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:
- 161
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Thing 1982-06-25
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Wedding Year 2019-02-21
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-02-21 |
| Series | Battle Force: Andromeda | 2019 | |
| Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| Movie | Tales from the Hood 2 | Portifoy Simms | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Himself | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | Not a War Story | 2017-06-30 | |
| Series | Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters | Malcom Kane | 2017-11-16 |
| Movie | Savage Dog | Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Series | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-27 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Movie | Service to Man | Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
| Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
| Series | What Lives Inside | Soot | 2015-03-25 |
| Movie | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge | 2015-03-30 |
| Movie | Kids vs Monsters | Barry | 2015-01-01 |
| Movie | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Secrets of the Magic City | Mr. Daniels | 2015-06-26 |
| Movie | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Detective Harris | 2015-10-20 |
| Movie | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe | 2015-07-17 |
| 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 | |
| Series | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| Series | Belle's | William 'Big Bill' Cooper | 2013-02-01 |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King | 2013-12-28 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Movie | Smiley | Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| Movie | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | The Last Fall | 2012-03-09 | |
| Movie | Double or Nothing | Homeless Dude | 2012-10-13 |
| Movie | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl | 2012-11-09 |
| Movie | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 2012-10-26 |
| Series | The Cape | Max Malini | 2011-01-09 |
| Movie | Samuel Bleak | 2011-03-05 | |
| Movie | The Inheritance | Uncle Melvin | 2011-04-11 |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | Meet Monica Velour | Claude | 2010-06-04 |
| Movie | Death at a Funeral | Reverend Davis | 2010-04-15 |
| Movie | Something Like A Business | Sebastian | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | Chasing 3000 | Officer L. | 2010-07-16 |
| Movie | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
| Movie | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry | 2010-10-10 |
| Movie | Charlie Valentine | Sal | 2009-03-01 |
| Movie | Coraline | Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | Sergeant Foley (voice) | 2009-01-10 |
| Movie | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown | 2009-06-26 |
| 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 | All About Steve | Corbitt | 2009-09-04 |
| Movie | Gamer | Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
| Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| Series | The War | Narrator | 2008-03-05 |
| Movie | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 2008-01-11 |
| Movie | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
| Movie | The Sensei | Minister | 2008-05-04 |
| 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 Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-01-01 |
| Movie | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Movie | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore | 2007-05-11 |
| Movie | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Himself | 2006-03-28 |
| Movie | The Oh in Ohio | Coach Popovitch | 2006-03-30 |
| Movie | ATL | John Garnett | 2006-03-31 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano | 2006-10-17 |
| Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2005-05-06 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | Transporter 2 | Stappleton | 2005-08-02 |
| Movie | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2005-11-10 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director | 2004-03-12 |
| Series | The Big House | 2004-04-02 | |
| Movie | Beef II | Narrator | 2004-08-30 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Imam | 2004-06-11 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Abu al-Walid (Voice) | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
| Movie | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| Movie | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-01 |
| Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| Movie | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator | 2003-10-06 |
| Movie | Barbershop | Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
| Movie | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| Series | Egypt's Golden Empire | Himself - Narrator | 2002-02-04 |
| Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Movie | 29 Palms | The Sheriff | 2002-07-29 |
| Series | Disney's House of Mouse | 2001-01-13 | |
| Series | Jazz | Narrator | 2001-01-09 |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| Movie | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| Movie | Egypt's Golden Empire | Narrator | 2001-11-03 |
| Movie | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
| Movie | Innocents | Detective Davis | 2000-01-10 |
| Movie | Pitch Black | Abu "Imam" al-Walid | 2000-02-18 |
| Movie | The Replacements | Lindell | 2000-08-07 |
| 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 | Armageddon | General Kimsey | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1998-08-25 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1997-05-15 |
| Movie | Volcano | Police Lieutenant Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| Movie | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Series | Spawn | 1997-05-16 | |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles | 1997-11-02 |
| Movie | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 1997-06-20 |
| Movie | Princess Mononoke | Okkoto/Narrator (voice) | 1997-07-12 |
| Movie | Executive Target | Lamar | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Never Met Picasso | 1996-01-01 | |
| Movie | The Grave | The Priest | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Larger than Life | Hurst | 1996-10-31 |
| Movie | Johns | Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
| Movie | Eye for an Eye | Martin | 1996-01-12 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| Movie | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Dead Presidents | Kirby | 1995-10-06 |
| 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 |
| Series | Gargoyles | Goliath (voice) | 1994-10-24 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | King Oliver | 1993-03-13 |
| Movie | The Last Outlaw | Lovecraft | 1993-10-30 |
| Movie | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | Host | 1993-11-02 |
| 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 | Off Limits | Maurice | 1988-03-11 |
| Movie | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Embassy Gate Captain | 1988-01-22 |
| Movie | Stars & Bars | Eugene Teagarden | 1988-03-18 |
| Movie | They Live | Frank | 1988-11-23 |
| Movie | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-07-01 |
| Series | Echoes | Ealwood Franks | 1988-05-25 |
| Movie | Hot Pursuit | Alphonso | 1987-05-08 |
| Movie | Platoon | King | 1986-12-19 |
| Series | Hallelujah! | 1983-04-29 | |
| Movie | The Thing | Childs | 1982-06-25 |