Horace McMahon

Biography: Horace McMahon dabbled in professional and semi-professional acting while attending Fordham University Law School, continuing to do so while holding down a day job as a newspaper reporter. He made acting his full-time vocation after his first Broadway appearance in 1931. In films from 1937, the growly, jowly MacMahon was initially typed in gangster roles. After scoring a personal success as Lieutenant Monaghan in the 1949 Broadway play Detective Story, MacMahon repeated the role in the 1951 film version -- and thereafter was pigeonholed in "cop" roles. Before beginning his five-year (1958-63) tenure as Lieutenant Mike Parker on the TV series The Naked City, MacMahon had been a semi-regular on Martin Kane (1950, as the newsstand owner who stocked nothing but the sponsor's cigarette) and Make Room for Daddy (1953, as Danny Thomas' agent). His last weekly TV assignment was as Hank McClure, police contact for public relations man Craig Stevens, in the short-lived Mr. Broadway.Horace McMahon dabbled in professional and semi-professional acting while attending Fordham University Law School, continuing to do so while holding down a day job as a newspaper reporter. He made acting his full-time vocation after his first Broadway appearance in 1931. In films from 1937, the growly, jowly MacMahon was initially typed in gangster roles. After scoring a personal success as Lieutenant Monaghan in the 1949 Broadway play Detective Story, MacMahon repeated the role in the 1951 film version -- and thereafter was pigeonholed in "cop" roles. Before beginning his five-year (1958-63) tenure as Lieutenant Mike Parker on the TV series The Naked City, MacMahon had been a semi-regular on Martin Kane (1950, as the newsstand owner who stocked nothing but the sponsor's cigarette) and Make Room for Daddy (1953, as Danny Thomas' agent). His last weekly TV assignment was as Hank McClure, police contact for public relations man Craig Stevens, in the short-lived Mr. Broadway. Having been born near Norwalk, Connecticut, Horace McMahon spent his retirement years in that community with his wife, former actress Louise Campbell. Expand

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Title: Year: Credit: User score:
tbd My Three Sons: Season 9 Sep 28, 1968 Joe tbd
tbd Batman (1966): Season 3 Sep 14, 1967 Glu Gluten tbd
tbd Make Room for Daddy: Season 11 Sep 30, 1963 Horace McMahon tbd
tbd Route 66: Season 4 Sep 27, 1963 Fenton tbd
tbd Make Room for Daddy: Season 9 Oct 2, 1961 Horace tbd
tbd The Twilight Zone: Season 1 Oct 2, 1959 Bartender 8.9
tbd Make Room for Daddy: Season 2 Sep 28, 1954 Horace (1953 - 1954) tbd
tbd Make Room for Daddy: Season 1 Sep 29, 1953 Horace (1953 - 1954) / Horace (1953 - 1954) tbd