Keith David
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1956-06-04 (68 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
The Thing Expanded
as Self
(2025)
Sneaks
as O.G. (voice)
(2025)
Shelby Oaks
as Morton Jacobson
(2025)
The Gettysburg Address
as Frederick Douglass (voice)
(2025)
Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox
as The Simulator
(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)
Heist 88
as Buddha Ray
(2023)
A Snowy Day in Oakland
as Mr. Monroe
(2023)
From the Shadows
as Dr. Leonard Bertram
(2023)
(2022)
Nope
as Otis Haywood Sr.
(2022)
DC League of Super-Pets
as Dog-El (voice)
(2022)
Catwoman: Hunted
as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)
(2022)
Entergalactic
as Mr. Rager (voice)
(2022)
Unplugging
as Gil
(2022)
(2022)
The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
In Search of Tomorrow
as Self - Interviewee
(2022)
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
as Ink Williams
(2022)
A Miracle Before Christmas
as David
(2022)
Shut Up and Ride
as Narrator (voice)
(2021)
The Seventh Day
as Father Louis
(2021)
Black as Night
as Babineaux
(2021)
The Gateway
as Terry
(2021)
Pups Alone
as The Wise Bartender
(2021)
Insight
as Captain Duke
(2021)
(2021)
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
as Self
(2020)
Horizon Line
as Freddy Wyman
(2020)
Good
as Gregory Devereaux
(2020)
The 420 Movie
as Chief Ironweed
(2020)
Most Guys Are Losers
as Al
(2020)
(2020)
Cuba's Cancer Hope
as Narrator (voice)
(2019)
21 Bridges
as Deputy Chief Spencer
(2019)
You Might Be the Killer
as Sheriff James
(2019)
In Search of Darkness
as Self
(2019)
The Wedding Year
as Preston
(2019)
(2018)
Night School
as Gerald
(2018)
Final Space
as Bolo
(2018)
Tales from the Hood 2
as Portifoy Simms
(2018)
American Dresser
as Charlie
(2018)
Love Jacked
as Ed
(2018)
Sharon 1.2.3.
as Tyrone
(2018)
Brothers in Arms
as Self
(2018)
Ray Meets Helen
as Harve
(2018)
(2017)
Savage Dog
as Valentine
(2017)
(2017)
The '91 Falcons
as Narrator (voice)
(2016)
The Nice Guys
as Older Guy
(2016)
Nina
as Clifton's Father
(2016)
Range 15
as Colonel Holloway
(2016)
Dirty Lies
as Doc
(2016)
Blue: The American Dream
as Terry Venable
(2016)
The North Star
as Frederick Douglass
(2016)
Service to Man
as Dean Holmes
(2016)
School of Rickey
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
as Detective Harris
(2015)
Field of Lost Shoes
as Old Judge
(2015)
Union Furnace
as Pin Stripe
(2015)
Boiling Pot
as Agent Long
(2015)
Kids vs Monsters
as Barry
(2015)
(2015)
Secrets of the Magic City
as Mr. Daniels
(2014)
(2014)
Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man
as Narrator
(2013)
Free Birds
as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)
(2013)
Assault on Wall Street
as Freddy
(2013)
Don't Pass Me By
as David Knox
(2013)
Frog Kingdom
as Frog King (voice)
(2013)
Sons of Liberty
as Nathan Reynolds
(2013)
Black Asylum
as Agent Davis
(2012)
Cloud Atlas
as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
(2012)
Smiley
as Diamond
(2012)
Christmas in Compton
as Big Earl
(2012)
Highway
as Mustafa
(2012)
AniMen: The Galactic Battle
as Sergeant Brass
(2012)
The Undershepherd
as Brother Wilks
(2012)
The Last Fall
as Sydney Bishop
(2012)
Double or Nothing
as Homeless Dude
(2011)
The Greening of Whitney Brown
as Clerk
(2011)
(2011)
The Inheritance
as Uncle Melvin
(2011)
Hopelessly in June
as Dalbert Myers
(2011)
(2010)
Death at a Funeral
as Reverend Davis
(2010)
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
as Terry
(2010)
Lottery Ticket
as Sweet Tee
(2010)
Chain Letter
as Det. Jim Crenshaw
(2010)
Meet Monica Velour
as Claude
(2010)
Chasing 3000
as Officer L.
(2010)
Something Like A Business
as Sebastian
(2010)
New York Street Games
as Self
(2010)
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
as Narrator
(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)
All About Steve
as Corbitt
(2009)
Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia
as Commander Scott Boytano
(2009)
Against the Dark
as Lt. Waters
(2009)
The Butcher
as Larry Cobb
(2009)
Don McKay
as Otis Kent
(2009)
Charlie Valentine
as Sal
(2009)
Pastor Brown
as Pastor Brown
(2009)
Beautiful Loser
as Morgan - Adult
(2009)
Blue
as Terry Venable
(2008)
Superhero Movie
as The Chief of Police
(2008)
First Sunday
as Judge B. Bennet Galloway
(2008)
Justice League: The New Frontier
as The Centre (voice)
(2008)
My Mom's New Boyfriend
as FBI Chief Conrad
(2008)
The Sensei
as Minister
(2008)
S.I.S.
as Joseph Armstrong
(2008)
The Fifth Commandment
as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton
(2008)
No Bad Days
as Terrence
(2008)
The Candlelight Murders
as Pastor Bob
(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)
Forbidden Fruits
as Rev. Walters
(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)
(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)
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
as CIA Director
(2004)
The Chronicles of Riddick
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
(2004)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)
(2004)
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
Beef II
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
Last Stand of the Great Bear
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Agent Cody Banks
as CIA Director
(2003)
Hollywood Homicide
as Leon
(2003)
Head of State
as Bernard Cooper
(2003)
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Inside Mecca
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
(2003)
Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom
as Narrator (voice)
(2002)
Barbershop
as Lester Wallace
(2002)
29 Palms
as The Sheriff
(2002)
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Frank (They Live) (archive footage)
(2002)
Mark Twain
as Narrator (voice)
(2002)
Stalking Leopards
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
as Council Member (voice)
(2001)
Novocaine
as Detective Lunt
(2001)
Semper Fi
as Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff
(2001)
Pretty When You Cry
as Detective Charles Desett
(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)
The Replacements
as Lindell
(2000)
Pitch Black
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
(2000)
Where the Heart Is
as Moses Whitecotten
(2000)
Innocents
as Detective Davis
(1999)
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle
as Al Simmons / Spawn (voice)
(1999)
ATF
as FBI Director Richard Long
(1999)
The Grizzlies of Siberia
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
Armageddon
as General Kimsey
(1998)
There's Something About Mary
as Charlie Jensen
(1998)
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
as Al Simmons / Spawn (voice)
(1998)
The Tiger Woods Story
as Earl Woods
(1997)
Hercules
as Apollo the Sun God (voice)
(1997)
Volcano
as Lt. Ed Fox
(1997)
Todd McFarlane's Spawn
as Al Simmons / Spawn (voice)
(1997)
Executive Target
as Lamar
(1997)
Don King: Only in America
as Herbert Muhammad
(1997)
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
as Algric Bartles
(1997)
Flipping
as Leo Richards, Gang Leader
(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)
Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken
as Goliath (voice)
(1996)
Never Met Picasso
as Larry
(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)
Reality Bites
as Roger
(1994)
The Puppet Masters
as Alex Holland
(1994)
Jewels of the Caribbean Sea
as Narrator (voice)
(1993)
The Last Outlaw
as Lovecraft
(1993)
(1993)
Hallelujah
as Big Willie
(1993)
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
as Self - Host
(1993)
Lions Of Darkness
as Narrator (voice)
(1993)
There Are No Children Here
as John Paul Rivers
(1992)
Final Analysis
as Detective Huggins
(1992)
Nails
as Noah Owens
(1992)
Article 99
as Luther Jermoe
(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)
Road House
as Ernie Bass
(1989)
Always
as Powerhouse
(1988)
They Live
as Frank Armitage
(1988)
Braddock: Missing in Action III
as Embassy Gate Captain
(1988)
Bird
as Buster Franklin
(1988)
Off Limits
as Maurice
(1988)
Stars & Bars
as Eugene Teagarden
(1988)
Ladykillers
as Abe
(1988)
Christmas in Tattertown
as Saxophone (voice)
(1988)
The Making of 'They Live'
as Self
(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)