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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
Movie | Sneaks | (voice) | 2025-02-06 |
Series | Duster | Ezra | 2025 |
Movie | Betty & Blue | Willie "Blue" Watson | 2024-06-04 |
Series | Hazbin Hotel | Husk (voice) | 2024-01-18 |
Movie | A Snowy Day in Oakland | Mr. Monroe | 2023-03-17 |
Movie | Heist 88 | Buddha Ray | 2023-09-29 |
Movie | American Fiction | Willy the Wonker | 2023-11-10 |
Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2022-02-19 |
Movie | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 2022-02-07 |
Movie | Tim Travers & The Time Traveler's Paradox | The Simulator | 2022-02-04 |
Movie | Nope | Otis Haywood Sr. | 2022-07-20 |
Movie | Unplugging | Gil | 2022-04-22 |
Series | From Scratch | Hershel Wheeler | 2022-10-21 |
Movie | DC League of Super-Pets | Dog-El (voice) | 2022-07-27 |
Movie | Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Ink Williams | 2022-09-19 |
Movie | Entergalactic | Mr. Rager (voice) | 2022-09-28 |
Movie | A Miracle Before Christmas | David | 2022-12-08 |
Series | The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time | 2022-09-07 | |
Movie | The Seventh Day | Father Louis | 2021-03-26 |
Movie | Insight | Captain Duke | 2021-03-12 |
Movie | The Gateway | Terry | 2021-09-03 |
Movie | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Self | 2021-09-25 |
Series | Muhammad Ali | Narrator | 2021-09-19 |
Movie | Pups Alone | The Wise Bartender | 2021-11-19 |
Movie | Black as Night | Babineaux | 2021-10-01 |
Series | Love Life | Narrator (voice) | 2020-05-27 |
Movie | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Self | 2020-10-06 |
Series | The Good Lord Bird | Herbert | 2020-10-04 |
Movie | Horizon Line | Freddy Wyman | 2020-10-29 |
Movie | Most Guys Are Losers | Al | 2020-10-24 |
Movie | Good | Gregory Devereaux | 2020-10-22 |
Movie | In Search of Darkness | Self | 2019-05-01 |
Movie | You Might Be the Killer | Sheriff James | 2019-05-21 |
Movie | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Self | 2019-02-07 |
Series | The Last Kids on Earth | Thrull (voice) | 2019-09-17 |
Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-09-20 |
Movie | 21 Bridges | Deputy Chief Spencer | 2019-10-24 |
Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
Movie | Tales from the Hood 2 | Portifoy Simms | 2018-07-13 |
Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
Movie | Love Jacked | Ed | 2018-12-07 |
Series | Liverspots and Astronots | Dr. Pesh | 2018-10-18 |
Movie | American Dresser | Charlie | 2018-09-21 |
Movie | Not a War Story | 2017-06-30 | |
Movie | The '91 Falcons | Narrator | 2017-12-07 |
Movie | Savage Dog | Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
Movie | Service to Man | Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
Series | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
Movie | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable | 2016-05-11 |
Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
Movie | School of Rickey | 2016-08-13 | |
Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
Series | What Lives Inside | Soot | 2015-03-25 |
Movie | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge | 2015-03-30 |
Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 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 | Kids vs Monsters | Barry | 2015-09-29 |
Movie | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe | 2015-07-17 |
Movie | Secrets of the Magic City | Mr. Daniels | 2015-06-26 |
Series | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 2014-01-10 |
Movie | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | 2014-11-03 | |
Series | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
Series | Belle's | William 'Big Bill' Cooper | 2013-02-01 |
Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King | 2013-12-28 |
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 | Samuel Bleak | 2011-03-05 | |
Movie | No Saints for Sinners | 2011-01-01 | |
Series | The Cape | Max Malini | 2011-01-09 |
Movie | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk | 2011-11-10 |
Movie | The Inheritance | Uncle Melvin | 2011-04-11 |
Movie | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers | 2011-06-06 |
Movie | Death at a Funeral | Reverend Davis | 2010-04-15 |
Movie | Something Like A Business | Sebastian | 2010-06-15 |
Movie | Meet Monica Velour | Claude | 2010-06-04 |
Movie | Chasing 3000 | Officer L. | 2010-07-16 |
Movie | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
Movie | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
Movie | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry | 2010-10-10 |
Movie | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-02-17 |
Movie | Charlie Valentine | Sal | 2009-03-01 |
Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
Movie | Coraline | Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
Movie | Gamer | Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
Movie | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown | 2009-06-26 |
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 | All About Steve | Corbitt | 2009-08-06 |
Movie | The Butcher | Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
Series | The War | Narrator | 2008-03-05 |
Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
Movie | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 2008-01-11 |
Movie | The Sensei | Minister | 2008-05-04 |
Movie | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police | 2008-03-28 |
Movie | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
Movie | The Fifth Commandment | Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton | 2008-08-21 |
Movie | No Bad Days | Terrence | 2008-08-01 |
Movie | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
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 | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Self | 2006-03-28 |
Movie | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano | 2006-10-17 |
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 |
Series | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | 2005-01-17 | |
Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2005-05-06 |
Movie | Transporter 2 | Stappleton | 2005-08-03 |
Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father | 2005-06-07 |
Movie | The Proud Family Movie | Bebe Clone (voice) | 2005-08-19 |
Series | The Big House | 2004-04-02 | |
Movie | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director | 2004-03-12 |
Movie | Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator | 2004-04-13 |
Movie | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Narrator (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Imam | 2004-06-11 |
Movie | Beef II | Narrator (voice) | 2004-08-30 |
Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice) | 2004-06-15 |
Movie | Kaena: The Prophecy | Voxem (english voice) | 2003-01-02 |
Movie | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
Movie | The Shakespeare Sessions | 2003-01-01 | |
Movie | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-01 |
Movie | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-06 |
Movie | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
Movie | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
Movie | Barbershop | Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
Movie | 29 Palms | The Sheriff | 2002-07-29 |
Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
Series | Disney's House of Mouse | 2001-01-13 | |
Movie | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
Series | Jazz | Narrator | 2001-01-09 |
Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
Movie | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
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 | Requiem for a Dream | Big Tim | 2000-10-06 |
Movie | The Replacements | Lindell | 2000-08-11 |
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 | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1998-08-25 |
Movie | There's Something About Mary | Charlie Jensen | 1998-07-15 |
Movie | Volcano | Lt. Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
Movie | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad | 1997-11-15 |
Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-15 |
Series | Spawn | Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-16 |
Movie | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles | 1997-11-02 |
Movie | Princess Mononoke | Okkoto / Narrator / Additional Voices | 1997-07-12 |
Movie | Executive Target | Lamar | 1997-07-11 |
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 | The Grave | The Priest | 1996-01-18 |
Movie | Larger Than Life | Hurst | 1996-07-26 |
Movie | Johns | Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
Movie | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath (voice) | 1996-05-02 |
Movie | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson | 1995-09-15 |
Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
Movie | Clockers | André the Giant | 1995-09-15 |
Movie | Dead Presidents | Kirby | 1995-09-29 |
Movie | Reality Bites | Roger | 1994-02-18 |
Series | Baseball | Narrator | 1994-09-18 |
Series | Gargoyles | Goliath (voice) | 1994-10-24 |
Movie | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
Movie | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | Self - Host | 1993-11-02 |
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 | 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 | Off Limits | Maurice | 1988-03-11 |
Movie | Stars & Bars | Eugene Teagarden | 1988-03-18 |
Movie | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Embassy Gate Captain | 1988-01-22 |
Movie | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-06-01 |
Movie | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
Series | Echoes | Ealwood Franks | 1988-05-25 |
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 |