Corey Allen
Born: 1934-06-29 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Died: 2010-06-27
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2023
- Departure ... (Camera Operator)
2006
- The Real James Dean as Self
2005
- James Dean: Sense Memories as Self
- The Works as Mr. M
1996
- Rediscovering a Rebel as Self - 'Buzz' (archive footage)
1995
- James Dean: A Portrait as Self
1994
- The Cosby Mysteries ... (Director)
- The Hero ... (Director)
1993
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ... (Director)
- Moment of Truth: Stalking Back ... (Director)
1991
- FBI: The Untold Stories ... (Director)
1989
- The New Lassie ... (Director)
- Unsub ... (Director)
1988
- Supercarrier ... (Director)
- Sonny Spoon ... (Director)
- Forever James Dean as Himself
- The Ann Jillian Story ... (Director)
1987
- Star Trek: The Next Generation ... (Director)
- J.J. Starbuck ... (Director)
- The Last Fling ... (Director)
- Spies ... (Director)
- Destination: America ... (Director)
- Infiltrator ... (Director)
1986
- I-Man ... (Director)
1985
- Otherworld ... (Director)
- Brass ... (Director)
- Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues ... (Director)
- Code Name: Foxfire ... (Director)
1984
- Murder, She Wrote ... (Director)
- Hunter ... (Director)
- Jessie ... (Director)
- Legmen ... (Director)
1983
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King ... (Director)
- Whiz Kids ... (Director)
- Lost ... (Co-Producer)
1982
- T. J. Hooker ... (Director)
- Matt Houston ... (Director)
- The Powers of Matthew Star ... (Director)
- Tucker's Witch ... (Director)
- Chicago Story ... (Director)
1981
- Hill Street Blues ... (Director)
- Simon & Simon ... (Director)
- McClain's Law ... (Director)
1980
- Magnum, P.I. ... (Director)
- Stone ... (Director)
- The Return of Frank Cannon ... (Director)
1979
- Trapper John, M.D. ... (Director)
- The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo ... (Director)
- Stone ... (Director)
- The Man in the Santa Claus Suit ... (Director)
1978
- Dallas ... (Director)
- The Paper Chase ... (Director)
- Avalanche ... (Director)
1977
- Lou Grant ... (Director)
- Lucan ... (Director)
- Thunder and Lightning ... (Director)
- Yesterday's Child ... (Director)
1976
- Quincy, M.E. ... (Director)
1975
- Bronk ... (Director)
- Kate McShane ... (Director)
- James Dean: The First American Teenager as Self
1974
- The Rockford Files ... (Director)
- Police Woman
- Movin' On ... (Director)
1973
- Barnaby Jones ... (Director)
- Police Story ... (Director)
- Cry Rape ... (Director)
- See the Man Run ... (Director)
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco ... (Director)
1970
- Matt Lincoln ... (Director)
1969
- Then Came Bronson ... (Director)
- My Friend Tony
- The New People ... (Director)
1968
- Hawaii Five-O ... (Director)
1967
- Mannix ... (Director)
- Ironside ... (Director)
- The High Chaparral ... (Director)
1965
1963
1962
- Combat! as Pvt. Garrett
- Sweet Bird of Youth as Scotty
- The Chapman Report as Walsh Dillon
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Jerome Pine
- 87th Precinct
1960
- Key Witness as Magician
- Private Property as Duke
1959
- The Rebel as Yancey Daggett
- Hawaiian Eye
- Lock-Up
- Men Into Space
1958
- Lawman as RobertLord
- Sea Hunt
- Bronco
- Behind Closed Doors
- Party Girl as Cookie La Motte
- Darby's Rangers as Tony Sutherland
- Juvenile Jungle as Hal McQueen
1957
- Perry Mason as Rennie Foster
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Trackdown
- The Shadow on the Window as Gil Ramsey
- The Big Caper as Roy
1956
- State Trooper
- Telephone Time as Phil Samenian
- West Point
1955
- Gunsmoke as Ben Tennis
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Gil Dalliford
- The Millionaire as Dan Marshall
- Rebel Without a Cause as Buzz Gunderson
1954
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri as Enlisted Man
- The Mad Magician as Gus a Stagehand (uncredited)
- A Time Out of War as Connor
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Calvin
1951
1948
- Studio One as Eddie Gilmer