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:
- 214
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Tim Travers & The Time Traveler's Paradox
- Latest Project:
- Movie Sneaks 2024-10-31
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Tim Travers & The Time Traveler's Paradox | The Simulator | 2025 |
| Series | Duster | Ezra | 2025 |
| Series | Kite Man: Hell Yeah! | Darkseid (voice) | 2025 |
| Series | Hazbin Hotel | Husk (voice) | 2024-01-18 |
| Movie | Sneaks | (voice) | 2024-10-31 |
| Movie | Heist 88 | Buddha Ray | 2023-09-29 |
| Movie | American Fiction | Willy the Wonker | 2023-11-10 |
| Movie | All Fun and Games | 2023-08-30 | |
| Movie | A Snowy Day in Oakland | Mr. Monroe | 2023-03-17 |
| Movie | The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse | Narrator (voice) | 2022-03-25 |
| Movie | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 2022-02-07 |
| Movie | Unplugging | Gil | 2022-04-22 |
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2022-02-19 |
| Movie | Nope | Otis Haywood Sr. | 2022-07-20 |
| Movie | DC League of Super-Pets | Dog-El (voice) | 2022-07-27 |
| Movie | Entergalactic | Mr. Rager (voice) | 2022-09-28 |
| Series | From Scratch | Hershel Wheeler | 2022-10-21 |
| Movie | A Miracle Before Christmas | David | 2022-12-08 |
| Series | The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time | 2022-09-07 | |
| Movie | Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Ink Williams | 2022-09-19 |
| Movie | Insight | Captain Duke | 2021-03-12 |
| Movie | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Self | 2021-09-25 |
| Movie | Pups Alone | The Wise Bartender | 2021-11-19 |
| Movie | Black as Night | Babineaux | 2021-10-01 |
| Movie | The Gateway | Terry | 2021-09-03 |
| Movie | The Seventh Day | Father Louis | 2021-03-26 |
| Series | Love Life | Narrator (voice) | 2020-05-27 |
| Movie | Horizon Line | Freddy Wyman | 2020-10-29 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Self | 2020-10-06 |
| Movie | Most Guys Are Losers | Al | 2020-10-24 |
| Movie | 21 Bridges | Deputy Chief Spencer | 2019-10-24 |
| Movie | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Self | 2019-02-07 |
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-09-20 |
| Movie | You Might Be the Killer | Sheriff James | 2019-05-21 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness | Self | 2019-05-01 |
| Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| Movie | Tales from the Hood 2 | Portifoy Simms | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Love Jacked | Ed | 2018-12-07 |
| Series | Champaign Ill | Lafonso | 2018-12-12 |
| 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 | |
| Movie | Savage Dog | Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
| Series | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Movie | Service to Man | Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
| Movie | School of Rickey | 2016-08-13 | |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
| Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 2015-01-01 |
| 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 | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge | 2015-03-30 |
| Movie | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe | 2015-07-17 |
| Movie | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Detective Harris | 2015-10-20 |
| Movie | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | 2014-11-03 | |
| Series | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 2014-01-10 |
| Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Series | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| Series | Belle's | William 'Big Bill' Cooper | 2013-02-01 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | The President (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King | 2013-12-28 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Movie | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | The Undershepherd | Brother Wilks | 2012-02-15 |
| 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 | Double or Nothing | Homeless Dude | 2012-10-13 |
| Movie | Highway | Mustafa | 2012-09-09 |
| Movie | The Last Fall | 2012-03-09 | |
| Series | The Cape | Max Malini | 2011-01-09 |
| 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 | Samuel Bleak | 2011-03-05 | |
| Movie | Death at a Funeral | Reverend Davis | 2010-04-15 |
| Movie | Something Like A Business | Sebastian | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Meet Monica Velour | Claude | 2010-06-04 |
| Movie | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
| Movie | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry | 2010-10-10 |
| Movie | Chasing 3000 | Officer L. | 2010-07-16 |
| Series | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2010-09-28 |
| Movie | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Narrator | 2010-09-28 |
| Movie | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-02-17 |
| Movie | Coraline | Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
| Movie | Charlie Valentine | Sal | 2009-03-01 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| Movie | All About Steve | Corbitt | 2009-08-06 |
| Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) | 2009-12-08 |
| Movie | Gamer | Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
| Series | Community | Elroy Patashnik | 2009-09-17 |
| Movie | The Butcher | Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
| Movie | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown | 2009-06-26 |
| 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 | 2008-03-28 |
| 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 | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
| Series | The War | Narrator | 2008-03-05 |
| Movie | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore | 2007-05-11 |
| Movie | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Movie | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-05-19 |
| Movie | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Self | 2006-03-28 |
| Movie | Forbidden Fruits | Rev. Walters | 2006-07-25 |
| 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 | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2005-02-14 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2005-05-06 |
| Movie | Transporter 2 | Stappleton | 2005-08-03 |
| Movie | The Proud Family Movie | Bebe Clone (voice) | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director | 2004-03-12 |
| Movie | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Narrator (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
| Series | The Big House | 2004-04-02 | |
| Movie | Beef II | Narrator (voice) | 2004-08-30 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice) | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator | 2004-04-13 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Imam | 2004-06-11 |
| Movie | The Shakespeare Sessions | 2003-01-01 | |
| Movie | Kaena: The Prophecy | Voxem (english voice) | 2003-01-02 |
| Movie | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| 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 | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
| Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| Movie | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| Movie | 29 Palms | The Sheriff | 2002-07-29 |
| Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Movie | Barbershop | Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
| Movie | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| Movie | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
| Series | Disney's House of Mouse | 2001-01-13 | |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Series | Silent Service | Self - Host | 2000-01-06 |
| Movie | Requiem for a Dream | Big Tim | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Innocents | Detective Davis | 2000-01-10 |
| Movie | Where the Heart Is | Moses Whitecotten | 2000-04-27 |
| Movie | The Replacements | Lindell | 2000-08-11 |
| Movie | Pitch Black | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 2000-02-18 |
| Movie | ATF | F.B.I. 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 | 1999-10-27 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1999-08-17 |
| 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 | 1998-08-25 |
| Movie | The Tiger Woods Story | Earl Woods | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Movie | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad | 1997-11-15 |
| Movie | Volcano | Lt. Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-15 |
| Movie | Princess Mononoke | Okkoto / Narrator / Additional Voices | 1997-07-12 |
| 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 |
| Series | Spawn | Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-16 |
| Movie | Never Met Picasso | Larry | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | The Grave | The Priest | 1996-01-18 |
| Movie | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath (voice) | 1996-05-02 |
| Movie | Johns | Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
| Movie | Larger Than Life | Hurst | 1996-07-26 |
| Movie | Eye for an Eye | Martin | 1996-01-12 |
| Movie | Clockers | André the Giant | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Dead Presidents | Kirby | 1995-09-29 |
| Movie | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| Series | Gargoyles | Goliath (voice) | 1994-10-24 |
| Movie | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
| Series | Baseball | Narrator | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | Reality Bites | Roger | 1994-02-18 |
| Movie | The Last Outlaw | Lovecraft | 1993-10-30 |
| 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 | Nails | Noah Owens | 1992-07-25 |
| Movie | Final Analysis | Detective Huggins | 1992-02-07 |
| Movie | Article 99 | Luther Jermoe | 1992-03-13 |
| Movie | Hallelujah Anyhow | Will | 1991-01-27 |
| Movie | Marked for Death | Max | 1990-10-05 |
| Movie | Men at Work | Louis Fedders | 1990-08-24 |
| Movie | Always | Powerhouse | 1989-12-22 |
| Movie | Road House | Ernie Bass | 1989-05-19 |
| 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 | Ladykillers | Abe | 1988-11-09 |
| Movie | They Live | Frank Armitage | 1988-11-04 |
| Movie | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-06-01 |
| Series | Echoes | Ealwood Franks | 1988-05-25 |
| Movie | Hot Pursuit | Alphonso | 1987-05-08 |
| Movie | Platoon | King | 1986-12-19 |
| 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 |