Keith David

Acting · 6.6 popularity

Age

Movies

240

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Born: June 4, 1956
From: Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor. He is mostly known for his bass voice and screen presence in over 400 roles across film, stage, television, and interactive media. He has starred in such films as The Thing (1982), Platoon (1986), They Live (1988), Dead Presidents(1995), Armageddon (1998), There's Something About Mary (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pitch Black (2000), Barbershop (2002), Crash (2004), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Nice Guys (2016), Nope (2022), and American Fiction (2023). He starred as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the NBC series Community (2015) and as Bishop James Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama Greenleaf (2016–2020). His Emmy-winning voice acting career includes narrating Ken Burns films such as The War (2007) and Muhammad Ali (2021). In film, he has voiced Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog (2009) and the Cat in Coraline (2009). On television, he portrayed Goliath in Gargoyles (1994–1997), Al Simmons / Spawn in Todd McFarlane's Spawn (1997–1999), The Flame King in Adventure Time (2012–2017), President Andre Curtis in Rick and Morty (2015–) and its upcoming spin-off President Curtis, King Andrias in Amphibia (2020–2022), Dr. Tenma in Pluto (2023), and Husk in Hazbin Hotel (2024–). Video game roles include the Arbiter Thel 'Vadamee in the Halo franchise (2004–2015), Julius Little and himself in the Saints Row series (2006–2017), Captain Anderson in the Mass Effect series (2007–2013), Chaos in Dissidia Final Fantasy (2008), Sergeant Foley in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009), and Commander Zavala in Destiny 2: The Final Shape (2024), which he assumed after the death of Lance Reddick in March 2023. He was part of the cast of The Nightmare Before Christmas live concert in October 2025, where he voiced Oogie Boogie, taking over the role from his longtime original voice actor, Ken Page, following his death in September 2024. In July 2025, David was selected to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2026. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keith David, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

240 films

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

20268.0

Coraline

20097.9

Mufasa: The Lion King

20247.3

The Thing

19828.1

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

20056.7

Hercules

19977.5

The Princess and the Frog

20097.2

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

20266.7

Armageddon

19986.8

Nope

20226.8

Cloud Atlas

20126.9

The Nice Guys

20167.1

Platoon

19867.7

They Live

19887.3

Transporter 2

20056.3

There's Something About Mary

19986.6

21 Bridges

20196.8

The Quick and the Dead

19956.5

DC League of Super-Pets

20227.2

Shelby Oaks

20255.7

Crash

20057.2

Superhero Movie

20085.3

Free Birds

20135.9

My Mom's New Boyfriend

20085.4

Volcano

19976.0

Requiem for a Dream

20008.0

Pitch Black

20006.9

Gamer

20095.7

The Replacements

20006.7

Road House

19896.8

Horizon Line

20205.6

The Chronicles of Riddick

20046.6

American Fiction

20237.3

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

20016.2

Where the Heart Is

20007.1

Death at a Funeral

20105.9

Barbershop

20026.5

Night School

20186.1

Reality Bites

19946.5

Agent Cody Banks

20035.5

Justice League: The New Frontier

20086.8

Marked for Death

19906.1

All About Steve

20095.0

Always

19896.2

Savage Dog

20175.4

Sneaks

20255.8

Men at Work

19905.7

Clockers

19956.7

Assault on Wall Street

20135.9

Final Analysis

19925.8

First Sunday

20085.6

Eye for an Eye

19966.3

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

20045.6

Pups Alone

20215.8

Hollywood Homicide

20035.2

Catwoman: Hunted

20225.8

The Wedding Year

20195.9

Dirty

20055.4

Article 99

19926.2

Head of State

20035.6

Smiley

20124.3

Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming

20105.5

ATL

20067.0

The Puppet Masters

19945.8

Hot Pursuit

19875.7

Dead Presidents

19956.7

Off Limits

19885.6

The Seventh Day

20215.2

Chain Letter

20104.4

Entergalactic

20227.7

Heist 88

20236.7

Nina

20165.2

Braddock: Missing in Action III

19885.7

Delta Farce

20074.6

ATL 2: The Homecoming

2026

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia

20095.7

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

20064.9

What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas

2025

You Might Be the Killer

20195.8

Bird

19886.9

ATF

19995.8

Lottery Ticket

20105.6

29 Palms

20024.7

The Proud Family Movie

20055.9

The Gettysburg Address

2025

Stalking Leopards

200210.0

The Gateway

20215.3

Larger Than Life

19965.5

Frog Kingdom

20134.7

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

20025.0

The Undershepherd

20126.0

Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway

20258.3

Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II

20259.0

Don King: Only in America

19976.8

Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken

19957.0

Mr. Nelson on the North Side

2024

Meet Monica Velour

20105.8

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

19977.0

Samuel Bleak

20114.5

The Greening of Whitney Brown

20116.0

In Search of Darkness: Part II

20207.7

Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked

20037.5

Unplugging

20224.9

Against the Dark

20093.9

The Prank

20245.6

Insight

20215.6

Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox

20255.6

The Inheritance

20114.4

The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse

20227.7

Novocaine

20016.0

The Oh in Ohio

20065.3

Stars & Bars

19884.4

The Last Outlaw

19935.4

Vanishing Point

19975.7

In Search of Darkness

20197.5

Brothers in Arms

20185.8

Forbidden Fruits

20066.3

If I Had Known I Was a Genius

20074.1

Blue in the Face

19956.5

Home Invaders

20014.5

Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story

20186.6

Tales from the Hood 2

20185.0

The Fifth Commandment

20085.7

The 420 Movie

20203.2

Coriolanus

19795.0

The '91 Falcons

20179.0

Black as Night

20215.5

The Grave

19965.3

Captain Zero: The Movie

2028

Beauty and the Beasts: A Leopard's Story

1995

The Shakespeare Sessions

20038.5

Charlie Valentine

20094.1

Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along

20257.5

Murder in Black and White

19907.0

Mark Twain

20027.1

Bob's Best Friends

2026

Africa's Lost Eden

2010

The Butcher

20094.7

No Saints for Sinners

20115.0

Field of Lost Shoes

20156.1

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues

19995.8

S.I.S.

20084.2

In Search of Tomorrow

20226.6

Notes in a Minor Key

19947.0

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

20196.8

The Tiger Woods Story

19984.3

The Thing Expanded

20268.5

The Pirates of Penzance

19806.6

Most Guys Are Losers

20202.6

Hopelessly in June

20115.0

Chasing 3000

20106.2

Range 15

20164.7

Love Jacked

20186.1

American Dresser

20184.9

Ray Meets Helen

20184.3

New York Street Games

2010

Pretty When You Cry

20013.4

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

20047.2

The Last Sentinel

20073.8

A Snowy Day in Oakland

20236.8

Christmas in Compton

20123.2

Executive Target

19974.8

The Whoopee Boys

19865.4

The Sensei

20084.2

Dreams of the Moon

2026

Portal to Hell

20257.0

Something Like A Business

20102.5

Good

20207.2

Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man

20147.0

Don McKay

20094.9

Inside Mecca

20036.8

Sharon 1.2.3.

20185.8

AniMen: The Galactic Battle

20124.0

If I Tell You I Have to Kill You

2015

Johns

19965.4

Dirty Lies

20164.9

Nails

19924.9

Omniscient

2025

From the Shadows

20235.9

Pastor Brown

20095.6

Christmas in Tattertown

19884.6

Boxing: In and Out of the Ring

2001

Sons of Liberty

20133.8

My New Friend Jim

2026

Hallelujah Anyhow

1991

Innocents

20004.3

Double or Nothing

20126.0

The Making of 'They Live'

1988

Blue: The American Dream

2016

No Bad Days

20083.2

Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man

20048.5

Not a War Story

20174.6

Service to Man

20168.0

The North Star

20165.0

Lions Of Darkness

19939.0

The Nutcase

2026

Working with a Master: John Carpenter

20066.0

The Candlelight Murders

2008

Hallelujah

19936.5

Highway

20123.0

Semper Fi

20016.0

Never Met Picasso

19974.7

There Are No Children Here

19937.0

Ladykillers

19883.0

Finding Faith

20259.2

Kids vs Monsters

20153.8

A Miracle Before Christmas

20225.4

Baseball: The Tenth Inning

20108.0

Secrets of the Magic City

20155.5

The Last Fall

20125.8

Don't Pass Me By

20134.0

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury

20046.1

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

20037.7

The Price for Freedom

2026

Beautiful Loser

20095.0

Boiling Pot

20155.2

Jewels of the Caribbean Sea

1994

Egypt's Golden Empire

20017.8

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story

20223.7

Union Furnace

20155.5

Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary

20148.3

Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2

19987.8

Beef II

20047.0

Last Stand of the Great Bear

20048.0

Crusades: Crescent & the Cross

20057.6

The Last Punch

2016

The Grizzlies of Siberia

1999

Black Asylum

201310.0

Rise of the Mammals

2019

Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music

19937.5

Flipping

19974.0

Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom

20036.0

Cuba's Cancer Hope

2020

Shut Up and Ride

20227.0

The Color Purple: The Color of Success

20077.5

Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story

20232.0

Blue

2009

School of Rickey

20169.0

Betty & Blue

20241.0

Dutch Book

20156.0