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name: "Corey Allen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/corey-allen"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 June 1934"
died: "27 June 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T12:47:46.561150+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Corey Allen

Actor. Born 29 June 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Died 27 June 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 June 1934, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- **Died:** 27 June 2010
- **Also known as:** Alan Cohen

## Biography

Corey Allen (born Alan Cohen) was an American actor and television director. He began his career as an actor and is best known for playing Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's *Rebel Without a Cause* (1955).

After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UCLA in 1954, Allen appeared in films including *Party Girl* (1958) and *The Chapman Report* (1962), and in television series such as *Perry Mason* and *Alfred Hitchcock Presents*. He later turned to directing, helming episodes of series including *Dallas* (1978), *Hill Street Blues* (1981), *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987) and *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (1993). He received a Directors Guild of America nomination and an Emmy Award for his work on *Hill Street Blues*.

Allen died on 27 June 2010 in Los Angeles.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, theguardian.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Rebel Without a Cause* (1955), Fi1m 84, as Buzz Gunderson — [page](https://film.one/film/rebel-without-a-cause.md)

## Also known for

- *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), Director
- *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (1993), Director
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), Director
- *Magnum, P.I.* (1980), Director
- *Dallas* (1978), Director
- *Hawaii Five-O* (1969), Director
- *The Rockford Files* (1974), Director
- *Hill Street Blues* (1981), Director

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