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 · Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice as Sosa
- 2025 · The Gettysburg Address as Frederick Douglass (voice)
- 2025 · Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway as (voice) (uncredited)
- 2025 · Finding Faith as
- 2024 · Leonardo da Vinci as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982 as Self - Actor
- 2022 · Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story as Ink Williams
- 2022 · The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time as Self
- 2022 · Catwoman: Hunted as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)
- 2021 · Pups Alone as The Wise Bartender
- 2021 · Muhammad Ali as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · The Gateway as Terry
- 2021 · The Seventh Day as Father Louis
- 2021 · Insight as Captain Duke
- 2020 · Most Guys Are Losers as Al
- 2020 · Dead Talk Live as Self - Guest
- 2020 · Cuba's Cancer Hope as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · The Wedding Year as Preston
- 2019 · You Might Be the Killer as Sheriff James
- 2018 · Love Jacked as Ed
- 2018 · Liverspots and Astronots as Dr. Pesh
- 2018 · American Dresser as Charlie
- 2018 · Tales from the Hood 2 as Portifoy Simms
- 2017 · Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters as Malcom Kane (voice)
- 2017 · Not a War Story as
- 2016 · Kulipari: An Army of Frogs as Lord Marmoo (voice)
- 2016 · School of Rickey as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · Range 15 as Colonel Holloway
- 2016 · Nina as Clifton's Father
- 2016 · Jackie Robinson as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · Dirty Lies as Doc
- 2015 · Boiling Pot as Agent Long
- 2015 · Union Furnace as Pin Stripe
- 2015 · Secrets of the Magic City as Mr. Daniels
- 2015 · Big Time in Hollywood, Fl as Agent Everett Malloy
- 2014 · The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · Free Birds as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)
- 2013 · Black Asylum as Agent Davis
- 2013 · Belle's as William 'Big Bill' Cooper
- 2013 · Don't Pass Me By as David Knox
- 2012 · Smiley as Diamond
- 2012 · Highway as Mustafa
- 2012 · AniMen: The Galactic Battle as Sergeant Brass
- 2011 · The Greening of Whitney Brown as Clerk
- 2011 · Hopelessly in June as Dalbert Myers
- 2011 · The Inheritance as Uncle Melvin
- 2011 · Samuel Bleak as Ned Coffman
- 2010 · Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming as Terry
- 2010 · Baseball: The Tenth Inning as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Lottery Ticket as Sweet Tee
- 2010 · Chasing 3000 as Officer L.
- 2010 · Something Like A Business as Sebastian
- 2009 · Beautiful Loser as Morgan - Adult
- 2009 · The Butcher as Larry Cobb
- 2009 · Don McKay as Otis Kent
- 2009 · Charlie Valentine as Sal
- 2008 · The Fifth Commandment as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton
- 2008 · My Mom's New Boyfriend as FBI Chief Conrad
- 2008 · Canterbury's Law as
- 2007 · Delta Farce as Sgt. Kilgore
- 2005 · Dirty as Captain Spain
- 2005 · The Proud Family Movie as Bebe Clone (voice)
- 2004 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · Beef II as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · The Chronicles of Riddick as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
- 2004 · The Big House as
- 2003 · Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Hollywood Homicide as Leon
- 2003 · Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites as Narrator
- 2003 · Head of State as Bernard Cooper
- 2002 · Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Frank (They Live) (archive footage)
- 2002 · Mark Twain as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Egypt's Golden Empire as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Semper Fi as Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff
- 2000 · Silent Service as Self - Host
- 1999 · ATF as FBI Director Richard Long
- 1997 · Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest as Algric Bartles
- 1996 · Johns as Homeless John
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as Self
- 1996 · Larger Than Life as Hurst
- 1996 · The Grave as The Priest
- 1996 · Eye for an Eye as Martin
- 1995 · Blue in the Face as Jackie Robinson
- 1995 · Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken as Goliath (voice)
- 1994 · The Puppet Masters as Alex Holland
- 1994 · Jewels of the Caribbean Sea as Narrator (voice)
- 1993 · There Are No Children Here as John Paul Rivers
- Future · ATL 2: The Homecoming as John Garnett
- 2026 · The Thing Expanded as Self
- 2025 · What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas as Self - Interviewee
- 2025 · Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along as Husk (voice)
- 2024 · Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Betty & Blue as Willie 'Blue' Watson
- 2023 · From the Shadows as Dr. Leonard Bertram
- 2023 · A Snowy Day in Oakland as Mr. Monroe
- 2022 · A Miracle Before Christmas as David
- 2022 · Unplugging as Gil
- 2022 · The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · In Search of Tomorrow as Self - Interviewee
- 2020 · The 420 Movie as Chief Ironweed
- 2019 · In Search of Darkness as Self
- 2018 · F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story as Self
- 2018 · Brothers in Arms as Self
- 2017 · The '91 Falcons as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · Blue: The American Dream as Terry Venable
- 2016 · The North Star as Frederick Douglass
- 2015 · Kids vs Monsters as Barry
- 2013 · Frog Kingdom as Frog King (voice)
- 2013 · Sons of Liberty as Nathan Reynolds
- 2012 · The Last Fall as Sydney Bishop
- 2012 · The Undershepherd as Brother Wilks
- 2010 · New York Street Games as Self
- 2010 · Meet Monica Velour as Claude
- 2009 · Pastor Brown as Pastor Brown
- 2008 · S.I.S. as Joseph Armstrong
- 2008 · The Sensei as Minister
- 2007 · If I Had Known I Was a Genius as Dad
- 2006 · Forbidden Fruits as Rev. Walters
- 2005 · The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross as Narrator
- 2004 · Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · The Shakespeare Sessions as
- 2001 · Pretty When You Cry as Detective Charles Desett
- 2001 · Egypt's Golden Empire as Narrator
- 2001 · Home Invaders as Matador
- 2000 · Innocents as Detective Davis
- 1997 · Don King: Only in America as Herbert Muhammad
- 1993 · Hallelujah as Big Willie
- 1988 · Christmas in Tattertown as Saxophone (voice)
- 1988 · Ladykillers as Abe
- 1986 · The Whoopee Boys as Washington Square Peddler
- 1980 · The Pirates of Penzance as Pirates and Police
- 1979 · Coriolanus as Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
- Future · The Price for Freedom as Reverend J.W. Bruno
- Future · Dreams of the Moon as
- 2028 · Captain Zero: The Movie as The Depression Demon (voice)
- 2026 · Strip Law as Steve Nichols (voice)
- 2025 · The American Revolution as (voice)
- 2025 · I Love LA as Leon Marcus
- 2025 · Shelby Oaks as Morton Jacobson
- 2025 · E.B. White's Charlotte's Web as Old Sheep (voice)
- 2025 · The Lowdown as Marty
- 2025 · Haunted Hotel as Additional Voices (voice)
- 2025 · Omniscient as Alistair
- 2025 · Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II as The Depression Demon (voice)
- 2025 · Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox as The Simulator
- 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)
- 2025 · Portal to Hell as Mr. Bobshank
- 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 · 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 · Shut Up and Ride as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · From Scratch as Hershel Wheeler
- 2022 · Entergalactic as Mr. Rager (voice)
- 2022 · Firebuds as Manny Kablamee
- 2022 · Chibiverse as King Andrias (voice)
- 2022 · DC League of Super-Pets as Dog-El (voice)
- 2022 · Nope as Otis Haywood Sr.
- 2021 · Abbott Elementary as Frank
- 2021 · Marvel's Hit-Monkey as The Devil
- 2021 · Black as Night as Babineaux
- 2021 · Mr. Nelson on the North Side as Self
- 2021 · Leverage: Redemption as Billy Spencer
- 2020 · Horizon Line as Freddy Wyman
- 2020 · Good as Gregory Devereaux
- 2020 · In Search of Darkness: Part II as Self
- 2020 · The Good Lord Bird as Herbert
- 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)
- 2019 · 21 Bridges as Deputy Chief Spencer
- 2019 · Creepshow as Murdoch
- 2019 · The Last Kids on Earth as Thrull (voice)
- 2019 · Amphibia as King Andrias (voice)
- 2019 · Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror as Self
- 2018 · Champaign Ill as Lafonso
- 2018 · Night School as Gerald
- 2018 · Sharon 1.2.3. as Tyrone
- 2018 · Summer Camp Island as Lithophone (voice)
- 2018 · Summer Camp Island as Tummy (voice)
- 2018 · Ray Meets Helen as Harve
- 2018 · Craig of the Creek as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Future Man as Dr. Elias Kronish
- 2017 · DuckTales as Manny (voice)
- 2017 · Savage Dog as Valentine
- 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 · Greenleaf as Bishop James Greenleaf
- 2016 · The Nice Guys as Older Guy
- 2016 · The Last Punch as Don King
- 2015 · Dutch Book as
- 2015 · If I Tell You I Have to Kill You as Detective Harris
- 2015 · We Bare Bears as Mr. Charles (voice)
- 2015 · Mr. Robot as Qwerty (voice) (uncredited)
- 2015 · Field of Lost Shoes as Old Judge
- 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 · Extant as Nicholas Calderon
- 2014 · Enlisted as Sgt. Major Donald Cody
- 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 · Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as The Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2013 · Uncle Grandpa as Santa Claus (voice)
- 2013 · Assault on Wall Street as Freddy
- 2013 · Teen Titans Go! as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · The Bible as Narrator
- 2012 · Christmas in Compton as Big Earl
- 2012 · Cloud Atlas as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
- 2012 · Double or Nothing as Homeless Dude
- 2012 · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Sal Commander (voice)
- 2012 · Touch as Dutch
- 2011 · Person of Interest as Terence Beale
- 2011 · The Cape as Max Malini
- 2011 · No Saints for Sinners as
- 2010 · Young Justice as Mongul (voice)
- 2010 · Chain Letter as Det. Jim Crenshaw
- 2010 · Baseball: The Tenth Inning as Narrator
- 2010 · Hawaii Five-0 as Jimmy Cannon
- 2010 · Death at a Funeral as Reverend Davis
- 2010 · Africa's Lost Eden as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Adventure Time as Balthus (voice)
- 2010 · Adventure Time as Flame King (voice)
- 2009 · The Princess and the Frog as Dr. Facilier (voice)
- 2009 · Community as Elroy Patashnik
- 2009 · Community as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Archer as Lemuel Kane (voice)
- 2009 · Gamer as Agent Keith
- 2009 · All About Steve as Corbitt
- 2009 · Blue as Terry Venable
- 2009 · Against the Dark as Lt. Waters
- 2009 · Coraline as The Cat (voice)
- 2009 · Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia as Commander Scott Boytano
- 2008 · No Bad Days as Terrence
- 2008 · Superhero Movie as The Chief of Police
- 2008 · Justice League: The New Frontier as The Centre (voice)
- 2008 · First Sunday as Judge B. Bennet Galloway
- 2008 · The Candlelight Murders as Pastor Bob
- 2007 · The War as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · The Last Sentinel as Colonel Norton
- 2007 · The Color Purple: The Color of Success as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil as MCPO Scott Boytano
- 2006 · Psych as Mr. Guster
- 2006 · ATL as John Garnett
- 2006 · The Oh in Ohio as Coach Popovitch
- 2006 · Working with a Master: John Carpenter as Self
- 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
- 2005 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Jack Johnson (voice)
- 2004 · Last Stand of the Great Bear as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)
- 2004 · Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London as CIA Director
- 2003 · Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom 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
- 2003 · Inside Mecca as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Everwood as Brian
- 2002 · 29 Palms as The Sheriff
- 2002 · Stalking Leopards as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Barbershop as Lester Wallace
- 2002 · Mark Twain as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Novocaine as Detective Lunt
- 2001 · Justice League as Despero (voice)
- 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 · Jazz as Narrator (voice)
- 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 · Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony as Frederick Douglass (voice)
- 1999 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues as King Oliver
- 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)
- 1997 · Never Met Picasso as Larry
- 1997 · Flipping as Leo Richards, Gang Leader
- Future · President Curtis as President Andre Curtis (voice)
- 1998 · Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 as Spawn
- 1998 · There's Something About Mary as Charlie Jensen
- 1998 · Armageddon as General Kimsey
- 1998 · The Tiger Woods Story as Earl Woods
- 1997 · Executive Target as Lamar
- 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 · Arli$$ as Cecil Pickett
- 1995 · Dead Presidents as Kirby
- 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
- 1994 · Gargoyles as Goliath (voice)
- 1994 · Fantastic Four as Black Panther/T'challa (voice)
- 1994 · ER as Pastor Watkins
- 1994 · Baseball as Narrator
- Future · My New Friend Jim as Jim Dandy
- 1994 · Notes in a Minor Key as Kansas
- 1994 · New York Undercover as
- 1994 · Reality Bites as Roger
- 1994 · Aladdin as
- 1993 · Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music as Self - Host
- 1993 · The Last Outlaw as Lovecraft
- 1993 · Lions Of Darkness as Narrator (voice)
- 1992 · Nails as Noah Owens
- 1992 · Article 99 as Luther Jermoe
- 1992 · The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as King Oliver
- 1992 · Final Analysis as Detective Huggins
- 1991 · Hallelujah Anyhow as Will
- 1990 · Marked for Death as Max
- 1990 · Law & Order as Bronx D.A. John Robertson
- 1990 · Men at Work as Louis Fedders
- 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 · Stars & Bars as Eugene Teagarden
- 1988 · Off Limits as Maurice
- 1988 · Braddock: Missing in Action III as Embassy Gate Captain
- 1988 · The Making of 'They Live' as Self
- 1987 · The Oldest Rookie as
- 1987 · Hot Pursuit as Alphonso
- 1986 · Platoon as King
- 1985 · The Equalizer as Cristo
- 1984 · Hot Pursuit as
- 1983 · Reading Rainbow as Narrator (voice)
- 1982 · Nature as Narrator
- 1982 · The Thing as Childs
- 1981 · Hallelujah! as
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator
- 1953 · The Oscars as The Cat (voice)
- Future · Rise of the Mammals as Narrator