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:
- 208
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Horizon Line
- Latest Project:
- Movie In Search of Tomorrow 2021-04-01
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Horizon Line | Wyman | 2021 |
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 2021 |
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2021-04-01 |
| Series | Battle Force: Andromeda | 2021 | |
| Movie | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Himself | 2019-02-07 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness | Himself | 2019-05-01 |
| Movie | 21 Bridges | Deputy Chief Spencer | 2019-10-24 |
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-09-20 |
| Series | The Last Kids on Earth | Thrull | 2019-09-17 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Himself | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | American Dresser | Charlie | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Not a War Story | 2017-06-30 | |
| Movie | Savage Dog | Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
| Series | Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters | Malcom Kane | 2017-11-16 |
| Series | Future Man | Dr. Elias Kronish | 2017-11-14 |
| Movie | The North Star | Frederick Douglas | 2016-03-01 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Movie | Service to Man | Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
| Series | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Series | Big Time in Hollywood, Fl | Agent Everett Malloy | 2015-03-25 |
| Series | What Lives Inside | Soot | 2015-03-25 |
| Movie | Kids vs Monsters | Barry | 2015-01-01 |
| Movie | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Detective Harris | 2015-10-20 |
| Movie | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe | 2015-07-17 |
| Movie | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge | 2015-03-30 |
| Movie | Secrets of the Magic City | Mr. Daniels | 2015-06-26 |
| Series | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 2014-01-10 |
| Series | The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW | Narrator | 2014-08-22 |
| Movie | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | 2014-11-03 | |
| Series | Scorpion | Warden | 2014-09-22 |
| Series | The Flash | Solovar (voice) | 2014-10-07 |
| Series | BoJack Horseman | Lion Musician (voice) | 2014-08-22 |
| Series | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King | 2013-12-28 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | The President (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Series | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | The Cheshire Cat (voice) | 2013-10-10 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Movie | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | The Last Fall | 2012-03-09 | |
| Movie | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 2012-10-26 |
| Movie | Smiley | Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| Movie | Double or Nothing | Homeless Dude | 2012-10-13 |
| Movie | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl | 2012-11-09 |
| 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 |
| Series | Person of Interest | Terence Beale | 2011-09-22 |
| Movie | The Inheritance | Uncle Melvin | 2011-04-11 |
| Movie | Meet Monica Velour | Claude | 2010-06-04 |
| Movie | Death at a Funeral | Reverend Davis | 2010-04-15 |
| Movie | Something Like A Business | Sebastian | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry | 2010-10-10 |
| Movie | Chasing 3000 | Officer L. | 2010-07-16 |
| 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 | All About Steve | Corbitt | 2009-03-19 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| Movie | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Coraline | Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
| Series | Community | Elroy Patashnik | 2009-09-17 |
| Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Beautiful Loser | Morgan - Adult | 2009-09-16 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) | 2009-12-08 |
| Movie | The Butcher | Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
| Movie | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown | 2009-06-26 |
| Movie | Gamer | Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
| Series | The War | Narrator | 2008-03-05 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Series | Canterbury's Law | Unknown | 2008-03-10 |
| Movie | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 2008-01-11 |
| Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| Movie | The Fifth Commandment | Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton | 2008-08-21 |
| Movie | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore | 2007-05-11 |
| Movie | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-01-01 |
| Movie | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Series | Numb3rs | Unknown | 2006-03-05 |
| 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 | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Himself | 2006-03-28 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director | 2004-03-12 |
| Movie | Last Stand of the Great Bear | Narrator | 2004-11-03 |
| Series | The Big House | 2004-04-02 | |
| Movie | Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator | 2004-04-13 |
| Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2004-09-10 |
| Movie | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Narrator (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
| Movie | Beef II | Narrator | 2004-08-30 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Imam | 2004-06-11 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Abu al-Walid (Voice) | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Kaena: The Prophecy | Voxem | 2003-01-02 |
| Movie | Inside Mecca | Narrator | 2003-03-01 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
| Series | Teen Titans | Unknown | 2003-07-19 |
| Movie | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-01 |
| Movie | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator | 2003-10-06 |
| Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| Movie | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| Movie | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| Series | Egypt's Golden Empire | Himself - Narrator | 2002-02-04 |
| Series | Everwood | Unknown | 2002-09-16 |
| Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Movie | 29 Palms | The Sheriff | 2002-07-29 |
| Movie | Barbershop | Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
| Series | Jazz | Narrator | 2001-01-09 |
| Movie | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Boxing: In and Out of the Ring | Narrator | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | Disney's House of Mouse | Unknown | 2001-01-13 |
| Movie | Egypt's Golden Empire | Narrator | 2001-11-03 |
| Series | The Legend of Tarzan | Unknown | 2001-09-03 |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| 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 | 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 | Where the Heart Is | Moses Whitecotten | 2000-04-27 |
| Series | Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 1999-11-07 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Volcano | Police Lieutenant Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Movie | The Grave | The Priest | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Never Met Picasso | 1996-01-01 | |
| Movie | Eye for an Eye | Martin | 1996-01-12 |
| Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-03-29 |
| Movie | Johns | Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
| Movie | Larger than Life | Hurst | 1996-10-31 |
| Series | 7th Heaven | Unknown | 1996-08-26 |
| Series | Arliss | Unknown | 1996-08-10 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| Movie | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath | 1995-02-15 |
| 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 | Aladdin: The Series | Unknown | 1994-09-05 |
| Movie | Reality Bites | Roger | 1994-02-18 |
| Series | New York Undercover | Unknown | 1994-09-08 |
| Series | Baseball | Narrator | 1994-09-18 |
| Series | Gargoyles | Goliath (voice) | 1994-10-24 |
| Movie | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
| Series | Fantastic Four | Unknown | 1994-09-24 |
| Series | ER | Unknown | 1994-09-19 |
| 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 | 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 | Men at Work | Louis Fedders | 1990-08-24 |
| Movie | Marked for Death | Max | 1990-10-05 |
| Series | Law & Order | Unknown | 1990-09-13 |
| 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 | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-07-01 |
| Movie | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | They Live | Frank Armitage | 1988-11-23 |
| 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 |