Corey Allen

Corey Allen

Nascimento : 1934-06-29,

Morte : 2010-06-27

História

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.

Perfil

Corey Allen

Filmes

The Real James Dean
Self
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 from Dean's personal diaries, found footage from screen and wardrobe tests and interviews with those who knew him best (including Dennis Hopper, Dick Van Patten, Graham Nash and Rod Steiger), this fascinating documentary explores the screen icon's lingering mystique.
The Works
Mr. M
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...
Moment of Truth: Stalking Back
Director
A teen girl is stalked and harassed by a perverted man ten years older than she is, but despite help from her family, there's little the police can do to get rid of him.
The Ann Jillian Story
Director
Ann Jillian finds out she has cancer and the movie shows how she deals with that (the hospital treatments and impact on her life).
Forever James Dean
Himself
The life and times of one of Hollywood's brightest stars.
Infiltrator
Director
A scientist's experiment conveys him to another lab where his body is fused with a mechanism that can't be easily extracted---its co-creator is holding the device's plans for ransom.
Destination: America
Director
A patrician family's estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soon finds himself wrongly accused of his father's murder, with his old childhood friend determined to convict him. Pilot to a prospective TV series.
A Grande Paixão
Director
Gloria é a noiva de Jason e descobre que ele está saindo com alguns amigos para curtir a vida de solteiro pela última vez. Ela considera isso um pouco bárbaro, então a conselho de alguns amigos ela sai para curtir também pela última vez. Ela conhece Phillip, um homem cuja cansado de uma noite fica e quer um relacionamento monogâmico sério. Quando eles se encontram, ele é tomado com ela imediatamente, mas ela esquece de dizer-lhe o seu verdadeiro nome. Então, depois de passar a noite juntos, ela o deixa um vídeo dizendo que ela está envolvida e que esta deveria ser a sua última aventura. Mas ele a ama e ele sabe que ela se sente da mesma forma, então ele tenta encontrá-la antes de ela se casar.
I-Man: O Homem Indestrutível
Director
Ao tentar socorrer o motorista de um veículo da NASA, que havia se acidentado, Jeff Wilder é exposto a ação de um gás que estava sendo transportado e vazou. A partir deste momento, ele se torna um homem indestrutível e, de motorista de taxi passa a ser I-Man, uma espécie de super-herói, encarregado de deter um louco que havia sequestrado veículos militares e ameaçava a todos com destruição.
Missão Beverly Hills
Director
Uma investigadora vai para a Califórnia a fim de desvendar assassinato ocorrido no Wyoming. De passagem, distrai-se com Los Angeles e se apaixona. Feito para a TV.
Code Name: Foxfire
Director
Pilot for TV series released on home video.
Brass
Director
The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
Lost
Producer
A little girl gets lost in the wilds of Utah.
The Return of Frank Cannon
Director
Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate an old friend and Army Intelligence colleague's death, which has been ruled a suicide, but which smells like murder.
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit
Director
The mysterious owner of a costume shop rents a Santa Claus suit to three very different men: a math teacher trying to get the nerve to propose, a homeless restaurateur trying to hide from the mob, and a harried political speech writer visiting with his estranged wife and son. Their lives are inexorably changed by their experience of playing Santa Claus.
Stone
Director
Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the force in this pilot to the short-lived series.
Avalanche
Screenplay
After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers.
Avalanche
Director
After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers.
Trovões e Relâmpagos
Director
A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation.
Yesterday's Child
Director
A young couple's three-year-old daughter is kidnapped and no trace is ever found of her. Fourteen years later, a young woman claiming to be that girl shows up at the parents' house.
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Himself
Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic brooding bad boy James Dean, from his obscure early days working in television to his rise to stardom in films such as Rebel Without a Cause. Clips from Dean's movies are intermingled with candid interviews with the star's friends and Hollywood colleagues, including Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dennis Hopper.
Cry Rape
Director
A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him.
See the Man Run
Director
Kidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number and reach a struggling actor instead. He decides to cut himself in for some of the money.
Pinocchio
Screenplay
This is a bawdy burlesque version of the famous fairy tale. Instead of Gepetto, the old-man woodcarver, we have Geppeta, an apparently frustrated and nubile young virgin. Geppeta carves Pinocchio for herself as a gorgeous young hunk. Geppeta's fairy godmother, a blonde played by Dyanne Thorne, magically transforms the young stud Pinocchio into a living man, who is quickly brought to work in the local whorehouse as a prize stud and exhibitionist. Nothing -- not even sex -- is taken seriously in this lighthearted, semi-pornographic offering. The film was originally rated X, but was later re-edited and given an R by the MPAA in 1977
Pinocchio
Director
This is a bawdy burlesque version of the famous fairy tale. Instead of Gepetto, the old-man woodcarver, we have Geppeta, an apparently frustrated and nubile young virgin. Geppeta carves Pinocchio for herself as a gorgeous young hunk. Geppeta's fairy godmother, a blonde played by Dyanne Thorne, magically transforms the young stud Pinocchio into a living man, who is quickly brought to work in the local whorehouse as a prize stud and exhibitionist. Nothing -- not even sex -- is taken seriously in this lighthearted, semi-pornographic offering. The film was originally rated X, but was later re-edited and given an R by the MPAA in 1977
The Chapman Report
Walsh Dillon
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
Doce Pássaro da Juventude
Scotty
Drifter Chance Wayne retorna à sua cidade natal depois de muitos anos tentando fazer carreira no cinema. Chegando com ele está uma estrela de cinema decadente que ele pegou ao meio do caminho, Alexandra Del Lago. Enquanto tenta obter ajuda para fazer um teste de tela, ele também encontra tempo para reencontrar sua ex-namorada Heavenly, filha do político local Tom 'Boss' Finley, que mais ou menos o obrigou a deixar a cidade há muitos anos. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Key Witness
Magician
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 willing to identify the culprits, he opens himself up to a campaign of intimidation from the gang involved.
Propriedade Privada
Duke
A hoodlum (Corey Allen) plots to seduce a lonely housewife (Kate Manx) and turn her over to his virginal friend (Warren Oates).
A Bela dos Bas-Fond
Cookie La Motte
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 realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
Juvenile Jungle
Hal McQueen
Planned kidnapping goes awry when gang leader falls for the victim.
Darby's Rangers
Tony Sutherland
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 Battalion. Their drilling period is rigorous, but the men find time to romance local women before being deployed to fight the Nazis. U.S. forces battle from French North Africa to Italy, but when a surprise attack decimates the 1st and 3rd Battalions at the Battle of Cisterna, Darby and the 4th Battalion must come to their aid.
The Big Caper
Roy
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
A Sombra na Janela
Gil Ramsey
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. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?
Juventude Transviada
Buzz Gunderson
Em uma das performances que mais influenciaram a história do cinema, James Dean interpreta um jovem recém-chegado a uma cidade e cuja solidão, frustação e fúria e que espelharia os adolescentes do pós-guerra — e ainda reverberaria pelos 50 anos seguintes...
As Pontes de Toko-Ri
Enlisted Man (uncredited)
Durante a Guerra da Coreia, um piloto de combate da Marinha deve chegar a um acordo com sua própria dúvida entre lutar a guerra e o medo de ter que bombardear um conjunto de pontes altamente defendidas. O fim deste sombrio drama de guerra é todo tensão. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
A Máscara do Mágico
Gus a Stagehand (uncredited)
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 down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.
A Time Out of War
Connor
Two Union soldiers maintaining a position on a riverbank negotiate a one-hour truce with the Confederate soldier manning the opposite bank. During the hour, they gain respect for one another as they trade tobacco, enjoy some fishing and make an unsettling discovery.