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Horace McMahon
Born: 17th May 1906 South Norwalk, Connecticut, USA - Died 17th Aug 1971
Dept: Acting
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Horace McMahon (May 17, 1906 – August 17, 1971) was an American actor.
McMahon was born in South Norwalk, Connecticut. He became interested in acting when he was a student at Fordham University School of Law.
In his early career he mostly played thugs or jailbirds, but in 1949 he starred in his most acclaimed role, as Lieutenant Monaghan in the drama play Detective Story and in 1951 he reprised his character in Paramount Pictures' film version Detective Story, alongside Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker.
McMahon also starred on television, in the ABC police series Naked City as Lt. Mike Parker, a gruff, no-nonsense, but warmhearted cop's cop, interested only in justice and doing the job according to the proper rules of the game. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for this role.
In 1964, McMahon played Hank McClure, a police contact in the 13-week CBS drama series, Mr. Broadway, with Craig Stevens.
He also did voice-overs for commercials, including those for Close-Up toothpaste and Armstrong tires.
In 1972, a 375-seat theater named in honor of McMahon was created in the McCrory Building on Washington Street in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
McMahon was married to actress Louise Campbell from 1938 until his death in 1971, when he died from a heart ailment. Their daughter, Martha McMahon, also became an actress.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 110
Film: 80 (73%)
Television: 30 (27%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Family, Action & Adventure, Documentary, TV Movie, Reality, Science Fiction, Thriller, History
Filmography
Sep 1970 (first aired)
Make Room for Granddaddy is a sequel to the American TV series The Danny Thomas Show (also known as Make Room for Daddy). The series aired for one sea ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (0 ep.)
1968
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man. ... view
Character:
Capt. Tom Farrell
1966
An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures. ... view
Character:
Detective Sergeant Hooker
Sep 1966 (first aired)
Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 1966 (first aired)
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole ... view
Character:
Glu Gluten (uncredited) (1 ep.)
Sep 1964 (first aired)
Mr. Broadway is an American 13-episode CBS adventure and drama television series starring Craig Stevens as New York City public relations specialist M ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1964
Documentary about the history and imminent demise of the Polo Grounds ballpark in New York. Hosted and narrated by actor Horace McMahon, it was filmed ... view
Character:
Self - Host / Self - Narrator
1964
A documentary based on the book by legendary Packer coach Vince Lombardi. Narrated by Horace McMahon and told by Vince Lombardi, the 55-minute B & W ... view
Character:
Narrator
Dec 1961 (first aired)
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Sep 1961 (first aired)
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in ... view
Character:
District Attorney (1 ep.)
Oct 1960 (first aired)
After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 1959 (first aired)
"Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the ABC network from October 5, 1959, to Jul ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 1959 (first aired)
The Alaskans is a 1959-1960 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series set during the late 1890s in the port of Skagway, Alaska. The show features ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 1959 (first aired)
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or un ... view
Character:
Bartender (1 ep.)
1959
An adaptation of Budd Schulberg's incendiary 1941 novel about the rise of an unscrupulous Hollywood producer. The production was divided into two part ... view
Character:
Mike Crowley
1959
Director Charles Lederer's 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who'll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his u ... view
Character:
O.K. Merritt
Jan 1959 (first aired)
New York Confidential is a British-American crime drama series that aired from 1958 to 1959.
The series aired in syndicated in the United States and ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 1958 (first aired)
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office locate ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1958 (first aired)
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the sam ... view
Character:
Mike Parker (138 ep.)
Sep 1958 (first aired)
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1957 (first aired)
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner w ... view
Character:
Cornelius Cameron (1 ep.)
Character:
Prosecutor
1957
Sidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency. With Damon's help, Sidney wor ... view
Character:
Capt. Riley
1955
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. He ... view
Character:
Stringer Winfield
Oct 1955 (first aired)
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this ser ... view
Character:
Rick Vega (1 ep.)
1955
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They fin ... view
Character:
Police Officer Lonigan
1955
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadi ... view
Character:
Detective
Oct 1954 (first aired)
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Cos ... view
Character:
Detective (1 ep.)
Oct 1954 (first aired)
Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes. ... view
Character:
Bick Norton (1 ep.)
1954
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Ma ... view
Character:
Sergeant Monty Maizel
1954
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse. ... view
Character:
Pierson
1953
An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favor ... view
Character:
Sam Benton
1953
When Carol Maldon inherits her family's stable and a horse with strong racing potential, she begins working with suave trainer Rick Grayton. Intent on ... view
Character:
'Two Pair' Buford
1953
Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain sur ... view
Character:
Arnie
1953
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced ... view
Character:
Mugsy
Oct 1952 (first aired)
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses h ... view
Character:
Benny Grew (1 ep.)
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Lieutenant Waldo (1 ep.)
Gibson (1 ep.)
Sep 1952 (first aired)
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Compa ... view
Character:
Chick (1 ep.)
1951
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a preci ... view
Character:
Lt. Monaghan
Oct 1951 (first aired)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was spon ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Sep 1951 (first aired)
The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third ... view
Character:
Member of Bar Association (uncredited) (1 ep.)
Aug 1951 (first aired)
Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered s ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 1950 (first aired)
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original telep ... view
Character:
Capt. Hodges (1 ep.)
Jan 1950 (first aired)
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live sho ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1949 (first aired)
Martin Kane, Private Eye was an early radio series and television crime series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (4 ep.)
Jul 1949 (first aired)
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatura ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1948
Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by the fact that his younger brother Denny has joined ... view
Character:
Hank Bremmer
Jun 1948 (first aired)
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
1948
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up anoth ... view
Character:
Looie
1944
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited i ... view
Character:
Rodney
1943
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance wh ... view
Character:
Hoodlum (uncredited)
1943
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front. ... view
Character:
Truck Driver
1943
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of theatre and film appear and host a recreational ... view
Character:
Horace MacMahon
1942
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates. ... view
Character:
Swifty
1941
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which ... view
Character:
Wolf
1941
Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club ... view
Character:
Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle
1941
A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The ... view
Character:
Fingers Flint
1941
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationsh ... view
Character:
Mullen
1941
The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy) as they try to survive Army boot camp. Intending ... view
Character:
Tiger Brannigan
1941
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer. ... view
Character:
Taxi Driver
1940
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother. ... view
Character:
Foghorn Murphy
1940
A cub reporter goes after his story in a big way when he single-handedly exposes a crime ring. ... view
Character:
Brains
1940
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration. ... view
Character:
Bud Wildhack
1940
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle pr ... view
Character:
Slugger Mears
1940
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic. ... view
Character:
Foghorn Murphy (uncredited)
1940
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters. ... view
Character:
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Character:
Foreman
1940
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside. ... view
Character:
Sylvester Odgen 'SOS' Schofield (as Horace MacMahon)
1940
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way. ... view
Character:
Cry-Baby
1940
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock ... view
Character:
Truck Driver Giving Lift to Ellen (uncredited)
1940
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to wri ... view
Character:
Bugs
1940
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont. ... view
Character:
J. Harold 'Fog Horn' Murphy
1940
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive. ... view
Character:
Dave - the Nightclub Manager (uncredited)
1940
Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant. ... view
Character:
Sgt. Monk O'Hara
1940
In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two ... view
Character:
'Lefty' Hodges - Bank Robber
1939
Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub. ... view
Character:
Phil Ferrranti
1939
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program ... view
Character:
Hood (Uncredited)
1939
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate. ... view
Character:
MacFay's Chauffeur (uncredited)
1939
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, ... view
Character:
Art Kruger
1939
This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Polic ... view
Character:
Joe Nash
1939
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, D ... view
Character:
Dance Floor Official (uncredited)
1939
Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she atte ... view
Character:
Gus
1939
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble. ... view
Character:
Irving
1939
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart ... view
Character:
Punchy
1939
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. Wh ... view
Character:
Fog Horn - Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1939
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime. ... view
Character:
Philadelphia
1939
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they a ... view
Character:
Missouri Smith
1939
A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. ... view
Character:
Gloomey Kelly
1939
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltratin ... view
Character:
1938
By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies ... view
Character:
Snuffy Deegan
1938
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys. ... view
Character:
Bartsch
1938
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true in ... view
Character:
Larry Carson
1938
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nig ... view
Character:
Gurk
1938
A young man, Danny, decides to get a job in order to support his mother. He's hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a ... view
Character:
Russo's Chief Henchman
1938
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv ... view
Character:
Rabblerouser (uncredited)
1938
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his f ... view
Character:
Max Hooker
1938
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy do ... view
Character:
Rocky Simpson (uncredited)
1938
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller. ... view
Character:
Danny Scolado (as Horace MacMahon)
1938
Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of ... view
Character:
2nd Thug
1938
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her ... view
Character:
Lockjaw
1938
Having paid for the education and legal training of his younger brother, Bruce, with the idea that he would become a lawyer and join his business, Fre ... view
Character:
Jennings
1937
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper. ... view
Character:
Al
1937
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, ... view
Character:
Blackie Clayton
1937
Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news. ... view
Character:
Beak McArdle
1937
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofita ... view
Character:
Reporter
1937
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister. ... view
Character:
Reporter at Press Conference (uncredited)
1937
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use. ... view
Character:
Prison Inmate (uncredited)
1937
A sailor bets his friends he can get a date with any woman they choose. They pick out a librarian with glasses and a bookish appearance. When he pursu ... view
Character:
Gateleg
Character:
Soldier (uncredited)