Keith David

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-06-04 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Keith David

Biography

Keith David (born June 4, 1956) 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...

Acting

1998

Armageddon

as General Kimsey

1982

The Thing

as Childs

1998

1990

Men at Work

as Louis Fedders

2006

2009

The Princess and the Frog

as Dr. Facilier (voice)

2005

Crash

as Lt. Dixon

2005

1986

Platoon

as King

2010

Africa's Lost Eden

as Narrator (voice)

2006

Dirty

as Captain Spain

2002

Barbershop

as Lester Wallace

1997

Volcano

as Lt. Ed Fox

2004

The Chronicles of Riddick

as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid

2004

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury

as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)

2000

Pitch Black

as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid

2003

Agent Cody Banks

as CIA Director

1992

Final Analysis

as Detective Huggins

1993

The Last Outlaw

as Lovecraft

1995

Clockers

as André the Giant

1995

Blue in the Face

as Jackie Robinson

1989

Always

as Powerhouse

2001

Novocaine

as Detective Lunt

2025

Sneaks

as O.G. (voice)

1995

1988

They Live

as Frank Armitage

2008

Superhero Movie

as The Chief of Police

1988

Bird

as Buster Franklin

2009

All About Steve

as Corbitt

1995

The Quick and the Dead

as Sgt. Clay Cantrell

1992

Article 99

as Luther Jermoe

1994

The Puppet Masters

as Alex Holland

2008

No Bad Days

as Terrence

2003

Head of State

as Bernard Cooper

2005

Transporter 2

as Stappleton

1988

Braddock: Missing in Action III

as Embassy Gate Captain

2010

Death at a Funeral

as Reverend Davis

2008

The Sensei

as Minister

2009

Don McKay

as Otis Kent

2008

The Fifth Commandment

as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton

2006

ATL

as John Garnett

2008

2008

First Sunday

as Judge B. Bennet Galloway

2009

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia

as Commander Scott Boytano

2010

Lottery Ticket

as Sweet Tee

1987

Hot Pursuit

as Alphonso

1988

2007

The Last Sentinel

as Colonel Norton

2009

Coraline

as The Cat (voice)

2009

Against the Dark

as Lt. Waters

2010

Chain Letter

as Det. Jim Crenshaw

1997

Don King: Only in America

as Herbert Muhammad

2011

The Inheritance

as Uncle Melvin

2009

Pastor Brown

as Pastor Brown

1988

Off Limits

as Maurice

2012

Highway

as Mustafa

2002

Stalking Leopards

as Narrator (voice)

2004

Beef II

as Narrator (voice)

2002

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

as Frank (They Live) (archive footage)

2018

2024

The Prank

as Principal Henderson

2012

Cloud Atlas

as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient

2008

S.I.S.

as Joseph Armstrong

1992

Nails

as Noah Owens

2010

2002

29 Palms

as The Sheriff

2009

Blue

as Terry Venable

2024

Betty & Blue

as Willie 'Blue' Watson

2001

Pretty When You Cry

as Detective Charles Desett

2011

Hopelessly in June

as Dalbert Myers

1997

Flipping

as Leo Richards, Gang Leader

1988

Stars & Bars

as Eugene Teagarden

2002

Mark Twain

as Narrator (voice)

2003

Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom

as Narrator (voice)

1997

2022

2012

Smiley

as Diamond

2012

2022

Nope

as Otis Haywood Sr.

2023

Heist 88

as Buddha Ray

2025

Shelby Oaks

as Morton Jacobson

2011

Samuel Bleak

as Ned Coffman

2023

American Fiction

as Willy the Wonker

2023

From the Shadows

as Dr. Leonard Bertram

2013

Don't Pass Me By

as David Knox

1996

1996

2009

The Butcher

as Larry Cobb

2022

DC League of Super-Pets

as Dog-El (voice)

1999

The Grizzlies of Siberia

as Narrator (voice)

2001

Home Invaders

as Matador

1980

The Pirates of Penzance

as Pirates and Police

2013

Sons of Liberty

as Nathan Reynolds

2006

The Oh in Ohio

as Coach Popovitch

2012

The Last Fall

as Sydney Bishop

2016

The Nice Guys

as Older Guy

2022

Entergalactic

as Mr. Rager (voice)

2001

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

as Council Member (voice)

2012

2023

1979

Coriolanus

as Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen

2013

Frog Kingdom

as Frog King (voice)

2005

The Proud Family Movie

as Bebe Clone (voice)

2015

Union Furnace

as Pin Stripe

2000

2022

Shut Up and Ride

as Narrator (voice)

2004

Last Stand of the Great Bear

as Narrator (voice)

2015

Boiling Pot

as Agent Long

2003

2008

My Mom's New Boyfriend

as FBI Chief Conrad

2015

2024

Mufasa: The Lion King

as Masego (voice)

2007

Delta Farce

as Sgt. Kilgore

2015

1996

The Grave

as The Priest

2016

2012

Double or Nothing

as Homeless Dude

1986

The Whoopee Boys

as Washington Square Peddler

1997

Hercules

as Apollo the Sun God (voice)

2016

Range 15

as Colonel Holloway

1999

ATF

as FBI Director Richard Long

2016

Service to Man

as Dean Holmes

2000

Where the Heart Is

as Moses Whitecotten

1989

Road House

as Ernie Bass

2013

Free Birds

as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)

2001

Semper Fi

as Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff

2015

2017

Savage Dog

as Valentine

2009

Gamer

as Agent Keith

1996

Johns

as Homeless John

1994

2013

Black Asylum

as Agent Davis

2001

2018

2010

Chasing 3000

as Officer L.

2008

2003

Inside Mecca

as Narrator (voice)

2018

Night School

as Gerald

1996

1988

Christmas in Tattertown

as Saxophone (voice)

2015

2019

2018

Tales from the Hood 2

as Portifoy Simms

2018

2016

Nina

as Clifton's Father

2001

2018

2000

Innocents

as Detective Davis

2000

2016

The North Star

as Frederick Douglass

2019

21 Bridges

as Deputy Chief Spencer

1993

There Are No Children Here

as John Paul Rivers

2022

In Search of Tomorrow

as Self - Interviewee

2020

Horizon Line

as Freddy Wyman

2025

The Gettysburg Address

as Frederick Douglass (voice)

2009

Beautiful Loser

as Morgan - Adult

1996

2020

The 420 Movie

as Chief Ironweed

2017

The '91 Falcons

as Narrator (voice)

2021

The Gateway

as Terry

2016

School of Rickey

as Narrator (voice)

1998

2016

Blue: The American Dream

as Terry Venable

2021

Pups Alone

as The Wise Bartender

2021

Black as Night

as Babineaux

2006

Forbidden Fruits

as Rev. Walters

2021

The Seventh Day

as Father Louis

1993

Hallelujah

as Big Willie

2021

Insight

as Captain Duke

2020

Cuba's Cancer Hope

as Narrator (voice)

2012

The Undershepherd

as Brother Wilks

2019

You Might Be the Killer

as Sheriff James

2022

Catwoman: Hunted

as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)

2020

Good

as Gregory Devereaux

1994

Jewels of the Caribbean Sea

as Narrator (voice)

2025

Portal to Hell

as Mr. Bobshank

1993

Lions Of Darkness

as Narrator (voice)

2018

Sharon 1.2.3.

as Tyrone

-

ATL 2: The Homecoming

as John Garnett

2016

The Last Punch

as Don King

2025

Omniscient

as Alistair

Production

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