DeForest Kelley Filmography

William Shatner's Star Trek Memories

Synopsis: William Shatner spent many years as Captain James T. Kirk, the captain of Star Trek's Enterprise and its intrepid crew. This video features Shatner and various other original cast members as they recollect some of the series' most interesting moments. Among the topics covered are the origins of Read More

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Kim Cattrall, David Warner, James Doohan, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: The plot involves a peace conference between the Federation of Planets and the troublesome Klingons. The Klingons are hoping to perform a little damage control after triggering a mining disaster on one of their moons; their spokesman is the seemingly contrite General Chang (Christopher Plummer). Read More

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Walter Koenig, James Doohan

Synopsis: Kirk (William Shatner), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) are enjoying a vacation in Yosemite National Park when duty calls. Vulcan cult leader Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) and his followers have invaded a "planet of peace," where delegates from hostile races co-exist in a sort of Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Encounter At Farpoint, Part I

Synopsis: The first two episodes of the syndicated Star Trek: The Next Generation were originally telecast in tandem as a two-hour "TV movie" on September 30, 1987. After the obligatory introductions of the new crew of the Enterprise, the starship sets sail for the planet Daneb IV, for the purpose of Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Encounter At Farpoint, Part II

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan

Synopsis: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) concludes the story arc begun with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but on a wholly new, different, and upbeat note. As the movie opens, months have elapsed since the events in Star Trek III; Read More

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Walter Koenig, James Doohan

Synopsis: When last we left the crew of the star ship Enterprise, they were heading home following a skirmish with the despotic Khan. The unpleasant incident had cost the life of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy)--or so it seemed. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) is informed by Spock's Vulcan father Sarek (Mark Lenard Read More

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Ricardo Montalban, George Takei, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: Because it is the simplest of the Star Trek theatrical films, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is fondly regarded as being the closest in spirit to the 1966-69 TV series that spawned it. William Shatner plays Admiral Kirk (remember his promotion?) who escapes the tedium of a desk job to join Mr. Read More

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Stephen Collins, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: When plans to launch a second Star Trek television series in the late 1970s were scrapped by Paramount Pictures, the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry, instead transformed the aborted program's 2-hour pilot into this big budget theatrical feature. Five years after the legendary voyages of the Read More

Night of the Lepus

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley

Synopsis: Giant Flesh-Eating Rabbits Ravage American Southwest After Scientist Slips Up! Such is the plot of this unintentionally campy horror outing. The trouble begins when a researcher's experiment to use hormone injections to control Arizona's burgeoning rabbit population goes terribly awry, causing the Read More

Ironside: Warrior's Return

Synopsis: Ironside(Raymond Burr) is certain that John Walala (Ned Romero), a Native American silversmith who was recently paroled on a theft charge, is not guilty of a jewel robbery. Unfortunately, the evidence indicates that the heist could only have been pulled off by Walala--or at the very least, someone Read More

Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome

Synopsis: A starship manned by a Vulcan crew is destroyed by an unidentified alien entity, a catastrophe which is psychically sensed by Mr. Spock. The Enterprise proceeds to investigate, and encounters a gigantic, one-celled being which proceeds to swallow the ship whole. The crew begins to suffer a series Read More

Star Trek: Spectre of the Gun

Synopsis: In this episode of the famed science fiction television series, thanks to the interference of a powerful alien species, the crew of the starship Enterprise is forced to test their mettle as Old West-style gunfighters. In response to the Enterprise's unintentional destruction of one of their Read More

Star Trek: Season 03

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: The third and final season of Star Trek is frequently written off as the series' nadir, if only because creator Gene Roddenberryhad relinquished a great deal of his creative control to the NBC executives and to new producer Fred Freiberger). Another reason given for the series' decline was the Read More

Star Trek: The Tholian Web

Synopsis: Investigating the disappearance of the starship Defiant, the Enterprise finds the vessel drifting with a dead crew, who apparently killed each other in a fit of communal madness. Captain Kirk beams aboard the Defiant to investigate but becomes stranded due to a transporter malfunction; indeed, he Read More

Star Trek: Season 02

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: The Starship Enterprise's five-year mission to "seek out new life forms and new civilizations" and "boldly go where no man has gone before" shifts into warp speed as Star Trek enters its second season. The biggest news this year is a fresh addition to the ensemble cast: Now taking his place Read More

Star Trek: The Changeling

Synopsis: Captain Kirk must outwit Nomad, a strange robot formed from the accidental combination of an alien computer and a primitive Earth space probe, in this installment of the original Star Trek television series. Traveling in deep space, the starship encounters the device, which proceeds to force Read More

Star Trek: Obsession

Synopsis: When Captain Kirk encounters an old nemesis, his personal need to enact revenge threatens not only his own life but the safety of the Enterprise in this episode of the landmark 1960s science-fiction series. When several Enterprise crew members exploring the surface of a planet are attacked by a Read More

Bonanza: Ride the Wind, Part One

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Victor Jory, Noah Beery, Jr., Rod Cameron, Dorothy Green

Synopsis: Written by Paul Schneider, "Ride the Wind" was Bonanza's first two-part story. Ben Cartwright is willing to provide Charles Ludlow (Victor Jory) with money to help finance the new Pony Express service, but isn't keen on allowing his son Joe to join Ludlow's riders. Nor is the Paiute Indian tribe Read More

Waco

Actors: Howard Keel, Jane Russell, Brian Donlevy, Wendell Corey, Terry Moore

Synopsis: In this western, a gunfighter is hired to clean up the chaotic streets of Emporia, Wyoming. The gunfighter arrives and finds that his ex-lover is there and is married to the town preacher. Though the two are still attracted, they resist temptation. When he sees how violent the town really is, the Read More

Star Trek: Season 01

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols

Synopsis: As everyone on earth (to say nothing of everyone in the United Federation of Planets) must know by now, the debut episode of Star Trek's first season, "The Man Trap", was not the first episode filmed. Nor was the series' "official" pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the first one to go Read More

Bonanza: Ride the Wind, Part Two

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Rod Cameron, Tom Lowell

Synopsis: In Part Two of "Ride the Wind", Curtis Wade (Rod Cameron takes over from the late Charles Ludlow as head of the new Pony Express service. Determined to keep the service running and to finish the route despite attacks by the Paiutes, Wade is driven not so much by duty as by his ego, which has been Read More

Ride the Wind

Synopsis: This western is the movie-length pilot for the long-running television series Bonanza. The story follows the Cartwright clan as they help keep the nearly bankrupt Pony Express from going under. They also work to keep the angry Paiute Indians at bay. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Death Valley Days: The Great Diamond Mines

Johnny Reno

Actors: Dana Andrews, Jane Russell, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Agar, Lyle Bettger, Tom Drake

Synopsis: Johnny Reno (Dana Andrews) is a US Marshall who is bushwhacked by outlaws on his way to Stone Junction, Kansas. Joe Connors (Tom Drake) and his brother Ab (Dale Van Sickle) mistakenly believe the lawman is after them and fire on Reno, and Reno captures Joe after Ab is killed in the gun battle. The Read More

Apache Uprising

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell, Lon Chaney, Jr., Gene Evans

Synopsis: Jim Walker Rory Calhoun is a hero who fights Indians and crooks who plan a series of stagecoach robberies in this routine western. He defends the honor of a woman (Corinne Calvet) wrongly accused of having a bad reputation. Johnny Mack Brown plays the local Sheriff Ben Hall, with Lon Chaney, Jr. Read More

The Fugitive: Three Cheers for Little Boy Blue

Synopsis: Under the alias "Tom Nash", fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) goes to work as a bodyguard for self-made millionaire George Forster (Richard Anderson), who has returned to his home town after an absence of several years. Despite the adulation heaped upon him, Forster has many enemies in town; Read More

Town Tamer

Actors: Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Pat O'Brien, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bruce Cabot

Synopsis: Adapting his own novel, Frank Gruber penned the screenplay for the A.C. Lyles production Town Tamer. Veteran filmmaker Leslie Selander directs an equally veteran cast in this high-action Western. After his wife is murdered, hired gun Tom Rosser (Dana Andrews) rides into town in search of revenge Read More

Black Spurs

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Linda Darnell, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bruce Cabot

Synopsis: In this western, a world-weary bounty hunter begins working for an avaricious crook who wants to destroy the good name of a little town so that the railroad will be built across his land. To enact his plan he brings a notorious gambler to town. He also establishes a brothel in the saloon. The Read More

Marriage on the Rocks

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Dean Martin, Cesar Romero, Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis: A couple's marriage is nearly destroyed by their attempts to save it in this farcical comedy. Dan and Valerie Edwards (Frank Sinatra and Deborah Kerr) are a couple who have been married for close to 20 years. Dan, a busy but successful advertising executive, believes they have a happy Read More

Where Love Has Gone

Actors: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Michael Connors, Joey Heatherton, Jane Greer

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, comes this family drama from director Edward Dmytryk. Adapted for the the screen by John Michael Hayes, the film follows the events that befall Luke Miller (Michael Connors) when he discovers that his daughter, Danielle (Joey Heatherton), has been arrested for Read More

Gunfight at Comanche Creek

Actors: Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller, DeForest Kelley, Jan Merlin

Synopsis: In this western, set in 1875, an agent for the National Detective Agency is assigned to find the murderous outlaw gang that has been breaking convicts out of prison and helping them to commit more crimes. The resulting crimes cause the bounties upon the fugitives' heads to rise. The outlaws then Read More

The Bull of the West

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lee J. Cobb, James Drury, Brian Keith, Geraldine Brooks

Synopsis: Advertised on the sleeve of its home-video release as a "Charles Bronson western", Bull of the West is actually comprised of two episodes from the American TV western series The Virginian, edited together for theatrical release overseas. The segment in which Bronson appears was originally telecast Read More

Bonanza: The Decision

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, DeForest Kelley

Synopsis: Seriously injured in a fall, Hoss Cartwright is in desperate need of medical attention. Alas, the only available doctor is a man named Jones (DeForest Kelley), who has been sentenced to hang for murder. Ben Cartwright's pleas to Judge Grant (John Hoyt) to temporarily release Dr. Jones so that he Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Treasure

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired as escort for Edna Harden (Jeanne Cooper), who is bound for a reunion with her husband, a bank robber recently released from prison. Arriving in a ghost town with Paladin, Edna doesn't find her husband right away, but this doesn't seem to matter in light of the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Unwelcome Bride

Synopsis: Wealthy Walter Frazer (Torin Thatcher) has always held his daughter-in-law Sue Ellen (Diana Millay), a former nightclub singer, responsible for the failures of his son Gregson (Bryan Grant), now working as a parking attendant. Hoping to get rid of Sue Ellen, Frazer offers her a huge sum to divorce Read More

Bonanza: The Honor of Cochise

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Jeff Morrow

Synopsis: Jeff Morrow guest-stars as legendary Apache chief Cochise, who despite his avowed peaceful stance has sworn vengeance against Cavalry captain Moss Johnson (DeForrest Kelley). While Johnson takes refuge at the Ponderosa, Ben Cartwright, surrounded by a batallion of Cochise's deadliest warriors, is Read More

Warlock

Actors: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels

Synopsis: Warlock offers us a mean-spirited, mercenary Henry Fonda and an honest, peaceloving Richard Widmark. A Wyatt Earp-like frontier marshal, Fonda agrees to protect the small town of Warlock from an outlaw gang, but only if he's permitted to plunder the town's cash reserve. Widmark, the town deputy Read More

The Law and Jake Wade

Actors: Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens, Robert Middleton, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Although reformed and a town marshal Jake Wade (Robert Taylor) has one thing more to do before he can settle down and marry Peggy Carter (Patricia Owens): spring former comrade-in-arms Clint Hollister (Richard Widmark) from jail. Clint had done the same for Jake way back and the latter now Read More

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland

Synopsis: It's one of the sad details of John Sturges' life that he never thought much of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). Perhaps he just resented the fact that it was a more popular and successful film than Hour of the Gun, the film account of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday's friendship that he produced Read More

Raintree County

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin

Synopsis: Conceived as a Gone With the Wind for the CinemaScope generation, Raintree County wasn't quite as successful as its role model, but it still proved a moneyspinner for MGM. Elizabeth Taylor stars as a spoiled Southern belle who falls in love with pacifistic Indiana youth Montgomery Clift. Though Clift Read More

Gunsmoke: Indian Scout

Synopsis: Some two dozen men have been killed by Comanches just outside of Dodge; the only survivor of the attack is Amos Cartwright (Eduard Franz), a white Indian scout who has lived with the tribe for years. Will Bailey (DeForest Kelley), brother of one of the dead men, accused Cartwright of betraying the Read More

Tension at Table Rock

Actors: Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone, Cameron Mitchell, Billy Chapin, Royal Dano

Synopsis: In this typical 1950s Western, cowboy Wes Tancred (Richard Egan) is publicly vilified after killing a famous gunslinger who was a public hero. In fact, the hero was a villain, and Tancred killed him in self-defense, but Tancred is so scorned for his act that there is a mean-spirited ballad sung Read More

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Actors: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Marisa Pavan, Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis: This meticulous and unusually long cinemadaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit stars Gregory Peck as an ex-army officer, pursuing a living as a TV writer in the postwar years. Hired by a major broadcasting network, Peck is assigned to write speeches for Read More

House of Bamboo

Actors: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: Samuel Fuller directed and cowrote this typically hard-boiled drama set in Japan following World War II. Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese Read More

The View from Pompey's Head

Actors: Richard Egan, Dana Wynter, Cameron Mitchell, Sidney Blackmer, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Miscegenation, that old reliable bugaboo of many a Southern-based novel, is at the center of Hamilton Basso's The View from Pompey's Head. The film version stars Richard Egan as a New York lawyer who returns to his Southern home town to investigate an embezzlement charge. The victim is an ageing Read More

Illegal

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: Once again Edward G. Robinson takes a script from the trash bin and makes it into a palatable movie. A remake of The Mouthpiece, this is the story of a district attorney with a conscience. When he discovers that a man he's sent to the electric chair was innocent, he takes to the bottle. His Read More

Taxi

Actors: Dan Dailey, Constance Smith, Neva Patterson, Blanche Yurka

Synopsis: Taxi stars Dan Dailey as Ed Nielson, a been-there-done-that Manhattan cabbie. Nagged by his mother (Blanche Yurka) to find himself a wife, Ed must also contend with a blood-sucking loan company, demanding huge payments for his cab. His life is further complicated when he falls in love with one of Read More

The Men

Actors: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb, Richard Erdman

Synopsis: Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving screen debut. He plays Lt. Bud Wilozek, one of a group of veterans recovering in the paraplegic ward of a hospital in his hometown. His former fiancée, Ellen (Theresa Wright) Read More

Malaya

Actors: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Valentina Cortese, Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak

Synopsis: Spencer Tracy and James Stewart team up for this World War II adventure, based on an supposedly true incident from World War II. Stewart plays John Royer, an ex-newspaper reporter with a backhand knowledge of Malaya, and Tracy plays a criminal named Carnaghan, doing time in Alcatraz for smuggling. Read More

Duke of Chicago

Actors: Tom Brown, Audrey Long, Grant Withers, Paul Harvey

Synopsis: In this boxing drama, Jimmy Brody, a retired middle-weight champion turned publisher, must return to the ring when his company encounters financial difficulties. He is set up by some bad-news bookies who try to convince Brody to take a dive. The ex-champ refuses and triumphs even though his hand Read More

Canon City

Actors: Ray Bennett, Warden Roy Best, Robert Bice, Whit Bissell, Raymond Bond

Synopsis: This suspenseful crime drama reenacts the famed 1947 prison break out of the Canon City, Colorado corrections facility and features the actual warden, Roy Best playing himself. The trouble begins when one prisoner manages to fashion a crude pistol. Enlisting the aid of eleven others, they Read More

Fear in the Night

Actors: Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Kay Scott, Ann Doran, Robert Emmett Keane

Synopsis: One of several low-budget mellers directed by scriptwriter Maxwell Shane, Fear in the Night was based on the short story Nightmare by William Irish (pseudonym for Cornell Woolrich). In his first starring role, DeForest Kelley plays Vince Grayson, a young man who has a terrible nightmare wherein he Read More

Variety Girl

Actors: Eric Alden, Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, William Bendix, MacDonald Carey, DeForest Kelley, William Demarest, Joan Caulfield, Stanley Clements, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for Paramount Studios in 1947. Mary Hatcher plays Catherine Brown, a woman of humble origins who arrives in Hollywood, where she meets another wanna-be movie star, Amber La Vonne Read More