
Jeff Corey
Born August 10, 1914 · 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
Notable Appearances
Movies

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Conan the Destroyer

Bird on a Wire

Color of Night

True Grit

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Miracle on 34th Street

The Wild Geese

Beethoven's 2nd

Battle Beyond the Stars

The Sword and the Sorcerer

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Little Big Man

Seconds

Brute Force

In Cold Blood

Joan of Arc

The Cincinnati Kid

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Wake of the Red Witch

The Last Tycoon

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

The Killers

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

The Boston Strangler

Fourteen Hours

The Prince Who Was a Thief

Surviving the Game

Creator

Somewhere in the Night

Superman and the Mole Men

Red Mountain

Only the Valiant

Lady in a Cage

All That Money Can Buy

Curse of the Black Widow

Something Evil

Oh, God!

Sirocco

Messenger of Death

The Big Parade of Comedy

Shoot Out

The Moon Is Down

Third Finger, Left Hand

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

Roxie Hart

Bright Leaf

Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock

Once a Thief

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

A Clear and Present Danger

A Bell for Adano

The Gun and the Pulpit

Ruby Cairo

You Belong to Me

Final Jeopardy

Rawhide

I Am the Law

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
TV Shows

Mannix

Knots Landing

Babylon 5

Star Trek

Night Court

The A-Team

Little House on the Prairie

The Six Million Dollar Man

Barney Miller

The Untouchables

Simon & Simon

Starsky & Hutch

The Wild Wild West

Newhart

Spider-Man

Rawhide

Lou Grant

Jake and the Fatman

The District

Gunsmoke

The Outer Limits

One Day at a Time

Run for Your Life

Kojak

The Bob Newhart Show

Switch

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

The Streets of San Francisco

McCloud

Night Gallery

Police Story

Faerie Tale Theatre

Judd, for the Defense

War of the Worlds

Alias Smith and Jones

The Bionic Woman

Adventures of Superman

Archie Bunker's Place

Brimstone

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

What's Happening!!

Garrison's Gorillas

The Wonderful World of Disney

Perversions of Science

Roseanne

The Home Court

Hawkins

Manimal

Doctors' Hospital

Paper Moon

Hell Town

Lightning Force

Run, Joe, Run

Search

The Pirate

Breaking Away

The Headmaster

Beauty and the Beast

True Confessions
More Movies

Pyramid of the Sun God

You'll Find Out

Bitter Sweet

Catlow

Impasse

Never Trust a Gambler

Home of the Brave

The Nevadan

The Next Voice You Hear...

Girl Trouble

The Outriders

The Postman Didn't Ring

The Lottery

City Across the River

The Magic Boy's Easter

California

The Rose and the Jackal

The Gangster

Let's Live Again

Getting Straight

Father of Hell Town

Moonshine County Express

The Yellow Canary

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

Hideout

Cry for the Strangers

Cover Me Babe

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

Mutiny in the Arctic

Singing Guns

I, Jane Doe

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

Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man

The Movie Murderer

Bagdad

My Friend Flicka

Paris Calling

The Wreck of the Hesperus

Set This Town on Fire

Second Serve

The Lady from Cheyenne

Homeward Bound

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

To My Daughter

Follow Me Quietly

Clay Pigeon

One Third of a Nation

Syncopation

Rooster: Spurs of Death!

Paper Tiger

Who Is Hope Schuyler?

The Premonition

Tennessee Johnson

Jennifer

A Deadly Silence

Rock Island Trail

Roughshod

Mickey One

Payoff

New Mexico

Canon City

The Balcony

Kidnapped

Captains Courageous

Alias a Gentleman

Aerial Gunner

Rendezvous with Annie

Up River

Hoppy's Holiday

Cognac

The Judas Project




