Star Trek's Dr. McCoy is more commonly known as "Bones," but he was first called by a very different nickname that is still ...

B efore Star Trek, DeForest Kelley played in many small television roles, mostly as a character actor who wasn't identified for a single role. Though he spent a lot of time in westerns, he hadn't ...

DeForest Kelley, best remembered as “Star Trek’s” Leonard “Bones” McCoy, died from stomach cancer on June 11, 1999, at the Motion Pictures and Television Fund Hospital in Los Angeles.

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.