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Jack Mullaney(1929-1982)

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Jack Mullaney
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Tickle Me (1965)
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Dark-haired, congenial-looking actor Jack Mullaney was one of those gangly and goofy nice guy types who pervaded innocuous 1950s and '60s film and TV comedy. Born on September 18, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he usually played the best buddy of the star who seldom got the pretty coed. Jack's poor schmucks were the huggable, clean-cut kind that every mother would want as a son. In minor film parts from 1957, he provided amiable comic relief, hanging around and about the periphery of silly, youth-oriented fluff, including the roles of an Air Force captain in The Absent Minded Professor (1961), Vincent Price's slow-thinking assistant Igor in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965), and Elvis Presley's klutzy sidekick in Tickle Me (1965). Jack was also featured in Presley's film Spinout (1966), but he and the film were met with little fanfare.

TV sitcom work served the actor much better as the sure-to-please bellhop on The Ann Sothern Show (1958) and accident-prone supply officer on Ensign O'Toole (1962). Neither part, however, was strong enough to propel him to comedy stardom. Jack's best showcases were as the bungling scientist on My Living Doll (1964) starring Robert Cummings and the genial astronaut who ends up in the Stone Age in It's About Time (1966) co-starring Frank Aletter, Imogene Coca, and Joe E. Ross. Jack's mode of comedy went out of style with the Vietnam Era and, despite a few glimpses of him in such 1970s films as Little Big Man (1970) and Where Does It Hurt? (1972), he couldn't sustain his career. Little was heard about Jack in the ongoing years until the news of his untimely death on June 1982 at age 52. He died at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California (near Los Angeles) of complications from a stroke, and after services in California, was interred at the St. John Vianney Columbarium at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
BornSeptember 18, 1929
DiedJune 27, 1982(52)
BornSeptember 18, 1929
DiedJune 27, 1982(52)
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Jack Mullaney in Seven Days in May (1964)
Natalie Wood, George Hamilton, Susan Kohner, and Jack Mullaney in All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
Steve McQueen, Jim Hutton, Brigid Bazlen, Jack Mullaney, Paula Prentiss, and Jack Weston in The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
Natalie Wood, George Hamilton, Robert Wagner, Susan Kohner, and Jack Mullaney in All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
Patricia Hitchcock and Jack Mullaney in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Frank Aletter, Pat Cardi, Imogene Coca, Mike Mazurki, Jack Mullaney, Cliff Norton, Joe E. Ross, and Mary Grace in It's About Time (1966)
Frank Aletter, Imogene Coca, Jack Mullaney, and Joe E. Ross in It's About Time (1966)
James MacArthur, Jack Mullaney, and Jeffrey Silver in The Young Stranger (1957)
James MacArthur, Jack Mullaney, and Jeffrey Silver in The Young Stranger (1957)

Known for

Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man (1970)
Little Big Man
7.6
  • Card Player
  • 1970
Tickle Me (1965)
Tickle Me
5.8
  • Stanley Potter
  • 1965
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
The Honeymoon Machine
6.1
  • Lt. Beauregard 'Beau' Gilliam
  • 1961
Fred MacMurray in The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
The Absent Minded Professor
6.7
  • Air Force Captain
  • 1961

Credits

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  • Julie Andrews, Walter Matthau, and Sara Stimson in Little Miss Marker (1980)
    Little Miss Marker
  • Big John, Little John (1976)
    Big John, Little John
  • David Janssen in Harry O (1973)
    Harry O
  • George (1972)
    George
  • Richard Widmark, Frederic Forrest, Tillman Box, and John War Eagle in When the Legends Die (1972)
    When the Legends Die
  • George! (1972)
    George!
  • Where Does It Hurt? (1972)
    Where Does It Hurt?
  • Love, American Style (1969)
    Love, American Style
  • Lesley Ann Warren and Ryan O'Neal in Love Hate Love (1971)
    Love Hate Love
  • Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man (1970)
    Little Big Man
  • Marlo Thomas in That Girl (1966)
    That Girl
  • Frank Aletter, Mike Mazurki, Jack Mullaney, Cliff Norton, and Joe E. Ross in It's About Time (1966)
    It's About Time
  • Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Victoria Carroll, Nancy Czar, Dodie Marshall, Diane McBain, and Deborah Walley in Spinout (1966)
    Spinout
  • Frankie Avalon, Vincent Price, Susan Hart, and Dwayne Hickman in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
    Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
  • Tickle Me (1965)
    Tickle Me

Soundtrack

  • Frank Aletter, Mike Mazurki, Jack Mullaney, Cliff Norton, and Joe E. Ross in It's About Time (1966)
    It's About Time
    • (uncredited)

Videos4

The Absent-Minded Professor
Clip 1:09
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Absent-Minded Professor
Clip 1:09
The Absent-Minded Professor
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Trailer 1:27
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Tickle Me
Trailer 2:50
Tickle Me

Personal details

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    • September 18, 1929
    • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
    • June 27, 1982
    • Woodland Hills, California, USA(stroke)
  • Stage play: The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker - playing Wilbur Fifield, at the Coronet Theatre (now The Eugene O'Neill Theatre) 230 W. 49th St., New York, NY.

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    Was a Hollywood history buff, in his down time on set he made it a practice to talk to elder studio staff. He also archived his own career with a mind to the future.

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