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:
- 166
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Pirates of Penzance 1980-06-01
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Gettysburg Address 2025-11-19
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 2025-11-19 |
| Movie | Portal to Hell | Mr. Bobshank | 2025-02-22 |
| Movie | Sneaks | O.G. (voice) | 2025-04-17 |
| Movie | The Prank | Principal Henderson | 2024-03-15 |
| Movie | A Snowy Day in Oakland | Mr. Monroe | 2023-03-17 |
| Movie | American Fiction | Willy the Wonker | 2023-11-10 |
| Movie | Heist 88 | Buddha Ray | 2023-10-01 |
| Movie | Unplugging | Gil | 2022-04-22 |
| Movie | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 2022-02-07 |
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2022-02-19 |
| Movie | Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Ink Williams | 2022-09-19 |
| Movie | Entergalactic | Mr. Rager (voice) | 2022-09-28 |
| Movie | A Miracle Before Christmas | David | 2022-12-08 |
| Movie | The Seventh Day | Father Louis | 2021-03-26 |
| Movie | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Self | 2021-09-25 |
| Movie | Black as Night | Babineaux | 2021-10-01 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Self | 2020-10-06 |
| Movie | Most Guys Are Losers | Al | 2020-10-24 |
| Movie | Good | Gregory Devereaux | 2020-10-22 |
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-09-20 |
| Movie | F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Self | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | American Dresser | Charlie | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | Sharon 1.2.3. | Tyrone | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Savage Dog | Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Movie | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Movie | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable | 2016-05-11 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| Movie | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge | 2015-03-30 |
| Series | What Lives Inside | Soot | 2015-03-25 |
| Movie | Secrets of the Magic City | Mr. Daniels | 2015-06-26 |
| Movie | Kids vs Monsters | Barry | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Halo 5: Guardians | The Arbiter | 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 |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Movie | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | The President (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King (voice) | 2013-12-28 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Movie | The Undershepherd | Brother Wilks | 2012-02-15 |
| Movie | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | The Last Fall | Sydney Bishop | 2012-03-09 |
| Movie | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 2012-10-26 |
| Movie | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl | 2012-11-09 |
| Movie | Smiley | Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| Movie | Highway | Mustafa | 2012-09-09 |
| Series | The Cape | Max Malini | 2011-01-09 |
| Movie | Samuel Bleak | Ned Coffman | 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 | Something Like A Business | Sebastian | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Chasing 3000 | Officer L. | 2010-07-16 |
| Movie | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
| Movie | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | New York Street Games | Self | 2010-07-28 |
| Movie | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-02-17 |
| Movie | Coraline | The Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| Movie | Charlie Valentine | Sal | 2009-03-01 |
| Series | Community | Elroy Patashnik | 2009-09-17 |
| Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Gamer | Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) | 2009-12-08 |
| Movie | The Butcher | Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
| Movie | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
| Movie | The Sensei | Minister | 2008-05-04 |
| Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | No Bad Days | Terrence | 2008-08-01 |
| Movie | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
| Movie | The Fifth Commandment | Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton | 2008-08-21 |
| Movie | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Movie | The War | Narrator | 2007-09-23 |
| Movie | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-05-19 |
| Movie | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2006-01-20 |
| Movie | The Oh in Ohio | Coach Popovitch | 2006-03-30 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano | 2006-10-17 |
| Movie | ATL | John Garnett | 2006-03-31 |
| Movie | Forbidden Fruits | Rev. Walters | 2006-07-25 |
| Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2005-05-06 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | The Proud Family Movie | Bebe Clone (voice) | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | Transporter 2 | Stappleton | 2005-08-03 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director | 2004-03-12 |
| Movie | Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator (voice) | 2004-04-13 |
| Series | The Big House | 2004-04-02 | |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 2004-06-11 |
| 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 | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| Movie | The Shakespeare Sessions | 2003-01-01 | |
| Movie | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-06 |
| Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| Movie | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-01 |
| Movie | Barbershop | Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
| Movie | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| 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 | |
| Movie | Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Movie | Innocents | Detective Davis | 2000-01-10 |
| Movie | Pitch Black | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 2000-02-18 |
| 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 (voice) | 1999-08-17 |
| Movie | ATF | FBI Director Richard Long | 1999-09-06 |
| Movie | Armageddon | General Kimsey | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | There's Something About Mary | Charlie Jensen | 1998-07-15 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) | 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 | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
| Movie | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad | 1997-11-15 |
| 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 | The Grave | The Priest | 1996-01-18 |
| Movie | Johns | Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
| Movie | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath (voice) | 1996-05-02 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| Movie | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Clockers | André the Giant | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Dead Presidents | Kirby | 1995-09-29 |
| Movie | Reality Bites | Roger | 1994-02-18 |
| Movie | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
| Series | Baseball | Narrator | 1994-09-18 |
| 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 | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Embassy Gate Captain | 1988-01-22 |
| Movie | Off Limits | Maurice | 1988-03-11 |
| Series | Echoes | Ealwood Franks | 1988-05-25 |
| Movie | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-06-01 |
| Movie | Ladykillers | Abe | 1988-11-09 |
| Movie | They Live | Frank Armitage | 1988-11-04 |
| Movie | Hot Pursuit | Alphonso | 1987-05-08 |
| Movie | The Whoopee Boys | Washington Square Peddler | 1986-08-22 |
| 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 |