Corey Allen
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Corey Allen (June 29, 1934 – June 27, 2010) was an American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor.
He started his career as an actor but later became a television producer.
He may be best known for his appearance in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955).
Life and career
Allen Cohen was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 29, 1934. He was the son of Carl and Fran Cohen; his father was an unlawful bookie and gambler for the Mayfield Road Mob in Cleveland; later, he became a key gaming executive at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Alan obtained his first degree in acting and was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1954.
Allen was best known for his appearance in Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without A Cause, as gang leader Buzz Gunderson. James Dean played Jim Stark, a homeless teenager who has moved to Los Angeles to begin a new life, only to find more difficulties in his new home. Buzz confronts Jim Carr in a knife contest that Stark defeats Buzz with his switchblade after a show at the Griffith Observatory. Both Allen and Dean, aficionados of method acting, were wounded while Allen lunged at him with his sword. Jim is up for a challenge to a chickie run, in which two robbed cars will be raced against a cliff and the overall champion will be the first one to jump out. Buzz and Jim stand at the edge of the cliff, considering the consequences if they remained in their cars until the end. Jim has asked why they are going forward in this competition. "You have to do something, don't you," Buzz says. Allen would later recall that his classic line was "the underlying issue of each generation." We are here: what do we do? Buzz tries to get out as the cars approach the cliff but is unable to move after his leather jacket is stuck on the car door handle; he is killed in the crash below.
In comparison to guest appearances on Bonanza, Dr. Kildare, Firesmoke, Will Travel, and Perry Mason, he appeared in minor film roles before Rebel, and afterward was seen in The Chapman Report, Darby's Rangers, Juvenile Jungle, Party Girl, Sweet Bird of Youth. Allen appeared in "The Case of the Red Riding Boots" in 1960, and in 1962 he portrayed murder suspect Lester Menke in "The Case of the Borrowed Child."
He was heavily involved in theatrical performances in the Los Angeles area, including the establishment of Freeway Circuit Inc. in 1959 and the Actors Theater in 1965. At The Actors Workshop, he was also involved in teaching theater.
Allen began directing in the 1960s, where he appeared on such television shows as Dallas, Hawaii Five-O, Hill Street Blues, Ironside, Mannix, Murder, She Wrote, The Rockford Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation and San Francisco's Streets. In 1984, he received an Emmy Award for directing an episode of Hill Street Blues.
Corey and his business partner Gary Stromberg first met with Charles Manson early in both of their careers as both a new director and cult leader respectively in 1967. Manson was invited to assist with the writing of Black Jesus, (later produced by an Italian firm in 1968) and Manson's "family" was allowed to live in Corey's tiny acting studio on Western Ave.
On June 27, 2010, only days before his 76th birthday, he died from Parkinson's disease complications at his house in Hollywood. In the Sunset Slope section of Hillside Memorial Park in Los Angeles, he is buried 7-51-2.