Corey Allen
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.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 8.083 |
Birthday | 1934-06-29 |
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1955
Rebel Without a Cause
7.5/1574
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems...
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Rebel Without a Cause
1958
Party Girl
6.75/66
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realiz...
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Party Girl
1962
Sweet Bird of Youth
6.85/113
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him...
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Sweet Bird of Youth
1954
The Mad Magician
6.857/42
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut dow...
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The Mad Magician
1957
The Shadow on the Window
5.7/20
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. T...
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The Shadow on the Window
1958
Darby's Rangers
5.9/9
Stationed in Scotland, Maj. William Darby and the men under his command are trained by British commandos, becoming the U.S. Army's 1st Ranger Battalio...
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Darby's Rangers
1957
The Big Caper
6.2/20
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
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The Big Caper
1962
The Chapman Report
5.3/15
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
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The Chapman Report
1958
Juvenile Jungle
5.5/2
Planned kidnapping goes awry when gang leader falls for the victim.
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Juvenile Jungle
1960
Private Property
6.1/40
A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend.
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Private Property
1960
Key Witness
6.9/4
An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. When he presents himself to the LAPD as the only person willi...
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Key Witness
1954
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
5.873/71
A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1975
James Dean: The First American Teenager
6/1
Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic brooding bad boy James Dean, from his obscure early da...
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James Dean: The First American Teenager
1954
A Time Out of War
6.3/12
Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the Academy Film Archive. During the American Civil War, two Union soldiers and a Confederate solider...
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A Time Out of War
1988
Forever James Dean
7/2
The life and times of one of Hollywood's brightest stars.
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Forever James Dean
2006
The Real James Dean
0/0
Although he'd starred in just three films before his untimely death at age 24, James Dean cast a long shadow that came to define cool. Using excerpts...
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The Real James Dean
2005
The Works
0/0
An off-beat journey of a lonely accountant and his search to find new life in a world full of ridiculous rules, bureaucracy and bad plumbing...
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The Works
1996
Rediscovering a Rebel
0/0
A documentary short on the making of Rebel Without a Cause.
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Rediscovering a Rebel
2005
James Dean: Sense Memories
0/0
Documentary exploring the last 18 months of James Dean's acting career.
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