DeForest Kelley

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-01-20 (79 years old)

Deathday

1999-06-11

Place of Birth

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

DeForest Kelley

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jackson DeForest Kelley 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 older brother, Ernest Casey Kelley. As a child, he...

Acting

1982

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy

1979

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy

1984

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy

1989

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy

1991

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy

1955

House of Bamboo

as Charlie (uncredited)

1957

1947

Fear in the Night

as Vince Grayson

1959

Warlock

as Curley Burne

1948

Canon City

as Smalley

1949

Malaya

as Lt. Glenson (uncredited)

1997

Trekkies

as Self

1972

Night of the Lepus

as Elgin Clark

1957

Raintree County

as Southern Officer

1955

Illegal

as Edward Clary (as DeForest Kelly)

1964

Where Love Has Gone

as Sam Corwin

1956

1972

1947

Variety Girl

as Bob Kirby

1949

Duke of Chicago

as 'Ace' Martin

2007

The Pixar Story

as Leonard McCoy (archive footage)

1965

Town Tamer

as Guy Tavenner

1955

The View from Pompey's Head

as Jim - Hotel Clerk

1953

Taxi

as Fred (uncredited)

1965

Black Spurs

as Sheriff Dal Nemo

1965

Apache Uprising

as Toby Jack Saunders

1950

1966

Waco

as Bill Rile

1957

1954

1945

Time to Kill

as Peter

1947

Beyond Our Own

as Bob Rogers

1950

The Men

as Dr. Sherman (uncredited)

1965

1956

1966

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