Is DeForest Kelley Dead or Still Alive? DeForest Kelley Birthday and Date of Death

DeForest Kelley Death

Deforest passed away on June 11, 1999 at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Deforest's cause of death was stomach cancer.

DeForest Kelley Birthday and Date of Death

DeForest Kelley was born on January 20, 1920 and died on June 11, 1999. Deforest was 79 years old at the time of death.

Birthday: January 20, 1920
Date of Death: June 11, 1999
Age at Death: 79

DeForest Kelley - Biography

Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor, screenwriter, poet and singer known for his roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.
In 1956, nine years before being cast as Dr. McCoy, Kelley played a small supporting role as a medic in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit in which he utters the diagnosis "This man's dead, Captain" and "That man is dead" to Gregory Peck. Kelley appeared as Lieutenant Commander James Dempsey in two episodes of the syndicated military drama The Silent Service, based on actual stories of the submarine service of the United States Navy.

In 1962, he appeared in the Bonanza episode titled "The Decision", as a doctor sentenced to hang for the murder of a journalist. The judge in this episode was portrayed by John Hoyt, who later portrayed Dr. Phillip John Boyce, one of Leonard McCoy's predecessors, on the Star Trek pilot "The Cage".
In 1963, he appeared in The Virginian episode "Man of Violence" as a "drinking" cavalry doctor with Leonard Nimoy as his patient. (Nimoy's character did not survive.) Perhaps not coincidentally, the episode was written by John D. F. Black, who went on to become a writer-producer on Star Trek. Just before Star Trek began filming, Kelley appeared as a doctor again, in the Laredo episode "The Sound of Terror".