Corey Allen

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.

Known For

Rebel Without a Cause

Acting

1955

Rebel Without a Cause

as

Buzz Gunderson

1958

Party Girl

as

Cookie La Motte

2005

The Works

as

Mr. M

1962

Sweet Bird of Youth

as

Scotty

1954

The Mad Magician

as

Gus a Stagehand (uncredited)

1957

The Shadow on the Window

as

Gil Ramsey

1958

Darby's Rangers

as

Tony Sutherland

1957

The Big Caper

as

Roy

1962

The Chapman Report

as

Walsh Dillon

1958

Juvenile Jungle

as

Hal McQueen

1960

Private Property

as

Duke

1996

Rediscovering a Rebel

as

Self - 'Buzz' (archive footage)

2005

James Dean: Sense Memories

as

Self

1960

Key Witness

as

Magician

1954

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

as

Enlisted Man

1954

A Time Out of War

as

Connor

1975

James Dean: The First American Teenager

as

Self

1988

Forever James Dean

as

Himself

2006

The Real James Dean

as

Self

Trackdown

as

Dragnet

as

Gunsmoke

as

Ben Tennis

Perry Mason

as

Rennie Foster

Studio One

as

Eddie Gilmer

Combat!

as

Pvt. Garrett

Hawaiian Eye

as

Sea Hunt

as

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as

Gil Dalliford

87th Precinct

as

Police Woman

as

Have Gun, Will Travel

as

The Millionaire

as

Dan Marshall

West Point

as

Men Into Space

as

The Loner

as

Bronco

as

Lock-Up

as

The Rebel

as

Yancey Daggett

The Dakotas

as

Dr. Kildare

as

Jerome Pine

Telephone Time

as

Phil Samenian

State Trooper

as

Letter to Loretta

as

Calvin

Behind Closed Doors

as

Dr. Kildare

as

Dr. Harris

Perry Mason

as

Lester Menke

Studio One

as

Frankie

Production

1983

Lost

as

Crew

Directing

1986

I-Man

as

1971

Pinocchio

as

1977

Thunder and Lightning

as

1978

Avalanche

as

1973

Cry Rape

as

1988

The Ann Jillian Story

as

1985

Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues

as

1979

The Man in the Santa Claus Suit

as

1987

The Last Fling

as

1979

Stone

as

1987

Destination: America

as

1973

See the Man Run

as

1993

Moment of Truth: Stalking Back

as

1985

Code Name: Foxfire

as

1987

Infiltrator

as

1980

The Return of Frank Cannon

as

1994

The Hero

as

1977

Yesterday's Child

as

1985

Brass

as

Movin' On

as

Lou Grant

as

Murder, She Wrote

as

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

as

Tucker's Witch

as

Star Trek: The Next Generation

as

Magnum, P.I.

as

Police Story

as

Hill Street Blues

as

Police Woman

as

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

as

Trapper John, M.D.

as

T. J. Hooker

as

Simon & Simon

as

Matt Houston

as

Quincy, M.E.

as

The New People

as

Sonny Spoon

as

The High Chaparral

as

Whiz Kids

as

Hawaii Five-O

as

FBI: The Untold Stories

as

The Powers of Matthew Star

as

Cannon

as

McClain's Law

as

Lucan

as

Hunter

as

Then Came Bronson

as

Ironside

as

The Streets of San Francisco

as

Otherworld

as

Mannix

as

Chicago Story

as

Supercarrier

as

Matt Lincoln

as

Unsub

as

The Cosby Mysteries

as

The Paper Chase

as

Jessie

as

Spies

as

Legmen

as

Kate McShane

as

Stone

as

J.J. Starbuck

as

Bronk

as

The Rockford Files

as

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

as

Dallas

as

Barnaby Jones

as

The New Lassie

as