About
Keith David
Overview
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 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.
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Known for
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| 2025 | The Gettysburg Address | Actor | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2025 | Sneaks | Actor | O.G. (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Mufasa: The Lion King | Actor | Masego (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Leonardo da Vinci | Actor | Self - Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Invincible Fight Girl | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Shelby Oaks | Actor | Morton Jacobson | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Betty & Blue | Actor | Willie "Blue" Watson | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | The Prank | Actor | Principal Henderson | 58 Average |
| 2024 | Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox | Actor | The Simulator | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Hazbin Hotel | Actor | Husk (voice) | 87 Very good |
| 2023 | American Fiction | Actor | Willy the Wonker | 68 Fair |
| 2023 | Heist 88 | Actor | Buddha Ray | 60 Fair |
| 2023 | From the Shadows | Actor | Dr. Leonard Bertram | N/A N/A |
| 2023 | A Snowy Day in Oakland | Actor | Mr. Monroe | 59 Average |
| 2023 | Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story | Actor | Jerry | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Shut Up and Ride | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | A Miracle Before Christmas | Actor | David | 59 Average |
| 2022 | From Scratch | Actor | Hershel Wheeler | 74 Good |
| 2022 | Entergalactic | Actor | Mr. Rager (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | Entergalactic | Actor | Mr. Rager (voice) | 66 Fair |
| 2022 | Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Actor | Ink Williams | 59 Average |
| 2022 | The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time | Actor | Self | 69 Fair |
| 2022 | DC League of Super-Pets | Actor | Dog-El (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2022 | Nope | Actor | Otis Haywood Sr. | 67 Fair |
| 2022 | Unplugging | Actor | Gil | 58 Average |
| 2022 | The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2022 | In Search of Tomorrow | Actor | Self - Interviewee | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Catwoman: Hunted | Actor | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2021 | Pups Alone | Actor | The Wise Bartender | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Black as Night | Actor | Babineaux | 58 Average |
| 2021 | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Muhammad Ali | Actor | Narrator | 72 Good |
| 2021 | The Gateway | Actor | Terry | 58 Average |
| 2021 | Biography: “Rowdy” Roddy Piper | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2021 | The Seventh Day | Actor | Father Louis | 57 Average |
| 2021 | Insight | Actor | Captain Duke | 58 Average |
| 2020 | Horizon Line | Actor | Freddy Wyman | 57 Average |
| 2020 | Most Guys Are Losers | Actor | Al | 58 Average |
| 2020 | Good | Actor | Gregory Devereaux | 59 Average |
| 2020 | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
| 2020 | Love Life | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 70 Good |
| 2020 | Dead Talk Live | Actor | Self - Guest | 70 Good |
| 2020 | The 420 Movie | Actor | Chief Ironweed | 59 Average |
| 2020 | Cuba's Cancer Hope | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2019 | 21 Bridges | Actor | Deputy Chief Spencer | 66 Fair |
| 2019 | Creepshow | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2019 | The Wedding Year | Actor | Preston | 59 Average |
| 2019 | The Last Kids on Earth | Actor | Thrull (voice) | 71 Good |
| 2019 | You Might Be the Killer | Actor | Sheriff James | 59 Average |
| 2019 | In Search of Darkness | Actor | Self | 61 Fair |
| 2019 | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
| 2018 | Champaign Ill | Actor | Lafonso | 69 Fair |
| 2018 | Love Jacked | Actor | Ed | 59 Average |
| 2018 | F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Brothers in Arms | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Liverspots and Astronots | Actor | Dr. Pesh | 69 Fair |
| 2018 | Night School | Actor | Gerald | 61 Fair |
| 2018 | American Dresser | Actor | Charlie | 58 Average |
| 2018 | Tales from the Hood 2 | Actor | Portifoy Simms | 57 Average |
| 2018 | Ray Meets Helen | Actor | Harve | 58 Average |
| 2017 | The '91 Falcons | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters | Actor | Malcom Kane (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2017 | Savage Dog | Actor | Valentine | 57 Average |
| 2017 | Not a War Story | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2016 | Service to Man | Actor | Dean Holmes | N/A N/A |
| 2016 | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Actor | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 68 Fair |
| 2016 | School of Rickey | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2016 | Greenleaf | Actor | Bishop James Greenleaf | 71 Good |
| 2016 | Range 15 | Actor | Colonel Holloway | 57 Average |
| 2016 | The Nice Guys | Actor | Older Guy | 70 Good |
| 2016 | Blue: The American Dream | Actor | Terry Venable | N/A N/A |
| 2016 | Nina | Actor | Clifton's Father | 58 Average |
| 2016 | Jackie Robinson | Actor | Narrator | 70 Good |
| 2016 | The North Star | Actor | Frederick Douglas | 58 Average |
| 2016 | Dirty Lies | Actor | Doc | 58 Average |
| 2015 | Dutch Book | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2015 | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Actor | Detective Harris | N/A N/A |
| 2015 | Boiling Pot | Actor | Agent Long | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Kids vs Monsters | Actor | Barry | 58 Average |
| 2015 | Union Furnace | Actor | Pin Stripe | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Secrets of the Magic City | Actor | Mr. Daniels | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Field of Lost Shoes | Actor | Old Judge | 59 Average |
| 2015 | What Lives Inside | Actor | Soot | 70 Good |
| 2014 | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2014 | The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW | Actor | Narrator | 70 Good |
| 2014 | Enlisted | Actor | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 67 Fair |
| 2013 | Frog Kingdom | Actor | Frog King | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Free Birds | Actor | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Sons of Liberty | Actor | Nathan Reynolds | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Assault on Wall Street | Actor | Freddy | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Black Asylum | Actor | Agent Davis | 59 Average |
| 2013 | The Bible | Actor | Narrator | 73 Good |
| 2013 | Belle's | Actor | William 'Big Bill' Cooper | 70 Good |
| 2013 | Don't Pass Me By | Actor | David Knox | 58 Average |
| 2012 | Christmas in Compton | Actor | Big Earl | 58 Average |
| 2012 | Cloud Atlas | Actor | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 68 Fair |
| 2012 | Double or Nothing | Actor | Homeless Dude | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Smiley | Actor | Diamond | 52 Average |
| 2012 | Highway | Actor | Mustafa | 58 Average |
| 2012 | The Last Fall | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2012 | The Undershepherd | Actor | Brother Wilks | 58 Average |
| 2012 | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Actor | Sergeant Brass | 59 Average |
| 2011 | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Actor | Clerk | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Hopelessly in June | Actor | Dalbert Myers | 59 Average |
| 2011 | The Inheritance | Actor | Uncle Melvin | 58 Average |
| 2011 | Samuel Bleak | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2011 | The Cape | Actor | Max Malini | 59 Average |
| 2011 | No Saints for Sinners | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2010 | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Actor | Terry | 58 Average |
| 2010 | Chain Letter | Actor | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 56 Average |
| 2010 | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 70 Good |
| 2010 | Lottery Ticket | Actor | Sweet Tee | 58 Average |
| 2010 | New York Street Games | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | Chasing 3000 | Actor | Officer L. | 58 Average |
| 2010 | Something Like A Business | Actor | Sebastian | 58 Average |
| 2010 | Meet Monica Velour | Actor | Claude | 58 Average |
| 2010 | Death at a Funeral | Actor | Reverend Davis | 58 Average |
| 2010 | Africa's Lost Eden | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2009 | The Princess and the Frog | Actor | Dr. Facilier (voice) | 71 Good |
| 2009 | Community | Actor | Elroy Patashnik | 79 Good |
| 2009 | Beautiful Loser | Actor | Morgan - Adult | N/A N/A |
| 2009 | Gamer | Actor | Agent Keith | 57 Average |
| 2009 | All About Steve | Actor | Corbitt | 52 Average |
| 2009 | The Butcher | Actor | Larry Cobb | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Pastor Brown | Actor | Pastor Brown | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Don McKay | Actor | Otis Kent | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Blue | Actor | Terry Venable | N/A N/A |
| 2009 | Charlie Valentine | Actor | Sal | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Against the Dark | Actor | Lt. Waters | 55 Average |
| 2009 | Coraline | Actor | Cat (voice) | 77 Good |
| 2009 | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Actor | Commander Scott Boytano | 58 Average |
| 2008 | S.I.S. | Actor | Joseph Armstrong | 58 Average |
| 2008 | The Fifth Commandment | Actor | Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton | 58 Average |
| 2008 | No Bad Days | Actor | Terrence | 58 Average |
| 2008 | The Sensei | Actor | Minister | 58 Average |
| 2008 | My Mom's New Boyfriend | Actor | FBI Chief Conrad | 57 Average |
| 2008 | Superhero Movie | Actor | The Chief of Police | 53 Average |
| 2008 | The War | Actor | Narrator | 74 Good |
| 2008 | Justice League: The New Frontier | Actor | The Centre (voice) | 63 Fair |
| 2008 | First Sunday | Actor | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 58 Average |
| 2008 | The Candlelight Murders | Actor | Pastor Bob | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | The Last Sentinel | Actor | Colonel Norton | 57 Average |
| 2007 | Delta Farce | Actor | Sgt. Kilgore | 56 Average |
| 2007 | The Color Purple: The Color of Success | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Actor | Dad | 58 Average |
| 2006 | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | Actor | MCPO Scott Boytano | 57 Average |
| 2006 | Forbidden Fruits | Actor | Rev. Walters | 59 Average |
| 2006 | ATL | Actor | John Garnett | 61 Fair |
| 2006 | The Oh in Ohio | Actor | Coach Popovitch | 57 Average |
| 2006 | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Dirty | Actor | Captain Spain | 57 Average |
| 2005 | The Proud Family Movie | Actor | Bebe Clone (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Transporter 2 | Actor | Stappleton | 62 Fair |
| 2005 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Actor | Father | 66 Fair |
| 2005 | Crash | Actor | Lt. Dixon | 70 Good |
| 2005 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2004 | Last Stand of the Great Bear | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Beef II | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Actor | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick | Actor | Imam | 64 Fair |
| 2004 | Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2004 | The Big House | Actor | 70 Good |
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| 2004 | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | Actor | CIA Director | 57 Average |
| 2003 | Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Hollywood Homicide | Actor | Leon | 55 Average |
| 2003 | Kaena: The Prophecy | Actor | Voxem (english voice) | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Head of State | Actor | Bernard Cooper | 57 Average |
| 2003 | Agent Cody Banks | Actor | CIA Director | 56 Average |
| 2003 | Inside Mecca | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2003 | The Shakespeare Sessions | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2002 | 29 Palms | Actor | The Sheriff | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Stalking Leopards | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Actor | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Barbershop | Actor | Lester Wallace | 61 Fair |
| 2002 | Mark Twain | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Mark Twain | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2001 | Novocaine | Actor | Detective Lunt | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Egypt's Golden Empire | Actor | Himself - Narrator | 70 Good |
| 2001 | Egypt's Golden Empire | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Home Invaders | Actor | Matador | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Actor | Council Member (voice) | 61 Fair |
| 2001 | Semper Fi | Actor | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 59 Average |
| 2001 | The Job | Actor | 67 Fair |
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| 2001 | Jazz | Actor | Narrator | 72 Good |
| 2001 | Seduced: Pretty When You Cry | Actor | Detective Charles Desett | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Boxing: In and Out of the Ring | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2000 | Requiem for a Dream | Actor | Big Tim | 79 Good |
| 2000 | The Replacements | Actor | Lindell | 63 Fair |
| 2000 | Where the Heart Is | Actor | Moses Whitecotten | 65 Fair |
| 2000 | Pitch Black | Actor | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 67 Fair |
| 2000 | Innocents | Actor | Detective Davis | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Silent Service | Actor | Self - Host | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | Actor | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 70 Good |
| 1999 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | Actor | King Oliver | 59 Average |
| 1999 | ATF | Actor | F.B.I. Director Richard Long | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle | Actor | Al Simmons/Spawn | 59 Average |
| 1999 | The Grizzlies of Siberia | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 1998 | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 | Actor | Al Simmons/Spawn | 59 Average |
| 1998 | There's Something About Mary | Actor | Charlie Jensen | 65 Fair |
| 1998 | Armageddon | Actor | General Kimsey | 67 Fair |
| 1998 | The Tiger Woods Story | Actor | Earl Woods | 58 Average |
| 1997 | Don King: Only in America | Actor | Herbert Muhammad | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Actor | Algric Bartles | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Executive Target | Actor | Lamar | 58 Average |
| 1997 | Hercules | Actor | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 74 Good |
| 1997 | Spawn | Actor | Spawn (voice) | 77 Good |
| 1997 | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Actor | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Volcano | Actor | Lt. Ed Fox | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Flipping | Actor | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Johns | Actor | Homeless John | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Larger Than Life | Actor | Hurst | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Actor | Goliath (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1996 | The Grave | Actor | The Priest | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Eye for an Eye | Actor | Martin | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Never Met Picasso | Actor | Larry | 58 Average |
| 1995 | Dead Presidents | Actor | Kirby | 61 Fair |
| 1995 | Blue in the Face | Actor | Jackie Robinson | 60 Fair |
| 1995 | Clockers | Actor | André the Giant | 62 Fair |
| 1995 | The Quick and the Dead | Actor | Sgt. Clay Cantrell | 63 Fair |
| 1994 | Gargoyles | Actor | Goliath (voice) | 79 Good |
| 1994 | The Puppet Masters | Actor | Alex Holland | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Jewels of the Caribbean Sea | Actor | (Self) Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 1994 | Reality Bites | Actor | Roger | 62 Fair |
| 1993 | Hallelujah | Actor | Big Willie | N/A N/A |
| 1993 | There Are No Children Here | Actor | John Paul Rivers | 59 Average |
| 1993 | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | Actor | Self - Host | 59 Average |
| 1993 | The Last Outlaw | Actor | Lovecraft | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Nails | Actor | Noah Owens | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Article 99 | Actor | Luther Jermoe | 59 Average |
| 1992 | Final Analysis | Actor | Detective Huggins | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Hallelujah Anyhow | Actor | Will | N/A N/A |
| 1990 | Marked for Death | Actor | Max | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Men at Work | Actor | Louis Fedders | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Murder in Black and White | Actor | Martin | N/A N/A |
| 1989 | Always | Actor | Powerhouse | 61 Fair |
| 1989 | Road House | Actor | Ernie Bass | 64 Fair |
| 1988 | Christmas in Tattertown | Actor | Saxophone (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Ladykillers | Actor | Abe | 58 Average |
| 1988 | They Live | Actor | Frank Armitage | 70 Good |
| 1988 | Bird | Actor | Buster Franklin | 62 Fair |
| 1988 | Stars & Bars | Actor | Eugene Teagarden | 58 Average |
| 1988 | Off Limits | Actor | Maurice | 58 Average |
| 1988 | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Actor | Embassy Gate Captain | 58 Average |
| 1988 | The Making of 'They Live' | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | Hot Pursuit | Actor | Alphonso | 58 Average |
| 1986 | Platoon | Actor | King | 75 Good |
| 1986 | The Whoopee Boys | Actor | Washington Square Peddler | 58 Average |
| 1982 | The Thing | Actor | Childs | 79 Good |
| 1980 | The Pirates of Penzance | Actor | Pirates and Police | 59 Average |
| 1979 | Coriolanus | Actor | Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen | 59 Average |
| Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Finding Faith | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Battle Force: Andromeda | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Duster | Actor | Ezra | N/A N/A |
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| The Sensitive Kind | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2014 | Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
| 2011 | The Inheritance | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man | Production | Producer | 59 Average |