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In 1962, Mahoney became the 13th actor to portray Tarzan when he appeared in Tarzan Goes to India, shot on location in India. A year later, he again played the role in Tarzan's Three Challenges , shot in Thailand .
Aug 20, 2014 · Jock Mahoney using the Charles Atlas system from his boyhood. The only difference being, he did more of the pushups, situps, and deep knee bends to play Tarzan. Woody Strode said Mahoney was Charles Atlas!
Tarzan Goes to India (1962) is the first film featuring Jock Mahoney as Tarzan. The twenty-fourth film of the Tarzan film series that began with 1932's Tarzan the Ape Man, it was written by Robert Hardy Andrews and directed by John Guillermin, who also directed Tarzan's Greatest Adventure.
He tested to replace Johnny Weissmuller, as Tarzan but lost out to Lex Barker. In 1960, he played the heavy in Gordon Scott's Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), and his part there led Sy Weintraub to hire him as Scott's replacement. In his two Tarzan movies, he did all his own stunts.
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For someone who was involved in a massive 87 feature Westerns and 122 episodes of Western TV shows it is perhaps surprising that Jock Mahoney is best known for being Tarzan. But for me, and for many Western fans, Jocko, as he was universally known, was the Western action man par excellence.
Tarzan Goes to India: Directed by John Guillermin. With Jock Mahoney, Leo Gordon, Mark Dana, Feroz Khan. Summoned to India by a dying maharajah, Tarzan attempts to remove an elephant herd from a valley to be flooded upon completion of a modern dam.
Tarzan's Three Challenges: Directed by Robert Day. With Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Earl Cameron. The spiritual leader of an oriental country is dying. The leader's evil brother is plotting to prevent the youthful heir from assuming his rightful position.
