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:
- 231
- First Appeared:
- In the series NOVA 1974-03-03
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Gateway 2022
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Gateway | Unknown | 2022 |
| Movie | Black As Night | Unknown | 2022 |
| Movie | Pups Alone | The Wise Bartender | 2022 |
| Movie | The Seventh Day | Unknown | 2021-04-01 |
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2021-04-01 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Himself | 2020-10-06 |
| Movie | The 420 Movie | Chief Ironweed | 2020-04-07 |
| Movie | Most Guys Are Losers | Al | 2020-10-24 |
| Movie | Horizon Line | Freddy Wyman | 2020-10-29 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness: A Journey Into Iconic '80s Horror | Himself | 2019-05-01 |
| Movie | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Himself | 2019-02-07 |
| Series | The Last Kids on Earth | Thrull | 2019-09-17 |
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-09-20 |
| Movie | 21 Bridges | Deputy Chief Spencer | 2019-10-24 |
| 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 | Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Himself | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| Movie | Love Jacked | Ed | 2018-12-07 |
| Series | Liverspots and Astronots | Dr. Pesh | 2018-10-18 |
| Movie | Not a War Story | Unknown | 2017-06-30 |
| Series | Future Man | Dr. Elias Kronish | 2017-11-14 |
| Movie | Savage Dog | Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
| Series | Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters | Malcom Kane | 2017-11-16 |
| Movie | The '91 Falcons | Narrator | 2017-12-07 |
| Series | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Movie | The North Star | Frederick Douglas | 2016-03-01 |
| Movie | Dusty: A Baseball Journey | Narrator | 2016-02-09 |
| Movie | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable | 2016-05-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
| Series | MacGyver | Burke / Man | 2016-09-23 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Movie | School of Rickey | Unknown | 2016-08-13 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| 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 | Kids vs Monsters | Barry | 2015-01-01 |
| Series | Big Time in Hollywood, Fl | Agent Everett Malloy | 2015-03-25 |
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 2015-01-01 |
| Series | Fresh Off the Boat | Clyde Roses | 2015-02-04 |
| Movie | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Detective Harris | 2015-10-20 |
| Movie | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge | 2015-03-30 |
| Movie | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe | 2015-07-17 |
| Movie | Secrets of the Magic City | Mr. Daniels | 2015-06-26 |
| Series | Scorpion | Warden | 2014-09-22 |
| Series | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 2014-01-10 |
| Series | BoJack Horseman | Lion Musician (voice) | 2014-08-22 |
| Series | NCIS: New Orleans | Gene Holloway | 2014-09-23 |
| Series | black-ish | Loose Craig | 2014-09-24 |
| Movie | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | Unknown | 2014-11-03 |
| Series | The Flash | Solovar (voice) | 2014-10-07 |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Series | The Bible | Narrator | 2013-03-03 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Series | Belle's | William 'Big Bill' Cooper | 2013-02-01 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Movie | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King | 2013-12-28 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | Mr. President (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Series | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | The Cheshire Cat (voice) | 2013-10-10 |
| Movie | The Last Fall | Unknown | 2012-03-09 |
| Movie | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | Smiley | Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| Movie | Double or Nothing | Homeless Dude | 2012-10-13 |
| Movie | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 2012-10-26 |
| Movie | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl | 2012-11-09 |
| Movie | Samuel Bleak | Unknown | 2011-03-05 |
| Movie | Sucker Punch : Feudal Warriors | Unknown | 2011-01-01 |
| Movie | The Inheritance | Uncle Melvin | 2011-04-11 |
| Series | The Cape | Max Malini | 2011-01-09 |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers | 2011-06-06 |
| Series | Person of Interest | Terence Beale | 2011-09-22 |
| Movie | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk | 2011-11-10 |
| 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 | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
| Movie | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry | 2010-10-10 |
| 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 | Coraline | Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
| Movie | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| Movie | Don McKay | Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Series | Archer | Lemuel Kane (voice) | 2009-09-17 |
| 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 | The War | Narrator | 2008-03-05 |
| Series | Canterbury's Law | Unknown | 2008-03-10 |
| Movie | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 2008-01-11 |
| Movie | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| Movie | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police | 2008-03-27 |
| Movie | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
| Movie | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
| Movie | The Fifth Commandment | Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton | 2008-08-21 |
| Movie | The Sensei | Minister | 2008-05-04 |
| Movie | No Bad Days | Terrence | 2008-08-01 |
| Movie | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-01-01 |
| Movie | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Movie | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore | 2007-05-11 |
| Movie | The Color Purple: The Color of Success | Narrator | 2007-02-11 |
| Movie | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Himself | 2006-03-28 |
| Movie | The Oh in Ohio | Coach Popovitch | 2006-03-30 |
| 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 | Forbidden Fruits | Rev. Walters | 2006-07-25 |
| Series | Grey's Anatomy | Lloyd Mackie | 2005-03-27 |
| Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2005-05-06 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | Transporter 2 | Stappleton | 2005-08-02 |
| Movie | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2005-11-10 |
| Series | The Big House | Unknown | 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 | Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator | 2004-04-13 |
| Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Abu al-Walid (Voice) | 2004-06-15 |
| Movie | Beef II | Narrator | 2004-08-30 |
| Movie | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Narrator (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
| Movie | Last Stand of the Great Bear | Narrator | 2004-11-03 |
| Movie | Inside Mecca | Narrator | 2003-03-01 |
| Movie | Kaena: The Prophecy | Voxem | 2003-01-02 |
| Movie | The Shakespeare Sessions | Unknown | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
| Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| Movie | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator | 2003-10-06 |
| Movie | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| Series | Teen Titans | Atlas (voice) | 2003-07-19 |
| Movie | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-01 |
| Movie | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| Movie | Barbershop | Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
| Series | Egypt's Golden Empire | Himself - Narrator | 2002-02-04 |
| Movie | 29 Palms | The Sheriff | 2002-07-29 |
| Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Series | Everwood | Unknown | 2002-09-16 |
| Series | Disney's House of Mouse | Unknown | 2001-01-13 |
| Series | Jazz | Narrator | 2001-01-09 |
| Movie | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | The Job | 2001-03-14 | |
| Movie | Boxing: In and Out of the Ring | Narrator | 2001-01-01 |
| 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 | Egypt's Golden Empire | Narrator | 2001-11-03 |
| Movie | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
| 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 | The Replacements | Lindell | 2000-08-07 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| Series | Family Guy | Unknown | 1999-01-31 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1999-08-17 |
| 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 | The Tiger Woods Story | Earl Woods | 1998-01-01 |
| 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 | Police Lieutenant Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| Movie | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1997-05-15 |
| Movie | Executive Target | Lamar | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles | 1997-11-02 |
| Series | Spawn | Unknown | 1997-05-16 |
| Movie | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 1997-06-20 |
| Movie | Eye for an Eye | Martin | 1996-01-12 |
| Movie | The Grave | The Priest | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Never Met Picasso | Unknown | 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 | Stanley | 1996-08-26 |
| Movie | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath | 1996-05-02 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay 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 |
| Movie | Reality Bites | Roger | 1994-02-18 |
| Series | Baseball | Narrator | 1994-09-18 |
| Series | Aladdin: The Series | Unknown | 1994-09-05 |
| Series | ER | Unknown | 1994-09-19 |
| Series | Fantastic Four | Unknown | 1994-09-24 |
| Series | Gargoyles | Goliath (voice) | 1994-10-24 |
| Movie | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
| Movie | The Last Outlaw | Lovecraft | 1993-10-30 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | King Oliver | 1993-03-13 |
| Movie | There Are No Children Here | Unknown | 1993-11-28 |
| Movie | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | Self - Host | 1993-11-02 |
| Movie | Hallelujah | Big Willie | 1993-12-22 |
| Movie | Final Analysis | Detective Huggins | 1992-02-07 |
| Series | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | King Oliver | 1992-03-04 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Stars & Bars | Eugene Teagarden | 1988-03-18 |
| Movie | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Embassy Gate Captain | 1988-01-22 |
| Movie | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Bird | Buster Franklin | 1988-07-01 |
| 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 | Cristo | 1985-09-18 |
| Series | Hot Pursuit | Unknown | 1984-09-29 |
| Series | Hallelujah! | Unknown | 1983-04-29 |
| Movie | The Thing | Childs | 1982-06-25 |
| Series | NOVA | Narrator | 1974-03-03 |