
Corey Allen
Directing
🎂 1934-06-29
Corey Allen earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UCLA in Theatre in 1954. While there, he received the department's Best Actor award and starred in the UCLA film, "A Time Out of War", which won the Academy Award & Cannes & Venice Film Festival for Best Short Film. Upon graduation, he appeared in approximately twenty plays in the Los Angeles area. Director Nicholas Ray spotted Allen and subsequently chose him for the role of "Buzz" in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). This led to featured roles in another dozen films such as Private Property (1960), Party Girl (1958), Darby's Rangers (1958) and The Chapman Report (1962). Allen also appeared in many leading television series including Perry Mason (1957) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). Meanwhile, he created, directed for and co-produced the Freeway Circuit Theatre which toured the Southwest for six seasons. Allen also directed numerous Equity productions in Los Angeles theatres. This led to a thirty year directorial career in television and film during which he directed three movies including Avalanche; television movies including the Emmy winning The Ann Jillian Story (1988); created a dozen pilots for television series including Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Simon & Simon (1981), Code Name: Foxfire (1985), Stone (1979) and Capitol (1982). He has earned two Directors Guild nominations for Best Direction in a television series, the Award for Cable Excellence for Best Direction of The Paper Chase (1978) and received an Emmy for Best Direction of a Hill Street Blues (1981). Throughout this career, Allen instructed acting, including three years at the Actors Workshop, and for the last nine years, conducted cold reading workshops at the Margie Haber Studio. Allen was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Columbia College-Hollywood for his work in helping to create their acting and directing curricula.
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Jerome Pine
1961

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Rennie Foster
1957

Lester Menke
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Eddie Gilmer
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Pvt. Garrett
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Yancey Daggett
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Phil Samenian
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Calvin
1953

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Dan Marshall
1955

Gil Dalliford
1955

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Ben Tennis
1955

Buzz Gunderson
1955

Scotty
1962

Cookie La Motte
1958

Enlisted Man
1954

Tony Sutherland
1958

Gil Ramsey
1957

Walsh Dillon
1962

Roy
1957

Duke
1960

Gus a Stagehand (uncredited)
1954

Magician
1960

Self
1975

Hal McQueen
1958

Connor
1954

Self
2005

Self - 'Buzz' (archive footage)
1996

Mr. M
2005

Himself
1988

Self
2006

Self
1995
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