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:
- 229
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Thing Expanded
- Latest Project:
- Series President Curtis 2026
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Thing Expanded | Self | 2026 |
| Series | President Curtis | President Andre Curtis (voice) | 2026 |
| Movie | Sneaks | O.G. (voice) | 2025-04-17 |
| 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 | Shelby Oaks | Morton Jacobson | 2025-10-02 |
| Movie | The Prank | Principal Henderson | 2024-03-15 |
| Series | Hazbin Hotel | Husk (voice) | 2024-01-18 |
| Movie | Mufasa: The Lion King | Masego (voice) | 2024-12-18 |
| Movie | Betty & Blue | Willie 'Blue' Watson | 2024-06-04 |
| Movie | From the Shadows | Dr. Leonard Bertram | 2023-09-22 |
| Movie | American Fiction | Willy the Wonker | 2023-11-10 |
| Movie | A Snowy Day in Oakland | Mr. Monroe | 2023-03-17 |
| Movie | Nope | Otis Haywood Sr. | 2022-07-20 |
| Movie | Unplugging | Gil | 2022-04-22 |
| Movie | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 2022-02-07 |
| Movie | DC League of Super-Pets | Dog-El (voice) | 2022-07-27 |
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2022-02-19 |
| Movie | A Miracle Before Christmas | David | 2022-12-08 |
| Series | From Scratch | Hershel Wheeler | 2022-10-21 |
| Series | The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time | Self | 2022-09-07 |
| Movie | 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! | Self | 2022-10-08 |
| Movie | Entergalactic | Mr. Rager (voice) | 2022-09-28 |
| Movie | Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Ink Williams | 2022-09-19 |
| Movie | The Seventh Day | Father Louis | 2021-03-26 |
| Movie | The Gateway | Terry | 2021-09-03 |
| Movie | Insight | Captain Duke | 2021-03-12 |
| Movie | Black as Night | Babineaux | 2021-10-01 |
| Movie | Pups Alone | The Wise Bartender | 2021-11-19 |
| Series | Muhammad Ali | Narrator (voice) | 2021-09-19 |
| Movie | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Self | 2021-09-25 |
| Series | Love Life | Narrator (voice) | 2020-05-27 |
| Movie | The 420 Movie | Chief Ironweed | 2020-04-07 |
| Series | The Good Lord Bird | Herbert | 2020-10-04 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Self | 2020-10-06 |
| 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 | 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 | Sharon 1.2.3. | Tyrone | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Tales from the Hood 2 | Portifoy Simms | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | American Dresser | Charlie | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| Movie | Love Jacked | Ed | 2018-12-07 |
| Movie | F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Self | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | Brothers in Arms | Self | 2018-11-13 |
| Series | Liverspots and Astronots | Dr. Pesh | 2018-10-18 |
| Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| 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 | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Movie | The Last Punch | Don King | 2016-02-06 |
| Movie | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable | 2016-05-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Movie | Service to Man | Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Movie | School of Rickey | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2016-08-13 |
| Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
| 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 | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Detective Harris | 2015-10-20 |
| 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 | |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King (voice) | 2013-12-28 |
| Series | Belle's | William 'Big Bill' Cooper | 2013-02-01 |
| Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Series | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | The President (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Movie | The Undershepherd | Brother Wilks | 2012-02-15 |
| Movie | The Last Fall | Sydney Bishop | 2012-03-09 |
| Movie | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | Smiley | Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| Movie | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl | 2012-11-09 |
| Movie | Highway | Mustafa | 2012-09-09 |
| Movie | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 2012-10-26 |
| 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 | Samuel Bleak | Ned Coffman | 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 | Something Like A Business | Sebastian | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Meet Monica Velour | Claude | 2010-06-04 |
| Movie | Death at a Funeral | Reverend Davis | 2010-04-15 |
| Movie | Chasing 3000 | Officer L. | 2010-07-16 |
| Series | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Narrator (voice) | 2010-09-28 |
| Movie | New York Street Games | Self | 2010-07-28 |
| Movie | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry | 2010-10-10 |
| Movie | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
| Movie | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Charlie Valentine | Sal | 2009-03-01 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| Movie | Coraline | The Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
| Movie | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-02-17 |
| Movie | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown | 2009-06-26 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) | 2009-12-08 |
| Movie | The Butcher | Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
| Movie | Beautiful Loser | Morgan - Adult | 2009-09-16 |
| Series | Community | Elroy Patashnik | 2009-09-17 |
| Movie | Gamer | Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
| Movie | All About Steve | Corbitt | 2009-08-06 |
| Series | The War | Narrator (voice) | 2008-03-05 |
| Movie | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 2008-01-11 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police | 2008-03-28 |
| Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| Movie | The Fifth Commandment | Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton | 2008-08-21 |
| Movie | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
| Movie | No Bad Days | Terrence | 2008-08-01 |
| Movie | The Sensei | Minister | 2008-05-04 |
| Movie | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
| Movie | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Movie | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-05-19 |
| Movie | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore | 2007-05-11 |
| Movie | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2006-01-20 |
| 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 | Forbidden Fruits | Rev. Walters | 2006-07-25 |
| Movie | ATL | John Garnett | 2006-03-31 |
| Movie | The Oh in Ohio | Coach Popovitch | 2006-03-30 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Big House | 2004-04-02 | |
| 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: Dark Fury | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice) | 2004-06-15 |
| 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 | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-01 |
| Movie | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-06 |
| Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| 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 (voice) | 2001-01-09 |
| Movie | Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | Disney's House of Mouse | 2001-01-13 | |
| 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 |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| Movie | Pitch Black | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 2000-02-18 |
| Movie | Innocents | Detective Davis | 2000-01-10 |
| Movie | Requiem for a Dream | Big Tim | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Where the Heart Is | Moses Whitecotten | 2000-04-27 |
| Movie | The Replacements | Lindell | 2000-08-11 |
| Movie | ATF | FBI Director Richard Long | 1999-09-06 |
| Series | Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 1999-11-07 |
| 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 |
| Series | Spawn | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-16 |
| Movie | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles | 1997-11-02 |
| Movie | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad | 1997-11-15 |
| Movie | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
| Movie | Princess Mononoke | Okkoto / Narrator / Additional Voices | 1997-07-12 |
| Movie | Executive Target | Lamar | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Never Met Picasso | Larry | 1996-01-01 |
| 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 | Larger Than Life | Hurst | 1996-07-26 |
| Movie | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath (voice) | 1996-05-02 |
| Movie | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| Movie | Clockers | André the Giant | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Dead Presidents | Kirby | 1995-09-29 |
| 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 Last Outlaw | Lovecraft | 1993-10-30 |
| Movie | Hallelujah | Big Willie | 1993-12-22 |
| Movie | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | Self - Host | 1993-11-02 |
| Movie | There Are No Children Here | John Paul Rivers | 1993-11-28 |
| Movie | Final Analysis | Detective Huggins | 1992-02-07 |
| Movie | Article 99 | Luther Jermoe | 1992-03-13 |
| Movie | Nails | Noah Owens | 1992-07-25 |
| Movie | Murder in Black and White | Martin | 1990-01-07 |
| 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 | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Ladykillers | Abe | 1988-11-09 |
| Movie | They Live | Frank Armitage | 1988-11-04 |
| Movie | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-06-01 |
| 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 |