Keith David
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 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.
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Acting (220 movies)
Armageddon
1998
The Thing
1982
There's Something About Mary
1998
Men at Work
1990
Marked for Death
1990
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006
The Princess and the Frog
2009
Crash
2005
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005
Platoon
1986
Africa's Lost Eden
2010
Dirty
2005
Barbershop
2002
Volcano
1997
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury
2004
Pitch Black
2000
Agent Cody Banks
2003
Final Analysis
1992
The Last Outlaw
1993
Clockers
1995
Blue in the Face
1995
Always
1989
Novocaine
2001
Sneaks
2025
Dead Presidents
1995
They Live
1988
Superhero Movie
2008
Bird
1988
All About Steve
2009
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
The Quick and the Dead
1995
Article 99
1992
The Puppet Masters
1994
No Bad Days
2008
Head of State
2003
Transporter 2
2005
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
2010
Braddock: Missing in Action III
1988
Death at a Funeral
2010
The Sensei
2008
Don McKay
2009
The Fifth Commandment
2008
ATL
2006
Justice League: The New Frontier
2008
First Sunday
2008
Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia
2009
Lottery Ticket
2010
Hot Pursuit
1987
Ladykillers
1988
The Last Sentinel
2007
Coraline
2009
Against the Dark
2009
Something Like A Business
2010
Chain Letter
2010
Don King: Only in America
1997
The Inheritance
2011
Pastor Brown
2009
Off Limits
1988
Highway
2012
Stalking Leopards
2002
Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story
2023
Beef II
2004
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
2007
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002
Brothers in Arms
2018
The Prank
2024
Cloud Atlas
2012
S.I.S.
2008
Nails
1992
Meet Monica Velour
2010
29 Palms
2002
Blue
2009
Betty & Blue
2024
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
2021
Pretty When You Cry
2001
Hopelessly in June
2011
Flipping
1997
Stars & Bars
1988
Mark Twain
2002
Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom
2003
Executive Target
1997
Unplugging
2022
Smiley
2012
Christmas in Compton
2012
Nope
2022
The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse
2022
Assault on Wall Street
2013
Heist 88
2023
Shelby Oaks
2025
Samuel Bleak
2011
American Fiction
2023
From the Shadows
2023
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997
Don't Pass Me By
2013
Larger Than Life
1996
Eye for an Eye
1996
The Butcher
2009
Charlie Valentine
2009
DC League of Super-Pets
2022
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man | 2004 | Producer |
| The Inheritance | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man | 2014 | Producer |