1. Jeff Corey was blacklisted in the 1950s and became an acting coach for a period, before returning to film and television work in the 1960s.
21 Facts About Jeff Corey
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Jeff Corey worked with Jules Dassin, Elia Kazan, John Randolph, and other politically liberal theatrical personalities.
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Jeff Corey's memoir, Improvising Out Loud: My Life Teaching Hollywood How To Act, which he wrote with his daughter, Emily Corey, is published by the University Press of Kentucky.
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When Jeff Corey began making films in 1937, his agent suggested that he change his name from Arthur Zwerling, and he did so.
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Jeff Corey then began freelancing for various studios, playing nondescript "everyman" parts.
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Jeff Corey resumed movie work in 1946, back at Fox, but he accepted freelance jobs at other studios.
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Jeff Corey portrayed Detective Lieutenant Ybarra on the crime drama The Adventures of Philip Marlowe on NBC and CBS.
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Jeff Corey's career was again interrupted in the early 1950s, when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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Jeff Corey 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.
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Jeff Corey soon became one of the most influential teachers in Hollywood.
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In 1962, Jeff Corey began working in films again, and remained active into the 1990s.
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Jeff Corey played a police detective in the psychological thriller The Premonition and he reprised the role of Sheriff Bledsoe in the prequel Butch and Sundance: The Early Days.
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Jeff Corey played Wild Bill Hickok in Little Big Man.
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Jeff Corey directed some of the screen tests for Superman, which can be seen in the DVD extras, and played Lex Luthor in several tryouts.
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Jeff Corey appeared as murder victim Carl Bascom in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Reckless Rockhound".
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Jeff Corey played Dr Miles Talmadge on Rod Serling's Night Gallery season-one episode one, "The Dead Man", on December 16,1970.
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Jeff Corey discussed his television work on Night Gallery in an interview in February 1973 aboard the SS Universe Campus of Chapman College.
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Jeff Corey was proudest of this work, for which he received an Emmy nomination.
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Jeff Corey appeared in the short-lived 1974 series Paper Moon, a comedy about a father and his presumed daughter roaming through the American Midwest during the Great Depression based on the 1973 film of the same name.
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Jeff Corey worked with writer-producer Reinhold Weege: two guest roles in Barney Miller and two more in Night Court.
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Jeff Corey was the voice of the villain Silvermane in Spider-Man: The Animated Series in 1994.