Keith David

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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For: Acting

Born: Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, 1956-06-04

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	51
2	1974	NOVA	Narrator	70
3	1981	Hallelujah!		60
4	1982	Nature	Narrator	81
5	1983	Reading Rainbow	Narrator (voice)	84
6	1984	Hot Pursuit		50
7	1985	The Equalizer	Cristo	72
8	1987	The Oldest Rookie		55
9	1988	American Experience	W.E. Henderson / Other Voices	74
10	1990	Law & Order	Bronx D.A. John Robertson	74
11	1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	King Oliver	65
12	1994	Aladdin		70
13	1994	New York Undercover		71
14	1994	Baseball	Narrator	73
15	1994	ER	Pastor Watkins	78
16	1994	Fantastic Four	Black Panther/T'challa (voice)	64
17	1994	Gargoyles	Goliath (voice)	81
18	1994	Gargoyles		81
19	1995	The Outer Limits	Captain Ira Merit	77
20	1996	Arliss		67
21	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
22	1996	7th Heaven	Stanley	64
23	1997	Spawn	Al Simmons / Spawn (voice)	80
24	1998	Hercules	Apollo (voice)	68
25	1999	Family Guy	Jazz Documentary Narrator (voice)	74
26	1999	Family Guy	Commander Bensinger (voice)	74
27	1999	Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony	Frederick Douglass (voice)	77
28	2000	Silent Service	Self - Host	0
29	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Matt Phelps	76
30	2001	Jazz	Narrator (voice)	80
31	2001	Disney's House of Mouse		74
32	2001	The Job		66
33	2001	The Legend of Tarzan	Tublat (voice)	68
34	2001	Egypt's Golden Empire	Narrator (voice)	70
35	2001	Justice League	Despero (voice)	82
36	2002	Mark Twain	Narrator (voice)	0
37	2002	Everwood	Brian	75
38	2003	Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites	Narrator	0
39	2003	Spider-Man: The New Animated Series	Agent Mosely (voice)	72
40	2003	Teen Titans	Atlas (voice)	84
41	2004	The Big House		70
42	2005	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson		0
43	2005	Numb3rs		71
44	2005	American Dad!	Fire Captain (voice)	70
45	2005	Grey's Anatomy	Lloyd Mackie	82
46	2006	Psych	Mr. Guster	79
47	2008	The War	Narrator (voice)	80
48	2008	Canterbury's Law		63
49	2009	Community	Elroy Patashnik	80
50	2009	Community	Narrator (voice)	80
51	2009	Archer	Lemuel Kane (voice)	80
52	2010	Adventure Time	Balthus (voice)	85
53	2010	Adventure Time	Flame King (voice)	85
54	2010	Hawaii Five-0	Jimmy Cannon	78
55	2010	Baseball: The Tenth Inning	Narrator (voice)	100
56	2010	Young Justice	Mongul (voice)	84
57	2011	The Cape	Max Malini	50
58	2011	Person of Interest	Terence Beale	81
59	2012	Touch	Dutch	66
60	2012	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Sal Commander (voice)	83
61	2013	Belle's	William 'Big Bill' Cooper	100
62	2013	The Bible	Narrator	74
63	2013	Uncle Grandpa	Santa Claus (voice)	45
64	2013	Once Upon a Time in Wonderland	The Cheshire Cat (voice)	69
65	2013	Rick and Morty	President Curtis / Turkey President Curtis (voice)	87
66	2013	Rick and Morty	Reverse Giraffe (voice)	87
67	2013	Rick and Morty	President/Governor Andre Curtis (voice)	87
68	2013	Rick and Morty	Narrator (voice)	87
69	2014	Enlisted	Sgt. Major Donald Cody	63
70	2014	Extant	Nicholas Calderon	63
71	2014	The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW	Narrator (voice)	74
72	2014	BoJack Horseman	Lion Musician (voice)	85
73	2014	Scorpion	Warden	82
74	2014	NCIS: New Orleans	Gene Holloway	73
75	2014	black-ish	Loose Craig	72
76	2014	The Flash	Solovar (voice)	78
77	2015	Star vs. the Forces of Evil	Glossaryck (voice)	84
78	2015	Fresh Off the Boat	Clyde Roses	72
79	2015	Big Time in Hollywood, Fl	Agent Everett Malloy	71
80	2015	Mr. Robot	Qwerty (voice) (uncredited)	83
81	2015	We Bare Bears	Mr. Charles (voice)	77
82	2016	Jackie Robinson	Narrator (voice)	79
83	2016	Greenleaf	Bishop James Greenleaf	71
84	2016	Kulipari: An Army of Frogs	Lord Marmoo (voice)	63
85	2016	Speechless	Colonel	71
86	2016	MacGyver	Burke / Man	73
87	2017	DuckTales	Manny (voice)	78
88	2017	Future Man	Dr. Elias Kronish	72
89	2017	Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters	Malcom Kane (voice)	66
90	2018	Craig of the Creek	Narrator (voice)	82
91	2018	Summer Camp Island	Lithophone (voice)	78
92	2018	Summer Camp Island	Tummy (voice)	78
93	2018	Liverspots and Astronots	Dr. Pesh	60
94	2018	Champaign Ill	Lafonso	58
95	2019	Amphibia	King Andrias (voice)	86
96	2019	The Last Kids on Earth	Thrull (voice)	82
97	2019	Creepshow	Murdoch	75
98	2020	Dead Talk Live	Self - Guest	90
99	2020	DC's Stargirl	Mister Bones (voice)	77
100	2020	Love Life	Narrator (voice)	69
101	2020	Central Park	Ward Wittlinger (voice)	63
102	2020	Close Enough	World’s Greatest Teacher Mug (voice)	80
103	2020	Woke	Bible (voice)	53
104	2021	Leverage: Redemption	Billy Spencer	75
105	2021	Muhammad Ali	Narrator (voice)	81
106	2021	Marvel's Hit-Monkey	The Devil	77
107	2021	Abbott Elementary	Frank	75
108	2022	Chibiverse	King Andrias (voice)	66
109	2022	The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time	Self	66
110	2022	Firebuds	Manny Kablamee	42
111	2022	From Scratch	Hershel Wheeler	76
112	2023	My Dad the Bounty Hunter	B'Caala (voice)	83
113	2023	True Lies	Albert 'Al' Gibson	62
114	2023	Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982	Self - Actor	68
115	2023	Justified: City Primeval	Judge Alvin Guy	69
116	2023	Krapopolis	Asskill (voice)	75
117	2024	Hazbin Hotel	Husk (voice)	87
118	2024	Masters of the Universe: Revolution	Hordak (voice)	78
119	2024	Kite Man: Hell Yeah!	Darkseid (voice)	67
120	2024	High Potential	Captain Pacheco	80
121	2024	Invincible Fight Girl	Narrator (voice)	82
122	2024	Invincible Fight Girl	Scouter (voice)	82
123	2024	Leonardo da Vinci	Narrator (voice)	81
124	2024	Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou	Narrator (voice)	70
125	2025	Oh My God... Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances	Toy COD Leader (voice)	77
126	2025	Duster	Ezra Saxton	58
127	2025	The Lowdown		0

Keith David

Film

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1979	Coriolanus	Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen	35
2	1980	The Pirates of Penzance	Pirates and Police	61
3	1982	The Thing	Childs	81
4	1986	The Whoopee Boys	Washington Square Peddler	49
5	1986	Platoon	King	77
6	1987	Hot Pursuit	Alphonso	58
7	1988	The Making of 'They Live'	Self	0
8	1988	Braddock: Missing in Action III	Embassy Gate Captain	57
9	1988	Off Limits	Maurice	56
10	1988	Stars & Bars	Eugene Teagarden	44
11	1988	Bird	Buster Franklin	68
12	1988	They Live	Frank Armitage	73
13	1988	Ladykillers	Abe	25
14	1988	Christmas in Tattertown	Saxophone (voice)	47
15	1989	Road House	Ernie Bass	67
16	1989	Always	Powerhouse	63
17	1990	Murder in Black and White	Martin	0
18	1990	Men at Work	Louis Fedders	57
19	1990	Marked for Death	Max	61
20	1991	Hallelujah Anyhow	Will	0
21	1992	Final Analysis	Detective Huggins	57
22	1992	Article 99	Luther Jermoe	61
23	1992	Nails	Noah Owens	49
24	1993	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues	King Oliver	56
25	1993	Lions Of Darkness	Narrator (voice)	90
26	1993	The Last Outlaw	Lovecraft	53
27	1993	Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music	Self - Host	60
28	1993	There Are No Children Here	John Paul Rivers	55
29	1993	Hallelujah	Big Willie	60
30	1994	Reality Bites	Roger	66
31	1994	Jewels of the Caribbean Sea	Narrator (voice)	0
32	1994	The Puppet Masters	Alex Holland	58
33	1995	The Quick and the Dead	Sgt. Clay Cantrell	66
34	1995	Clockers	André the Giant	67
35	1995	Blue in the Face	Jackie Robinson	65
36	1995	Dead Presidents	Kirby	67
37	1996	Never Met Picasso	Larry	42
38	1996	Eye for an Eye	Martin	62
39	1996	The Grave	The Priest	49
40	1996	Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken	Goliath (voice)	69
41	1996	Larger Than Life	Hurst	55
42	1996	Johns	Homeless John	54
43	1997	Flipping	Leo Richards, Gang Leader	38
44	1997	Volcano	Lt. Ed Fox	59
45	1997	Hercules	Apollo the Sun God (voice)	75
46	1997	Executive Target	Lamar	45
47	1997	Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest	Algric Bartles	70
48	1997	Don King: Only in America	Herbert Muhammad	65
49	1998	The Tiger Woods Story	Earl Woods	20
50	1998	Armageddon	General Kimsey	68
51	1998	There's Something About Mary	Charlie Jensen	66
52	1999	The Grizzlies of Siberia	Narrator (voice)	0
53	1999	ATF	FBI Director Richard Long	47
54	2000	Innocents	Detective Davis	43
55	2000	Pitch Black	Abu 'Imam' al-Walid	68
56	2000	Where the Heart Is	Moses Whitecotten	71
57	2000	The Replacements	Lindell	67
58	2000	Requiem for a Dream	Big Tim	80
59	2001	Pretty When You Cry	Detective Charles Desett	33
60	2001	Boxing: In and Out of the Ring	Narrator (voice)	0
61	2001	Semper Fi	Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff	55
62	2001	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	Council Member (voice)	62
63	2001	Home Invaders	Matador	10
64	2001	Egypt's Golden Empire	Narrator	65
65	2001	Novocaine	Detective Lunt	60
66	2002	Mark Twain	Narrator (voice)	70
67	2002	Barbershop	Lester Wallace	64
68	2002	Ultimate Fights from the Movies	Frank (They Live) (archive footage)	49
69	2002	Stalking Leopards	Narrator (voice)	100
70	2002	29 Palms	The Sheriff	48
71	2003	The Shakespeare Sessions		70
72	2003	Inside Mecca	Narrator (voice)	66
73	2003	Agent Cody Banks	CIA Director	55
74	2003	Head of State	Bernard Cooper	56
75	2003	Hollywood Homicide	Leon	52
76	2003	Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked	Narrator (voice)	74
77	2003	Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip	Narrator (voice)	73
78	2003	Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom	Narrator (voice)	60
79	2004	Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London	CIA Director	56
80	2004	Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man	Narrator (voice)	70
81	2004	The Chronicles of Riddick	Abu 'Imam' al-Walid	65
82	2004	The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury	Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)	61
83	2004	Beef II	Narrator (voice)	62
84	2004	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Narrator (voice)	71
85	2004	Last Stand of the Great Bear	Narrator (voice)	0
86	2005	Crash	Lt. Dixon	72
87	2005	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Father	67
88	2005	Transporter 2	Stappleton	63
89	2005	The Proud Family Movie	Bebe Clone (voice)	59
90	2006	Dirty	Captain Spain	52
91	2006	Working with a Master: John Carpenter	Self	60
92	2006	The Oh in Ohio	Coach Popovitch	53
93	2006	ATL	John Garnett	69
94	2006	Forbidden Fruits	Rev. Walters	60
95	2006	Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil	MCPO Scott Boytano	48
96	2007	If I Had Known I Was a Genius	Dad	40
97	2007	The Color Purple: The Color of Success	Narrator (voice)	75
98	2007	Delta Farce	Sgt. Kilgore	48
99	2007	The Last Sentinel	Colonel Norton	39
100	2008	The Candlelight Murders	Pastor Bob	0
101	2008	First Sunday	Judge B. Bennet Galloway	57
102	2008	Justice League: The New Frontier	The Centre (voice)	68
103	2008	Superhero Movie	The Chief of Police	53
104	2008	My Mom's New Boyfriend	FBI Chief Conrad	54
105	2008	The Sensei	Minister	45
106	2008	No Bad Days	Terrence	32
107	2008	The Fifth Commandment	Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton	55
108	2008	S.I.S.	Joseph Armstrong	40
109	2009	Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia	Commander Scott Boytano	57
110	2009	Coraline	The Cat (voice)	79
111	2009	Against the Dark	Lt. Waters	38
112	2009	Charlie Valentine	Sal	42
113	2009	Blue	Terry Venable	0
114	2009	Don McKay	Otis Kent	49
115	2009	Pastor Brown	Pastor Brown	54
116	2009	The Butcher	Larry Cobb	53
117	2009	All About Steve	Corbitt	50
118	2009	Gamer	Agent Keith	57
119	2009	Beautiful Loser	Morgan - Adult	50
120	2009	The Princess and the Frog	Dr. Facilier (voice)	72
121	2010	Africa's Lost Eden	Narrator (voice)	0
122	2010	Death at a Funeral	Reverend Davis	59
123	2010	Meet Monica Velour	Claude	57
124	2010	Something Like A Business	Sebastian	25
125	2010	Chasing 3000	Officer L.	59
126	2010	New York Street Games	Self	0
127	2010	Lottery Ticket	Sweet Tee	56
128	2010	Baseball: The Tenth Inning	Narrator	79
129	2010	Chain Letter	Det. Jim Crenshaw	43
130	2010	Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming	Terry	55
131	2011	No Saints for Sinners		50
132	2011	Samuel Bleak	Ned Coffman	40
133	2011	The Inheritance	Uncle Melvin	45
134	2011	Hopelessly in June	Dalbert Myers	50
135	2011	The Greening of Whitney Brown	Clerk	60
136	2012	AniMen: The Galactic Battle	Sergeant Brass	35
137	2012	The Undershepherd	Brother Wilks	20
138	2012	The Last Fall	Sydney Bishop	58
139	2012	Highway	Mustafa	30
140	2012	Smiley	Diamond	43
141	2012	Double or Nothing	Homeless Dude	60
142	2012	Cloud Atlas	Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient	69
143	2012	Christmas in Compton	Big Earl	32
144	2013	Don't Pass Me By	David Knox	40
145	2013	Black Asylum	Agent Davis	100
146	2013	Assault on Wall Street	Freddy	59
147	2013	Sons of Liberty	Nathan Reynolds	38
148	2013	Free Birds	Chief Broadbeak (Voice)	59
149	2013	Frog Kingdom	Frog King (voice)	47
150	2014	Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man	Narrator	0
151	2014	Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary		84
152	2015	Field of Lost Shoes	Old Judge	61
153	2015	Secrets of the Magic City	Mr. Daniels	55
154	2015	Union Furnace	Pin Stripe	61
155	2015	Boiling Pot	Agent Long	52
156	2015	Kids vs Monsters	Barry	40
157	2015	If I Tell You I Have to Kill You	Detective Harris	0
158	2015	Dutch Book		60
159	2016	The Last Punch	Don King	0
160	2016	Dirty Lies	Doc	49
161	2016	The North Star	Frederick Douglass	50
162	2016	Nina	Clifton's Father	52
163	2016	Blue: The American Dream	Terry Venable	0
164	2016	The Nice Guys	Older Guy	71
165	2016	Range 15	Colonel Holloway	48
166	2016	School of Rickey	Narrator (voice)	0
167	2016	Service to Man	Dean Holmes	80
168	2017	Not a War Story		50
169	2017	Savage Dog	Valentine	53
170	2017	The '91 Falcons	Narrator (voice)	90
171	2018	Ray Meets Helen	Harve	44
172	2018	Tales from the Hood 2	Portifoy Simms	50
173	2018	American Dresser	Charlie	49
174	2018	Sharon 1.2.3.	Tyrone	58
175	2018	Night School	Gerald	61
176	2018	Brothers in Arms	Self	57
177	2018	F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story	Self	67
178	2018	Love Jacked	Ed	61
179	2019	Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror	Self	72
180	2019	In Search of Darkness	Self	77
181	2019	You Might Be the Killer	Sheriff James	59
182	2019	The Wedding Year	Preston	59
183	2019	21 Bridges	Deputy Chief Spencer	68
184	2020	Cuba's Cancer Hope	Narrator (voice)	0
185	2020	The 420 Movie	Chief Ironweed	32
186	2020	In Search of Darkness: Part II	Self	77
187	2020	Good	Gregory Devereaux	72
188	2020	Most Guys Are Losers	Al	25
189	2020	Horizon Line	Freddy Wyman	56
190	2021	Insight	Captain Duke	56
191	2021	The Seventh Day	Father Louis	53
192	2021	Biography: 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper	Self	77
193	2021	The Gateway	Terry	54
194	2021	Mr. Nelson on the North Side	Self	65
195	2021	Black as Night	Babineaux	55
196	2021	Pups Alone	The Wise Bartender	58
197	2022	Catwoman: Hunted	Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)	58
198	2022	In Search of Tomorrow	Self - Interviewee	65
199	2022	The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse	Narrator (voice)	73
200	2022	Unplugging	Gil	50
201	2022	Nope	Otis Haywood Sr.	68
202	2022	DC League of Super-Pets	Dog-El (voice)	72
203	2022	Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story	Ink Williams	37
204	2022	Entergalactic	Mr. Rager (voice)	76
205	2022	1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!	Self	80
206	2022	A Miracle Before Christmas	David	53
207	2022	Shut Up and Ride	Narrator (voice)	0
208	2023	Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story	Jerry	20
209	2023	A Snowy Day in Oakland	Mr. Monroe	66
210	2023	From the Shadows	Dr. Leonard Bertram	49
211	2023	Heist 88	Buddha Ray	67
212	2023	American Fiction	Willy the Wonker	73
213	2024	The Prank	Principal Henderson	54
214	2024	Betty & Blue	Willie 'Blue' Watson	10
215	2024	Mufasa: The Lion King	Masego (voice)	74
216	2025	Portal to Hell	Mr. Bobshank	0
217	2025	Sneaks	O.G. (voice)	54
218	2025	Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox	The Simulator	20
219	2025	Finding Faith		100
220	2025	The Gettysburg Address	Frederick Douglass (voice)	0
221		Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice	Sosa	0
222		The Thing Expanded	Self	0
223		ATL 2: The Homecoming	John Garnett	0
224		Worst. Detectives. Ever. Making The Nice Guys	Self	0
225	2025	Omniscient	Alistair	0
226	2025	Shelby Oaks	Morton Jacobson	0