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:
- 231
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Thing Expanded
- Latest Project:
- Movie What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas 2025-12-23
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Thing Expanded | Self | 2027 |
| Series | President Curtis | President Andre Curtis (voice) | 2027 |
| Movie | Sneaks | O.G. (voice) | 2025-04-17 |
| Movie | What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas | Self - Interviewee | 2025-12-23 |
| Series | Duster | Ezra Saxton | 2025-05-15 |
| Movie | Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along | Husk (voice) | 2025-10-01 |
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 2025-11-19 |
| Movie | Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway | (voice) (uncredited) | 2025-11-17 |
| Movie | Shelby Oaks | Morton Jacobson | 2025-10-02 |
| Series | Hazbin Hotel | Husk (voice) | 2024-01-18 |
| Movie | The Prank | Principal Henderson | 2024-03-15 |
| Movie | Mufasa: The Lion King | Masego (voice) | 2024-12-18 |
| Movie | Betty & Blue | Willie 'Blue' Watson | 2024-06-04 |
| Movie | A Snowy Day in Oakland | Mr. Monroe | 2023-03-17 |
| Movie | American Fiction | Willy the Wonker | 2023-11-10 |
| Movie | From the Shadows | Dr. Leonard Bertram | 2023-09-22 |
| Movie | Unplugging | Gil | 2022-04-22 |
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2022-02-19 |
| Movie | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 2022-02-07 |
| Movie | Nope | Otis Haywood Sr. | 2022-07-20 |
| Movie | A Miracle Before Christmas | David | 2022-12-08 |
| Movie | 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! | Self | 2022-10-08 |
| Series | From Scratch | Hershel Wheeler | 2022-10-21 |
| Movie | DC League of Super-Pets | Dog-El (voice) | 2022-07-27 |
| Movie | Entergalactic | Mr. Rager (voice) | 2022-09-28 |
| Movie | Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Ink Williams | 2022-09-19 |
| Series | The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time | Self | 2022-09-07 |
| Movie | The Seventh Day | Father Louis | 2021-03-26 |
| Movie | The Gateway | Terry | 2021-09-03 |
| Movie | Insight | Captain Duke | 2021-03-12 |
| Movie | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Self | 2021-09-25 |
| Series | Muhammad Ali | Narrator (voice) | 2021-09-19 |
| Movie | Black as Night | Babineaux | 2021-10-01 |
| Movie | Pups Alone | The Wise Bartender | 2021-11-19 |
| Movie | The 420 Movie | Chief Ironweed | 2020-04-07 |
| Series | Love Life | Narrator (voice) | 2020-05-27 |
| Series | The Good Lord Bird | Herbert | 2020-10-04 |
| Movie | Horizon Line | Freddy Wyman | 2020-10-29 |
| Movie | Most Guys Are Losers | Al | 2020-10-24 |
| Movie | Good | Gregory Devereaux | 2020-10-22 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Self | 2020-10-06 |
| Movie | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Self | 2019-02-07 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness | Self | 2019-05-01 |
| Movie | 21 Bridges | Deputy Chief Spencer | 2019-10-24 |
| Movie | You Might Be the Killer | Sheriff James | 2019-05-21 |
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-09-20 |
| Series | The Last Kids on Earth | Thrull (voice) | 2019-09-17 |
| Movie | Tales from the Hood 2 | Portifoy Simms | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Sharon 1.2.3. | Tyrone | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| Movie | F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Self | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | Brothers in Arms | Self | 2018-11-13 |
| Movie | Love Jacked | Ed | 2018-12-07 |
| Series | Liverspots and Astronots | Dr. Pesh | 2018-10-18 |
| Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | American Dresser | Charlie | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Not a War Story | 2017-06-30 | |
| Movie | Savage Dog | Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
| Movie | The '91 Falcons | Narrator (voice) | 2017-12-07 |
| Series | Jackie Robinson | Narrator (voice) | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Movie | The Last Punch | Don King | 2016-02-06 |
| Movie | Service to Man | Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
| Movie | School of Rickey | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2016-08-13 |
| Movie | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable | 2016-05-11 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| 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 | 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 | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Kids vs Monsters | Barry | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe | 2015-07-17 |
| Series | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 2014-01-10 |
| Movie | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | 2014-11-03 | |
| Series | Belle's | William 'Big Bill' Cooper | 2013-02-01 |
| Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Series | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King (voice) | 2013-12-28 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | The President (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| 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 | Smiley | Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| Movie | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl | 2012-11-09 |
| Movie | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 2012-10-26 |
| Movie | Highway | Mustafa | 2012-09-09 |
| Movie | Double or Nothing | Homeless Dude | 2012-10-13 |
| Movie | No Saints for Sinners | 2011-01-01 | |
| Series | The Cape | Max Malini | 2011-01-09 |
| Movie | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | The Inheritance | Uncle Melvin | 2011-04-11 |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | Samuel Bleak | Ned Coffman | 2011-03-05 |
| 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 |
| Series | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Narrator (voice) | 2010-09-28 |
| Movie | New York Street Games | Self | 2010-07-28 |
| Movie | Charlie Valentine | Sal | 2009-03-01 |
| Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Coraline | The Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| Movie | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-02-17 |
| Movie | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown | 2009-06-26 |
| Series | Community | Elroy Patashnik | 2009-09-17 |
| Movie | The Butcher | Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
| Movie | Beautiful Loser | Morgan - Adult | 2009-09-16 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) | 2009-12-08 |
| Movie | Gamer | Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
| Movie | All About Steve | Corbitt | 2009-08-06 |
| Movie | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 2008-01-11 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| Movie | The Sensei | Minister | 2008-05-04 |
| Movie | The Fifth Commandment | Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton | 2008-08-21 |
| Movie | No Bad Days | Terrence | 2008-08-01 |
| Movie | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police | 2008-03-28 |
| Movie | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
| Movie | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
| Movie | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Movie | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore | 2007-05-11 |
| Series | The War | Narrator (voice) | 2007-09-23 |
| Movie | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-05-19 |
| Movie | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Self | 2006-03-28 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano | 2006-10-17 |
| Movie | The Oh in Ohio | Coach Popovitch | 2006-03-30 |
| Movie | Forbidden Fruits | Rev. Walters | 2006-07-25 |
| Movie | ATL | John Garnett | 2006-03-31 |
| Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2005-05-06 |
| Movie | The Proud Family Movie | Bebe Clone (voice) | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2005-11-09 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | Transporter 2 | Stappleton | 2005-08-03 |
| 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 'Imam' al-Walid (voice) | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator (voice) | 2004-04-13 |
| Movie | Beef II | Narrator (voice) | 2004-08-30 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 2004-06-11 |
| 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 | Kaena: The Prophecy | Voxem (english voice) | 2003-06-04 |
| 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 | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Movie | 29 Palms | The Sheriff | 2002-07-29 |
| Movie | Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | Jazz | Narrator (voice) | 2001-01-09 |
| Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Series | Disney's House of Mouse | 2001-01-13 | |
| Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| Movie | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| 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 | The Replacements | Lindell | 2000-08-11 |
| Movie | Pitch Black | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 2000-02-18 |
| Series | Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 1999-11-07 |
| Movie | ATF | FBI Director Richard Long | 1999-09-06 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | King Oliver | 1999-10-26 |
| Movie | There's Something About Mary | Charlie Jensen | 1998-07-15 |
| Movie | Armageddon | General Kimsey | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | Volcano | Lt. Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| Movie | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Series | Spawn | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-16 |
| Movie | Executive Target | Lamar | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad | 1997-11-15 |
| Movie | Never Met Picasso | Larry | 1997-11-28 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles | 1997-11-02 |
| Movie | Princess Mononoke | Okkoto / Narrator / Additional Voices | 1997-07-12 |
| Movie | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
| Movie | Eye for an Eye | Martin | 1996-01-12 |
| Movie | Larger Than Life | Hurst | 1996-07-26 |
| Movie | Johns | Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
| Movie | The Grave | The Priest | 1996-01-18 |
| Movie | Dead Presidents | Kirby | 1995-09-29 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| Movie | Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath (voice) | 1995-02-15 |
| 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 |
| Series | Gargoyles | Goliath (voice) | 1994-10-24 |
| Movie | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
| Series | Baseball | Narrator | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | The Last Outlaw | Lovecraft | 1993-10-30 |
| Movie | Hallelujah | Big Willie | 1993-12-22 |
| Movie | There Are No Children Here | John Paul Rivers | 1993-11-28 |
| Movie | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | Self - Host | 1993-11-02 |
| Movie | Article 99 | Luther Jermoe | 1992-03-13 |
| Movie | Nails | Noah Owens | 1992-07-25 |
| Movie | Final Analysis | Detective Huggins | 1992-02-07 |
| Movie | Murder in Black and White | Martin | 1990-01-07 |
| Movie | Marked for Death | Max | 1990-10-05 |
| Movie | Men at Work | Louis Fedders | 1990-08-24 |
| 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 |
| Series | Echoes | Ealwood Franks | 1988-05-25 |
| Movie | Ladykillers | Abe | 1988-11-09 |
| Movie | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-06-01 |
| Movie | They Live | Frank Armitage | 1988-11-04 |
| Movie | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Hot Pursuit | Alphonso | 1987-05-08 |
| Movie | Platoon | King | 1986-12-19 |
| Movie | The Whoopee Boys | Washington Square Peddler | 1986-08-22 |
| Movie | Terror in the Aisles | Childs (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1984-10-26 |
| Movie | The Thing | Childs | 1982-06-25 |
| Series | Hallelujah! | 1981-06-03 | |
| Movie | The Pirates of Penzance | Pirates and Police | 1980-06-01 |
| Movie | Coriolanus | Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen | 1979-03-31 |
| Movie | Carry On Teacher | Student (uncredited) | 1959-08-20 |