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Corey Allen

Corey Allen

Director · 1934 – 2010 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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.

Series24

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV6.5

    Dragnet

    1951 · 36 votes

  • TV7.9

    Combat!

    1962 · 119 votes

  • TV6.4

    Police Woman

    1974 · 33 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 266 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV6.0

    Lawman

    1958 · 13 votes

  • TV5.6

    Hawaiian Eye

    1959 · 10 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV6.7

    Sea Hunt

    1958 · 20 votes

  • TV6.0

    Bronco

    1958 · 8 votes

  • TV5.1

    The Rebel

    1959 · 11 votes

  • TV6.9

    Trackdown

    1957 · 8 votes

  • TV6.5

    Telephone Time

    1956 · 4 votes

  • TV5.7

    State Trooper

    1956 · 7 votes

  • TV6.4

    Lock-Up

    1959 · 7 votes

  • TV7.8

    87th Precinct

    1961 · 5 votes

  • TV7.5

    West Point

    1956 · 2 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Loner

    1965 · 4 votes

  • TV6.6

    Letter to Loretta

    1953 · 7 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Dakotas

    1963 · 4 votes

Movies19

  • Movie7.5

    Rebel Without a Cause

    1955 · 1.8K votes

  • Movie6.8

    Party Girl

    1958 · 70 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Bridges at Toko-Ri

    1954 · 93 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Sweet Bird of Youth

    1962 · 140 votes

  • Movie7.5
  • Movie6.9

    The Mad Magician

    1954 · 50 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.1

    The Chapman Report

    1962 · 19 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Big Caper

    1957 · 24 votes

  • Movie10.0

    The Works

    2005 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Darby's Rangers

    1958 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Key Witness

    1960 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Shadow on the Window

    1957 · 23 votes

  • Movie7.0

    James Dean: A Portrait

    1995 · 1 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.3

    Private Property

    1960 · 48 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Juvenile Jungle

    1958 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.5

    A Time Out of War

    1954 · 16 votes

  • Movie7.7

    Forever James Dean

    1988 · 3 votes