Keith David

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
Name Keith David
Also Known As Keith David Williams, Кит Дэвид, キース・デイヴィッド
Birthday 1956-06-04
Gender Male
IMDB Keith David profile on IMDB
Place of Birth Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
As: General Kimsey
1998-07-01
Armageddon...
As: Charlie Jensen
1998-07-15
There's Something Ab...
As: Father
2005-06-07
Mr. & Mrs. Smith...
As: King
1986-12-19
Platoon...
As: Childs
1982-06-25
The Thing...
As: MCPO Scott Boytano
2006-10-17
Behind Enemy Lines I...
As: Lt. Dixon
2005-05-06
Crash...
As: Louis Fedders
1990-08-24
Men at Work...
As: Max
1990-10-05
Marked for Death...
As: Lt. Ed Fox
1997-04-25
Volcano...
As: Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
2000-02-18
Pitch Black...
As: Imam
2004-06-11
The Chronicles of Ri...
As: Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
2004-06-15
The Chronicles of Ri...
As: Captain Spain
2005-02-14
Dirty...
As: Lester Wallace
2002-04-01
Barbershop...
As: CIA Director
2003-03-14
Agent Cody Banks...
As: Detective Huggins
1992-02-07
Final Analysis...
As: Lovecraft
1993-10-30
The Last Outlaw...
As: André the Giant
1995-09-15
Clockers...
As: Detective Lunt
2001-11-23
Novocaine...
As: Jackie Robinson
1995-09-15
Blue in the Face...
As: Powerhouse
1989-12-22
Always...
As: Kirby
1995-09-29
Dead Presidents...
As: Corbitt
2009-08-06
All About Steve...
As: Frank Armitage
1988-11-04
They Live...
As: The Chief of Police
2008-03-28
Superhero Movie...
As: Buster Franklin
1988-06-01
Bird...
As: Sgt. Clay Cantrell
1995-02-09
The Quick and the De...
As: Narrator (voice)
2004-09-04
Unforgivable Blackne...
As: Luther Jermoe
1992-03-13
Article 99...
As: Alex Holland
1994-10-21
The Puppet Masters...
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2008-08-01
No Bad Days...
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2005-08-03
Transporter 2...
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2010-10-10
Stomp the Yard 2: Ho...
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2003-03-28
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1988-01-22
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2010-04-15
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2008-05-04
The Sensei...
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2009-04-24
Don McKay...
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2006-03-31
ATL...
As: The Centre (voice)
2008-02-26
Justice League: The ...
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2009-01-06
Behind Enemy Lines I...
As: Sweet Tee
2010-08-20
Lottery Ticket...
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2008-08-21
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2008-01-11
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1987-05-08
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2009-02-05
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2011-04-11
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2010-06-15
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2009-06-26
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1988-03-11
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2007-01-23
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1997-03-07
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Stars & Bars...
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Mark Twain...
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2012-10-12
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Christmas in Compton...
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2013-06-30
Assault on Wall Stre...
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2011-03-05
Samuel Bleak...
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2009-03-01
Charlie Valentine...
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2009-07-10
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2013-07-06
Sons of Liberty...
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2006-03-30
The Oh in Ohio...
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2012-03-09
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1998-08-25
Todd McFarlane's Spa...
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Final Fantasy: The S...
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2012-01-01
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2014-11-03
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Requiem for a Dream...
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2018-09-27
Night School...
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1996-01-01
Never Met Picasso...
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2015-10-20
If I Tell You I Have...
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American Dresser...
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F. You All: The Uwe ...
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The Replacements...
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Innocents...
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1991-01-27
Hallelujah Anyhow...
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2016-03-01
The North Star...
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2019-05-01
In Search of Darknes...
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2019-10-24
21 Bridges...
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2022-02-19
In Search of Tomorro...
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2020-10-29
Horizon Line...
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The Gettysburg Addre...
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2009-09-16
Beautiful Loser...
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2019-02-07
Horror Noire: A Hist...
As: Goliath (voice)
1996-05-02
Gargoyles: The Heroe...
As: Chief Ironweed
2020-04-07
The 420 Movie...
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2004-04-13
Creature Feature: 60...
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2017-12-07
The '91 Falcons...
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2021-09-03
The Gateway...
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2003-01-01
The Shakespeare Sess...
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2016-08-13
School of Rickey...
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1998-01-01
The Tiger Woods Stor...
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2016-05-11
Blue: The American D...
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2007-02-11
The Color Purple: Th...
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2020-10-06
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2020-10-24
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2021-11-19
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2006-07-25
Forbidden Fruits...
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1993-12-22
Hallelujah...
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The Seventh Day...
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2020-04-01
Cuba's Cancer Hope...
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1990-01-07
Murder in Black and ...
As: Childs (archive foot
1984-10-26
Terror in the Aisles...
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2012-02-15
The Undershepherd...
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2015-12-12
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2019-05-21
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2022-02-07
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Remember Me: The Mah...
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2020-10-22
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As: (Self) Narrator
1994-04-13
Jewels of the Caribb...
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2010-04-12
Africa's Lost Eden...
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1997-11-15
Don King: Only in Am...
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2002-06-30
Stalking Leopards...
As: Self
2018-11-13
Brothers in Arms...
As: Principal Henderson
2024-03-15
The Prank...
As: Self
2021-09-25
Mr. Nelson on the No...
As: Gil
2022-04-22
Unplugging...
As: Narrator (voice)
2022-03-25
The Wonderful Spring...
As: Otis Haywood Sr.
2022-07-20
Nope...
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2024-07-01
Shelby Oaks...
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2003-01-02
Kaena: The Prophecy...
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1999-02-14
The Grizzlies of Sib...
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2022-07-27
DC League of Super-P...
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2022-12-08
A Miracle Before Chr...
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2022-09-28
Entergalactic...
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2023-03-17
A Snowy Day in Oakla...
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1979-03-31
Coriolanus...
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1988-11-09
Ladykillers...
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1988-01-01
The Making of 'They ...
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2012-09-09
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2023-01-14
Parallel Worlds: A P...
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2009-04-17
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2024-06-05
Betty & Blue...
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2003-12-10
Nubia: The Forgotten...
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2023-11-10
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2001-08-02
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1980-06-01
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2024-03-09
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CSI: Crime Scene Inv...
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Gargoyles...
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2002-09-16
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2014-09-22
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2001-01-13
Disney's House of Mo...
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1994-02-06
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1994-09-24
Fantastic Four...
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2008-03-10
Canterbury's Law...
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1996-08-21
E! True Hollywood St...
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1994-09-08
New York Undercover...
As: Stanley
1996-08-26
7th Heaven...
As: Pastor Watkins
1994-09-19
ER...
As: Unknown
1981-06-03
Hallelujah!...
As: Spawn (voice)
1997-05-16
Spawn...
As: Captain Ira Merit
1995-03-26
The Outer Limits...
As: Max Malini
2011-01-09
The Cape...
As: Unknown
2001-03-14
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1996-08-10
Arliss...
As: Unknown
2005-01-23
Numb3rs...
As: Atlas (voice)
2003-07-19
Teen Titans...
As: Tublat (voice)
2001-09-03
The Legend of Tarzan...
As: Cristo
1985-09-18
The Equalizer...
As: Unknown
2004-04-02
The Big House...
As: Unknown
1984-09-22
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1987-09-16
The Oldest Rookie...
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2014-01-10
Enlisted...
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2009-09-17
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1974-03-03
NOVA...
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1994-10-24
Gargoyles...
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2013-03-03
The Bible...
As: Agent Everett Malloy
2015-03-25
Big Time in Hollywoo...
As: Himself - Narrator
2001-11-04
Egypt's Golden Empir...
As: Solovar (voice)
2014-10-07
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2016-06-21
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2016-09-02
Kulipari: An Army of...
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2016-04-11
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2008-03-05
The War...
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2011-09-22
Person of Interest...
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2017-11-14
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2017-11-16
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2019-09-17
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2016-09-23
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NCIS: New Orleans...
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Liverspots and Astro...
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As: Ward Wittlinger (voi
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As: President Curtis / T
2013-12-02
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2001-11-17
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As: Narrator (voice)
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As: Mister Bones (voice)
2020-05-18
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Mark Twain...
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2010-11-26
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1998-08-31
Hercules...
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Spider-Man: The New ...
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As: Tummy (voice)
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Summer Camp Island...
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As: Flame King (voice)
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As: Billy Spencer
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