Keith David

Acting · 5.3 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

20267.9

Coraline

20097.9

Mufasa: The Lion King

20247.3

The Thing

19828.1

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

20056.7

The Princess and the Frog

20097.2

Hercules

19977.5

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

20266.7

Nope

20226.8

Armageddon

19986.8

The Nice Guys

20167.1

Cloud Atlas

20126.9

Platoon

19867.7

They Live

19887.3

Transporter 2

20056.3

There's Something About Mary

19986.6

Shelby Oaks

20255.7

21 Bridges

20196.8

Free Birds

20135.9

DC League of Super-Pets

20227.2

The Quick and the Dead

19956.5

Superhero Movie

20085.3

Crash

20057.2

My Mom's New Boyfriend

20085.4

Requiem for a Dream

20008.0

Volcano

19976.0

Pitch Black

20006.9

Where the Heart Is

20007.1

Horizon Line

20205.6

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

20016.2

The Replacements

20006.7

Gamer

20095.7

Night School

20186.1

The Chronicles of Riddick

20046.6

Road House

19896.8

Reality Bites

19946.5

American Fiction

20237.3

Agent Cody Banks

20035.5

Death at a Funeral

20105.9

Justice League: The New Frontier

20086.8

Marked for Death

19906.1

Savage Dog

20175.4

Barbershop

20026.5

Final Analysis

19925.8

All About Steve

20095.0

Assault on Wall Street

20135.9

Sneaks

20255.8

Clockers

19956.7

First Sunday

20085.6

Hollywood Homicide

20035.2

Men at Work

19905.7

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

20045.6

Eye for an Eye

19966.3

Always

19896.2

ATL

20067.0

Catwoman: Hunted

20225.8

Head of State

20035.6

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

20064.9

Pups Alone

20215.8

Article 99

19926.2

Dead Presidents

19956.7

The Puppet Masters

19945.8

Nina

20165.2

Dirty

20055.4

Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming

20105.5

Smiley

20124.3

The Wedding Year

20195.9

Chain Letter

20104.4

Braddock: Missing in Action III

19885.7

The Seventh Day

20215.2

Entergalactic

20227.7

Off Limits

19885.6

Bird

19886.9

Heist 88

20236.7

Delta Farce

20074.6

Hot Pursuit

19875.7

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia

20095.7

You Might Be the Killer

20195.8

The Proud Family Movie

20055.9

Lottery Ticket

20105.6

ATF

19995.8

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

2025

Stalking Leopards

200210.0

The Gettysburg Address

2025

ATL 2: The Homecoming

2026

The Gateway

20215.3

Don King: Only in America

19976.8

Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II

20259.0

Frog Kingdom

20134.7

Stars & Bars

19884.4

The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse

20227.7

The Undershepherd

20126.0

Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken

19957.0

Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway

20258.3

In Search of Darkness: Part II

20207.7

Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox

20255.6

Larger Than Life

19965.5

Unplugging

20224.9

Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked

20037.5

Meet Monica Velour

20105.8

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

19977.0

29 Palms

20024.7

Beauty and the Beasts: A Leopard's Story

1995

Samuel Bleak

20114.5

Insight

20215.6

The Grave

19965.3

The Greening of Whitney Brown

20116.0

Field of Lost Shoes

20156.1

Against the Dark

20093.9

Novocaine

20016.0

The Prank

20245.6

The Inheritance

20114.4

In Search of Tomorrow

20226.6

The Thing Expanded

20268.5

The Last Outlaw

19935.4

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

20025.0

Blue in the Face

19956.5

Most Guys Are Losers

20202.6

The Fifth Commandment

20085.7

In Search of Darkness

20197.5

The Oh in Ohio

20065.3

The 420 Movie

20203.2

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues

19995.8

Bob's Best Friends

2026

Captain Zero: The Movie

2028

Coriolanus

19795.0

Black as Night

20215.5

Mr. Nelson on the North Side

2024

Vanishing Point

19975.7

Brothers in Arms

20185.8

Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along

20257.5

Executive Target

19974.8

The Last Sentinel

20073.8

Murder in Black and White

19907.0

American Dresser

20184.9

No Saints for Sinners

20115.0

The Sensei

20084.2

Range 15

20164.7

Tales from the Hood 2

20185.0

Forbidden Fruits

20066.3

Johns

19965.4

Africa's Lost Eden

2010

Mark Twain

20027.1

Home Invaders

20014.5

Chasing 3000

20106.2

If I Had Known I Was a Genius

20074.1

Christmas in Compton

20123.2

The '91 Falcons

20179.0

Charlie Valentine

20094.1

The Whoopee Boys

19865.4

Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story

20186.6

Don McKay

20094.9

The Shakespeare Sessions

20038.5

Love Jacked

20186.1

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

20196.8

Sharon 1.2.3.

20185.8

From the Shadows

20235.9

The Butcher

20094.7

Ray Meets Helen

20184.3

Nails

19924.9

Hallelujah Anyhow

1991

The Last Fall

20125.8

Dreams of the Moon

2026

S.I.S.

20084.2

Portal to Hell

20257.0

If I Tell You I Have to Kill You

2015

Notes in a Minor Key

19947.0

The Pirates of Penzance

19806.6

A Snowy Day in Oakland

20236.8

Working with a Master: John Carpenter

20066.0

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

20047.2

Boxing: In and Out of the Ring

2001

Innocents

20004.3

The Tiger Woods Story

19984.3

New York Street Games

2010

Pretty When You Cry

20013.4

Hopelessly in June

20115.0

Dirty Lies

20164.9

Something Like A Business

20102.5

Double or Nothing

20126.0

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

20037.7

Pastor Brown

20095.6

Hallelujah

19936.5

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story

20223.7

Kids vs Monsters

20153.8

Never Met Picasso

19974.7

Sons of Liberty

20133.8

Beautiful Loser

20095.0

AniMen: The Galactic Battle

20124.0

Semper Fi

20016.0

Not a War Story

20174.6

Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man

20048.5

Finding Faith

20259.2

Omniscient

2025

Good

20207.2

No Bad Days

20083.2

Service to Man

20168.0

There Are No Children Here

19937.0

My New Friend Jim

2026

Blue: The American Dream

2016

Christmas in Tattertown

19884.6

The Making of 'They Live'

1988

The Grizzlies of Siberia

1999

Don't Pass Me By

20134.0

Lions Of Darkness

19939.0

Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music

19937.5

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury

20046.1

Baseball: The Tenth Inning

20108.0

Shut Up and Ride

20227.0

The Last Punch

2016

A Miracle Before Christmas

20225.4

Highway

20123.0

Last Stand of the Great Bear

20048.0

The Candlelight Murders

2008

Jewels of the Caribbean Sea

1994

Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man

20147.0

Inside Mecca

20036.8

The North Star

20165.0

The Nutcase

2026

Boiling Pot

20155.2

Dutch Book

20156.0

Crusades: Crescent & the Cross

20057.6

The Color Purple: The Color of Success

20077.5

Ladykillers

19883.0

Flipping

19974.0

Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary

20148.3

Secrets of the Magic City

20155.5

Egypt's Golden Empire

20017.8

Beef II

20047.0

Union Furnace

20155.5

The Price for Freedom

2026

Cuba's Cancer Hope

2020

Black Asylum

201310.0

School of Rickey

20169.0

Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story

20232.0

Blue

2009

Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2

19987.8

Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom

20036.0

Rise of the Mammals

2019

Betty & Blue

20241.0