agent Steve Holden (Starrett) Read More

The Hawk of Wild River

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Jock Mahoney, Clayton Moore

Synopsis: By virtue of the popularity of his TV series The Range Rider, Jack (later Jock) Mahoney is afforded almost as much screen time in Hawk of the Wild River as the film's official star Charles Starrett. In fact, since Mahoney doubles for Starrett in certain sequences, it could be argued that his part Read More

Junction City

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Jock Mahoney, Kathleen Case, John Dehner

Synopsis: Columbia's "Durango Kid" series was winding down to a close by the time Junction City went before the cameras in 1952. Durango, aka Steve Rollins (Charles Starrett) rides into town with saddle pal Smiley Burnette. The boys go to the rescue of pretty Kathleen Case, who is being victimized by greedy Read More

The Kid from Broken Gun

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Jock Mahoney, Angela Stevens, Tristram Coffin

Synopsis: In his final Durango Kid Western (and final film appearance), Charles Starrett once again played an avenger named Steve, Reynolds this time. Donning his mask once again, Steve comes to the aid of Jock Mahoney, who has been wrongfully accused of murder. The real murderer, as it turns out, is Jock's Read More

The Range Rider [TV Series]

The Texas Rangers

Actors: George Montgomery, Gale Storm, Jerome Courtland, Noah Beery, Jr., William Bishop

Synopsis: Not a remake of the 1936 film of the same name, The Texas Rangers is an enjoyable second-echelon western from the Columbia Pictures mill. George Montgomery stars as Johnny Carver, a former outlaw serving a life sentence in prison. Carver is given a second chance by the Texas government. Here's the Read More

Roar of the Iron Horse [Serial]

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures elevated stunt man Jock O'Mahoney to stardom in this 15 chapter western serial about the building of the transcontinental railroad. O'Mahoney played a railroad agent who uncovers the master criminal behind a series of sabotage attempts on the construction site. The culprit, a Read More

Bandits of El Dorado

Actors: Smiley Burnette, George Lewis, Fred Sears, John Dehner

Synopsis: The Durango Kid--aka Charles Starrett--rides again in Bandits of El Dorado. For the umpteenth time, Starrett plays a lawman on the trail of a mysterious desperado. The villain in this one smuggles American outlaws into Mexico then murders them for their money belts. Somewhere along the line, Starrett Read More

Pecos River

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Jock Mahoney, Steven Darrell

Synopsis: Charles Starrett once more plays the masked, do-gooding Durango Kid in Pecos River. While in mufti, however, Starrett is a government agent, posing as a bandit to expose a gang of mail thieves. He also takes time to teach Jack (later Jock) Mahoney, the hotheaded son of a murdered stagecoach Read More

Overland Pacific

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Peggie Castle, Adele Jergens, William Bishop, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Billed "Jack Mahoney" for the occasion, former stunt man Jock Mahoney steps up to the plate as a leading man in this average Western originally released in an inexpensive color process. Mahoney plays Ross Granger, a railroad agent masquerading as a telegrapher and looking into a series of Comanche Read More

Santa Fe

Actors: Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, Peter Thompson, John Archer

Synopsis: The creative team of producer Harry Joe Brown and star Randolph Scott turned out some of the best westerns of the 1950s, and Santa Fe is no exception. Set in the years following the Civil War, the film casts Scott as Britt Canfield, one of four ex-Confederate brothers who head West to carve out a Read More

Hoedown

Actors: Eddy Arnold, Jeff Donnell, Carolina Cotton

Synopsis: As an actor, Eddy Arnold was a good country-western singer. In Hoedown, Eddy plays himself, while the acting burden was carried by Miss Jeff Donnell, Jock O'Mahoney (aka Jock Mahoney), and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. O'Mahoney plays Stoney Rhodes, a cowboy star who is fired from his studio because Read More

Cody of the Pony Express [Serial]

Synopsis: Juvenile actor Dickie Moore starred in the title role of this 15 chapter serial as a teen-aged Buffalo Bill Cody, who with an adult friend (played by the husky Jock Mahoney, still billed as Jock O'Mahoney), battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer (George J. Lewis). Read More

Cow Town

Actors: Gene Autry, Gail Davis, Harry Shannon, Buddy Burroughs

Synopsis: At first glance, Cow Town seems to be a documentary, as an unseen narrator describes the changes made in the Old West by the advent of barbed wire. Before long, however, the audience is assured that this will be a typical Gene Autry western. Autry plays a ranch owner who incurs the wrath of his Read More

The Nevadan

Actors: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Forrest Tucker, Frank Faylen, George Macready

Synopsis: Those westerns produced by the team of star Randolph Scott and producer Harry Joe Brown tended to be several notches above the norm, and The Nevadan is no exception. Scott is cast as U.S. marshal Andrew Barkeley, who goes undercover in a federal pen to get a line on $250,000 in stolen money. Read More

Punchy Cow Punchers

Synopsis: Everybody is a comic in this Three Stooges picture. The killer Dillon clan are shooting up a Western town and Nell (Christine McIntyre) sends her handsome, but clumsy oaf of a sweetheart, Elmer, off to get help. Help comes in the form of the Stooges, who are playing a trio of cavalrymen so Read More

Horsemen of the Sierras

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Lois Hall, Tommy Ivo, John Dehner

Synopsis: Charles Starrett once more rights wrongs as "The Durango Kid" in Horsemen of the Sierras. The story revolves around Robin Grant (Tommy Ivo), a young boy who's inherited a valuable range. Certain evil interests do their best to kill off Robin and claim the land for themselves. U.S. marshall Steve Read More

The Kangaroo Kid

Actors: Veda Ann Borg, Martha Hyer, Alec Kellaway

Synopsis: American actor/stuntman Jock O'Mahoney (aka Jock Mahoney) stars in the Australian The Kangaroo Kid. The star plays a 19th-century San Francisco detective named Tex Kinnane, who is sent "Down Under" to nab shyster lawyer Vincent Moller (Douglass Dumbrille). Several comparisons are made between the Read More

Frontier Outpost

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Lois Hall, Steven Darrell, Fred Sears

Synopsis: Western star Charles Starrett does not disappoint his fans in Frontier Outpost. As usual, Starrett plays Steve Lawton, a lawman who is compelled to assume the identity of the masked avenger known only as "The Durango Kid." This time, the villains are gold raiders, preying upon Army shipments. Read More

Lightning Guns

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Gloria Henry, William Norton Bailey, Edgar Dearing

Synopsis: The Durango Kid rides again in Lightning Guns. As ever, the masked Durango (alias Steve Brandon) is played by Charles Starrett, who this time around is on the trail of a gang of cold-blooded killers. Rancher Dan Saunders (Edgar Dearing) is held responsible for the killings because of his Read More

Texas Dynamo

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Lois Hall, John Dehner

Synopsis: Charles Starrett plays The Durango Kid in the 1950 Columbia western Texas Dynamo. In fact, Charles Starrett always played the Durango Kid, but this was what his fans craved, so why spoil a good thing? As a novelty, Starrett not only plays Durango and his "alter ego" Steve Drake, but also takes on Read More

David Harding, Counterspy

Actors: Willard Parker, Audrey Long, Howard St. John, Raymond Greenleaf, Harlan Warde

Synopsis: No sooner had Columbia called it quits with the "Blondie" series than the studio launched a new group of "B"-pictures, based on the popular radio series David Harding, Counterspy. Third-billed Howard St. John plays Harding, with actor/director Fred Sears co-starring as Harding's assistant Peters. Read More

Jolson Sings Again

Actors: Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, William Demarest, Ludwig Donath, Bill Goodwin

Synopsis: This Technicolor follow-up to Columbia's 1946 blockbuster The Jolson Story again stars Larry Parks as legendary entertainer Al Jolson--and Jolson himself, as Parks' singing voice. The story concentrates on Jolson's tireless activities entertaining the troops during WW II. After VJ day, Jolson Read More

The Doolins of Oklahoma

Actors: Randolph Scott, George Macready, Louise Allbritton, John Ireland, Virginia Huston

Synopsis: Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the legendary Western outlaws. When the Dalton gang is ambushed by U.S. Marshals, Bill Doolin (Scott), the last surviving member, forms his own group of bank robbers that includes Read More

Renegades of the Sage

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Leslie Banning, Trevor Bardette, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: Two things are certain from the beginning of Renegades of the Sage. One is that star Charles Starrett will play a character named Steve Somebody-or-Other. The other certainty is that, when the need arises, Steve Somebody-or-Other will assume the identity of the masked righter-of-wrongs, The Read More

Fuelin Around

Synopsis: Shemp fans rejoice! This home video release collects three classic Three Stooges comedies with Shemp Howard starring alongside Moe Howard and Larry Fine. Hot Scots finds the boys traveling to Scotland, where they hope to become crime fighters with Scotland Yard. They have to settle for work as