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Jeff Corey

 
Actor: Jeff Corey
  • Born: Aug 10, 1914 in New York City, New York
  • Died: Aug 16, 2002 in Malibu, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '40s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Western
  • Career Highlights: Seconds, Home of the Brave, Superman and the Mole Men
  • First Major Screen Credit: My Friend Flicka (1943)

Biography

American actor Jeff Corey forsook a job as sewing-machine salesman for the less stable world of New York theatre in the 1930s. The 26-year-old Corey was regarded as a valuable character-actor commodity when he arrived in Hollywood in 1940. Perhaps the best of his many early unbilled appearances was in the Kay Kyser film You'll Find Out (40), in which Corey, playing a game-show contestant (conveniently named Jeff Corey), was required to sing a song while stuffing his mouth full of crackers. The actor was busiest during the "film noir" mid-to-late 1940s, playing several weasely villain roles; it is hard to forget the image of Corey, in the role of a slimy stoolie in Burt Lancaster's Brute Force, being tied to the front of a truck and pushed directly into a hail of police bullets. Corey's film career ended abruptly in 1952 when he was unfairly blacklisted for his left-leaning political beliefs. To keep food on the table, Corey became an acting coach, eventually running one of the top training schools in the business (among his more famous pupils was Jack Nicholson). He was permitted to return to films in the 1960s, essaying such roles as a wild-eyed wino in Lady in a Cage (64), the louse who kills Kim Darby's father in True Grit (68), and a sympathetic sheriff in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (68). In addition to his film work, Jeff Corey has acted in and directed numerous TV series; he was seen as a regular on the 1985 Robert Blake series Hell Town and the 1986 Earl Hamner Jr. production Morningstar/Eveningstar. The following decade found Corey appearing in such films as Sinatra (1992), Beethoven's 2nd (1993) and the action thriller Surviving the Game (1994). Shortly after suffering a fall at his Malibu home in August of 2002, Corey died in Santa Monica due to complications resulting from the accident. He was 88. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Jeff Corey
Born August 10, 1914(1914-08-10)
Brooklyn, New York,
United States
Died August 16, 2002 (aged 88)
Santa Monica, California,
United States
Occupation actor

Jeff Corey (born Arthur Zwerling; August 10, 1914August 16, 2002) was an American stage and screen actor who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s.

Biography

Corey was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Mary (née Peskin) and Nathan Zwerling.[1] After a Shakespearean stint in New York in the late 1930s, Corey made the move to Hollywood in 1940, where he became a highly respected character actor. One of his early TV appearances was in the pilot for Adventures of Superman, a 1950 feature film called Superman and the Mole Men, later edited to a two-part episode called The Unknown People. His portrayal of a xenophobic vigilante would coincidentally reflect what was about to happen to him.

His career was halted in the early 1950s, when he was summoned before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Corey refused to give names and went so far as to ridicule the panel by offering critiques of the testimony of the previous witnesses. This behaviour led to his being blacklisted for twelve years.

During his blacklisting, Corey drew upon his experience in various actors' workshops (including the Actors Lab, which he helped establish) by seeking work as an acting teacher. His reputation soon grew as one of the most influential teachers in Hollywood. His students, at various times, included: Robert Blake, Richard Chamberlain, James Dean, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Michael Forest, James Hong, Penny Marshall, Rita Moreno, Jack Nicholson, Leonard Nimoy, Anthony Perkins, Rob Reiner, Barbra Streisand and Robin Williams.

In 1962, Corey began working in films again, and remained active into the 1990s. He made guest appearances in many TV shows. His best known appearances in the science fiction community were in The Outer Limits episode "O.B.I.T." and the Star Trek season 3 episode "The Cloud Minders" as High Advisor Plasus and on Babylon 5 as Justin in the season 3 finale "Z'ha'dum". Her also appeared in the short-lived Paper Moon, a sitcom about a father and his presumed daughter roaming through the American Midwest during the Great Depression trying to get rich quick.

In an interview in February 1973 on board the SS Universe Campus, of Chapman College, Corey detailed his TV work on Rod Serling's "Night Gallery". Up to this time he was proudest of this work for which he received an Emmy nomination.

Returning to one aspect of his acting roots, he can be seen directing some of the screen tests for Superman in the DVD extras.

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