Keith David
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 City, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 205
- First Appeared:
- In the series NOVA 1974-03-03
- Latest Project:
- Movie In Search of Tomorrow 2021-04-01
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Himself | 2021-04-01 |
| Movie | Horizon Line | Wyman | 2021 |
| Series | Battle Force: Andromeda | 2021 | |
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 2021 |
| Movie | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | 2019-02-07 | |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness | Himself | 2019-05-01 |
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-09-20 |
| Series | The Last Kids on Earth | 2019-09-17 | |
| Movie | 21 Bridges | Deputy Chief Spencer | 2019-10-24 |
| Movie | Tales from the Hood 2 | Portifoy Simms | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| Movie | American Dresser | Charlie | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | Love Jacked | Ed | 2018-12-07 |
| 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 | Future Man | Dr. Elias Kronish | 2017-11-14 |
| Series | Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters | Malcom Kane | 2017-11-16 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Series | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Movie | The North Star | Frederick Douglas | 2016-03-01 |
| Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| Movie | Service to Man | Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
| Series | What Lives Inside | Soot | 2015-03-25 |
| Series | Big Time in Hollywood, Fl | Agent Everett Malloy | 2015-03-25 |
| Movie | Kids vs Monsters | Barry | 2015-01-01 |
| Movie | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge | 2015-03-30 |
| Movie | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe | 2015-07-17 |
| Movie | Secrets of the Magic City | Mr. Daniels | 2015-06-26 |
| Movie | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Detective Harris | 2015-10-20 |
| Movie | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Series | BoJack Horseman | Lion Musician (voice) | 2014-08-22 |
| Series | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 2014-01-10 |
| Series | Scorpion | Warden | 2014-09-22 |
| Series | The Flash | Solovar (voice) | 2014-10-07 |
| Movie | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | 2014-11-03 | |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Series | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Series | Belle's | William 'Big Bill' Cooper | 2013-02-01 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King | 2013-12-28 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | The President (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Series | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | The Cheshire Cat (voice) | 2013-10-10 |
| Movie | The Last Fall | 2012-03-09 | |
| Movie | Smiley | Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| Movie | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl | 2012-11-09 |
| Movie | Double or Nothing | Homeless Dude | 2012-10-13 |
| Movie | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 2012-10-26 |
| Series | The Cape | Max Malini | 2011-01-09 |
| Movie | Samuel Bleak | 2011-03-05 | |
| Movie | The Inheritance | Uncle Melvin | 2011-04-11 |
| Series | Person of Interest | Terence Beale | 2011-09-22 |
| Movie | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers | 2011-06-06 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Narrator | 2010-09-28 |
| Movie | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry | 2010-10-10 |
| Movie | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
| Movie | All About Steve | Corbitt | 2009-03-19 |
| Movie | Coraline | Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
| Movie | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| Movie | Charlie Valentine | Sal | 2009-03-01 |
| Series | Community | Elroy Patashnik | 2009-09-17 |
| Movie | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown | 2009-06-26 |
| Movie | Beautiful Loser | Morgan - Adult | 2009-09-16 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) | 2009-12-08 |
| Movie | Gamer | Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
| Movie | The Butcher | Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
| Series | Canterbury's Law | Unknown | 2008-03-10 |
| Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| Movie | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 2008-01-11 |
| Movie | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Series | The War | Narrator | 2008-03-05 |
| Movie | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
| Movie | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
| 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 | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Movie | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-01-01 |
| Movie | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore | 2007-05-11 |
| Movie | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Himself | 2006-03-28 |
| Series | Numb3rs | Unknown | 2006-03-05 |
| Movie | The Oh in Ohio | Coach Popovitch | 2006-03-30 |
| Movie | ATL | John Garnett | 2006-03-31 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano | 2006-10-17 |
| Series | Grey's Anatomy | Lloyd Mackie | 2005-03-27 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2005-11-10 |
| Movie | Transporter 2 | Stappleton | 2005-08-02 |
| Series | The Big House | 2004-04-02 | |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director | 2004-03-12 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Imam | 2004-06-11 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Abu al-Walid (Voice) | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Last Stand of the Great Bear | Narrator | 2004-11-03 |
| Movie | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Narrator (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
| Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2004-09-10 |
| Movie | Beef II | Narrator | 2004-08-30 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
| Movie | Inside Mecca | Narrator | 2003-03-01 |
| Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| Movie | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| Movie | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator | 2003-10-06 |
| Series | Teen Titans | Unknown | 2003-07-19 |
| Movie | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-01 |
| Movie | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| Series | Egypt's Golden Empire | Himself - Narrator | 2002-02-04 |
| Movie | Barbershop | Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
| Movie | 29 Palms | The Sheriff | 2002-07-29 |
| Series | Everwood | Unknown | 2002-09-16 |
| Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Series | Disney's House of Mouse | Unknown | 2001-01-13 |
| Series | Jazz | Narrator | 2001-01-09 |
| Movie | Boxing: In and Out of the Ring | Narrator | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| Movie | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Egypt's Golden Empire | Narrator | 2001-11-03 |
| Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Series | The Legend of Tarzan | Unknown | 2001-09-03 |
| Movie | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
| Movie | Pitch Black | Abu "Imam" al-Walid | 2000-02-18 |
| Movie | Where the Heart Is | Moses Whitecotten | 2000-04-27 |
| Movie | Innocents | Detective Davis | 2000-01-10 |
| Movie | The Replacements | Lindell | 2000-08-07 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Requiem for a Dream | Big Tim | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | ATF | F.B.I. Director Richard Long | 1999-09-06 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1999-08-17 |
| Series | Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 1999-11-07 |
| Movie | There's Something About Mary | Charlie Jensen | 1998-07-15 |
| Movie | Armageddon | General Kimsey | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1998-08-25 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1997-05-15 |
| Movie | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Series | Spawn | 1997-05-16 | |
| Movie | Volcano | Police Lieutenant Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles | 1997-11-02 |
| Movie | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 1997-06-20 |
| Movie | Executive Target | Lamar | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Eye for an Eye | Martin | 1996-01-12 |
| Movie | The Grave | The Priest | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Never Met Picasso | 1996-01-01 | |
| Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-03-29 |
| Series | Arliss | Unknown | 1996-08-10 |
| Movie | Johns | Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
| Movie | Larger than Life | Hurst | 1996-10-31 |
| Series | 7th Heaven | Unknown | 1996-08-26 |
| Movie | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath | 1995-02-15 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| Series | The Outer Limits | Unknown | 1995-03-26 |
| Movie | Clockers | André the Giant | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Dead Presidents | Kirby | 1995-10-06 |
| Series | New York Undercover | Unknown | 1994-09-08 |
| Series | Aladdin | Unknown | 1994-09-05 |
| Movie | Reality Bites | Roger | 1994-02-18 |
| Series | Baseball | Narrator | 1994-09-18 |
| Series | ER | Unknown | 1994-09-19 |
| Series | Gargoyles | Goliath (voice) | 1994-10-24 |
| Movie | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
| Series | Fantastic Four | Unknown | 1994-09-24 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | King Oliver | 1993-03-13 |
| Movie | The Last Outlaw | Lovecraft | 1993-10-30 |
| Movie | There Are No Children Here | 1993-11-28 | |
| Movie | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | 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 |
| Series | Law & Order | Unknown | 1990-09-13 |
| Movie | Marked for Death | Max | 1990-10-05 |
| Movie | Road House | Ernie Bass | 1989-05-19 |
| Movie | Always | Powerhouse | 1989-12-22 |
| 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 | They Live | Frank Armitage | 1988-11-23 |
| Movie | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-07-01 |
| Movie | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Hot Pursuit | Alphonso | 1987-05-08 |
| Series | The Oldest Rookie | Unknown | 1987-09-16 |
| Movie | Platoon | King | 1986-12-19 |
| Series | The Equalizer | Unknown | 1985-09-18 |
| Series | Hot Pursuit | Unknown | 1984-09-29 |
| Series | Hallelujah! | 1983-04-29 | |
| Movie | The Thing | Childs | 1982-06-25 |
| Series | NOVA | Narrator | 1974-03-03 |