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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.
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A patrician familys estranged blacksheep son...
A young woman decides to have...The Last Fling 1987
A young woman decides to have one more romantic escapade before marrying her dull fiancé.
When a man is exposed to...I-Man 1986
When a man is exposed to an alien gas, he acquires the ability to heal instantly and survive any injury or toxin.
A little girl gets lost in...
After an avalanche of snow crashes...Avalanche 1978
After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers.
A young man who hauls liquor...
A man who is arrested for...
Kidnappers making a ransom demand dial...See the Man Run 1973
Kidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number and reach a struggling actor instead. He decides to cut himself in for some of the money.
A bawdy burlesque version of the...Pinocchio 1971
A bawdy burlesque version of the famous fairy tale, Geppeta is a frustrated and nubile young virgin. She carves Pinocchio as a gorgeous young hunk. Geppeta's fairy godmother magically transforms the young stud into a living man, who is quickly brought to work in the local whorehouse as a prize stud and exhibitionist.
A research psychologist gets involved in...The Chapman Report 1962
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns...Sweet Bird of Youth 1962
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
A hoodlum plots to seduce a...Private Property 1960
A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend.
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made...Party Girl 1958
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
Stationed in Scotland Maj William Darby...Darby's Rangers 1958
Stationed in Scotland, Maj. William Darby and the men under his command are trained by British commandos, becoming the U.S. Army's 1st Ranger Battalion. Their drilling period is rigorous, but the men find time to romance local women before being deployed to fight the Nazis. U.S. forces battle from French North Africa to Italy, but when a surprise attack decimates the 1st and 3rd Battalions at the Battle of Cisterna, Darby and the 4th Battalion must come to their aid.
A con artist moves into a...The Big Caper 1957
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer...The Shadow on the Window 1957
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?
After moving to a new town...Rebel Without a Cause 1955
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
A naval aviator is assigned to...The Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954
A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
Don Gallico is an inventor of...The Mad Magician 1954
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.
