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Acting
Born
1956-06-04
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 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
Acting History
2027
Captain Zero: The Movie as The Depression Demon (voice)
2026Strip Law
2025The Gettysburg Address as Frederick Douglass (voice)
2025Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway as (voice) (uncredited)
2025The American Revolution as voice
2025Shelby Oaks as Morton Jacobson
2025E.B. White's Charlotte's Web as Old Sheep (voice)
2025Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along as Husk (voice)
2025The Lowdown as Marty
2025Haunted Hotel as Additional Voices (voice)
2025Finding Faith
2025Omniscient as Alistair
2025Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox as The Simulator
2025Duster as Ezra Saxton
2025Sneaks as O.G. (voice)
2025Oh My God... Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances as Toy COD Leader (voice)
2025Portal to Hell as Mr. Bobshank
2024Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou as Narrator (voice)
2024Mufasa: The Lion King as Masego (voice)
2024Leonardo da Vinci as Narrator (voice)
2024Invincible Fight Girl as Narrator (voice)
2024Invincible Fight Girl as Scouter (voice)
2024High Potential as Captain Pacheco
2024Kite Man: Hell Yeah! as Darkseid (voice)
2024Betty & Blue as Willie 'Blue' Watson
2024The Prank as Principal Henderson
2024Masters of the Universe: Revolution as Hordak (voice)
2024Hazbin Hotel as Husk (voice)
2023American Fiction as Willy the Wonker
2023Heist 88 as Buddha Ray
2023Krapopolis as Asskill (voice)
2023From the Shadows as Dr. Leonard Bertram
2023Justified: City Primeval as Judge Alvin Guy
2023Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982 as Self - Actor
2023A Snowy Day in Oakland as Mr. Monroe
2023True Lies as Albert 'Al' Gibson
2023My Dad the Bounty Hunter as B'Caala (voice)
2023Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story as Jerry
2022Shut Up and Ride as Narrator (voice)
2022A Miracle Before Christmas as David
2022From Scratch as Hershel Wheeler
20221982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! as Self
2022Entergalactic as Mr. Rager (voice)
2022Firebuds as Manny Kablamee
2022Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story as Ink Williams
2022The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time as Self
2022Chibiverse as King Andrias (voice)
2022DC League of Super-Pets as Dog-El (voice)
2022Nope as Otis Haywood Sr.
2022Amphibia: The Hardest Thing as King Adrias
2022Unplugging as Gil
2022The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse as Narrator (voice)
2022In Search of Tomorrow as Self - Interviewee
2022Catwoman: Hunted as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)
2021Abbott Elementary as Frank
2021Pups Alone as The Wise Bartender
2021Marvel's Hit-Monkey as The Devil
2021Black as Night as Babineaux
2021Mr. Nelson on the North Side as Self
2021Muhammad Ali as Narrator (voice)
2021The Gateway as Terry
2021Leverage: Redemption as Billy Spencer
2021The Seventh Day as Father Louis
2021Insight as Captain Duke
2020Horizon Line as Freddy Wyman
2020Most Guys Are Losers as Al
2020Good as Gregory Devereaux
2020In Search of Darkness: Part II as Self
2020Woke as Bible (voice)
2020Close Enough as World’s Greatest Teacher Mug (voice)
2020Central Park as Ward Wittlinger (voice)
2020Love Life as Narrator (voice)
2020DC's Stargirl as Mister Bones (voice)
2020Dead Talk Live as Self - Guest
2020The 420 Movie as Chief Ironweed
2020Cuba's Cancer Hope as Narrator (voice)
201921 Bridges as Deputy Chief Spencer
2019Creepshow as Murdoch
2019The Wedding Year as Preston
2019The Last Kids on Earth as Thrull (voice)
2019Amphibia as King Andrias (voice)
2019You Might Be the Killer as Sheriff James
2019In Search of Darkness as Self
2019Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror as Self
2018Champaign Ill as Lafonso
2018Love Jacked as Ed
2018F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story as Self
2018Brothers in Arms as Self
2018Liverspots and Astronots as Dr. Pesh
2018Night School as Gerald
2018Sharon 1.2.3. as Tyrone
2018American Dresser as Charlie
2018Tales from the Hood 2 as Portifoy Simms
2018Summer Camp Island as Lithophone (voice)
2018Summer Camp Island as Tummy (voice)
2018Ray Meets Helen as Harve
2018Craig of the Creek as Narrator (voice)
2017The '91 Falcons as Narrator (voice)
2017Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters as Malcom Kane (voice)
2017Future Man as Dr. Elias Kronish
2017DuckTales as Manny (voice)
2017Savage Dog as Valentine
2017Not a War Story
2016Service to Man as Dean Holmes
2016MacGyver as Burke / Man
2016Speechless as Colonel
2016Kulipari: An Army of Frogs as Lord Marmoo (voice)
2016School of Rickey as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016Greenleaf as Bishop James Greenleaf
2016Range 15 as Colonel Holloway
2016The Nice Guys as Older Guy
2016Blue: The American Dream as Terry Venable
2016Nina as Clifton's Father
2016Jackie Robinson as Narrator (voice)
2016The North Star as Frederick Douglass
2016Dirty Lies as Doc
2016The Last Punch as Don King
2015Dutch Book
2015If I Tell You I Have to Kill You as Detective Harris
2015Kids vs Monsters as Barry
2015Boiling Pot as Agent Long
2015We Bare Bears as Mr. Charles (voice)
2015Union Furnace as Pin Stripe
2015Secrets of the Magic City as Mr. Daniels
2015Mr. Robot as Qwerty (voice) (uncredited)
2015Field of Lost Shoes as Old Judge
2015Big Time in Hollywood, Fl as Agent Everett Malloy
2015Fresh Off the Boat as Clyde Roses
2015Star vs. the Forces of Evil as Glossaryck (voice)
2014Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary
2014The Flash as Solovar (voice)
2014Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man as Narrator
2014black-ish as Loose Craig
2014NCIS: New Orleans as Gene Holloway
2014Scorpion as Warden
2014BoJack Horseman as Lion Musician (voice)
2014The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW as Narrator (voice)
2014Extant as Nicholas Calderon
2014Enlisted as Sgt. Major Donald Cody
2013Frog Kingdom as Frog King (voice)
2013Rick and Morty as President Curtis / Turkey President Curtis (voice)
2013Rick and Morty as Reverse Giraffe (voice)
2013Rick and Morty as President/Governor Andre Curtis (voice)
2013Rick and Morty as Narrator (voice)
2013Free Birds as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)
2013Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as The Cheshire Cat (voice)
2013Uncle Grandpa as Santa Claus (voice)
2013Sons of Liberty as Nathan Reynolds
2013Assault on Wall Street as Freddy
2013Black Asylum as Agent Davis
2013Teen Titans Go! as Narrator (voice)
2013The Bible as Narrator
2013Belle's as William 'Big Bill' Cooper
2013Don't Pass Me By as David Knox
2012Christmas in Compton as Big Earl
2012Cloud Atlas as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
2012Double or Nothing as Homeless Dude
2012Smiley as Diamond
2012Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Sal Commander (voice)
2012Highway as Mustafa
2012The Last Fall as Sydney Bishop
2012The Undershepherd as Brother Wilks
2012Touch as Dutch
2012AniMen: The Galactic Battle as Sergeant Brass
2011The Greening of Whitney Brown as Clerk
2011Person of Interest as Terence Beale
2011Hopelessly in June as Dalbert Myers
2011The Inheritance as Uncle Melvin
2011Samuel Bleak as Ned Coffman
2011The Cape as Max Malini
2011No Saints for Sinners
2010Young Justice as Mongul (voice)
2010Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming as Terry
2010Chain Letter as Det. Jim Crenshaw
2010Baseball: The Tenth Inning as Narrator
2010Baseball: The Tenth Inning as Narrator (voice)
2010Hawaii Five-0 as Jimmy Cannon
2010Lottery Ticket as Sweet Tee
2010New York Street Games as Self
2010Chasing 3000 as Officer L.
2010Something Like A Business as Sebastian
2010Meet Monica Velour as Claude
2010Death at a Funeral as Reverend Davis
2010Africa's Lost Eden as Narrator (voice)
2010Adventure Time as Balthus (voice)
2010Adventure Time as Flame King (voice)
2009The Princess and the Frog as Dr. Facilier (voice)
2009Archer as Lemuel Kane (voice)
2009Community as Elroy Patashnik
2009Community as Narrator (voice)
2009Beautiful Loser as Morgan - Adult
2009Gamer as Agent Keith
2009All About Steve as Corbitt
2009The Butcher as Larry Cobb
2009Pastor Brown as Pastor Brown
2009Don McKay as Otis Kent
2009Blue as Terry Venable
2009Charlie Valentine as Sal
2009Against the Dark as Lt. Waters
2009Coraline as The Cat (voice)
2009Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia as Commander Scott Boytano
2008S.I.S. as Joseph Armstrong
2008The Fifth Commandment as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton
2008No Bad Days as Terrence
2008The Sensei as Minister
2008My Mom's New Boyfriend as FBI Chief Conrad
2008Superhero Movie as The Chief of Police
2008Canterbury's Law
2008Justice League: The New Frontier as The Centre (voice)
2008First Sunday as Judge B. Bennet Galloway
2008The Candlelight Murders as Pastor Bob
2007The War as Narrator (voice)
2007The Last Sentinel as Colonel Norton
2007Delta Farce as Sgt. Kilgore
2007The Color Purple: The Color of Success as Narrator (voice)
2007If I Had Known I Was a Genius as Dad
2006Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil as MCPO Scott Boytano
2006Forbidden Fruits as Rev. Walters
2006Psych as Mr. Guster
2006ATL as John Garnett
2006The Oh in Ohio as Coach Popovitch
2006Working with a Master: John Carpenter as Self
2005Dirty as Captain Spain
2005Crusades: Crescent & the Cross as Self - Narrator
2005The Proud Family Movie as Bebe Clone (voice)
2005Transporter 2 as Stappleton
2005Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Father
2005Crash as Lt. Dixon
2005Grey's Anatomy as Lloyd Mackie
2005American Dad! as Fire Captain (voice)
2005Numb3rs as Jeremiah Miller
2005Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Jack Johnson (voice)
2004Last Stand of the Great Bear as Narrator (voice)
2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Narrator (voice)
2004Beef II as Narrator (voice)
2004The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)
2004The Chronicles of Riddick as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
2004Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man as Narrator (voice)
2004The Big House
2004Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London as CIA Director
2003Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom as Narrator (voice)
2003Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip as Narrator (voice)
2003Teen Titans as Atlas (voice)
2003Spider-Man: The New Animated Series as Agent Mosely (voice)
2003Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked as Narrator (voice)
2003Hollywood Homicide as Leon
2003Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites as Narrator
2003Head of State as Bernard Cooper
2003Agent Cody Banks as CIA Director
2003Inside Mecca as Narrator (voice)
2003The Shakespeare Sessions
2002Everwood as Brian
200229 Palms as The Sheriff
2002Stalking Leopards as Narrator (voice)
2002Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Frank (They Live) (archive footage)
2002Barbershop as Lester Wallace
2002Mark Twain as Narrator (voice)
2002Mark Twain as Narrator (voice)
2001Novocaine as Detective Lunt
2001Justice League as Despero (voice)
2001Egypt's Golden Empire as Narrator (voice)
2001Egypt's Golden Empire as Narrator
2001The Legend of Tarzan as Tublat (voice)
2001Home Invaders as Matador
2001Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as Council Member (voice)
2001Semper Fi as Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff
2001The Job
2001Disney's House of Mouse
2001Jazz as Narrator (voice)
2001Boxing: In and Out of the Ring as Narrator (voice)
2001Pretty When You Cry as Detective Charles Desett
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Matt Phelps
2000Requiem for a Dream as Big Tim
2000The Replacements as Lindell
2000Where the Heart Is as Moses Whitecotten
2000Pitch Black as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
2000Innocents as Detective Davis
2000Silent Service as Self - Host
1999Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony as Frederick Douglass (voice)
1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues as King Oliver
1999ATF as FBI Director Richard Long
1999Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle as Spawn
1999The Grizzlies of Siberia as Narrator (voice)
1999Family Guy as Jazz Documentary Narrator (voice)
1999Family Guy as Commander Bensinger (voice)
1998Hercules as Apollo (voice)
1998Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 as Spawn
1998There's Something About Mary as Charlie Jensen
1998Armageddon as General Kimsey
1998The Tiger Woods Story as Earl Woods
1997Don King: Only in America as Herbert Muhammad
1997Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest as Algric Bartles
1997Executive Target as Lamar
1997Hercules as Apollo the Sun God (voice)
1997Spawn as Al Simmons / Spawn (voice)
1997Volcano as Lt. Ed Fox
1997Flipping as Leo Richards, Gang Leader
1996Johns as Homeless John
19967th Heaven as Stanley
1996E! True Hollywood Story as Self
1996Arli$$
1996Larger Than Life as Hurst
1996The Grave as The Priest
1996Eye for an Eye as Martin
1996Never Met Picasso as Larry
1995Dead Presidents as Kirby
1995Clockers as André the Giant
1995Blue in the Face as Jackie Robinson
1995The Outer Limits as Captain Ira Merit
1995Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken as Goliath (voice)
1995The Quick and the Dead as Sgt. Clay Cantrell
1994Gargoyles
1994Gargoyles as Goliath (voice)
1994The Puppet Masters as Alex Holland
1994Fantastic Four as Black Panther/T'challa (voice)
1994ER as Pastor Watkins
1994Baseball as Narrator
1994New York Undercover
1994Jewels of the Caribbean Sea as Narrator (voice)
1994Reality Bites as Roger
1994Aladdin
1993Hallelujah as Big Willie
1993There Are No Children Here as John Paul Rivers
1993Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music as Self - Host
1993The Last Outlaw as Lovecraft
1993Lions Of Darkness as Narrator (voice)
1992Nails as Noah Owens
1992Article 99 as Luther Jermoe
1992The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as King Oliver
1992Final Analysis as Detective Huggins
1991Hallelujah Anyhow as Will
1990Marked for Death as Max
1990Law & Order as Bronx D.A. John Robertson
1990Men at Work as Louis Fedders
1990Murder in Black and White as Martin
1989Always as Powerhouse
1989Road House as Ernie Bass
1988Christmas in Tattertown as Saxophone (voice)
1988Ladykillers as Abe
1988They Live as Frank Armitage
1988American Experience as W.E. Henderson / Other Voices
1988Bird as Buster Franklin
1988Stars & Bars as Eugene Teagarden
1988Off Limits as Maurice
1988Braddock: Missing in Action III as Embassy Gate Captain
1988The Making of 'They Live' as Self
1987The Oldest Rookie
1987Hot Pursuit as Alphonso
1986Platoon as King
1986The Whoopee Boys as Washington Square Peddler
1985The Equalizer as Cristo
1984Hot Pursuit
1983Reading Rainbow as Narrator (voice)
1982Nature as Narrator
1982The Thing as Childs
1981Hallelujah!
1980The Pirates of Penzance as Pirates and Police
1979Coriolanus as Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
1974NOVA as Narrator
1956Tony Awards as Self - Winner
—Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice as Sosa
—Dreams of the Moon
—My New Friend Jim as Jim Dandy
—ATL 2: The Homecoming as John Garnett
—The Thing Expanded as Self
—President Curtis as President Andre Curtis (voice)
—The Price for Freedom as Reverend J.W. Bruno