Jeff Corey

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

111

Movies

132

Born: August 10, 1914 – August 16, 2002
From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jeff Corey (born Arthur Zwerling; August 10, 1914 – August 16, 2002) was an American actor, television director, and teacher. After being blacklisted in the 1950s, he became one of the most prominent and influential acting coaches in Hollywood, whose students included the likes of Kirk Douglas, Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams, James Dean, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, James Coburn, Leonard Nimoy, Cher, Barbra Streisand and Rob Reiner. He returned to film and television work in the 1960s, playing many character roles. Early life and education Corey was born Arthur Zwerling in Brooklyn, New York to working-class Jewish immigrant parents. His father, Nathan Zwerling, was from Austria-Hungary, and his mother, Mary (nee Peskin), was from Russia. He attended New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and was active in the school's Dramatic Society. He received a scholarship to the Feagin School of Dramatic Art, where he furthered his studies. Prior to his acting career, he worked as a salesman of sewing machines. Blacklisted and teacher Corey's career was again interrupted in the early 1950s, when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He refused to give names of alleged Communists and subversives in the entertainment industry and went so far as to ridicule the panel by offering critiques of the testimony of the previous witnesses. That led to his being blacklisted for 12 years. "Most of us were retired Reds. We had left it, at least I had, years before," Corey told Patrick McGilligan, the co-author of Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist, who teaches film at Marquette University. "The only issue was, did you want to just give them their token names so you could continue your career, or not? I had no impulse to defend a political point of view that no longer interested me particularly... They just wanted two new names so they could hand out more subpoenas." Back to work in the 1960s In 1962, Corey began working in films again, and remained active into the 1990s. He played Hoban in The Cincinnati Kid (1965); Tom Chaney, the principal villain in True Grit (1969); and Sheriff Bledsoe in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (also 1969), who says to the title characters, "I never met a soul more affable than you, Butch, or faster than the Kid, but you're still nothing but two-bit outlaws on the dodge. Television Corey made guest appearances on many television series. He appeared as murder victim Carl Bascom in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Reckless Rockhound" (1964). He was featured on science-fiction series, too, including an episode of The Outer Limits ("O.B.I.T.", 1963) in which he played Byron Lomax; Star Trek ("The Cloud Minders", 1969) in which he played High Advisor Plasus; as Caspay in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), and Babylon 5 ("Z'ha'dum", 1996) in which he played Justin. Personal life Corey married his wife Hope (nee Victorson) in 1938. They had three children. Death Corey died on August 16, 2002, aged 88, after a fall. CLR

Works

132 films

Miracle on 34th Street

19477.4

True Grit

19697.3

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

19697.6

Conan the Destroyer

19846.1

Bird on a Wire

19906.2

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

19706.1

Color of Night

19945.8

The Wild Geese

19786.8

Little Big Man

19707.4

In Cold Blood

19677.5

Brute Force

19477.3

Beethoven's 2nd

19935.6

The Cincinnati Kid

19657.0

Joan of Arc

19486.2

The Killers

19467.4

Battle Beyond the Stars

19805.4

The Sword and the Sorcerer

19825.5

Seconds

19667.4

Surviving the Game

19946.1

The Boston Strangler

19686.6

The Pirate

19784.5

Shoot Out

19716.3

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

19826.7

Fourteen Hours

19517.3

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

19705.9

Ruby Cairo

19925.0

The Last Tycoon

19766.3

Sirocco

19516.0

Creator

19856.1

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

19436.2

Oh, God!

19776.4

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

19795.0

Only the Valiant

19516.5

Bright Leaf

19505.9

The Prince Who Was a Thief

19515.7

Messenger of Death

19886.0

Impasse

19694.8

Superman and the Mole Men

19515.4

Red Mountain

19516.7

All That Money Can Buy

19417.0

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

19767.0

Wake of the Red Witch

19485.8

Hideout

19495.9

Roxie Hart

19427.0

Once a Thief

19656.5

Somewhere in the Night

19466.7

Girl Trouble

19428.3

My Friend Flicka

19435.9

The Movie Murderer

19706.9

I Am the Law

19387.1

The Outriders

19507.3

Something Evil

19725.4

Never Trust a Gambler

19515.6

Rawhide

19516.8

Lady in a Cage

19646.1

California

19476.8

Follow Me Quietly

19496.2

Final Jeopardy

19856.3

Curse of the Black Widow

19775.2

Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock

20047.0

The Big Parade of Comedy

19647.2

The Yellow Canary

196310.0

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

19478.8

Third Finger, Left Hand

19407.0

Paper Tiger

19756.3

Catlow

19715.1

The Gangster

19475.2

Moonshine County Express

19774.9

The Nevadan

19505.9

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

19967.7

Singing Guns

19506.4

To My Daughter

19908.0

Pyramid of the Sun God

19655.6

Bagdad

19496.1

The Next Voice You Hear...

19505.8

Syncopation

19426.8

Rock Island Trail

19506.3

Paris Calling

19416.0

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

19655.9

Getting Straight

19706.3

A Clear and Present Danger

19707.0

I, Jane Doe

19486.4

The Lottery

19966.0

You'll Find Out

19405.6

Second Serve

19865.3

You Belong to Me

19416.0

A Deadly Silence

19896.2

The Balcony

19635.2

New Mexico

19513.6

Jennifer

19786.0

Mickey One

19655.8

The Premonition

19765.1

Bitter Sweet

19406.0

Kidnapped

19486.7

Payoff

19914.3

Cover Me Babe

19704.7

One Third of a Nation

19396.2

The Lady from Cheyenne

19415.7

Tennessee Johnson

19426.4

City Across the River

19496.0

Clay Pigeon

19714.0

The Postman Didn't Ring

19427.0

The Moon Is Down

19436.9

The Wreck of the Hesperus

19487.0

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

19426.5

Canon City

19486.2

Homeward Bound

19805.0

Cry for the Strangers

19827.2

Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man

19998.0

Set This Town on Fire

19737.0

Roughshod

19495.7

Rendezvous with Annie

19467.0

Home of the Brave

19496.7

The Gun and the Pulpit

19746.0

Rooster: Spurs of Death!

19773.0

Aerial Gunner

19435.0

The Judas Project

19935.4

Who Is Hope Schuyler?

19424.5

The Rose and the Jackal

19906.0

Alias a Gentleman

19486.8

Mutiny in the Arctic

19417.5

Captains Courageous

19777.0

Father of Hell Town

1985

The Magic Boy's Easter

19898.0

Cognac

19885.3

From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff

20028.0

Let's Live Again

19485.5

Inside Magoo

1960

A Bell for Adano

1967

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

19846.5

Up River

19795.8

Hoppy's Holiday

19476.0