Corey Allen

Career Allen was best known for his role as gang leader Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without A Cause. James Dean starred as Jim Stark, a disaffected teenager who has moved to Los Angeles to start a new life, only to find more problems in his new home. After a show at the Griffith Observatory, Buzz challenges Jim to a knife fight, which Stark wins by subduing Buzz with his switchblade. During the filming of the knife fight both Allen and Dean, aficionados of method acting, used real knives and Dean was injured when Allen lunged at him with his knife. Allen would later recall that his classic line was "the underlying question of each generation. Here we are: What do we do?". As the cars are heading to the cliff, Buzz attempts to jump out but is unable to escape when his leather jacket gets caught on the car door handle; he is killed in the crash on the beach below.

In 1967, Corey and his business partner Gary Stromberg met with Charles Manson early in both of their careers, as new director and cult leader respectively. Manson was invited to help them write a film treatment called Black Jesus (later produced by an Italian company in 1968) and Manson's "family" was allowed to live briefly in Corey's small acting studio on Western Avenue in Los Angeles. After Corey's then-girlfriend expressed her concerns about Manson, he broke ties with him.

Personal life Toward the end of his life, a fire burnt his home in the Hollywoods Hills above the Sunset Strip, and all of his belongings were lost. The only thing that the fire department recovered from the flames was his molten Emmy. Death Allen died from complications of Parkinson's disease at his home in Hollywood on June 27, 2010, two days before his 76th birthday.

Filmography As director

The Cosby Mysteries Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode The Maquis: Part 2 episode Paradise episode The Circle episode Captive Pursuit Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Journey's End" episode "The Game" episode "Final Mission" episode "Home Soil" episode "Encounter at Farpoint" The Search (1994) Men Who Hate Women & the Women Who Love Them (1994) Moment of Truth Stalking Back (1993) FBI: The Untold Stories Unsub The New Lassie Supercarrier The Ann Jillian Story (1988) J.J. Starbuck CBS Summer Playhouse episode Infiltrator (1987) Destination America (1987) The Last Fling (1987) I-Man (1986) Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues (1985) Brass (1985) Code Name: Foxfire (1985) Otherworld Murder, She Wrote episode "Deadly Lady" pilot episode "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes" (1984) Jessie Hunter The Paper Chase episode "Billy Pierce" Hill Street Blues episode "Hair Apparent" episode "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" episode "Jungle Madness" Legmen Scarecrow and Mrs. King episode "Always Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth" Whiz Kids episode "Programmed for Murder" episode "Fatal Error" episode "Deadly Access" Gavilan Tucker's Witch Matt Houston The Powers of Matthew Star Capitol Simon & Simon McClain's Law Magnum, P.I. The Return of Frank Cannon (1980) Stone The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1979) The Rockford Files episode "No-Fault Affair" episode "The Man Who Saw the Alligators" episode "The Empty Frame" Trapper John, M.D. episode "The Shattered Image" Stone (1979) Avalanche (1978) Police Woman episode "The Young and the Fair" episode "Do You Still Beat Your Wife?" episode "The Lifeline Agency" episode "Broken Angels" Lou Grant Thunder and Lightning (1977) (1977) Quincy, M.E. (1976) Executive Suite Bronk Kate McShane The Family Holvak Cry Rape (1973) Police Story (1973) Barnaby Jones (1973) The Streets of San Francisco Ironside episode "But When She Was Bad" episode "Too Many Victims" See the Man Run (1971) Cannon (1971) The High Chaparral episode "A Good Sound Profit" Mannix episode "Time Out of Mind" episode "The Sound of Darkness" The New People Then Came Bronson Lancer episode "Child of Rock and Sunlight" Hawaii Five-O Sea Hunt (1961) Season 4, Episode 21: "Quicksand"

As actor Title Year Role NotesThe Mad Magician 1954 Gus the Stagehand UncreditedA Time Out of War 1954 Connor ShortThe Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954 Enlisted Man UncreditedThe Night of the Hunter 1955 Young Man in Town UncreditedRebel Without a Cause 1955 Buzz Gunderson Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1956 Gil Dalliford Season 2 Episode 10: "Jonathan"The Shadow on the Window 1957 Gil Ramsey The Big Caper 1957 Roy The Restless Gun 1958 George Episode "Friend in Need"Darby's Rangers 1958 Private Pittsburgh Tony Sutherland Juvenile Jungle 1958 Hal McQueen Party Girl 1958 Cookie La Motte Private Property 1960 Duke Top Card Lead BillingKey Witness 1960 Magician Sea Hunt 1961 Young Episode: "Quicksand"Sweet Bird of Youth 1962 Scotty The Chapman Report 1962 Wash Dillon Combat! 1964 Private Garrett Episode: A Rare VintageOriginal: Do Not Project 1972 Psychiatrist The Works 2004 Mr. M Quarantined 2009 Mr. Eagle Voice, (final film role)