DeForest Kelley

MINI BIO:

Dark-haired, open-eyed, wry-mouthed American actor whose precise features could almost in their younger days have belonged to the hero of a puppet series. The son of a Baptist minister from Atlanta, Georgia, Kelley went to California as a teenager, obtaining minor theatre and radio work as an actor and singer (he can supposedly be spotted as one of the chorus of "stout-hearted men" in MGM's New Moon) and working as a lift-man to make ends meet. Roles in naval training films led to work in films in post-war years; he was briefly in leading roles, but his career was going nowhere as impassive gunmen in westerns when he signed on as TV's Doc "Bones" McCoy in Star Trek, a role which kept him busy on and off for almost 30 years.