page_title: Wendell Corey
section_title: Television
hierarchical_section_title: Wendell Corey / Biography / Television
caption_attribution_description: Cast photo from the short-lived television program Peck's Bad Girl. From left: Wendell Corey, Patty McCormack, Ray Farrell, Marsha Hunt.
context_page_description: Wendell Reid Corey was an American actor and politician. He was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was a board member of the Screen Actors Guild.
context_section_description: Corey portrayed Lou Gehrig in the Lou Gehrig Story (1955) for the television series Climax! He was a series lead in Harbor Command (1957–1958). For Disney he was in the film The Light in the Forest (1958). Then he played Jesse James in the Bob Hope comedy Alias Jesse James (1959) and had a short Broadway run in Jolly's Progress (1959) with Eartha Kitt.
  Corey co-starred on The Nanette Fabray Show (1961), where he played a widower who married Fabray's character. He played the lead role of Dr. Theodore Bassett in the first season of the medical drama The Eleventh Hour (1962–1963).
  Corey made guest appearances on a number of programs, including Target: The Corruptors!, Channing, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Untouchables, Burke's Law and The Wild Wild West.  He made a guest appearance during the final season of Perry Mason in 1966 as murder victim Jerome Klee in "The Case of the Unwelcome Well."
caption: Corey and cast of the 1959 summer replacement TV series Peck's Bad Girl
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