Keith David
Keith David (born June 4, 1955) 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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- Born:
- Jun 4, 1956 In Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 297
- First Appeared:
- In the series Kite Man: Hell Yeah!
- Latest Project:
- Movie Sneaks 2024-10-31
Known For
Filmography
| Series | Kite Man: Hell Yeah! | Darkseid (voice) | 2025 |
| Series | Duster | Ezra | 2025 |
| Movie | Shelby Oaks | Morton | 2025 |
| Series | Hazbin Hotel | Husk (voice) | 2024-01-18 |
| Movie | The Prank | Principal Henderson | 2024-03-15 |
| Movie | Sneaks | (voice) | 2024-10-31 |
| Movie | Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story | Jerry | 2023-01-14 |
| Movie | American Fiction | Willy the Wonker | 2023-11-10 |
| Movie | All Fun and Games | 2023-08-30 | |
| Movie | Heist 88 | Buddha Ray | 2023-09-29 |
| Movie | A Snowy Day in Oakland | Mr. Monroe | 2023-03-17 |
| Movie | The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse | Narrator (voice) | 2022-03-25 |
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2022-02-19 |
| Movie | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 2022-02-07 |
| Movie | Unplugging | Gil | 2022-04-22 |
| 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 | Entergalactic | Mr. Rager (voice) | 2022-09-28 |
| Movie | Nope | Otis Haywood Sr. | 2022-07-20 |
| Movie | DC League of Super-Pets | Dog-El (voice) | 2022-07-27 |
| Series | The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time | 2022-09-07 | |
| Movie | Insight | Captain Duke | 2021-03-12 |
| Movie | DuckTales: The Last Adventure! | Manny (voice) | 2021-03-15 |
| 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 |
| Series | Muhammad Ali | Narrator | 2021-09-19 |
| Movie | Pups Alone | The Wise Bartender | 2021-11-19 |
| Movie | The Gateway | Terry | 2021-09-03 |
| Series | DC's Stargirl | Mister Bones (voice) | 2020-05-18 |
| Movie | Cuba's Cancer Hope | Narrator | 2020-04-01 |
| Series | Love Life | Narrator (voice) | 2020-05-27 |
| Movie | The 420 Movie | Chief Ironweed | 2020-04-07 |
| Series | Central Park | Ward Wittlinger (voice) | 2020-05-29 |
| Movie | Most Guys Are Losers | Al | 2020-10-24 |
| Movie | Horizon Line | Freddy Wyman | 2020-10-29 |
| Series | Close Enough | World’s Greatest Teacher Mug (voice) | 2020-07-09 |
| Movie | Good | Gregory Devereaux | 2020-10-22 |
| Series | The Good Lord Bird | Herbert | 2020-10-04 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Self | 2020-10-06 |
| Movie | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Self | 2019-02-07 |
| Movie | In Search of Darkness | Self | 2019-05-01 |
| Series | The Last Kids on Earth | Thrull (voice) | 2019-09-17 |
| Movie | The Wedding Year | Preston | 2019-09-20 |
| Movie | You Might Be the Killer | Sheriff James | 2019-05-21 |
| Series | Creepshow | Murdoch | 2019-09-26 |
| Movie | 21 Bridges | Deputy Chief Spencer | 2019-10-24 |
| Series | Summer Camp Island | Tummy (voice) | 2018-07-07 |
| Movie | Ray Meets Helen | Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| Series | Craig of the Creek | Narrator (voice) | 2018-03-30 |
| Movie | Tales from the Hood 2 | Portifoy Simms | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | American Dresser | Charlie | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | Love Jacked | Ed | 2018-12-07 |
| Series | Champaign Ill | Lafonso | 2018-12-12 |
| Movie | Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Himself | 2018-11-29 |
| Movie | Brothers in Arms | Self | 2018-11-13 |
| Movie | Night School | Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| Series | Liverspots and Astronots | Dr. Pesh | 2018-10-18 |
| Movie | Not a War Story | 2017-06-30 | |
| Movie | The '91 Falcons | Narrator | 2017-12-07 |
| Movie | Savage Dog | Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
| Series | Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters | Malcom Kane (voice) | 2017-11-16 |
| Series | Future Man | Dr. Elias Kronish | 2017-11-14 |
| Series | DuckTales | Manny (voice) | 2017-08-12 |
| Series | Jackie Robinson | Narrator | 2016-04-11 |
| Movie | The North Star | Frederick Douglas | 2016-03-01 |
| Movie | Nina | Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| Movie | Dusty: A Baseball Journey | Narrator | 2016-02-09 |
| Movie | Dirty Lies | Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Series | MacGyver | Burke / Man | 2016-09-23 |
| Series | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | Service to Man | Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
| Movie | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable | 2016-05-11 |
| Movie | School of Rickey | 2016-08-13 | |
| Movie | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| Movie | The Nice Guys | Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Series | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf | 2016-06-21 |
| Series | What Lives Inside | Soot | 2015-03-25 |
| Series | Big Time in Hollywood, Fl | Agent Everett Malloy | 2015-03-25 |
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) | 2015-01-01 |
| Movie | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge | 2015-03-30 |
| Series | Fresh Off the Boat | Clyde Roses | 2015-02-04 |
| Movie | Dutch Book | 2015-12-12 | |
| Series | Mr. Robot | Qwerty (voice) (uncredited) | 2015-06-24 |
| Movie | Kids vs Monsters | Barry | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | Boiling Pot | Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Movie | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Detective Harris | 2015-10-20 |
| Movie | Secrets of the Magic City | Mr. Daniels | 2015-06-26 |
| Movie | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe | 2015-07-17 |
| Series | We Bare Bears | Mr. Charles (voice) | 2015-08-24 |
| Series | Extant | Nicholas Calderon | 2014-07-09 |
| Series | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | 2014-01-10 |
| Series | The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW | Narrator | 2014-08-22 |
| Series | BoJack Horseman | Lion Musician (voice) | 2014-08-22 |
| Movie | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | 2014-11-03 | |
| Series | The Flash | Solovar (voice) | 2014-10-07 |
| Series | black-ish | Loose Craig | 2014-09-24 |
| Series | NCIS: New Orleans | Gene Holloway | 2014-09-23 |
| Series | Scorpion | Warden | 2014-09-22 |
| 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 |
| Series | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | The Cheshire Cat (voice) | 2013-10-10 |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Movie | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | President Curtis / Turkey President Curtis (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Movie | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | Frog Kingdom | Frog King | 2013-12-28 |
| 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 | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl | 2012-11-09 |
| Movie | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 2012-10-26 |
| Movie | Double or Nothing | Homeless Dude | 2012-10-13 |
| Movie | The Last Fall | 2012-03-09 | |
| Movie | Smiley | Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| Series | The Cape | Max Malini | 2011-01-09 |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | The Inheritance | Uncle Melvin | 2011-04-11 |
| Series | Person of Interest | Terence Beale | 2011-09-22 |
| Movie | Samuel Bleak | 2011-03-05 | |
| Movie | Death at a Funeral | Reverend Davis | 2010-04-15 |
| Movie | Africa's Lost Eden | Narrator | 2010-04-12 |
| Movie | Something Like A Business | Sebastian | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Meet Monica Velour | Claude | 2010-06-04 |
| Movie | Chasing 3000 | Officer L. | 2010-07-16 |
| Movie | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry | 2010-10-10 |
| Series | Young Justice | Mongul (voice) | 2010-11-26 |
| Movie | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Narrator | 2010-09-28 |
| Movie | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
| Series | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Narrator | 2010-09-28 |
| Movie | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| 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 | Beautiful Loser | Morgan - Adult | 2009-09-16 |
| Movie | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown | 2009-06-26 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) | 2009-12-08 |
| Series | Archer | Lemuel Kane (voice) | 2009-09-17 |
| Series | Community | Elroy Patashnik | 2009-09-17 |
| Movie | Gamer | Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
| Movie | The Butcher | Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
| Movie | All About Steve | Corbitt | 2009-08-06 |
| 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 Sensei | Minister | 2008-05-04 |
| Movie | The Fifth Commandment | Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton | 2008-08-21 |
| Movie | No Bad Days | Terrence | 2008-08-01 |
| Series | Canterbury's Law | Unknown | 2008-03-10 |
| Movie | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
| Movie | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police | 2008-03-28 |
| 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 | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore | 2007-05-11 |
| Movie | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton | 2007-05-19 |
| Movie | The Color Purple: The Color of Success | Narrator | 2007-02-11 |
| Movie | Halo 3 Essentials | Arbiter | 2007-09-25 |
| 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 | Numb3rs | Unknown | 2005-01-23 |
| Movie | Dirty | Captain Spain | 2005-02-14 |
| Movie | Crash | Lt. Dixon | 2005-05-06 |
| Series | Grey's Anatomy | Lloyd Mackie | 2005-03-27 |
| Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father | 2005-06-07 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator | 2004-04-13 |
| Series | The Big House | 2004-04-02 | |
| 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 | 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 | Inside Mecca | Narrator | 2003-03-01 |
| Movie | The Shakespeare Sessions | 2003-01-01 | |
| Movie | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
| Movie | Kaena: The Prophecy | Voxem (english voice) | 2003-01-02 |
| Series | Spider-Man: The New Animated Series | Agent Mosely (voice) | 2003-07-11 |
| Series | Teen Titans | Atlas (voice) | 2003-07-19 |
| Movie | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-01 |
| Movie | Head of State | Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| Movie | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-06 |
| Movie | Hollywood Homicide | Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| Series | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| Movie | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| Series | Everwood | Brian | 2002-09-16 |
| Movie | Stalking Leopards | Narrator | 2002-06-30 |
| Movie | 29 Palms | The Sheriff | 2002-07-29 |
| Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Movie | Barbershop | Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
| 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 |
| Series | Disney's House of Mouse | Unknown | 2001-01-13 |
| Movie | Novocaine | Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Series | Justice League | Despero (voice) | 2001-11-17 |
| Series | Halo | The Arbiter | 2001-11-15 |
| Movie | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| Series | Egypt's Golden Empire | Himself - Narrator | 2001-11-04 |
| Movie | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
| Series | The Legend of Tarzan | Tublat (voice) | 2001-09-03 |
| Movie | Egypt's Golden Empire | Narrator | 2001-11-03 |
| Series | Silent Service | Self - Host | 2000-01-06 |
| Movie | Innocents | Detective Davis | 2000-01-10 |
| Movie | The Replacements | Lindell | 2000-08-11 |
| Movie | Pitch Black | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 2000-02-18 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Matt Phelps | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Requiem for a Dream | Big Tim | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Where the Heart Is | Moses Whitecotten | 2000-04-27 |
| Series | Family Guy | Jazz Documentary Narrator (voice) | 1999-01-31 |
| Movie | The Grizzlies of Siberia | Narrator | 1999-02-14 |
| 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 | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1999-08-17 |
| Movie | The Tiger Woods Story | Earl Woods | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 | Al Simmons/Spawn | 1998-08-25 |
| Movie | Armageddon | General Kimsey | 1998-01-07 |
| Movie | There's Something About Mary | Charlie Jensen | 1998-07-15 |
| Series | Hercules | Apollo (voice) | 1998-08-31 |
| Movie | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Movie | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad | 1997-11-15 |
| Movie | Volcano | Lt. Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| Movie | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-15 |
| 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 |
| Series | Spawn | Spawn (voice) | 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 | 1996-01-18 |
| Movie | Never Met Picasso | Larry | 1996-01-01 |
| Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-08-21 |
| Series | 7th Heaven | Stanley | 1996-08-26 |
| Movie | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath (voice) | 1996-05-02 |
| Series | Arliss | Unknown | 1996-08-10 |
| Movie | Larger Than Life | Hurst | 1996-07-26 |
| Movie | Johns | Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
| Movie | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| Series | The Outer Limits | Unknown | 1995-03-26 |
| Movie | Dead Presidents | Kirby | 1995-09-29 |
| Movie | Clockers | André the Giant | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson | 1995-09-15 |
| Movie | Reality Bites | Roger | 1994-02-18 |
| Series | Aladdin | Unknown | 1994-02-06 |
| Movie | Jewels of the Caribbean Sea | (Self) Narrator | 1994-04-13 |
| Series | Fantastic Four | Unknown | 1994-09-24 |
| Series | Gargoyles | Goliath (voice) | 1994-10-24 |
| Movie | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
| Series | ER | Pastor Watkins | 1994-09-19 |
| Series | New York Undercover | Unknown | 1994-09-08 |
| Series | Baseball | Narrator | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | King Oliver | 1993-03-13 |
| Movie | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | Self - Host | 1993-11-02 |
| Movie | Hallelujah | Big Willie | 1993-12-22 |
| Movie | The Last Outlaw | Lovecraft | 1993-10-30 |
| Movie | There Are No Children Here | John Paul Rivers | 1993-11-28 |
| Movie | Nails | Noah Owens | 1992-07-25 |
| Movie | Final Analysis | Detective Huggins | 1992-02-07 |
| Movie | Article 99 | Luther Jermoe | 1992-03-13 |
| Series | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | King Oliver | 1992-03-04 |
| Movie | Hallelujah Anyhow | Will | 1991-01-27 |
| Movie | Men at Work | Louis Fedders | 1990-08-24 |
| Series | Law & Order | Bronx D.A. John Robertson | 1990-09-13 |
| Movie | Marked for Death | Max | 1990-10-05 |
| Movie | Murder in Black and White | Martin | 1990-01-07 |
| Movie | Road House | Ernie Bass | 1989-05-19 |
| Movie | Always | Powerhouse | 1989-12-22 |
| 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 | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Ladykillers | Abe | 1988-11-09 |
| Movie | They Live | Frank Armitage | 1988-11-04 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Terror in the Aisles | Childs (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1984-10-26 |
| Series | Hot Pursuit | Unknown | 1984-09-22 |
| Movie | The Thing | Childs | 1982-06-25 |
| Series | Hallelujah! | Unknown | 1981-06-03 |
| Movie | The Pirates of Penzance | Pirates and Police | 1980-06-01 |
| Movie | Coriolanus | Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen | 1979-03-31 |
| Series | NOVA | Narrator | 1974-03-03 |
