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The Cloud Minders: Directed by Jud Taylor. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Jeff Corey. Kirk and Spock are caught up in a revolution on a planet where intellectuals and artists live on a utopian city in the sky while the rest of the population toils in mines on the barren surface below.
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- Jud Taylor
- 1969-02-28
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Actor Jeff Corey (10 August 1914 – 16 August 2002; age 88), birth name Arthur Zwerling, played Plasus in the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode "The Cloud Minders". He filmed his scenes on Tuesday 12 November 1968 and Wednesday 13 November 1968, and between Friday 15 November 1968 and Wednesday 20 November 1968, at Desilu Stage 9, Stage 10 and Paramount Stage 5.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Corey made over two hundred film and television appearances in a career that spanned sixty-one years. His early career included appearances in such classic films as The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), The Killers (1946), and Miracle on 34th Street (1947, with Sam Bagley). Later feature film credits include two classic western adventures released in 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and True Grit. The first features Trek guest actors Ted Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, Don Keefer, and Charles Dierkop. The latter film features one-time Original Series guest actors Kim Darby, Alfred Ryder, Ron Soble, and John Fiedler.
In 1948, Corey co-starred with Original Series actors DeForest Kelley and Whit Bissell in the crime thriller Canon City, which also featured Phyllis Douglas. Corey later appeared in the 1951 film Only the Valiant, as did veteran Trek actor Michael Ansara. Corey also played Luke Benson, the xenophobic local shot by the mole men's ray gun, in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men. This movie, which also featured Billy Curtis and which was the first theatrical feature-length film featuring DC Comics' Superman, was later edited into a two-part episode of the TV series Adventures of Superman.
Corey was among the many actors affected by the US government's quest to seek out people they thought were communists. He was blacklisted in 1951 for refusing to name names of possible communists before the so-called House Un-American Activities Committee. Not only did he refuse to name names, but he also critiqued the acting of previous witnesses. After being blacklisted, Corey worked as an acting teacher for twelve years, and was even one of Leonard Nimoy's early acting coaches. Corey also worked as a drama coach for several other young aspiring actors and actresses; one of his other students being Laurel Goodwin. (Star Trek 30 Years)
Corey returned to acting in 1963, appearing in The Balcony (1963, with Nimoy and Peter Brocco). He and Nimoy later appeared together in Catlow (1971). Corey also co-starred with Salome Jens and William Wintersole in Seconds (1966, featuring music by Jerry Goldsmith), and They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970, with Anthony Zerbe and Garry Walberg photographed by Jerry Finnerman, released in 1970.
Other films in which Corey appeared include In Cold Blood (1967, with Mary-Linda Rapelye), Little Big Man (1970, with Alan Oppenheimer and stunts by Hal Needham), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970, with James Gregory and Gregory Sierra, and music by Leonard Rosenman), Oh, God! (1977, with Terri Garr, Paul Sorvino, William Daniels, Clyde Kusatsu, and David Ogden Stiers) and Battle Beyond the Stars (1986, with Morgan Woodward). His later career included a role in Conan the Destroyer (1984, with Olivia d'Abo and featuring music by Basil Poledouris), Second Serve (1986, with Louise Fletcher and Alice Krige, and appearances in the 1994 films Color of Night (featuring Scott Bakula, Erick Avari, and Brad Dourif) and Surviving the Game (with F. Murray Abraham, Bob Minor, and Trek stuntman Steven Lambert).
•Jeff Corey at the Internet Movie Database
•Jeff Corey at Wikipedia
Jeff Corey. Actor: Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Jeff Corey was a film and television character actor, as well as one of the top acting teachers in America. Corey was born Arthur Zwerling on August 10, 1914 in New York City, New York, to Mary (Peskin), a Russian Jewish immigrant, and Nathan Zwerling, an Austrian Jewish immigrant.
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- August 10, 1914
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- August 16, 2002
He was featured on science-fiction series, too, including an episode of The Outer Limits ("O.B.I.T.", 1963) in which he played Byron Lomax; Star Trek ("The Cloud Minders", 1969) in which he played High Advisor Plasus; as Caspay in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), and Babylon 5 ("Z'ha'dum", 1996) in which he played Justin.
Jeff Corey - Plasus; Diana Ewing - Droxine; Charlene Polite - Vanna; Fred Williamson - Anka; Ed Long - Midro; Kirk Raymone - Cloud Guard #1; Jimmy Fields - Cloud Guard #2; Garth Pillsbury - Prisoner; William Blackburn - Lt. Hadley; Harv Selsby - Guard; Marvin Walters - Troglyte #2; Louie Elias - Troglyte #1; Jay Jones - Prisoner #2; Richard ...
- February 28, 1969
- Jud Taylor
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- Fred Steiner
The Cloud Minders (1969) Jeff Corey: Plasus. Showing all 10 items. Jump to: Photos (6) Quotes (4) Photos. Quotes. Plasus : Gentlemen, one of our planet's most incomparable works of art: my daughter Droxine. Captain James Kirk. Captain James T. Kirk : A pleasure, Madam. Droxine : Indeed yes, Captain. Plasus : And First Officer Spock.
Aug 3, 2017 · What might seem a most unlikely personality, Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame, hails not the actor Corey, but the teacher. In a crisp three-page tribute that recalls the younger actor’s preparation for leading part in Jean Genet’s “Deathwatch,” essentially a career breakthrough, the power and scope of Corey is suggested.
