Jeff Corey
Audiences rate Jeff Corey’s films higher than 90% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
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The ThumbScore for Jeff Corey (78.8%) is the average audience approval rating across 15 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Jeff's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
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.
Born 1914-08-10 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Died 2002-08-16.
Biography from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA).
On ThumbScore, Jeff Corey appears in 15 films with an average audience score of 78.8%, most frequently in the Adventure genre.
Sources: TMDB
