Keith David
Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956), better known as Keith David, is an American film, television, and voice actor, and singer. He is perhaps most known for his live-action roles in such films as Crash, There's Something About Mary, Barbershop and Men at Work. He has also had memorable roles in numerous cult favorites, including John Carpenter's films The Thing (as Childs) and They Live (as Armitage), the Riddick films Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick (as the Imam), the General in Armageddon, King in Oliver Stone's Platoon, and Big Tim in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream. David is also well known for his voice over career, primarily his Emmy winning work as the narrator of numerous Ken Burns films. Characters that he has voiced include Goliath on the Disney series Gargoyles, the Arbiter in Halo 2 and Halo 3, David Anderson in Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, the Decepticon Barricade in Transformers: The Game, Julius Little in Saints Row and Saints Row 2, Sgt. Foley in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog, and Chaos in Dissidia: Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keith David, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- Born:
- Jun 4, 1956 In Harlem - New York - USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 155
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Pirates of Penzance 1980-06-01
- Latest Project:
- Movie Sneaks 2024-10-31
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Sneaks | (voice) | 2024-10-31 |
| Movie | A Snowy Day in Oakland | Mr. Monroe | 2023-03-17 |
| Movie | Heist 88 | Buddha Ray | 2023-09-29 |
| Movie | American Fiction | Willy the Wonker | 2023-11-10 |
| Movie | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 2022-02-07 |
| Movie | Unplugging | Gil | 2022-04-22 |
| Movie | A Miracle Before Christmas | David | 2022-12-08 |
| Movie | Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Ink Williams | 2022-09-19 |
| Movie | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Self | 2021-09-25 |
| Movie | The Seventh Day | Father Louis | 2021-03-26 |
| Movie | Black as Night | Babineaux | 2021-10-01 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Self | 2020-10-06 |
| Movie | Good | Gregory Devereaux | 2020-10-22 |
| Movie | Most Guys Are Losers | Al | 2020-10-24 |
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-09-20 |
| Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | American Dresser | Charlie | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Savage Dog | Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
| Movie | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable | 2016-05-11 |
| Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Movie | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge | 2015-03-30 |
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 2015-01-01 |
| Movie | Secrets of the Magic City | Mr. Daniels | 2015-06-26 |
| Series | What Lives Inside | Soot | 2015-03-25 |
| Movie | Halo 5: Guardians | The Arbiter | 2015-10-20 |
| Movie | Kids vs Monsters | Barry | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Series | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 2014-01-10 |
| Movie | Birds of Paradise | Old Buzzard (voice) | 2014-04-01 |
| Movie | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | 2014-11-03 | |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King | 2013-12-28 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | The President (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Movie | The Undershepherd | Brother Wilks | 2012-02-15 |
| Movie | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | Highway | Mustafa | 2012-09-09 |
| Movie | The Last Fall | 2012-03-09 | |
| Movie | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl | 2012-11-09 |
| Movie | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 2012-10-26 |
| Movie | Smiley | Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| Series | The Cape | Max Malini | 2011-01-09 |
| Movie | Samuel Bleak | 2011-03-05 | |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | Death at a Funeral | Reverend Davis | 2010-04-15 |
| Movie | Chasing 3000 | Officer L. | 2010-07-16 |
| Movie | Something Like A Business | Sebastian | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
| Movie | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-02-17 |
| Movie | Charlie Valentine | Sal | 2009-03-01 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Coraline | Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
| Movie | The Butcher | Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
| Series | Community | Elroy Patashnik | 2009-09-17 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) | 2009-12-08 |
| Movie | Gamer | Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
| Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
| Movie | The Fifth Commandment | Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton | 2008-08-21 |
| Movie | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
| Movie | No Bad Days | Terrence | 2008-08-01 |
| Movie | The Sensei | Minister | 2008-05-04 |
| Movie | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Movie | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-05-19 |
| Movie | The War | Narrator | 2007-09-23 |
| Movie | ATL | John Garnett | 2006-03-31 |
| Movie | Forbidden Fruits | Rev. Walters | 2006-07-25 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano | 2006-10-17 |
| Movie | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2005-02-14 |
| Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2005-05-06 |
| Movie | Transporter 2 | Stappleton | 2005-08-03 |
| Movie | The Proud Family Movie | Bebe Clone (voice) | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director | 2004-03-12 |
| Series | The Big House | 2004-04-02 | |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Imam | 2004-06-11 |
| Movie | Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator | 2004-04-13 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice) | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
| Movie | The Shakespeare Sessions | 2003-01-01 | |
| Movie | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| Movie | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-01 |
| Movie | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-06 |
| Movie | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| Movie | Barbershop | Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
| Movie | 29 Palms | The Sheriff | 2002-07-29 |
| Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Movie | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | Disney's House of Mouse | 2001-01-13 | |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| Movie | Pitch Black | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 2000-02-18 |
| Movie | Innocents | Detective Davis | 2000-01-10 |
| Movie | Where the Heart Is | Moses Whitecotten | 2000-04-27 |
| Movie | Requiem for a Dream | Big Tim | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1999-08-17 |
| Series | Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 1999-11-07 |
| Movie | ATF | F.B.I. Director Richard Long | 1999-09-06 |
| Movie | There's Something About Mary | Charlie Jensen | 1998-07-15 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1998-08-25 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-15 |
| Movie | Volcano | Lt. Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| Movie | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Series | Spawn | 1997-05-16 | |
| Movie | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad | 1997-11-15 |
| Movie | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 1997-06-20 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles | 1997-11-02 |
| Movie | Princess Mononoke | Okkoto / Narrator / Additional Voices | 1997-07-12 |
| Movie | Executive Target | Lamar | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Eye for an Eye | Martin | 1996-01-12 |
| Movie | Johns | Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
| Movie | The Grave | The Priest | 1996-01-18 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| Movie | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Dead Presidents | Kirby | 1995-09-29 |
| Movie | Clockers | André the Giant | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Reality Bites | Roger | 1994-02-18 |
| Series | Baseball | Narrator | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
| Movie | The Last Outlaw | Lovecraft | 1993-10-30 |
| Movie | Final Analysis | Detective Huggins | 1992-02-07 |
| Movie | Article 99 | Luther Jermoe | 1992-03-13 |
| Movie | Nails | Noah Owens | 1992-07-25 |
| Movie | Men at Work | Louis Fedders | 1990-08-24 |
| Movie | Marked for Death | Max | 1990-10-05 |
| Movie | Road House | Ernie Bass | 1989-05-19 |
| Movie | Always | Powerhouse | 1989-12-22 |
| Movie | Stars & Bars | Eugene Teagarden | 1988-03-18 |
| Movie | Off Limits | Maurice | 1988-03-11 |
| Movie | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Embassy Gate Captain | 1988-01-22 |
| Series | Echoes | Ealwood Franks | 1988-05-25 |
| Movie | Ladykillers | Abe | 1988-11-09 |
| Movie | They Live | Frank Armitage | 1988-11-04 |
| Movie | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-06-01 |
| Movie | Platoon | King | 1986-12-19 |
| Movie | Terror in the Aisles | Childs (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1984-10-26 |
| Series | Hallelujah! | 1983-04-29 | |
| Movie | The Thing | Childs | 1982-06-25 |
| Movie | The Pirates of Penzance | Pirates and Police | 1980-06-01 |