Horace McMahon's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Naked City Lt. Michael…

Main Movie Roles 1968 - The Detective 1957 - The Delicate Delinquent 1955 - Blackboard Jungle 1953 - Man in the Dark 1953 - Abbott and Costello Go To Mars 1951 - Detective Story 1947 - 13 Rue Madeleine 1941 - Come Live With Me 1940 - My Favorite Wife 1939 - Rose of Washington Square 1939 - Bachelor Mother 1939 - Another Thin Man 1938 - Marie Antoinette 1937 - The Last Gangster

BIOGRAPHY:

Born in 1906, Connecticut-born character actor Horace McMahon fell easily into his career while pursuing a law career at Fordham University. A former news reporter, his dark, streetwise mug and attitude proved perfect for playing assorted New York characters -- thugs, cabbies, henchmen, bouncers -- in a slew of late 30s and 40s crime yarns, often with a Runyonesque feel to them. On Broadway from 1931, McMahon scored his best stage role in 1949 with "Detective Story" and was able to solidify it on film in 1951 to critical acclaim. Thereafter his crusty cops and detectives could be found all over, including TV, where he copped an Emmy nomination for his regular role on "The Naked City" series. Long married to former actress Louise Campbell, McMahon died in 1971.


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