Irwin Corey in Car Wash | 1976
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Irwin Corey in Car Wash | 1976
Starring: Franklyn Ajaye, Sully Boyar and Richard Brestoff
Directed by: Michael Schultz
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"Professor" Irwin Corey (born July 29, 1914, Brooklyn, New York) is an American comic, film actor and left-wing political activist, who is often billed as "The World's Foremost Authority". He introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at Enrico Banducci's San Francisco club the hungry i. Lenny Bruce once described Corey as "one of the most brilliant comedians of all time". Irwin Corey was born in 1914 in Brooklyn, New York. Poverty stricken, his parents were forced to place him and his five siblings in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, where Corey remained until the age of 13, when he rode the rails out to California. During the Great Depression, he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps, and while working his way back East, became a featherweight Golden Gloves boxing champion. Corey has always supported left-wing politics. "When I tried to join the Communist Party, they called me an anarchist." He has appeared in support of Cuban children, Mumia Abu...
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