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:
- 222
- 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 |
| Series | Hazbin Hotel | Husk (voice) | 2024-01-18 |
| Movie | Betty & Blue | Willie "Blue" Watson | 2024-06-04 |
| Movie | Shelby Oaks | Morton Jacobson | 2024-07-20 |
| Movie | A Snowy Day in Oakland | Mr. Monroe | 2023-03-17 |
| Movie | Heist 88 | Buddha Ray | 2023-10-01 |
| Movie | American Fiction | Willy the Wonker | 2023-11-10 |
| Movie | Unplugging | Gil | 2022-04-22 |
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2022-02-19 |
| Movie | Tim Travers & The Time Traveler's Paradox | The Simulator | 2022-02-04 |
| Movie | Nope | Otis Haywood Sr. | 2022-07-20 |
| Movie | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 2022-02-07 |
| Movie | Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Ink Williams | 2022-09-19 |
| Series | From Scratch | Hershel Wheeler | 2022-10-21 |
| Movie | A Miracle Before Christmas | David | 2022-12-08 |
| Movie | DC League of Super-Pets | Dog-El (voice) | 2022-07-27 |
| Movie | Entergalactic | Mr. Rager (voice) | 2022-09-28 |
| Series | The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time | Self | 2022-09-07 |
| Movie | Biography: “Rowdy” Roddy Piper | Self | 2021-04-25 |
| Movie | The Seventh Day | Father Louis | 2021-03-26 |
| Movie | The Gateway | Terry | 2021-09-03 |
| Movie | Insight | Captain Duke | 2021-03-12 |
| Movie | Black as Night | Babineaux | 2021-10-01 |
| Movie | Pups Alone | The Wise Bartender | 2021-11-19 |
| Series | Muhammad Ali | Narrator | 2021-09-19 |
| Movie | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Self | 2021-09-25 |
| Series | Love Life | Narrator (voice) | 2020-05-27 |
| Movie | The 420 Movie | Chief Ironweed | 2020-04-07 |
| Series | The Good Lord Bird | Herbert | 2020-10-04 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Self | 2020-10-06 |
| 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 | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Self | 2019-02-07 |
| Movie | You Might Be the Killer | Sheriff James | 2019-05-21 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness | Self | 2019-05-01 |
| Series | The Last Kids on Earth | Thrull (voice) | 2019-09-17 |
| Movie | 21 Bridges | Deputy Chief Spencer | 2019-10-24 |
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-09-20 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Love Jacked | Ed | 2018-12-07 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable | 2016-05-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Series | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | School of Rickey | 2016-08-13 | |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
| Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| Movie | Service to Man | Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
| Series | What Lives Inside | Soot | 2015-03-25 |
| Movie | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge | 2015-03-30 |
| 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 | Kids vs Monsters | Barry | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe | 2015-07-17 |
| Movie | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Series | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 2014-01-10 |
| Movie | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | 2014-11-03 | |
| Series | Belle's | William 'Big Bill' Cooper | 2013-02-01 |
| Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Series | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King (voice) | 2013-12-28 |
| 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 | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | Samuel Bleak | 2011-03-05 | |
| 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 | Chasing 3000 | Officer L. | 2010-07-16 |
| Movie | Something Like A Business | Sebastian | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
| Movie | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry | 2010-10-10 |
| Movie | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | New York Street Games | Self | 2010-07-28 |
| 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 |
| Movie | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 2008-01-11 |
| Series | The War | Narrator | 2008-03-05 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | The Fifth Commandment | Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton | 2008-08-21 |
| Movie | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
| Movie | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police | 2008-03-28 |
| 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 | 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 | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
| Movie | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| 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 | Kaena: The Prophecy | Voxem (english voice) | 2003-06-04 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Nails | Noah Owens | 1992-07-25 |
| Movie | Article 99 | Luther Jermoe | 1992-03-13 |
| Movie | Hallelujah Anyhow | Will | 1991-01-27 |
| Movie | Murder in Black and White | Martin | 1990-01-07 |
| 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 |