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 ...

It's just one more piece of proof that Star Trek was, and always will be, ahead of its time. This article was originally published on redshirtsalwaysdie.com as DeForest Kelley was not happy with ...

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.