Jock Mahoney
Jock
Mahoney would appear in Batman more than once, in the first season,
he appeared as Leo- a Catwoman Henchman
- Episodes #19 - The Purrfect Crime and -#20 Better Luck Next Time
and then the producers must have liked him because in the third
season, he came back and played a mining forman HL Hunter in episode
# 117 - Ill Be A Mummy's Uncle.
Following his
graduation from the University of Iowa and World War II service, Jock
Mahoney came to Hollywood as a stuntman. Quickly establishing a
reputation as one of the best and most courageous 
purveyors
of his trade, Mahoney graduated to speaking roles in 1946. Billed as
Jacques O'Mahoney, he played villains and secondary roles in Republic
and Columbia westerns, showed up as a parodied "strong and
silent" leading man in 
a
handful of Three Stooges 2-reelers, and, while doubling for Errol
Flynn, performed the legendary staircase leap in 1949's The
Adventures of Don Juan. In 1951, Gene Autry hired Mahoney (who was
now billing himself as Jack Mahoney) to star in the popular TV
western series The Range Rider. This led to leading roles in such
features as Overland Pacific (1954), Showdown at Abilene (1956) and
I've Lived Before (1956). In 1958, Mahoney starred in another weekly
TV western, Yancey Derringer. Two years later he played the villain
in a Tarzan picture 
starring
Gordon Scott, succeeding Scott as the "lord of the jungle"
in Tarzan Goes to India (1962) -- during the filming of which he fell
deathly ill, a fact that is painfully obvious in the completed
picture. 
Suffering
a severe stroke in 1973, Mahoney made a near-complete recovery in
the last five years of his life, performing his final stunt (tumbling
from a wheelchair) in Burt Reynolds' The End. Reynolds exhibited his
admiration for Mahoney in his 1980 vehicle Hooper, in which the
stuntman 
character
played by Brian Keith was named "Jocko." Mahoney's last
film work was as stunt coordinator for John Derek's otherwise
wretched 1981 remake of Tarzan of the Apes. Married for many years to
actress Mary Field, whom he'd met while filming Range Rider, Jock
Mahoney was the stepfather of Oscar-winning actress Sally Field. --
Hal Erickson, All-Movie Guide
An apparent second stroke resulted in his death at 70 in 1989.
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