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Keith David
- Name: Keith David
- Birthday: 1956-06-04
- Also known as: Keith David Williams,Кит Дэвид,キース・デイヴィッド
- Place of birth: Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
- Popularity: 17.407
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| The Gettysburg Address as Frederick Douglass (voice) | 2025-11-19 |
| Sneaks as O.G. (voice) | 2025-04-18 |
| Mufasa: The Lion King as Masego (voice) | 2024-12-18 |
| Shelby Oaks as Morton Jacobson | 2024-07-20 |
| Betty & Blue as Willie "Blue" Watson | 2024-06-04 |
| The Prank as Principal Henderson | 2024-03-15 |
| Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox as The Simulator | 2024-03-09 |
| American Fiction as Willy the Wonker | 2023-11-10 |
| Heist 88 as Buddha Ray | 2023-10-01 |
| From the Shadows as Dr. Leonard Bertram | 2023-09-22 |
| A Snowy Day in Oakland as Mr. Monroe | 2023-03-17 |
| Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story as Jerry | 2023-01-14 |
| Shut Up and Ride as Narrator | 2022-12-09 |
| A Miracle Before Christmas as David | 2022-12-08 |
| 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! as Self | 2022-10-08 |
| Entergalactic as Mr. Rager (voice) | 2022-09-28 |
| Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story as Ink Williams | 2022-09-19 |
| DC League of Super-Pets as Dog-El (voice) | 2022-07-27 |
| Nope as Otis Haywood Sr. | 2022-07-20 |
| Unplugging as Gil | 2022-04-22 |
| The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse as Narrator (voice) | 2022-03-25 |
| In Search of Tomorrow as Self - Interviewee | 2022-02-19 |
| Catwoman: Hunted as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice) | 2022-02-07 |
| Pups Alone as The Wise Bartender | 2021-11-19 |
| Black as Night as Babineaux | 2021-10-01 |
| Mr. Nelson on the North Side as Self | 2021-09-25 |
| The Gateway as Terry | 2021-09-03 |
| Biography: “Rowdy” Roddy Piper as Self | 2021-04-25 |
| The Seventh Day as Father Louis | 2021-03-26 |
| Insight as Captain Duke | 2021-03-12 |
| Horizon Line as Freddy Wyman | 2020-10-29 |
| Most Guys Are Losers as Al | 2020-10-24 |
| Good as Gregory Devereaux | 2020-10-22 |
| In Search of Darkness: Part II as Self | 2020-10-06 |
| The 420 Movie as Chief Ironweed | 2020-04-07 |
| Cuba's Cancer Hope as Narrator | 2020-04-01 |
| 21 Bridges as Deputy Chief Spencer | 2019-10-24 |
| The Wedding Year as Preston | 2019-09-20 |
| You Might Be the Killer as Sheriff James | 2019-05-21 |
| In Search of Darkness as Self | 2019-05-01 |
| Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror as Self | 2019-02-07 |
| Love Jacked as Ed | 2018-12-07 |
| F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story as Himself | 2018-11-29 |
| Brothers in Arms as Self | 2018-11-13 |
| Night School as Gerald | 2018-09-27 |
| American Dresser as Charlie | 2018-09-21 |
| Tales from the Hood 2 as Portifoy Simms | 2018-07-13 |
| Ray Meets Helen as Harve | 2018-05-04 |
| The '91 Falcons as Narrator | 2017-12-07 |
| Savage Dog as Valentine | 2017-08-04 |
| Not a War Story | 2017-06-30 |
| Service to Man as Dean Holmes | 2016-10-16 |
| School of Rickey | 2016-08-13 |
| Range 15 as Colonel Holloway | 2016-06-15 |
| The Nice Guys as Older Guy | 2016-05-15 |
| Blue: The American Dream as Terry Venable | 2016-05-11 |
| Nina as Clifton's Father | 2016-04-22 |
| The North Star as Frederick Douglas | 2016-03-01 |
| Dirty Lies as Doc | 2016-02-23 |
| Dutch Book | 2015-12-12 |
| If I Tell You I Have to Kill You as Detective Harris | 2015-10-20 |
| Boiling Pot as Agent Long | 2015-09-29 |
| Kids vs Monsters as Barry | 2015-09-29 |
| Union Furnace as Pin Stripe | 2015-07-17 |
| Secrets of the Magic City as Mr. Daniels | 2015-06-26 |
| Field of Lost Shoes as Old Judge | 2015-03-30 |
| Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary | 2014-11-03 |
| Frog Kingdom as Frog King (voice) | 2013-12-28 |
| Free Birds as Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | 2013-10-30 |
| Sons of Liberty as Nathan Reynolds | 2013-07-06 |
| Assault on Wall Street as Freddy | 2013-06-30 |
| Black Asylum as Agent Davis | 2013-05-06 |
| Don't Pass Me By as David Knox | 2013-01-12 |
| Christmas in Compton as Big Earl | 2012-11-09 |
| Cloud Atlas as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient | 2012-10-26 |
| Double or Nothing as Homeless Dude | 2012-10-13 |
| Smiley as Diamond | 2012-10-12 |
| Highway as Mustafa | 2012-09-09 |
| The Last Fall | 2012-03-09 |
| The Undershepherd as Brother Wilks | 2012-02-15 |
| AniMen: The Galactic Battle as Sergeant Brass | 2012-01-01 |
| The Greening of Whitney Brown as Clerk | 2011-11-10 |
| Hopelessly in June as Dalbert Myers | 2011-06-06 |
| The Inheritance as Uncle Melvin | 2011-04-11 |
| Samuel Bleak | 2011-03-05 |
| No Saints for Sinners | 2011-01-01 |
| Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming as Terry | 2010-10-10 |
| Chain Letter as Det. Jim Crenshaw | 2010-10-01 |
| Baseball: The Tenth Inning as Narrator | 2010-09-28 |
| Lottery Ticket as Sweet Tee | 2010-08-20 |
| New York Street Games as Self | 2010-07-28 |
| Chasing 3000 as Officer L. | 2010-07-16 |
| Something Like A Business as Sebastian | 2010-06-15 |
| Meet Monica Velour as Claude | 2010-06-04 |
| Death at a Funeral as Reverend Davis | 2010-04-15 |
| Africa's Lost Eden as Narrator | 2010-04-12 |
| The Princess and the Frog as Dr. Facilier (voice) | 2009-12-08 |
| Beautiful Loser as Morgan - Adult | 2009-09-16 |
| Gamer as Agent Keith | 2009-09-03 |
| All About Steve as Corbitt | 2009-08-06 |
| The Butcher as Larry Cobb | 2009-07-10 |
| Pastor Brown as Pastor Brown | 2009-06-26 |
| Don McKay as Otis Kent | 2009-04-24 |
| Blue as Terry Venable | 2009-04-17 |
| Charlie Valentine as Sal | 2009-03-01 |
| Against the Dark as Lt. Waters | 2009-02-17 |
| Coraline as Cat (voice) | 2009-02-05 |
| Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia as Commander Scott Boytano | 2009-01-06 |
| S.I.S. as Joseph Armstrong | 2008-08-24 |
| The Fifth Commandment as Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton | 2008-08-21 |
| No Bad Days as Terrence | 2008-08-01 |
| The Sensei as Minister | 2008-05-04 |
| My Mom's New Boyfriend as FBI Chief Conrad | 2008-04-30 |
| Superhero Movie as The Chief of Police | 2008-03-28 |
| Justice League: The New Frontier as The Centre (voice) | 2008-02-26 |
| First Sunday as Judge B. Bennet Galloway | 2008-01-11 |
| The Candlelight Murders as Pastor Bob | 2008-01-01 |
| The Last Sentinel as Colonel Norton | 2007-05-19 |
| Delta Farce as Sgt. Kilgore | 2007-05-11 |
| The Color Purple: The Color of Success as Narrator | 2007-02-11 |
| If I Had Known I Was a Genius as Dad | 2007-01-23 |
| Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil as MCPO Scott Boytano | 2006-10-17 |
| Forbidden Fruits as Rev. Walters | 2006-07-25 |
| ATL as John Garnett | 2006-03-31 |
| The Oh in Ohio as Coach Popovitch | 2006-03-30 |
| Working with a Master: John Carpenter as Self | 2006-03-28 |
| Dirty as Captain Spain | 2006-01-20 |
| The Proud Family Movie as Bebe Clone (voice) | 2005-08-19 |
| Transporter 2 as Stappleton | 2005-08-03 |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Father | 2005-06-07 |
| Crash as Lt. Dixon | 2005-05-06 |
| Last Stand of the Great Bear as Narrator | 2004-11-03 |
| Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Narrator (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
| Beef II as Narrator (voice) | 2004-08-30 |
| The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice) | 2004-06-15 |
| The Chronicles of Riddick as Imam | 2004-06-11 |
| Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man as Narrator | 2004-04-13 |
| Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London as CIA Director | 2004-03-12 |
| Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom as Narrator (voice) | 2003-12-10 |
| Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip as Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-06 |
| Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked as Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-01 |
| Hollywood Homicide as Leon | 2003-06-09 |
| Kaena: The Prophecy as Voxem (english voice) | 2003-06-04 |
| Head of State as Bernard Cooper | 2003-03-28 |
| Agent Cody Banks as CIA Director | 2003-03-14 |
| Inside Mecca as Narrator | 2003-03-01 |
| The Shakespeare Sessions | 2003-01-01 |
| 29 Palms as The Sheriff | 2002-07-29 |
| Stalking Leopards as Narrator | 2002-06-30 |
| Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Frank (They Live) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
| Barbershop as Lester Wallace | 2002-04-01 |
| Mark Twain as Narrator (voice) | 2002-01-14 |
| Novocaine as Detective Lunt | 2001-11-23 |
| Egypt's Golden Empire as Narrator | 2001-11-03 |
| Home Invaders as Matador | 2001-08-02 |
| Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as Council Member (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
| Semper Fi as Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | 2001-04-01 |
| Seduced: Pretty When You Cry as Detective Charles Desett | 2001-01-01 |
| Boxing: In and Out of the Ring as Narrator | 2001-01-01 |
| Requiem for a Dream as Big Tim | 2000-10-06 |
| The Replacements as Lindell | 2000-08-11 |
| Where the Heart Is as Moses Whitecotten | 2000-04-27 |
| Pitch Black as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | 2000-02-18 |
| Innocents as Detective Davis | 2000-01-10 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues as King Oliver | 1999-10-10 |
| ATF as F.B.I. Director Richard Long | 1999-09-06 |
| Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle as Al Simmons/Spawn | 1999-08-17 |
| The Grizzlies of Siberia as Narrator | 1999-02-14 |
| Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 as Al Simmons/Spawn | 1998-08-25 |
| There's Something About Mary as Charlie Jensen | 1998-07-15 |
| Armageddon as General Kimsey | 1998-07-01 |
| The Tiger Woods Story as Earl Woods | 1998-01-01 |
| Don King: Only in America as Herbert Muhammad | 1997-11-15 |
| Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest as Algric Bartles | 1997-11-02 |
| Executive Target as Lamar | 1997-07-11 |
| Hercules as Apollo the Sun God (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
| Todd McFarlane's Spawn as Al Simmons / Spawn (voice) | 1997-05-15 |
| Volcano as Lt. Ed Fox | 1997-04-25 |
| Flipping as Leo Richards, Gang Leader | 1997-03-07 |
| Johns as Homeless John | 1996-12-10 |
| Larger Than Life as Hurst | 1996-07-26 |
| Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken as Goliath (voice) | 1996-05-02 |
| The Grave as The Priest | 1996-01-18 |
| Eye for an Eye as Martin | 1996-01-12 |
| Never Met Picasso as Larry | 1996-01-01 |
| Dead Presidents as Kirby | 1995-09-29 |
| Blue in the Face as Jackie Robinson | 1995-09-15 |
| Clockers as André the Giant | 1995-09-15 |
| The Quick and the Dead as Sgt. Clay Cantrell | 1995-02-09 |
| The Puppet Masters as Alex Holland | 1994-10-21 |
| Jewels of the Caribbean Sea as (Self) Narrator | 1994-04-13 |
| Reality Bites as Roger | 1994-02-18 |
| Hallelujah as Big Willie | 1993-12-22 |
| There Are No Children Here as John Paul Rivers | 1993-11-28 |
| Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music as Self - Host | 1993-11-02 |
| The Last Outlaw as Lovecraft | 1993-10-30 |
| Nails as Noah Owens | 1992-07-25 |
| Article 99 as Luther Jermoe | 1992-03-13 |
| Final Analysis as Detective Huggins | 1992-02-07 |
| Hallelujah Anyhow as Will | 1991-01-27 |
| Marked for Death as Max | 1990-10-05 |
| Men at Work as Louis Fedders | 1990-08-24 |
| Murder in Black and White as Martin | 1990-01-07 |
| Always as Powerhouse | 1989-12-22 |
| Road House as Ernie Bass | 1989-05-19 |
| Christmas in Tattertown as Saxophone (voice) | 1988-12-21 |
| Ladykillers as Abe | 1988-11-09 |
| They Live as Frank Armitage | 1988-11-04 |
| Bird as Buster Franklin | 1988-06-01 |
| Stars & Bars as Eugene Teagarden | 1988-03-18 |
| Off Limits as Maurice | 1988-03-11 |
| Braddock: Missing in Action III as Embassy Gate Captain | 1988-01-22 |
| The Making of 'They Live' as Self | 1988-01-01 |
| Hot Pursuit as Alphonso | 1987-05-08 |
| Platoon as King | 1986-12-19 |
| The Whoopee Boys as Washington Square Peddler | 1986-08-22 |
| The Thing as Childs | 1982-06-25 |
| The Pirates of Penzance as Pirates and Police | 1980-06-01 |
| Coriolanus as Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen | 1979-03-31 |
