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Wendell Corey. Actor: Rear Window. Wendell Corey was a hard-working American character actor who appeared in numerous movies and television productions in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Born on March 20, 1914 in Dracut, Massachusetts, in the northeastern part of the Commonwealth near the New Hampshire border, Corey was the son of a Congregationalist clergyman. After receiving his education, Corey ...
OBITUARY. WENDELL COREY. Film star and actor Wendell Corey, the American stage film and television actor, has died in Hollywood at the age of 54. He was an actor who only entered the theatre by chance, and who did not make his film debut until well into middle age. Corey was born at Dracut, Massachusetts, on March 20, 1914.
Wendell Corey as dissolute card-dealer Robbie admits Clark Gable as Charlie, his employer, brother-in-law and casino owner, who arrives unexpectedly at home enthusing about fishing, for Audrey Totter as sister-in-law Alice, and Alexis Smith as Lon, lady of the house, in MGM’s Any Number Can Play, 1949.
Wendell Corey (1914–1968) was just such an actor, a frumpy figure who could linger lukewarm, exit with grace, and, when needed, raise an unexpected chill. His first film, 1947's Desert Fury , finds him instigating violence from the folds of a fitted suit; later, in The Furies, only he could withstand the wiles of furious femme Barbara Stanwyck.
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Wendell Corey est une star de la série télévisée Eleventh Hour; il atteint la notoriété grâce à son rôle dans le film The Accused (1948) et continuera de se produire comme acteur de premier plan durant les années 1950 et 60. Parmi ses films les plus connus figurent Fenêtre sur cour (1954), Le Supplice des aveux (1956) et Le Faiseur ...
On TV Corey starred in the weekly series Harbor Command (1957) and The Eleventh Hour (1961-63). Intensely interested in politics, Corey was once the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the director of the Screen Actors, and served on the Santa Monica City Council; he ran for but did not win California's Republican congressional seat.
