Corey Allenedit
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
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Corey Allen (born 29 June 1934; age 75) is a director who worked on several television episodes of Star Trek.
Allen was born as Alan Cohen in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts in Theatre at UCLA in 1954, and worked mainly as an actor afterwards. He was often cast in the role of brash, arrogant young tought guys, most notably as Buzz Gunderson in Rebel Without a Cause (with Ian Wolfe, Chuck Hicks, cinematography by Ernest Haller and music by Leonard Rosenman).
Meanwhile, Allen directed a number of theatre plays, including many Equity productions in Los Angeles. This lead to his long directing career, mostly in television. During his 30 years as a director, he helmed episodes of dozens of television series, including The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones (starring Lee Meriwether), T.J. Hooker (starring William Shatner, James Darren and Richard Herd), Dallas (featuring Susan Howard and Joshua Harris), Murder, She Wrote (featuring William Windom) and Magnum P.I..
His association with Star Trek began with directing the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint". In the next seven years, Allen continued to work on The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
