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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 older brother, Ernest Casey Kelley. As a child, he often played outside for hours at a time. Kelley was immersed in his father’s mission in Conyers and promised his father failure would mean “wreck and ruin”. Before the end of his first year at Conyers, Kelley was introduced into the congregation to his musical talents and often sang solo in morning church services. Eventually, this led to an appearance on the radio station WSB AM in Atlanta, Georgia. As a result of his radio work, he won an engagement with Lew Forbes and his orchestra at the Paramount Theater.
In 1934, the family left Conyers for the community of Decatur. He attended the Decatur Boys High School where he played on the Decatur Bantams baseball team. Kelley also played football and other sports. Before his graduation, Kelley got a job as a drugstore car hop. He spent his weekends working in the local theatres. Kelley graduated in 1938. During World War II, Kelley served as an enlisted man in the United States Army Air Forces between March 10, 1943, and January 28, 1946, assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit. After an extended stay in Long Beach, California, Kelley decided to pursue an acting career and relocate to southern California permanently, living for a time with his uncle Casey. He worked as an usher in a local theater in order to earn enough money for the move. Kelley’s mother encouraged her son in his new career goal, but his father disliked the idea. While in California, Kelley was spotted by a Paramount Pictures scout while doing a United States Navy training film.
DeForest Kelley Biography / Wiki
| Name | DeForest Kelley |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Date of Birth | January 20, 1920 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 79 |
| Deathday | 1999-06-11 |
DeForest Kelley Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Dr. Leonard McCoy | 1984-06-01 | Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock… |
| Fear in the Night | Vince Grayson | 1947-04-10 | The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a… |
| Gunfight at Comanche Creek | Amos Troop | 1963-11-06 | Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-ali… |
| Beyond Our Own | Bob Rogers | 1947-11-16 | This latter-day parable focuses on two brothers. Peter Rogers is an ambitious, hard-driving attorney. Bob Rogers is a thoughtful, contemplative doctor… |
| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Dr. Leonard McCoy | 1982-06-04 | It is the 23rd century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fac… |
| Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | Dr. Leonard McCoy | 1989-06-09 | The crew of the Federation starship Enterprise is called to Nimbus III, the Planet of Intergalactic Peace. They are to negotiate in a case of kidnappi… |
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Dr. Leonard McCoy | 1986-11-26 | It’s the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien power is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In a frantic attempt… |
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Dr. Leonard McCoy | 1979-12-07 | When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, … |
| Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Dr. Leonard McCoy | 1991-12-06 | After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an… |
| William Shatner’s Star Trek Memories | Himself | 1995-01-01 | … |
| Star Trek: A Captain’s Log | Himself | 1994-11-30 | Star Trek: A Captain’s Log was a CBS television documentary which aired on 30 November 1994 across the network. It consisted of film and video clips m… |
| Night of the Lepus | Elgin Clark | 1972-10-04 | Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!… |
| Apache Uprising | Toby Jack Saunders | 1965-12-29 | Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches…. |
| Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special | Self | 1991-09-28 | This documentary is hosted by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and they take us through the history of Trek. We also get to see bloopers from the ori… |
| Trekkies | Himself | 1997-10-18 | A hilarious look at the universe’s most fervent fans…. |
| The Edge of Innocence | Lambert | 1957-10-31 | An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother’s disappearance and murder…. |
| Canon City | Smalley | 1948-06-30 | Prisoners battle each other — and the police — when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary…. |
| The Law and Jake Wade | Wexler | 1958-06-06 | Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it’s clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, an… |
| Where Love Has Gone | Sam Corwin | 1964-11-02 | A divorced couple’s teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother’s latest lover…. |
| Time to Kill | Peter | 1945-12-13 | A group of sailors kid their shipmate Frank about his constant reading, when they would all rather play cards. But each of them has a dream for the fu… |
| Ride the Wind | Tully | 1966-01-01 | The international theatrical release of the 1966 William Witney feature cowboy western movie made from two 1966 episodes of the television series “Bon… |
| Tension at Table Rock | Jim Breck | 1956-10-03 | When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place…. |
| Warlock | Curley Burne | 1959-05-15 | A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire t… |
| The Bull of the West | Ben Tully | 1972-05-04 | Two episodes of the TV series “The Virginian” edited together: “Duel at Shiloh” (2 Jan. 1963) and “Nobility of Kings” (10 Nov. 1965)…. |
| The View from Pompey’s Head | Jim – Hotel Clerk (uncredited) | 1955-11-04 | Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales… |
| House of Bamboo | Charlie (uncredited) | 1955-07-01 | Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen… |
| Black Spurs | Sheriff Dal Nemo | 1965-05-28 | A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad f… |
| Malaya | Lt. Glenson (uncredited) | 1949-12-27 | After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he c… |
| Duke of Chicago | ‘Ace’ Martin | 1949-03-15 | To save his publishing firm, a prizefighter comes out of retirement in a fixed match…. |
| Waco | Bill Rile | 1966-09-01 | Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who died trying to bring law-and-order to Emporia, Wyomi… |
| Raintree County | Southern Officer | 1957-12-20 | In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susa… |
| Town Tamer | Guy Tavenner | 1965-07-07 | A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruc… |
| The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars | Viking 1 (voice) | 1998-05-19 | Based on the book by Thomas M. Disch and intended as the third film in the series, this sequel was finished and released prior to ‘The Brave Little To… |
| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Morgan Earp | 1957-05-30 | Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corr… |
| Illegal | Edward Clary (as DeForest Kelly) | 1955-10-09 | A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair — only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney… |
| The Men | Dr. Sherman (uncredited) | 1950-08-25 | Ken, an ex-WWII GI, returns home after he’s paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran’s hospital and embittered by his conditi… |
| 40 Years of Star Trek | Himself (archive) | 2006-01-01 | The Space Channel celebrates the 40th anniversary of the original STAR TREK. Produced by Mark Askwith, hosted by Jonathan Llyr and featuring interview… |
| Duffy of San Quentin | Eddie Lee | 1954-03-16 | San Quentin’s new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse…. |
| Variety Girl | Bob Kirby | 1947-08-29 | Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful … |
| Taxi | Fred (uncredited) | 1953-01-21 | A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband…. |
| Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault | (archive footage) | 2016-12-05 | Fifty years after the original Star Trek first arrived on television, is there anything about Gene Roddenberry’s space opera that hasn’t been uncovere… |
| The Pixar Story | Leonard McCoy (archive footage) | 2007-08-28 | A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios – from the success of “Toy Story” and Pixar’s promotion of talented people, to the building of it… |
Credit: TMDB
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