Keith David
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1956-06-04 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Keith David
Biography
Keith David (born June 4, 1956) 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.
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Acting
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
as Sosa
ATL 2: The Homecoming
as John Garnett
The Thing Expanded
as Self
The Price for Freedom
as Reverend J.W. Bruno
(2027)
Captain Zero: The Movie
as The Depression Demon (voice)
(2025)
Sneaks
as O.G. (voice)
(2025)
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox
as The Simulator
(2025)
Shelby Oaks
as Morton Jacobson
(2025)
The Gettysburg Address
as Frederick Douglass (voice)
(2025)
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
as Husk (voice)
(2025)
(2025)
Omniscient
as Alistair
(2025)
Portal to Hell
as Mr. Bobshank
(2024)
Mufasa: The Lion King
as Masego (voice)
(2024)
The Prank
as Principal Henderson
(2024)
Betty & Blue
as Willie 'Blue' Watson
(2023)
American Fiction
as Willy the Wonker
(2023)
From the Shadows
as Dr. Leonard Bertram
(2023)
A Snowy Day in Oakland
as Mr. Monroe
(2023)
Heist 88
as Buddha Ray
(2023)
(2022)
Nope
as Otis Haywood Sr.
(2022)
DC League of Super-Pets
as Dog-El (voice)
(2022)
Entergalactic
as Mr. Rager (voice)
(2022)
Catwoman: Hunted
as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)
(2022)
A Miracle Before Christmas
as David
(2022)
The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
Unplugging
as Gil
(2022)
(2022)
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
as Ink Williams
(2022)
In Search of Tomorrow
as Self - Interviewee
(2022)
Shut Up and Ride
as Narrator (voice)
(2021)
The Gateway
as Terry
(2021)
Pups Alone
as The Wise Bartender
(2021)
Black as Night
as Babineaux
(2021)
The Seventh Day
as Father Louis
(2021)
Insight
as Captain Duke
(2021)
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
as Self
(2020)
Horizon Line
as Freddy Wyman
(2020)
Cuba's Cancer Hope
as Narrator (voice)
(2020)
The 420 Movie
as Chief Ironweed
(2020)
Most Guys Are Losers
as Al
(2020)
(2020)
Good
as Gregory Devereaux
(2019)
21 Bridges
as Deputy Chief Spencer
(2019)
You Might Be the Killer
as Sheriff James
(2019)
(2019)
The Wedding Year
as Preston
(2019)
In Search of Darkness
as Self
(2018)
Night School
as Gerald
(2018)
Ray Meets Helen
as Harve
(2018)
Sharon 1.2.3.
as Tyrone
(2018)
American Dresser
as Charlie
(2018)
Tales from the Hood 2
as Portifoy Simms
(2018)
Love Jacked
as Ed
(2018)
Brothers in Arms
as Self
(2018)
(2017)
Savage Dog
as Valentine
(2017)
(2017)
The '91 Falcons
as Narrator (voice)
(2016)
The Nice Guys
as Older Guy
(2016)
The Last Punch
as Don King
(2016)
Range 15
as Colonel Holloway
(2016)
Dirty Lies
as Doc
(2016)
Blue: The American Dream
as Terry Venable
(2016)
Nina
as Clifton's Father
(2016)
The North Star
as Frederick Douglass
(2016)
School of Rickey
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2016)
Service to Man
as Dean Holmes
(2015)
Union Furnace
as Pin Stripe
(2015)
Kids vs Monsters
as Barry
(2015)
Boiling Pot
as Agent Long
(2015)
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
as Detective Harris
(2015)
Field of Lost Shoes
as Old Judge
(2015)
(2015)
Secrets of the Magic City
as Mr. Daniels
(2014)
Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man
as Narrator
(2014)
(2013)
Assault on Wall Street
as Freddy
(2013)
Free Birds
as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)
(2013)
Black Asylum
as Agent Davis
(2013)
Don't Pass Me By
as David Knox
(2013)
Sons of Liberty
as Nathan Reynolds
(2013)
Frog Kingdom
as Frog King (voice)
(2012)
Cloud Atlas
as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
(2012)
Highway
as Mustafa
(2012)
Smiley
as Diamond
(2012)
Christmas in Compton
as Big Earl
(2012)
The Undershepherd
as Brother Wilks
(2012)
Double or Nothing
as Homeless Dude
(2012)
AniMen: The Galactic Battle
as Sergeant Brass
(2012)
The Last Fall
as Sydney Bishop
(2011)
Hopelessly in June
as Dalbert Myers
(2011)
The Greening of Whitney Brown
as Clerk
(2011)
Samuel Bleak
as Ned Coffman
(2011)
The Inheritance
as Uncle Melvin
(2011)
(2010)
Death at a Funeral
as Reverend Davis
(2010)
Chasing 3000
as Officer L.
(2010)
Lottery Ticket
as Sweet Tee
(2010)
Meet Monica Velour
as Claude
(2010)
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
as Narrator
(2010)
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
as Terry
(2010)
Chain Letter
as Det. Jim Crenshaw
(2010)
Something Like A Business
as Sebastian
(2010)
New York Street Games
as Self
(2010)
Africa's Lost Eden
as Narrator (voice)
(2009)
Coraline
as The Cat (voice)
(2009)
The Princess and the Frog
as Dr. Facilier (voice)
(2009)
Gamer
as Agent Keith
(2009)
Charlie Valentine
as Sal
(2009)
Against the Dark
as Lt. Waters
(2009)
The Butcher
as Larry Cobb
(2009)
All About Steve
as Corbitt
(2009)
Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia
as Commander Scott Boytano
(2009)
Pastor Brown
as Pastor Brown
(2009)
Don McKay
as Otis Kent
(2009)
Blue
as Terry Venable
(2009)
Beautiful Loser
as Morgan - Adult
(2008)
Superhero Movie
as The Chief of Police
(2008)
The Fifth Commandment
as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton
(2008)
First Sunday
as Judge B. Bennet Galloway
(2008)
Justice League: The New Frontier
as The Centre (voice)
(2008)
No Bad Days
as Terrence
(2008)
The Sensei
as Minister
(2008)
My Mom's New Boyfriend
as FBI Chief Conrad
(2008)
The Candlelight Murders
as Pastor Bob
(2008)
S.I.S.
as Joseph Armstrong
(2007)
Delta Farce
as Sgt. Kilgore
(2007)
The Last Sentinel
as Colonel Norton
(2007)
(2007)
The Color Purple: The Color of Success
as Narrator (voice)
(2006)
ATL
as John Garnett
(2006)
(2006)
Dirty
as Captain Spain
(2006)
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
as MCPO Scott Boytano
(2006)
The Oh in Ohio
as Coach Popovitch
(2006)
Forbidden Fruits
as Rev. Walters
(2005)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Father
(2005)
Transporter 2
as Stappleton
(2005)
Crash
as Lt. Dixon
(2005)
The Proud Family Movie
as Bebe Clone (voice)
(2004)
The Chronicles of Riddick
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
(2004)
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
as CIA Director
(2004)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
Beef II
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)
(2004)
Last Stand of the Great Bear
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Hollywood Homicide
as Leon
(2003)
Agent Cody Banks
as CIA Director
(2003)
Head of State
as Bernard Cooper
(2003)
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
(2003)
Inside Mecca
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom
as Narrator (voice)
(2002)
Barbershop
as Lester Wallace
(2002)
29 Palms
as The Sheriff
(2002)
Mark Twain
as Narrator (voice)
(2002)
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Frank (They Live) (archive footage)
(2002)
Stalking Leopards
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
as Council Member (voice)
(2001)
Pretty When You Cry
as Detective Charles Desett
(2001)
Novocaine
as Detective Lunt
(2001)
Semper Fi
as Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff
(2001)
Home Invaders
as Matador
(2001)
Egypt's Golden Empire
as Narrator
(2001)
Boxing: In and Out of the Ring
as Narrator (voice)
(2000)
Requiem for a Dream
as Big Tim
(2000)
Where the Heart Is
as Moses Whitecotten
(2000)
The Replacements
as Lindell
(2000)
Pitch Black
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
(2000)
Innocents
as Detective Davis
(1999)
The Grizzlies of Siberia
as Narrator (voice)
(1999)
ATF
as FBI Director Richard Long
(1999)
(1998)
Armageddon
as General Kimsey
(1998)
There's Something About Mary
as Charlie Jensen
(1998)
The Tiger Woods Story
as Earl Woods
(1997)
Hercules
as Apollo the Sun God (voice)
(1997)
Volcano
as Lt. Ed Fox
(1997)
Executive Target
as Lamar
(1997)
Flipping
as Leo Richards, Gang Leader
(1997)
Don King: Only in America
as Herbert Muhammad
(1997)
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
as Algric Bartles
(1996)
Eye for an Eye
as Martin
(1996)
Larger Than Life
as Hurst
(1996)
The Grave
as The Priest
(1996)
Johns
as Homeless John
(1996)
Never Met Picasso
as Larry
(1996)
Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken
as Goliath (voice)
(1995)
The Quick and the Dead
as Sgt. Clay Cantrell
(1995)
Dead Presidents
as Kirby
(1995)
Clockers
as André the Giant
(1995)
Blue in the Face
as Jackie Robinson
(1994)
Jewels of the Caribbean Sea
as Narrator (voice)
(1994)
The Puppet Masters
as Alex Holland
(1994)
Reality Bites
as Roger
(1993)
The Last Outlaw
as Lovecraft
(1993)
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
as Self - Host
(1993)
There Are No Children Here
as John Paul Rivers
(1993)
Hallelujah
as Big Willie
(1993)
Lions Of Darkness
as Narrator (voice)
(1992)
Article 99
as Luther Jermoe
(1992)
Final Analysis
as Detective Huggins
(1992)
Nails
as Noah Owens
(1991)
Hallelujah Anyhow
as Will
(1990)
Marked for Death
as Max
(1990)
Men at Work
as Louis Fedders
(1990)
Murder in Black and White
as Martin
(1989)
Always
as Powerhouse
(1989)
Road House
as Ernie Bass
(1988)
They Live
as Frank Armitage
(1988)
Bird
as Buster Franklin
(1988)
Ladykillers
as Abe
(1988)
Braddock: Missing in Action III
as Embassy Gate Captain
(1988)
Off Limits
as Maurice
(1988)
Christmas in Tattertown
as Saxophone (voice)
(1988)
The Making of 'They Live'
as Self
(1988)
Stars & Bars
as Eugene Teagarden
(1987)
Hot Pursuit
as Alphonso
(1986)
Platoon
as King
(1986)
The Whoopee Boys
as Washington Square Peddler
(1982)
The Thing
as Childs
(1980)
The Pirates of Penzance
as Pirates and Police
(1979)
Coriolanus
as Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
Crew
(2014)
(2011)
The Inheritance
Executive Producer
(2004)