Jeff Corey

🎂 Data nașterii: 1914-08-10 (Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA)

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

Filme în care a jucat

Jeff Corey

Filme în care a jucat

Puștiul din Cincinnati

Butch Cassidy și Puștiul Sundance

Pasărea pe sârmă

A doua existență

The Postman Didn't Ring

Tennessee Johnson

Follow Me Quietly

The Rose and the Jackal

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

The Gangster

Mickey One

Conan distrugătorul

The Boston Strangler

Messenger of Death

Cover Me Babe

Mi se spune domnul Tibbs!

Forța brută

Wake of the Red Witch

Once a Thief

Bătălie dincolo de stele

Superman and the Mole Men

Ucigașii

Getting Straight

Creator

To My Daughter

Lady in a Cage

Rawhide

Butch și Sundance: Primele zile

Canon City

The Last Tycoon

City Across the River

The Next Voice You Hear...

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Third Finger, Left Hand

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My Friend Flicka

Hoppy's Holiday

Der Schatz der Azteken

Hideout

Fourteen Hours

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A Bell for Adano

Payoff

Only the Valiant

Something Evil

Impasse

You Belong to Me

Shoot Out

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

The Lottery

Moonshine County Express

I Am the Law

Tigrul de hârtie

Roughshod

Cry for the Strangers

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

Red Mountain

The Outriders

Singing Guns

Never Trust a Gambler

Inside Magoo

Final Jeopardy

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Bitter Sweet

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All That Money Can Buy

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