A character actor, Corey made 70
films between 1938 and 1951. He was uncredited in 32 of them. The studios, not the government, blacklisted actor Jeff Corey Born Arthur Zwerling) after his obnoxious and
confrontational appearance before the HUAC on September 21, 1951. An active
communist named Marc Lawrence named Corey as a communist. To the press, Corey
insisted that attended meetings but was never a member of the party, but he
refused to answer the same question before Committee. He refused to remove his
sunglasses before the Committee and refused to answer a series of questions put
to him. When he was asked a question he didn’t like, he tried to involve the UN
charter Bill of Rights, but the Committee refused to let him involve the right.
“The UN” the chairman said “has nothing to do with this”