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DeForest Kelley
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Actor Born: January 20, 1920 in Atlanta, GA Death: June 11, 1999 in Los Angeles, CA Biography: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... Full Biography | |||
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