Actor
DeForest Kelley
January 20, 1920 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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".
Notable work
7.4Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
6.5Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
8.4Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
as Admiral Leonard McCoy
7.2Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
6.6Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
8Star Trek (1966)
as Dr. McCoy
7Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
5.7Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
7.9Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
as Dr. McCoy
5.5Virtuosity (1995)
as Dr. Leonard McCoy (archive footage) (uncredited)
7.5Bonanza (1959)
as Captain Moss Johnson and as Tully and as Dr. Michael Jons
7Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
as Morgan Earp
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