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:
- 225
- First Appeared:
- In the series Duster
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Gettysburg Address 2025-11-19
Known For
Filmography
| Series | Duster | Ezra | 2025 |
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 2025-11-19 |
| Movie | Sneaks | O.G. (voice) | 2025-04-24 |
| Movie | Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox | The Simulator | 2024-03-09 |
| Series | Hazbin Hotel | Husk (voice) | 2024-01-18 |
| Movie | The Prank | Principal Henderson | 2024-03-15 |
| Series | Kite Man: Hell Yeah! | Darkseid (voice) | 2024-07-18 |
| Movie | Mufasa: The Lion King | Masego (voice) | 2024-12-18 |
| Series | Invincible Fight Girl | Narrator (voice) | 2024-11-03 |
| Movie | Shelby Oaks | Morton Jacobson | 2024-07-20 |
| 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 | Heist 88 | Buddha Ray | 2023-10-01 |
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2022-02-19 |
| Movie | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 2022-02-07 |
| Movie | Unplugging | Gil | 2022-04-22 |
| Movie | Nope | Otis Haywood Sr. | 2022-07-20 |
| Movie | A Miracle Before Christmas | David | 2022-12-08 |
| Series | From Scratch | Hershel Wheeler | 2022-10-21 |
| 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 | Biography: “Rowdy” Roddy Piper | Self | 2021-04-25 |
| Movie | Insight | Captain Duke | 2021-03-12 |
| Movie | The Gateway | Terry | 2021-09-03 |
| Movie | The Seventh Day | Father Louis | 2021-03-26 |
| Movie | Black as Night | Babineaux | 2021-10-01 |
| Series | Muhammad Ali | Narrator | 2021-09-19 |
| Movie | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Self | 2021-09-25 |
| Movie | Pups Alone | The Wise Bartender | 2021-11-19 |
| Series | Dead Talk Live | Self - Guest | 2020-04-25 |
| Series | Love Life | Narrator (voice) | 2020-05-27 |
| Movie | Good | Gregory Devereaux | 2020-10-22 |
| 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 | 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 | American Dresser | Charlie | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| Series | Champaign Ill | Lafonso | 2018-12-12 |
| Movie | Love Jacked | Ed | 2018-12-07 |
| Movie | F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Himself | 2018-11-29 |
| 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 | 2017-12-07 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Series | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | Service to Man | Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
| Movie | School of Rickey | 2016-08-13 | |
| Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
| 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 | |
| Series | The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW | Narrator | 2014-08-22 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King | 2013-12-28 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| 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 | 2012-03-09 | |
| 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 | 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 | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2010-09-28 |
| Movie | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry | 2010-10-10 |
| Movie | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
| Movie | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Narrator | 2010-09-28 |
| Movie | Charlie Valentine | Sal | 2009-03-01 |
| Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| Movie | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown | 2009-06-26 |
| Movie | Coraline | Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
| Movie | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-02-17 |
| Movie | The Butcher | Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) | 2009-12-08 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| Movie | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 2008-01-11 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Series | The War | Narrator | 2008-03-05 |
| 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 | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-05-19 |
| Movie | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore | 2007-05-11 |
| Movie | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2006-01-20 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano | 2006-10-17 |
| Movie | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Self | 2006-03-28 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
| Movie | The Shakespeare Sessions | 2003-01-01 | |
| Movie | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| Movie | Kaena: The Prophecy | Voxem (english voice) | 2003-06-04 |
| Movie | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-06 |
| Movie | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-01 |
| Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| Movie | Barbershop | Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
| Movie | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| 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 | 2001-01-09 |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| Movie | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Movie | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
| Movie | Innocents | Detective Davis | 2000-01-10 |
| Movie | Pitch Black | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 2000-02-18 |
| Movie | Where the Heart Is | Moses Whitecotten | 2000-04-27 |
| Movie | The Replacements | Lindell | 2000-08-11 |
| Movie | Requiem for a Dream | Big Tim | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1999-08-17 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | King Oliver | 1999-10-27 |
| 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 | Armageddon | General Kimsey | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | The Tiger Woods Story | Earl Woods | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | There's Something About Mary | Charlie Jensen | 1998-07-15 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1998-08-25 |
| Movie | Volcano | Lt. Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| Movie | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-15 |
| Movie | Executive Target | Lamar | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad | 1997-11-15 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles | 1997-11-02 |
| Series | Spawn | Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-16 |
| Movie | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
| Movie | Never Met Picasso | Larry | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Eye for an Eye | Martin | 1996-01-12 |
| Movie | Larger Than Life | Hurst | 1996-07-26 |
| Movie | The Grave | The Priest | 1996-01-18 |
| Movie | Johns | Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
| Movie | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath (voice) | 1996-05-02 |
| Movie | Clockers | André the Giant | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| Movie | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson | 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 | There Are No Children Here | John Paul Rivers | 1993-11-28 |
| Movie | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | Self - Host | 1993-11-02 |
| Movie | Final Analysis | Detective Huggins | 1992-02-07 |
| Movie | Article 99 | Luther Jermoe | 1992-03-13 |
| Movie | Nails | Noah Owens | 1992-07-25 |
| Movie | Hallelujah Anyhow | Will | 1991-01-27 |
| Movie | Men at Work | Louis Fedders | 1990-08-24 |
| Movie | Marked for Death | Max | 1990-10-05 |
| Movie | Always | Powerhouse | 1989-12-22 |
| Movie | Road House | Ernie Bass | 1989-05-19 |
| Movie | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Embassy Gate Captain | 1988-01-22 |
| Movie | Off Limits | Maurice | 1988-03-11 |
| Movie | The Making of 'They Live' | Self | 1988-01-01 |
| Movie | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-06-01 |
| Movie | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Stars & Bars | Eugene Teagarden | 1988-03-18 |
| Movie | Ladykillers | Abe | 1988-11-09 |
| Movie | They Live | Frank Armitage | 1988-11-04 |
| Movie | Hot Pursuit | Alphonso | 1987-05-08 |
| Movie | The Whoopee Boys | Washington Square Peddler | 1986-08-22 |
| 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 |