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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
June 4, 1956
Place of Birth:
Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sneaks | O.G. (voice) |
| 2025 | Shelby Oaks | Morton Jacobson |
| 2025 | Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox | The Simulator |
| 2025 | The Gettysburg Address | Frederick Douglass (voice) |
| 2025 | Finding Faith | |
| 2025 | Portal to Hell | Mr. Bobshank |
| 2025 | Omniscient | Alistair |
| 2024 | The Prank | Principal Henderson |
| 2024 | Betty & Blue | Willie 'Blue' Watson |
| 2024 | Mufasa: The Lion King | Masego (voice) |
| 2023 | Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story | Jerry |
| 2023 | Heist 88 | Buddha Ray |
| 2023 | American Fiction | Willy the Wonker |
| 2023 | From the Shadows | Dr. Leonard Bertram |
| 2023 | A Snowy Day in Oakland | Mr. Monroe |
| 2022 | Unplugging | Gil |
| 2022 | Nope | Otis Haywood Sr. |
| 2022 | The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse | Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | DC League of Super-Pets | Dog-El (voice) |
| 2022 | A Miracle Before Christmas | David |
| 2022 | Entergalactic | Mr. Rager (voice) |
| 2022 | Shut Up and Ride | Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee |
| 2022 | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) |
| 2022 | Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Ink Williams |
| 2022 | 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! | Self |
| 2021 | Mr. Nelson on the North Side | Self |
| 2021 | The Gateway | Terry |
| 2021 | Pups Alone | The Wise Bartender |
| 2021 | Black as Night | Babineaux |
| 2021 | The Seventh Day | Father Louis |
| 2021 | Insight | Captain Duke |
| 2021 | Biography: 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper | Self |
| 2020 | Horizon Line | Freddy Wyman |
| 2020 | The 420 Movie | Chief Ironweed |
| 2020 | In Search of Darkness: Part II | Self |
| 2020 | Most Guys Are Losers | Al |
| 2020 | Cuba's Cancer Hope | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Good | Gregory Devereaux |
| 2019 | The Wedding Year | Preston |
| 2019 | In Search of Darkness | Self |
| 2019 | 21 Bridges | Deputy Chief Spencer |
| 2019 | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Self |
| 2019 | You Might Be the Killer | Sheriff James |
| 2018 | Brothers in Arms | Self |
| 2018 | Ray Meets Helen | Harve |
| 2018 | Night School | Gerald |
| 2018 | Tales from the Hood 2 | Portifoy Simms |
| 2018 | Love Jacked | Ed |
| 2018 | American Dresser | Charlie |
| 2018 | F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Self |
| 2018 | Sharon 1.2.3. | Tyrone |
| 2017 | Savage Dog | Valentine |
| 2017 | Not a War Story | |
| 2017 | The '91 Falcons | Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | The Nice Guys | Older Guy |
| 2016 | Dirty Lies | Doc |
| 2016 | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway |
| 2016 | Service to Man | Dean Holmes |
| 2016 | Nina | Clifton's Father |
| 2016 | The North Star | Frederick Douglass |
| 2016 | School of Rickey | Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable |
| 2016 | The Last Punch | Don King |
| 2015 | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe |
| 2015 | Boiling Pot | Agent Long |
| 2015 | Secrets of the Magic City | Mr. Daniels |
| 2015 | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge |
| 2015 | Kids vs Monsters | Barry |
| 2015 | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Detective Harris |
| 2015 | Dutch Book | |
| 2014 | Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | |
| 2014 | Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator |
| 2013 | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy |
| 2013 | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox |
| 2013 | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds |
| 2013 | Frog Kingdom | Frog King (voice) |
| 2013 | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) |
| 2013 | Black Asylum | Agent Davis |
| 2012 | Highway | Mustafa |
| 2012 | Cloud Atlas | Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient |
| 2012 | Smiley | Diamond |
| 2012 | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl |
| 2012 | The Last Fall | Sydney Bishop |
| 2012 | AniMen: The Galactic Battle | Sergeant Brass |
| 2012 | Double or Nothing | Homeless Dude |
| 2012 | The Undershepherd | Brother Wilks |
| 2011 | The Inheritance | Uncle Melvin |
| 2011 | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers |
| 2011 | Samuel Bleak | Ned Coffman |
| 2011 | No Saints for Sinners | |
| 2011 | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk |
| 2010 | Africa's Lost Eden | Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | Terry |
| 2010 | Death at a Funeral | Reverend Davis |
| 2010 | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee |
| 2010 | Something Like A Business | Sebastian |
| 2010 | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw |
| 2010 | Meet Monica Velour | Claude |
| 2010 | New York Street Games | Self |
| 2010 | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Narrator |
| 2010 | Chasing 3000 | Officer L. |
| 2009 | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (voice) |
| 2009 | All About Steve | Corbitt |
| 2009 | Don McKay | Otis Kent |
| 2009 | Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia | Commander Scott Boytano |
| 2009 | Coraline | The Cat (voice) |
| 2009 | Against the Dark | Lt. Waters |
| 2009 | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown |
| 2009 | Blue | Terry Venable |
| 2009 | The Butcher | Larry Cobb |
| 2009 | Charlie Valentine | Sal |
| 2009 | Gamer | Agent Keith |
| 2009 | Beautiful Loser | Morgan - Adult |
| 2008 | Superhero Movie | The Chief of Police |
| 2008 | No Bad Days | Terrence |
| 2008 | The Sensei | Minister |
| 2008 | The Fifth Commandment | Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton |
| 2008 | Justice League: The New Frontier | The Centre (voice) |
| 2008 | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway |
| 2008 | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong |
| 2008 | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad |
| 2008 | The Candlelight Murders | Pastor Bob |
| 2007 | The Last Sentinel | Colonel Norton |
| 2007 | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad |
| 2007 | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore |
| 2007 | The Color Purple: The Color of Success | Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano |
| 2006 | Dirty | Captain Spain |
| 2006 | ATL | John Garnett |
| 2006 | The Oh in Ohio | Coach Popovitch |
| 2006 | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Self |
| 2006 | Forbidden Fruits | Rev. Walters |
| 2005 | Crash | Lt. Dixon |
| 2005 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father |
| 2005 | Transporter 2 | Stappleton |
| 2005 | The Proud Family Movie | Bebe Clone (voice) |
| 2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid |
| 2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice) |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Beef II | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Last Stand of the Great Bear | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director |
| 2004 | Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director |
| 2003 | Head of State | Bernard Cooper |
| 2003 | Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Hollywood Homicide | Leon |
| 2003 | Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Inside Mecca | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | The Shakespeare Sessions | |
| 2002 | Barbershop | Lester Wallace |
| 2002 | Stalking Leopards | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Frank (They Live) (archive footage) |
| 2002 | 29 Palms | The Sheriff |
| 2002 | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Novocaine | Detective Lunt |
| 2001 | Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett |
| 2001 | Home Invaders | Matador |
| 2001 | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) |
| 2001 | Semper Fi | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff |
| 2001 | Egypt's Golden Empire | Narrator |
| 2001 | Boxing: In and Out of the Ring | Narrator (voice) |
| 2000 | Pitch Black | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid |
| 2000 | Requiem for a Dream | Big Tim |
| 2000 | Where the Heart Is | Moses Whitecotten |
| 2000 | Innocents | Detective Davis |
| 2000 | The Replacements | Lindell |
| 1999 | The Grizzlies of Siberia | Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | ATF | FBI Director Richard Long |
| 1998 | Armageddon | General Kimsey |
| 1998 | There's Something About Mary | Charlie Jensen |
| 1998 | The Tiger Woods Story | Earl Woods |
| 1997 | Volcano | Lt. Ed Fox |
| 1997 | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad |
| 1997 | Flipping | Leo Richards, Gang Leader |
| 1997 | Executive Target | Lamar |
| 1997 | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles |
| 1997 | Hercules | Apollo the Sun God (voice) |
| 1996 | Larger Than Life | Hurst |
| 1996 | Eye for an Eye | Martin |
| 1996 | The Grave | The Priest |
| 1996 | Johns | Homeless John |
| 1996 | Never Met Picasso | Larry |
| 1996 | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Goliath (voice) |
| 1995 | Clockers | André the Giant |
| 1995 | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson |
| 1995 | Dead Presidents | Kirby |
| 1995 | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay Cantrell |
| 1994 | The Puppet Masters | Alex Holland |
| 1994 | Reality Bites | Roger |
| 1994 | Jewels of the Caribbean Sea | Narrator (voice) |
| 1993 | The Last Outlaw | Lovecraft |
| 1993 | Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music | Self - Host |
| 1993 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | King Oliver |
| 1993 | There Are No Children Here | John Paul Rivers |
| 1993 | Hallelujah | Big Willie |
| 1993 | Lions Of Darkness | Narrator (voice) |
| 1992 | Final Analysis | Detective Huggins |
| 1992 | Article 99 | Luther Jermoe |
| 1992 | Nails | Noah Owens |
| 1991 | Hallelujah Anyhow | Will |
| 1990 | Men at Work | Louis Fedders |
| 1990 | Marked for Death | Max |
| 1990 | Murder in Black and White | Martin |
| 1989 | Always | Powerhouse |
| 1989 | Road House | Ernie Bass |
| 1988 | They Live | Frank Armitage |
| 1988 | Bird | Buster Franklin |
| 1988 | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Embassy Gate Captain |
| 1988 | Ladykillers | Abe |
| 1988 | The Making of 'They Live' | Self |
| 1988 | Off Limits | Maurice |
| 1988 | Stars & Bars | Eugene Teagarden |
| 1988 | Christmas in Tattertown | Saxophone (voice) |
| 1987 | Hot Pursuit | Alphonso |
| 1986 | Platoon | King |
| 1986 | The Whoopee Boys | Washington Square Peddler |
| 1982 | The Thing | Childs |
| 1980 | The Pirates of Penzance | Pirates and Police |
| 1979 | Coriolanus | Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen |
| Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice | Sosa | |
| The Thing Expanded | Self | |
| ATL 2: The Homecoming | John Garnett |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Duster | Ezra Saxton |
| 2025 | The Lowdown | |
| 2025 | Oh My God... Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances | Toy COD Leader (voice) |
| 2024 | Hazbin Hotel | Husk (voice) |
| 2024 | Leonardo da Vinci | Narrator (voice) |
| 2024 | Kite Man: Hell Yeah! | Darkseid (voice) |
| 2024 | Masters of the Universe: Revolution | Hordak (voice) |
| 2024 | Invincible Fight Girl | Narrator (voice) |
| 2024 | Invincible Fight Girl | Scouter (voice) |
| 2024 | Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou | Narrator (voice) |
| 2024 | High Potential | Captain Pacheco |
| 2023 | Justified: City Primeval | Judge Alvin Guy |
| 2023 | My Dad the Bounty Hunter | B'Caala (voice) |
| 2023 | Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982 | Self - Actor |
| 2023 | Krapopolis | Asskill (voice) |
| 2023 | True Lies | Albert 'Al' Gibson |
| 2022 | The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time | Self |
| 2022 | From Scratch | Hershel Wheeler |
| 2022 | Firebuds | Manny Kablamee |
| 2022 | Chibiverse | King Andrias (voice) |
| 2021 | Muhammad Ali | Narrator (voice) |
| 2021 | Leverage: Redemption | Billy Spencer |
| 2021 | Marvel's Hit-Monkey | The Devil |
| 2021 | Abbott Elementary | Frank |
| 2020 | Close Enough | World’s Greatest Teacher Mug (voice) |
| 2020 | Central Park | Ward Wittlinger (voice) |
| 2020 | Love Life | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | DC's Stargirl | Mister Bones (voice) |
| 2020 | Dead Talk Live | Self - Guest |
| 2020 | Woke | Bible (voice) |
| 2019 | Creepshow | Murdoch |
| 2019 | Amphibia | King Andrias (voice) |
| 2019 | The Last Kids on Earth | Thrull (voice) |
| 2018 | Craig of the Creek | Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Summer Camp Island | Lithophone (voice) |
| 2018 | Summer Camp Island | Tummy (voice) |
| 2018 | Champaign Ill | Lafonso |
| 2018 | Liverspots and Astronots | Dr. Pesh |
| 2017 | DuckTales | Manny (voice) |
| 2017 | Future Man | Dr. Elias Kronish |
| 2017 | Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters | Malcom Kane (voice) |
| 2016 | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf |
| 2016 | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Lord Marmoo (voice) |
| 2016 | Jackie Robinson | Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Speechless | Colonel |
| 2016 | MacGyver | Burke / Man |
| 2015 | Mr. Robot | Qwerty (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2015 | We Bare Bears | Mr. Charles (voice) |
| 2015 | Big Time in Hollywood, Fl | Agent Everett Malloy |
| 2015 | Star vs. the Forces of Evil | Glossaryck (voice) |
| 2015 | Fresh Off the Boat | Clyde Roses |
| 2014 | Extant | Nicholas Calderon |
| 2014 | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody |
| 2014 | Scorpion | Warden |
| 2014 | The Flash | Solovar (voice) |
| 2014 | The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW | Narrator (voice) |
| 2014 | BoJack Horseman | Lion Musician (voice) |
| 2014 | NCIS: New Orleans | Gene Holloway |
| 2014 | black-ish | Loose Craig |
| 2013 | The Bible | Narrator |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty | President Curtis / Turkey President Curtis (voice) |
| 2013 | Belle's | William 'Big Bill' Cooper |
| 2013 | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | The Cheshire Cat (voice) |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty | Reverse Giraffe (voice) |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty | President/Governor Andre Curtis (voice) |
| 2013 | Uncle Grandpa | Santa Claus (voice) |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Sal Commander (voice) |
| 2012 | Touch | Dutch |
| 2011 | The Cape | Max Malini |
| 2011 | Person of Interest | Terence Beale |
| 2010 | Young Justice | Mongul (voice) |
| 2010 | Adventure Time | Balthus (voice) |
| 2010 | Adventure Time | Flame King (voice) |
| 2010 | Hawaii Five-0 | Jimmy Cannon |
| 2010 | Baseball: The Tenth Inning | Narrator (voice) |
| 2009 | Community | Elroy Patashnik |
| 2009 | Community | Narrator (voice) |
| 2009 | Archer | Lemuel Kane (voice) |
| 2008 | Canterbury's Law | |
| 2008 | The War | Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Psych | Mr. Guster |
| 2005 | Grey's Anatomy | Lloyd Mackie |
| 2005 | Numb3rs | Jeremiah Miller |
| 2005 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | |
| 2005 | American Dad! | Fire Captain (voice) |
| 2004 | The Big House | |
| 2003 | Teen Titans | Atlas (voice) |
| 2003 | Spider-Man: The New Animated Series | Agent Mosely (voice) |
| 2003 | Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites | Narrator |
| 2002 | Everwood | Brian |
| 2002 | Mark Twain | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | The Job | |
| 2001 | The Legend of Tarzan | Tublat (voice) |
| 2001 | Disney's House of Mouse | |
| 2001 | Justice League | Despero (voice) |
| 2001 | Egypt's Golden Empire | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Jazz | Narrator (voice) |
| 2000 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Matt Phelps |
| 2000 | Silent Service | Self - Host |
| 1999 | Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | Frederick Douglass (voice) |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Jazz Documentary Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Commander Bensinger (voice) |
| 1998 | Hercules | Apollo (voice) |
| 1997 | Spawn | Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) |
| 1996 | Arliss | |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | |
| 1996 | 7th Heaven | Stanley |
| 1995 | The Outer Limits | Captain Ira Merit |
| 1994 | Gargoyles | Goliath (voice) |
| 1994 | Gargoyles | |
| 1994 | Aladdin | |
| 1994 | Fantastic Four | Black Panther/T'challa (voice) |
| 1994 | New York Undercover | |
| 1994 | ER | Pastor Watkins |
| 1994 | Baseball | Narrator |
| 1992 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | King Oliver |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Bronx D.A. John Robertson |
| 1988 | American Experience | W.E. Henderson / Other Voices |
| 1987 | The Oldest Rookie | |
| 1985 | The Equalizer | Cristo |
| 1984 | Hot Pursuit | |
| 1983 | Reading Rainbow | Narrator (voice) |
| 1982 | Nature | Narrator |
| 1981 | Hallelujah! | |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner |