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:
- 163
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Pirates of Penzance 1980-06-01
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Gettysburg Address 2025-11-19
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 2025-11-19 |
| Movie | Sneaks | O.G. (voice) | 2025-04-24 |
| 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 | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 2022-02-07 |
| Movie | Unplugging | Gil | 2022-04-22 |
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2022-02-19 |
| Movie | A Miracle Before Christmas | David | 2022-12-08 |
| Movie | Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Ink Williams | 2022-09-19 |
| Movie | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Self | 2021-09-25 |
| Movie | The Seventh Day | Father Louis | 2021-03-26 |
| Movie | Black as Night | Babineaux | 2021-10-01 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Self | 2020-10-06 |
| Movie | Good | Gregory Devereaux | 2020-10-22 |
| Movie | Most Guys Are Losers | Al | 2020-10-24 |
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-09-20 |
| Movie | American Dresser | Charlie | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| Movie | F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Himself | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | Savage Dog | Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
| Movie | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Movie | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable | 2016-05-11 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| 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 | Kids vs Monsters | Barry | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Halo 5: Guardians | The Arbiter | 2015-10-20 |
| Movie | Birds of Paradise | Old Buzzard (voice) | 2014-04-01 |
| Series | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 2014-01-10 |
| Movie | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | 2014-11-03 | |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Movie | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | The President (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King (voice) | 2013-12-28 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Movie | The Undershepherd | Brother Wilks | 2012-02-15 |
| Movie | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | Highway | Mustafa | 2012-09-09 |
| Movie | The Last Fall | 2012-03-09 | |
| Movie | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl | 2012-11-09 |
| Movie | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 2012-10-26 |
| Movie | Smiley | Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| Series | The Cape | Max Malini | 2011-01-09 |
| Movie | Samuel Bleak | 2011-03-05 | |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk | 2011-11-10 |
| 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 | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | New York Street Games | Self | 2010-07-28 |
| 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 | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-02-17 |
| Movie | The Butcher | Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
| Series | Community | Elroy Patashnik | 2009-09-17 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) | 2009-12-08 |
| Movie | Gamer | Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
| Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
| 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 | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-05-19 |
| Movie | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Movie | The War | Narrator | 2007-09-23 |
| Movie | The Oh in Ohio | Coach Popovitch | 2006-03-30 |
| Movie | ATL | John Garnett | 2006-03-31 |
| Movie | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2006-01-20 |
| Movie | Forbidden Fruits | Rev. Walters | 2006-07-25 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano | 2006-10-17 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2005-05-06 |
| Movie | Transporter 2 | Stappleton | 2005-08-03 |
| Movie | The Proud Family Movie | Bebe Clone (voice) | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director | 2004-03-12 |
| Series | The Big House | 2004-04-02 | |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Imam | 2004-06-11 |
| Movie | Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator | 2004-04-13 |
| 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 | The Shakespeare Sessions | 2003-01-01 | |
| Movie | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Movie | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | Disney's House of Mouse | 2001-01-13 | |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| Movie | Pitch Black | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 2000-02-18 |
| Movie | Innocents | Detective Davis | 2000-01-10 |
| Movie | Where the Heart Is | Moses Whitecotten | 2000-04-27 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-15 |
| Movie | Volcano | Lt. Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| Movie | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Series | Spawn | 1997-05-16 | |
| Movie | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad | 1997-11-15 |
| Movie | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
| 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 | Eye for an Eye | Martin | 1996-01-12 |
| 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 | 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 | Clockers | André the Giant | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Reality Bites | Roger | 1994-02-18 |
| Series | Baseball | Narrator | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
| Movie | The Last Outlaw | Lovecraft | 1993-10-30 |
| Movie | Article 99 | Luther Jermoe | 1992-03-13 |
| Movie | Final Analysis | Detective Huggins | 1992-02-07 |
| Movie | Nails | Noah Owens | 1992-07-25 |
| Movie | Men at Work | Louis Fedders | 1990-08-24 |
| Movie | Marked for Death | Max | 1990-10-05 |
| Movie | Road House | Ernie Bass | 1989-05-19 |
| Movie | Always | Powerhouse | 1989-12-22 |
| Series | Echoes | Ealwood Franks | 1988-05-25 |
| 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 | 1988-06-01 |
| 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 |
| Series | Hallelujah! | 1983-04-29 | |
| Movie | The Thing | Childs | 1982-06-25 |
| Movie | The Pirates of Penzance | Pirates and Police | 1980-06-01 |