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

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

19706.1

Color of Night

19945.8

Bird on a Wire

19906.2

The Wild Geese

19786.8

Beethoven's 2nd

19935.6

Battle Beyond the Stars

19805.4

Little Big Man

19707.4

In Cold Blood

19677.5

Joan of Arc

19486.2

The Killers

19467.4

The Cincinnati Kid

19657.0

The Sword and the Sorcerer

19825.5

Seconds

19667.4

Brute Force

19477.3

Shoot Out

19716.3

The Pirate

19784.5

Sirocco

19516.0

Surviving the Game

19946.1

The Boston Strangler

19686.6

The Last Tycoon

19766.3

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

19436.2

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

19826.7

Oh, God!

19776.4

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

19705.9

Ruby Cairo

19925.0

Creator

19856.1

Fourteen Hours

19517.3

The Movie Murderer

19706.9

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

19795.0

Impasse

19694.8

Hideout

19495.9

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

19767.0

Bright Leaf

19505.9

The Prince Who Was a Thief

19515.7

Red Mountain

19516.7

California

19476.8

Rawhide

19516.8

Once a Thief

19656.5

Only the Valiant

19516.5

Girl Trouble

19428.3

Superman and the Mole Men

19515.4

Messenger of Death

19886.0

Roxie Hart

19427.0

Wake of the Red Witch

19485.8

Somewhere in the Night

19466.7

I Am the Law

19387.1

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

19478.8

Final Jeopardy

19856.3

My Friend Flicka

19435.9

All That Money Can Buy

19417.0

Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock

20047.0

The Yellow Canary

196310.0

Follow Me Quietly

19496.2

The Outriders

19507.3

The Big Parade of Comedy

19647.2

Pyramid of the Sun God

19655.6

Never Trust a Gambler

19515.6

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

19967.7

Paris Calling

19416.0

Catlow

19715.1

Curse of the Black Widow

19775.2

Paper Tiger

19756.3

Something Evil

19725.4

Lady in a Cage

19646.1

A Clear and Present Danger

19707.0

Moonshine County Express

19774.9

Third Finger, Left Hand

19407.0

The Gangster

19475.2

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

19655.9

To My Daughter

19908.0

The Lottery

19966.0

Getting Straight

19706.3

You Belong to Me

19416.0

The Next Voice You Hear...

19505.8

Second Serve

19865.3

Singing Guns

19506.4

A Deadly Silence

19896.2

Mickey One

19655.8

The Nevadan

19505.9

I, Jane Doe

19486.4

Jennifer

19786.0

New Mexico

19513.6

Cover Me Babe

19704.7

Cry for the Strangers

19827.2

Homeward Bound

19805.0

Payoff

19914.3

Bitter Sweet

19406.0

City Across the River

19496.0

The Balcony

19635.2

Bagdad

19496.1

Tennessee Johnson

19426.4

Rock Island Trail

19506.3

The Premonition

19765.1

Kidnapped

19486.7

Rooster: Spurs of Death!

19773.0

Syncopation

19426.8

One Third of a Nation

19396.2

You'll Find Out

19405.6

Clay Pigeon

19714.0

Home of the Brave

19496.7

The Moon Is Down

19436.9

The Wreck of the Hesperus

19487.0

The Gun and the Pulpit

19746.0

Roughshod

19495.7

Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man

19998.0

The Rose and the Jackal

19906.0

Set This Town on Fire

19737.0

Rendezvous with Annie

19467.0

Captains Courageous

19777.0

The Postman Didn't Ring

19427.0

Aerial Gunner

19435.0

Mutiny in the Arctic

19417.5

The Lady from Cheyenne

19415.7

Alias a Gentleman

19486.8

Canon City

19486.2

Let's Live Again

19485.5

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

19426.5

Who Is Hope Schuyler?

19424.5

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

19846.5

Inside Magoo

1960

Cognac

19885.3

Up River

19795.8

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

20028.0

Father of Hell Town

1985

A Bell for Adano

1967

Hoppy's Holiday

19476.0

The Judas Project

19935.4

The Magic Boy's Easter

19898.0