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:
- 165
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Wedding Year
- Latest Project:
- Movie 21 Bridges 2019-07-11
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2020 |
| Movie | 21 Bridges | 2019-07-11 | |
| Series | Battle Force: Andromeda | 2019 | |
| Movie | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Himself | 2019-02-07 |
| Movie | Tales from the Hood 2 | Portifoy Simms | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| Movie | Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Himself | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | Not a War Story | 2017-06-30 | |
| Movie | Savage Dog | Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
| Series | Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters | Malcom Kane | 2017-11-16 |
| Series | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-27 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Movie | Service to Man | Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| 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 | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe | 2015-07-17 |
| Movie | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Detective Harris | 2015-10-20 |
| Series | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 2014-01-10 |
| Movie | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | 2014-11-03 | |
| Movie | Birds of Paradise | Old Buzzard (voice) | 2014-04-01 |
| Series | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Series | Belle's | William 'Big Bill' Cooper | 2013-02-01 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King | 2013-12-28 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | The President (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Movie | The Last Fall | 2012-03-09 | |
| Movie | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | Smiley | Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| 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 Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | The Inheritance | Uncle Melvin | 2011-04-11 |
| 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 | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| 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 |
| Series | The War | Narrator | 2008-03-05 |
| Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 2008-01-11 |
| Movie | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
| Movie | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
| Movie | The Fifth Commandment | Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton | 2008-08-21 |
| Movie | No Bad Days | Terrence | 2008-08-01 |
| Movie | The Sensei | Minister | 2008-05-04 |
| Movie | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-01-01 |
| Movie | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore | 2007-05-11 |
| Movie | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Movie | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2006-01-20 |
| Movie | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Himself | 2006-03-28 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano | 2006-10-17 |
| Movie | ATL | John Garnett | 2006-03-31 |
| Movie | The Oh in Ohio | Coach Popovitch | 2006-03-30 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | Transporter 2 | Stappleton | 2005-08-02 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director | 2004-03-12 |
| Series | The Big House | 2004-04-02 | |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Abu al-Walid (Voice) | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2004-09-10 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Imam | 2004-06-11 |
| Movie | Beef II | Narrator | 2004-08-30 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
| 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 | 2003-10-06 |
| Series | Egypt's Golden Empire | Himself - Narrator | 2002-02-04 |
| Movie | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| Movie | Barbershop | Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
| Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Movie | 29 Palms | The Sheriff | 2002-07-29 |
| Series | Jazz | Narrator | 2001-01-09 |
| Movie | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Boxing: In and Out of the Ring | Narrator | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | Disney's House of Mouse | 2001-01-13 | |
| Movie | Egypt's Golden Empire | Narrator | 2001-11-03 |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Movie | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
| Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| 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 | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1998-08-25 |
| Movie | Armageddon | General Kimsey | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | There's Something About Mary | Charlie Jensen | 1998-07-15 |
| Movie | Volcano | Police Lieutenant Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1997-05-15 |
| Movie | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Movie | Princess Mononoke | Okkoto/Narrator (voice) | 1997-07-12 |
| Series | Spawn | 1997-05-16 | |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles | 1997-11-02 |
| Movie | Executive Target | Lamar | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 1997-06-20 |
| Movie | Never Met Picasso | 1996-01-01 | |
| Movie | The Grave | The Priest | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Larger than Life | Hurst | 1996-10-31 |
| Movie | Eye for an Eye | Martin | 1996-01-12 |
| Movie | Johns | Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| Movie | Dead Presidents | Kirby | 1995-10-06 |
| Movie | Clockers | André the Giant | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Reality Bites | Roger | 1994-02-18 |
| Movie | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
| Series | Gargoyles | Goliath (voice) | 1994-10-24 |
| Series | Baseball | Narrator | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | King Oliver | 1993-03-13 |
| Movie | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | Host | 1993-11-02 |
| 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 | Always | Powerhouse | 1989-12-22 |
| Movie | Road House | Ernie Bass | 1989-05-19 |
| Movie | Off Limits | Maurice | 1988-03-11 |
| Movie | Stars & Bars | Eugene Teagarden | 1988-03-18 |
| Movie | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Embassy Gate Captain | 1988-01-22 |
| Movie | They Live | Frank Armitage | 1988-11-23 |
| Series | Echoes | Ealwood Franks | 1988-05-25 |
| Movie | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-07-01 |
| Movie | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
| 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 |