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
Credits
- 2026 · Strip Law as
- 2025 · The Gettysburg Address as Frederick Douglass (voice)
- 2025 · E.B. White's Charlotte's Web as Old Sheep (voice)
- 2025 · Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along as Husk (voice)
- 2024 · Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Leonardo da Vinci as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · From the Shadows as Dr. Leonard Bertram
- 2023 · Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982 as Self - Actor
- 2023 · A Snowy Day in Oakland as Mr. Monroe
- 2022 · Shut Up and Ride as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time as Self
- 2022 · Unplugging as Gil
- 2022 · The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Black as Night as Babineaux
- 2021 · Muhammad Ali as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · The Seventh Day as Father Louis
- 2020 · Good as Gregory Devereaux
- 2020 · Dead Talk Live as Self - Guest
- 2019 · In Search of Darkness as Self
- 2018 · Champaign Ill as Lafonso
- 2018 · Love Jacked as Ed
- 2018 · Liverspots and Astronots as Dr. Pesh
- 2018 · American Dresser as Charlie
- 2017 · The '91 Falcons as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Savage Dog as Valentine
- 2016 · Blue: The American Dream as Terry Venable
- 2016 · Nina as Clifton's Father
- 2016 · Jackie Robinson as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · The Last Punch as Don King
- 2013 · Assault on Wall Street as Freddy
- 2013 · Belle's as William 'Big Bill' Cooper
- 2012 · Smiley as Diamond
- 2012 · The Undershepherd as Brother Wilks
- 2011 · The Greening of Whitney Brown as Clerk
- 2011 · The Inheritance as Uncle Melvin
- 2011 · Samuel Bleak as Ned Coffman
- 2011 · No Saints for Sinners as
- 2010 · Chain Letter as Det. Jim Crenshaw
- 2010 · Baseball: The Tenth Inning as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Meet Monica Velour as Claude
- 2009 · All About Steve as Corbitt
- 2009 · Pastor Brown as Pastor Brown
- 2009 · Don McKay as Otis Kent
- 2009 · Blue as Terry Venable
- 2009 · Charlie Valentine as Sal
- 2009 · Against the Dark as Lt. Waters
- 2009 · Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia as Commander Scott Boytano
- 2008 · The Fifth Commandment as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton
- 2008 · My Mom's New Boyfriend as FBI Chief Conrad
- 2008 · Justice League: The New Frontier as The Centre (voice)
- 2006 · Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil as MCPO Scott Boytano
- 2006 · ATL as John Garnett
- 2005 · The Proud Family Movie as Bebe Clone (voice)
- 2005 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Jack Johnson (voice)
- 2004 · The Big House as
- 2004 · Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London as CIA Director
- 2003 · Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Hollywood Homicide as Leon
- 2003 · Head of State as Bernard Cooper
- 2003 · The Shakespeare Sessions as
- 2002 · Mark Twain as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Mark Twain as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Egypt's Golden Empire as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Home Invaders as Matador
- 2001 · Semper Fi as Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff
- 2001 · Jazz as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Pretty When You Cry as Detective Charles Desett
- 2000 · Innocents as Detective Davis
- 1999 · Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony as Frederick Douglass (voice)
- 1999 · ATF as FBI Director Richard Long
- 1997 · Flipping as Leo Richards, Gang Leader
- 1996 · Johns as Homeless John
- 1996 · Larger Than Life as Hurst
- 1996 · The Grave as The Priest
- 1995 · Dead Presidents as Kirby
- 1994 · The Puppet Masters as Alex Holland
- 1994 · Reality Bites as Roger
- 1993 · Hallelujah as Big Willie
- 1992 · Nails as Noah Owens
- 1992 · Final Analysis as Detective Huggins
- 1990 · Men at Work as Louis Fedders
- 1988 · Christmas in Tattertown as Saxophone (voice)
- 1988 · Ladykillers as Abe
- 1988 · Braddock: Missing in Action III as Embassy Gate Captain
- 1987 · Hot Pursuit as Alphonso
- 1984 · Hot Pursuit as
- 1980 · The Pirates of Penzance as Pirates and Police
- Future · Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice as Sosa
- 1995 · Blue in the Face as Jackie Robinson
- 1992 · Article 99 as Luther Jermoe
- 1988 · The Making of 'They Live' as Self
- 1981 · Hallelujah! as
- 1979 · Coriolanus as Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
- Future · ATL 2: The Homecoming as John Garnett
- 2025 · What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas as Self - Interviewee
- 2025 · Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox as The Simulator
- 2025 · Portal to Hell as Mr. Bobshank
- 2022 · 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! as Self
- 2022 · In Search of Tomorrow as Self - Interviewee
- 2021 · Mr. Nelson on the North Side as Self
- 2020 · In Search of Darkness: Part II as Self
- 2020 · The 420 Movie as Chief Ironweed
- 2019 · Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror as Self
- 2018 · Sharon 1.2.3. as Tyrone
- 2018 · Tales from the Hood 2 as Portifoy Simms
- 2018 · Ray Meets Helen as Harve
- 2016 · Range 15 as Colonel Holloway
- 2016 · The North Star as Frederick Douglass
- 2015 · Kids vs Monsters as Barry
- 2015 · Field of Lost Shoes as Old Judge
- 2013 · Sons of Liberty as Nathan Reynolds
- 2012 · Double or Nothing as Homeless Dude
- 2012 · AniMen: The Galactic Battle as Sergeant Brass
- 2010 · Baseball: The Tenth Inning as Narrator
- 2010 · New York Street Games as Self
- 2010 · Africa's Lost Eden as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · S.I.S. as Joseph Armstrong
- 2007 · The Last Sentinel as Colonel Norton
- 2007 · If I Had Known I Was a Genius as Dad
- 2006 · Forbidden Fruits as Rev. Walters
- 2006 · The Oh in Ohio as Coach Popovitch
- 2005 · The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross as Narrator
- 2004 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)
- 2003 · Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites as Narrator
- 2003 · Inside Mecca as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Frank (They Live) (archive footage)
- 2000 · Silent Service as Self - Host
- 1999 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues as King Oliver
- 1997 · Don King: Only in America as Herbert Muhammad
- 1997 · Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest as Algric Bartles
- 1995 · Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken as Goliath (voice)
- Future · Dreams of the Moon as
- 1997 · Never Met Picasso as Larry
- 1993 · Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music as Self - Host
- 1993 · The Last Outlaw as Lovecraft
- 1993 · Lions Of Darkness as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · Hallelujah Anyhow as Will
- 1988 · Stars & Bars as Eugene Teagarden
- 1986 · The Whoopee Boys as Washington Square Peddler
- Future · President Curtis as President Andre Curtis (voice)
- 2027 · Captain Zero: The Movie as The Depression Demon (voice)
- 2025 · Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway as (voice) (uncredited)
- 2025 · The American Revolution as voice
- 2025 · I Love LA as Leon Marcus
- 2025 · Shelby Oaks as Morton Jacobson
- 2025 · The Lowdown as Marty
- 2025 · Haunted Hotel as Additional Voices (voice)
- 2025 · Finding Faith as
- 2025 · Omniscient as Alistair
- 2025 · Duster as Ezra Saxton
- 2025 · Sneaks as O.G. (voice)
- 2025 · Oh My God... Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances as Toy COD Leader (voice)
- 2024 · Mufasa: The Lion King as Masego (voice)
- 2024 · Invincible Fight Girl as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Invincible Fight Girl as Scouter (voice)
- 2024 · High Potential as Captain Pacheco
- 2024 · Kite Man: Hell Yeah! as Darkseid (voice)
- 2024 · Betty & Blue as Willie 'Blue' Watson
- 2024 · The Prank as Principal Henderson
- 2024 · Masters of the Universe: Revolution as Hordak (voice)
- 2024 · Hazbin Hotel as Husk (voice)
- 2023 · American Fiction as Willy the Wonker
- 2023 · Heist 88 as Buddha Ray
- 2023 · Krapopolis as Asskill (voice)
- 2023 · Justified: City Primeval as Judge Alvin Guy
- 2023 · True Lies as Albert 'Al' Gibson
- 2023 · My Dad the Bounty Hunter as B'Caala (voice)
- 2023 · Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story as Jerry
- 2022 · A Miracle Before Christmas as David
- 2022 · From Scratch as Hershel Wheeler
- 2022 · Entergalactic as Mr. Rager (voice)
- 2022 · Firebuds as Manny Kablamee
- 2022 · Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story as Ink Williams
- 2022 · Chibiverse as King Andrias (voice)
- 2022 · DC League of Super-Pets as Dog-El (voice)
- 2022 · Nope as Otis Haywood Sr.
- 2022 · Amphibia: The Hardest Thing as King Adrias
- 2022 · Amphibia: All In as King Andrias
- 2022 · Catwoman: Hunted as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)
- 2021 · Abbott Elementary as Frank
- 2021 · Pups Alone as The Wise Bartender
- 2021 · Marvel's Hit-Monkey as The Devil
- 2021 · The Gateway as Terry
- 2021 · Leverage: Redemption as Billy Spencer
- 2021 · Insight as Captain Duke
- 2020 · Horizon Line as Freddy Wyman
- 2020 · Most Guys Are Losers as Al
- 2020 · Woke as Bible (voice)
- 2020 · Close Enough as World’s Greatest Teacher Mug (voice)
- 2020 · Central Park as Ward Wittlinger (voice)
- 2020 · Love Life as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · DC's Stargirl as Mister Bones (voice)
- 2020 · Cuba's Cancer Hope as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · 21 Bridges as Deputy Chief Spencer
- 2019 · Creepshow as Murdoch
- 2019 · The Wedding Year as Preston
- 2019 · The Last Kids on Earth as Thrull (voice)
- 2019 · Amphibia as King Andrias (voice)
- 2019 · You Might Be the Killer as Sheriff James
- 2018 · F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story as Self
- 2018 · Brothers in Arms as Self
- 2018 · Night School as Gerald
- 2018 · Summer Camp Island as Lithophone (voice)
- 2018 · Summer Camp Island as Tummy (voice)
- 2018 · Craig of the Creek as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters as Malcom Kane (voice)
- 2017 · Future Man as Dr. Elias Kronish
- 2017 · DuckTales as Manny (voice)
- 2017 · Not a War Story as
- 2017 · Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure as Additional Voices (voice)
- 2016 · Service to Man as Dean Holmes
- 2016 · MacGyver as Burke / Man
- 2016 · Speechless as Colonel
- 2016 · Kulipari: An Army of Frogs as Lord Marmoo (voice)
- 2016 · School of Rickey as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · Greenleaf as Bishop James Greenleaf
- 2016 · The Nice Guys as Older Guy
- 2016 · Dirty Lies as Doc
- 2015 · Dutch Book as
- 2015 · If I Tell You I Have to Kill You as Detective Harris
- 2015 · Boiling Pot as Agent Long
- 2015 · We Bare Bears as Mr. Charles (voice)
- 2015 · Union Furnace as Pin Stripe
- 2015 · Secrets of the Magic City as Mr. Daniels
- 2015 · Mr. Robot as Qwerty (voice) (uncredited)
- 2015 · Big Time in Hollywood, Fl as Agent Everett Malloy
- 2015 · Fresh Off the Boat as Clyde Roses
- 2015 · Star vs. the Forces of Evil as Glossaryck (voice)
- 2014 · Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary as
- 2014 · The Flash as Solovar (voice)
- 2014 · Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man as Narrator
- 2014 · black-ish as Loose Craig
- 2014 · NCIS: New Orleans as Gene Holloway
- 2014 · Scorpion as Warden
- 2014 · BoJack Horseman as Lion Musician (voice)
- 2014 · The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW as Narrator (voice)
- 2014 · Extant as Nicholas Calderon
- 2014 · Enlisted as Sgt. Major Donald Cody
- 2013 · Frog Kingdom as Frog King (voice)
- 2013 · Rick and Morty as President Curtis / Turkey President Curtis (voice)
- 2013 · Rick and Morty as Reverse Giraffe (voice)
- 2013 · Rick and Morty as President/Governor Andre Curtis (voice)
- 2013 · Free Birds as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)
- 2013 · Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as The Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2013 · Uncle Grandpa as Santa Claus (voice)
- 2013 · Black Asylum as Agent Davis
- 2013 · Teen Titans Go! as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · The Bible as Narrator
- 2013 · Don't Pass Me By as David Knox
- 2012 · Christmas in Compton as Big Earl
- 2012 · Cloud Atlas as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
- 2012 · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Sal Commander (voice)
- 2012 · Highway as Mustafa
- 2012 · The Last Fall as Sydney Bishop
- 2012 · Touch as Dutch
- 2011 · Person of Interest as Terence Beale
- 2011 · Hopelessly in June as Dalbert Myers
- 2011 · The Cape as Max Malini
- 2010 · Young Justice as Mongul (voice)
- 2010 · Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming as Terry
- 2010 · Hawaii Five-0 as Jimmy Cannon
- 2010 · Lottery Ticket as Sweet Tee
- 2010 · Chasing 3000 as Officer L.
- 2010 · Something Like A Business as Sebastian
- 2010 · Death at a Funeral as Reverend Davis
- 2010 · Adventure Time as Balthus (voice)
- 2010 · Adventure Time as Flame King (voice)
- 2009 · The Princess and the Frog as Dr. Facilier (voice)
- 2009 · Archer as Lemuel Kane (voice)
- 2009 · Community as Elroy Patashnik
- 2009 · Community as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Beautiful Loser as Morgan - Adult
- 2009 · Gamer as Agent Keith
- 2009 · The Butcher as Larry Cobb
- 2009 · Coraline as The Cat (voice)
- 2008 · No Bad Days as Terrence
- 2008 · The Sensei as Minister
- 2008 · Superhero Movie as The Chief of Police
- 2008 · Canterbury's Law as
- 2008 · First Sunday as Judge B. Bennet Galloway
- 2008 · The Candlelight Murders as Pastor Bob
- 2007 · The War as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · Delta Farce as Sgt. Kilgore
- 2007 · The Color Purple: The Color of Success as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Psych as Mr. Guster
- 2006 · Working with a Master: John Carpenter as Self
- 2005 · Dirty as Captain Spain
- 2005 · Crusades: Crescent & the Cross as Self - Narrator
- 2005 · Transporter 2 as Stappleton
- 2005 · Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Father
- 2005 · Crash as Lt. Dixon
- 2005 · Grey's Anatomy as Lloyd Mackie
- 2005 · American Dad! as Fire Captain (voice)
- 2005 · Numb3rs as Jeremiah Miller
- 2004 · Last Stand of the Great Bear as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · Beef II as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · The Chronicles of Riddick as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
- 2004 · Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Teen Titans as Atlas (voice)
- 2003 · Spider-Man: The New Animated Series as Agent Mosely (voice)
- 2003 · Agent Cody Banks as CIA Director
- 2002 · Everwood as Brian
- 2002 · 29 Palms as The Sheriff
- 2002 · Stalking Leopards as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Barbershop as Lester Wallace
- 2001 · Novocaine as Detective Lunt
- 2001 · Justice League as Despero (voice)
- 2001 · Egypt's Golden Empire as Narrator
- 2001 · The Legend of Tarzan as Tublat (voice)
- 2001 · Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as Council Member (voice)
- 2001 · The Job as
- 2001 · Disney's House of Mouse as
- 2001 · Boxing: In and Out of the Ring as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Matt Phelps
- 2000 · Requiem for a Dream as Big Tim
- 2000 · The Replacements as Lindell
- 2000 · Where the Heart Is as Moses Whitecotten
- 2000 · Pitch Black as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
- 1999 · Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle as Spawn
- 1999 · The Grizzlies of Siberia as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Family Guy as Jazz Documentary Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Family Guy as Commander Bensinger (voice)
- 1998 · Hercules as Apollo (voice)
- 1998 · Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 as Spawn
- 1998 · There's Something About Mary as Charlie Jensen
- 1998 · Armageddon as General Kimsey
- 1997 · Executive Target as Lamar
- Future · The Thing Expanded as Self
- Future · The Price for Freedom as Reverend J.W. Bruno
- Future · My New Friend Jim as Jim Dandy
- 1998 · The Tiger Woods Story as Earl Woods
- 1997 · Hercules as Apollo the Sun God (voice)
- 1997 · Spawn as Al Simmons / Spawn (voice)
- 1997 · Volcano as Lt. Ed Fox
- 1996 · 7th Heaven as Stanley
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as Self
- 1996 · Arli$$ as
- 1996 · Eye for an Eye as Martin
- 1995 · Clockers as André the Giant
- 1995 · The Outer Limits as Captain Ira Merit
- 1995 · The Quick and the Dead as Sgt. Clay Cantrell
- 1994 · Gargoyles as Goliath (voice)
- 1994 · Gargoyles as
- 1994 · Fantastic Four as Black Panther/T'challa (voice)
- 1994 · ER as Pastor Watkins
- 1994 · Baseball as Narrator
- 1994 · Notes in a Minor Key as Kansas
- 1994 · New York Undercover as
- 1994 · Jewels of the Caribbean Sea as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 · Aladdin as
- 1993 · There Are No Children Here as John Paul Rivers
- 1992 · The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as King Oliver
- 1990 · Marked for Death as Max
- 1990 · Law & Order as Bronx D.A. John Robertson
- 1990 · Murder in Black and White as Martin
- 1989 · Always as Powerhouse
- 1989 · Road House as Ernie Bass
- 1988 · They Live as Frank Armitage
- 1988 · American Experience as W.E. Henderson / Other Voices
- 1988 · Bird as Buster Franklin
- 1988 · Off Limits as Maurice
- 1987 · The Oldest Rookie as
- 1986 · Platoon as King
- 1985 · The Equalizer as Cristo
- 1983 · Reading Rainbow as Narrator (voice)
- 1982 · Nature as Narrator
- 1982 · The Thing as Childs
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner
- Future · Rise of the Mammals as Narrator