DeForest Kelley
Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for DeForest Kelley. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@meninmovies.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

Movie Credits
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998)
[ Wayne Knight ][ Brian Doyle-Murray ][ Eric Lloyd ][ Stephen Tobolowsky ][ Jim Cummings ]
Star Trek: Judgment Rites (1994)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ William Shatner ][ George Takei ][ James Doohan ][ Walter Koenig ]
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Enhanced (1992)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ William Shatner ][ George Takei ][ James Doohan ][ Walter Koenig ]
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ Christian Slater ][ William Shatner ][ Christopher Plummer ][ Kurtwood Smith ]
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ William Shatner ][ David R. Ellis ][ George Takei ][ James Doohan ]
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
[ Joe Lando ][ Leonard Nimoy ][ William Shatner ][ George Takei ][ James Doohan ]
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ Christopher Lloyd ][ William Shatner ][ Frank Welker ][ Miguel Ferrer ]
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ William Shatner ][ Ricardo Montalban ][ George Takei ][ James Doohan ]
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ William Shatner ][ Stephen Collins ][ George Takei ][ James Doohan ]
Night of the Lepus (1972)
The Bull of the West (1971)
[ Brian Keith ][ George Kennedy ][ Doug McClure ][ Charles Bronson ][ Ben Johnson ]
All Our Yesterdays (1969)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ William Shatner ][ James Doohan ]
The Savage Curtain (1969)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ William Shatner ][ George Takei ][ James Doohan ][ Walter Koenig ]
The Cloud Minders (1969)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ William Shatner ][ James Doohan ]
The Way to Eden (1969)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ William Shatner ][ George Takei ][ James Doohan ][ Walter Koenig ]
Police Story (1967)
Waco (1966)
[ Howard Keel ]
Ride the Wind: Part 1 (1966)
Apache Uprising (1966)
[ Lon Chaney Jr. ]
Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
[ Dean Martin ][ Cesar Romero ]
Town Tamer (1965)
[ Lon Chaney Jr. ][ Dana Andrews ]
Black Spurs (1965)
[ Lon Chaney Jr. ][ James Best ]
Where Love Has Gone (1964)
[ Mike Connors ]
Coffin for a Coward (1963)
Duel at Shiloh (1963)
[ Ben Johnson ]
Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963)
The Breaking Point (1962)
The Decision (1962)
Gun Duel (1962)
Image of a Man (1961)
The Honor of Cochise (1961)
The Clover Throne (1961)
[ Jack Warden ]
The Thimblerigger (1960)
Loser's Circle (1960)
Warlock (1959)
[ Anthony Quinn ][ Henry Fonda ][ Richard Widmark ]
The Adjuster (1959)
The Limping Man (1959)
Secret Ballot (1959)
Blind Alley (1959)
Hard Lines (1959)
The Law and Jake Wade (1958)
[ Robert Taylor ][ Richard Widmark ]
Johnny Risk (1958)
The Accuser (1958)
Shadow of a Dead Man (1958)
The Jailbreak (1958)
Stage to Tuscon (1958)
[ Eddie Albert ][ Edward Albert ]
Diamond Hard (1957)
Pete Loves Mary (1957)
The Edge of Innocence (1957)
Raintree County (1957)
[ Lee Marvin ][ Gardner McKay ][ Rod Taylor ][ Montgomery Clift ]
Village of Fear (1957)
[ David Niven ]
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
[ Dennis Hopper ][ Burt Lancaster ][ Kirk Douglas ][ Lee Van Cleef ][ Jack Elam ]
End of an Outlaw (1957)
Stage to Tucson (1956)
[ Edward Albert ][ Eddie Albert ]
Tension at Table Rock (1956)
[ Richard Egan ][ Dabbs Greer ]
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
[ Johnny Crawford ][ Gregory Peck ][ Lee J. Cobb ][ Keenan Wynn ]
The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
[ Richard Egan ]
Illegal (1955)
House of Bamboo (1955)
[ Robert Stack ][ Robert Ryan ][ Harry Carey Jr. ]
The Long Day (1955)
Y.O.R.D. (1955)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1955)
Spindletop - The First Great Texas Oil Strike (January 10, 1901) (1955)
Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin (May 27, 1793) (1955)
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (October 26, 1881) (1955)
Storm Signal (1954)
Duffy of San Quentin (1954)
The Man Who Sold His Shadow (1953)
Taxi (1953)
[ John Cassavetes ]
The Capture of John Wilkes Booth (April 26, 1865) (1953)
Gold Train (1950)
The Men (1950)
[ Marlon Brando ]
The Legion of Old Timers (1949)
Malaya (1949)
[ James Stewart ][ Spencer Tracy ][ Lionel Barrymore ]
Duke of Chicago (1949)
Life of St. Paul Series (1949)
Canon City (1948)
Gypsy Holiday (1948)
Variety Girl (1947)
Fear in the Night (1947)
Beyond Our Own (1947)

 

The son of a Baptist minister, actor DeForest Kelley was one of the lucky few chosen to be groomed for stardom by Paramount Pictures' "young talent" program in 1946. He served an apprenticeship in 2-reel musicals like Gypsy Holiday before starring as a tormented musician in Fear in the Night (47). Unfortunately, a sweeping cancellation of Paramount young talent contracts ended Kelley's stardom virtually before it began. By the mid-1950s, he was scrounging up work on episodic TV and playing bits in such films as The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (56) (this film, by the way, is the first in which Kelley uttered his now-famous line, "He's dead, captain"). Producer/writer Gene Roddenberry took a liking to Kelley and cast the actor in the leading role of a flamboyant criminal attorney in the 1959 TV pilot film 333 Montgomery. The series didn't sell, but Roddenberry was still determined to help Kelley on the road back to stardom. One of their next collaborations was Star Trek (66-69), in which (as everybody in the galaxy knows) Kelley appeared as truculent ship's doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy. Virtually all of Kelley's subsequent film appearances have been as McCoy in the seemingly endless series of elaborate Star Trek feature films. And on the pilot for the 1987 syndie Star Trek: The Next Generation, DeForrest Kelley was once more seen as "Bones" — albeit appropriately stooped and greyed.


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