DeForest Kelley
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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…
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Perry Mason
1957 · TV
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987 · TV
Star Trek
1966 · TV
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993 · TV
Ironside
1967 · TV
Bonanza
1959 · TV
The Donna Reed Show
1958 · TV
The Fugitive
1963 · TV
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · TV
The Virginian
1962 · TV
Matinee Theater
1955 · TV
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · TV