---
name: "Corey Blechman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/corey-blechman"
fi1m_id: "corey-blechman"
imdb_id: "nm0088097"
tmdb_id: 18256
wikidata_id: "Q63087522"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "18 February 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T23:21:05.603990+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 Blechman

## Identity

Corey Blechman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/corey-blechman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** corey-blechman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0088097
- **TMDB ID:** 18256
- **Wikidata ID:** Q63087522
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63087522, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088097/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18256

Writer. Born 18 February 1949 in Tacoma, Washington, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 18 February 1949, Tacoma, Washington, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63087522, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088097/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18256

## Biography

Corey Blechman is an American writer and director. Born on 18 February 1949 in Tacoma, Washington, he began writing for television in the early 1980s.

His credits include the teleplay for the television film *Bill* (1981), for which he shared a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special; the screenplay for *Dominick and Eugene* (1988); and the screenplay for *Free Willy* (1993), co-written with Keith Walker. He also received screenplay credit on *Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home* (1995) and directed several television films, including *The Three Wishes of Billy Grier* (1984).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Free Willy* (1993), Fi1m 68, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/free-willy.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Prince for a Day* (1995), Writer, Director
- *Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home* (1995), Screenplay
- *Free Willy* (1993), Screenplay — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/free-willy.md)
- *Max and Helen* (1990), Teleplay
- *Dominick and Eugene* (1988), Writer
- *The Three Wishes of Billy Grier* (1984), Director, Writer
- *Special People* (1984), Writer
- *Dark Mirror* (1984), Writer
- *The White Lions* (1981), Writer
- *Bill* (1981), Teleplay

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