DeForest Kelley
Acting
Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999) was an American actor, screenwriter, poet and singer known for his iconic roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.
Kelley was delivered by his uncle at his parents' home in Atlanta, the son of Clora (née Casey) and Ernest David Kelley, who was a Baptist minister of Irish and Southern ancestry. DeForest was named after the pioneering electronics engineer Lee De Forest, and later named his Star Trek character's father "David" after his own. Kelley had an…
Filmography
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Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
2022
Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault
2016
The Pixar Story
2007
40 Years of Star Trek
2006
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
1998
Trekkies
1997
The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations
The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations
1996
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
1996
William Shatner's Star Trek Memories
1996
Virtuosity
1995
William Shatner: Captain's Log
William Shatner: Captain's Log
1994
Star Trek: A Captain's Log
1994
A Conversation with DeForest Kelley
A Conversation with DeForest Kelley
1993
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
1991
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
1989
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
1986
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
1984
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1982
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1979
The Star Trek Dream
1975
Star Trek
1973
Night of the Lepus
1972
The Bull of the West
1972
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
Room 222
1969
Ironside
1967
Star Trek
1966
Waco
1966
Bonanza: Ride the Wind
1966
Apache Uprising
1965
Marriage on the Rocks
1965
Laredo
1965
A Man Called Shenandoah
1965
Town Tamer
1965
Black Spurs
1965
Where Love Has Gone
1964
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
1963
The Fugitive
1963
The Dakotas
1963
The Gallant Men
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Virginian
1962
Cain's Hundred
1961
Route 66
1960
Stagecoach West
1960
Assignment: Underwater
Assignment: Underwater
1960
Coronado 9
1960
Johnny Midnight
1960
The Man from Blackhawk
The Man from Blackhawk
1959
Laramie
1959
Riverboat
1959
Bonanza
1959
The Deputy
1959
Warlock
1959
Black Saddle
1959
Rawhide
1959
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Bat Masterson
1958
Lawman
1958
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
The Law and Jake Wade
1958
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1958
Raintree County
1957
The Edge of Innocence
1957
26 Men
1957
Trackdown
1957
Alcoa Theatre
1957
Perry Mason
1957
M Squad
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
The Silent Service
1957
Tales of Wells Fargo
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956