Keith David
Highest Rated: 91% The Nice Guys (2016)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Jun 4, 1956
Birthplace: Harlem, New York, USA
Actor Keith David was born Keith David Williams in Harlem, in New York City in 1956, and grew up in Corona, Queens. David attended New York's High School of Performing Arts, and later attended Julliard School's Drama Division. After graduation David toured with John Houseman's "The Acting Company" in a number of productions including "Waiting for Godot" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Only two years later he was cast in John Carpenter's "The Thing". He worked consistently after that, appearing in the movies "Platoon" (1986), "Road House" (1989), "Always" (1989) and "Stars and Bars" (1988) during the 1980s. In the 90s he appeared in acclaimed films "Clockers" (1995), "Requiem for a Dream"(1999), "Dead Presidents" (1995), and "There's Something About Mary" (1998). In addition to his onscreen work David was also a prominent voice actor. He voiced Goliath in "Gargoyles" (Disney, 1994-97), and was featured in "Princess Mononoke" (1997). He also provided narration for a number of Ken Burns documentaries. He also narrated documentaries for WWE, Major League Baseball, History Channel and PBS. David was also known for his work in the theater and was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in 1992's production of "Jelly's Last Jam."
Photos
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Catwoman: Hunted | Tobias Whale (Voice) | - | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pups Alone | The Wise Bartender (Character) | - | 2021 |
| 72% | 38% | Black as Night | Unknown (Character) | - | 2021 |
| 17% | 17% | The Seventh Day | Father Louis (Character) | - | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Insight | Captain Duke (Character) | - | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good |
Unknown (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good |
Gregory Devereaux (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2020 |
| 40% | 21% | Horizon Line | Wyman (Character) | - | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 420 Movie | Chief Ironweed (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 54% | 91% | 21 Bridges | Deputy Chief Spencer (Character) | $28.5M | 2019 |
| 44% | 50% | The Wedding Year | Preston (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wild Daze | Narrator | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | F... You All: The Uwe Boll Story | Self | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | Brothers in Arms | Himself (Voice) | - | 2018 |
| 22% | 62% | Love Jacked | Ed (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 26% | 38% | Night School | Gerald (Character) | $77.2M | 2018 |
| 0% | 65% | American Dresser | Charlie (Character) | $2.2K | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kulipari: Amphibians Rise | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gina's Journey: The Search for William Grimes | Narrator | - | 2017 |
| 43% | 73% | Ray Meets Helen | Harve (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Not a War Story | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 69% | 44% | Savage Dog | Valentine (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blue: The American Dream | Terry Venable (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Service to Man | Dean Holmes (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Range 15 | Colonel Holloway (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dirty Lies | Doc (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 91% | 79% | The Nice Guys | Older Guy (Character) | $36.2M | 2016 |
| 2% | 23% | Nina | Clifton's Father (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | Detective Harris (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-cellent Adventure | Don Alfonso (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Union Furnace | Pin Stripe (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The North Star | Frederick Douglas (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Boiling Pot | Agent Long (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 40% | 50% | Field of Lost Shoes | Old Judge (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Frog Kingdom | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | Don't Pass Me By | David Knox (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Sons of Liberty | Nathan Reynolds (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 20% | 44% | Free Birds | Chief Broadbeak (Voice) | $55.7M | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Magic City | Mr. Daniels (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | H4 | Worcester (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 25% | 41% | Assault on Wall Street | Freddy (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | The Last Fall | Sydney Bishop (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Christmas in Compton | Big Earl (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 66% | 66% | Cloud Atlas | Joe Napier, et al (Character) | $27.1M | 2012 |
| 17% | 30% | Smiley | Diamond (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | No Saints for Sinners | Victor (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Snowflake, the White Gorilla | Anvil (Voice) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Samuel Bleak | Ned Coffman (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Hopelessly in June | Dalbert Myers (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 13% | 38% | The Greening of Whitney Brown | Clerk (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Birds of Paradise | Old Buzzard (Voice) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 10% | The Inheritance | Uncle Melvin (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 48% | 34% | Meet Monica Velour | Claude (Character) | $31.6K | 2010 |
| 33% | 46% | Chain Letter | Det. Jim Crenshaw (Character) | $143.0K | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 34% | Stomp the Yard: Homecoming | Terry (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 34% | 44% | Lottery Ticket | Sweet Tee (Character) | $24.7M | 2010 |
| 43% | 45% | Death at a Funeral | Rev. Davis (Character) | $42.7M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Now Here | Detective Brinkman (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blue | Terry Venable (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | Pastor Brown | Pastor Brown (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Charlie Valentine | Sal (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 38% | 23% | Don McKay | Otis Kent (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 85% | 74% | The Princess and the Frog | Dr. Facilier (Voice) | - | 2009 |
| 6% | 30% | All About Steve | Corbitt (Character) | $33.9M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | The Fifth Commandment | Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 90% | 73% | Coraline | The Cat (Voice) | $75.3M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia | Cmdr. Scott Boytano (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | The Sensei | The Minister (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | No Bad Days | Terrence (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | S.I.S. | Joseph Armstrong (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | My Mom's New Boyfriend | FBI Chief Conrad (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 12% | 57% | First Sunday | Judge B. Bennet Galloway (Character) | $37.9M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | The Butcher | Larry Cobb (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | The Last Sentinel |
Col. Norton / |
- | 2007 |
| 5% | 38% | Delta Farce | Sgt. Kilgore (Character) | $8.1M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 10% | If I Had Known I Was a Genius | Dad (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life | Narrator | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Forbidden Fruits | Rev. Walters (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 0% | 37% | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | MCPO Scott Boytano (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 23% | 35% | The Oh in Ohio | Coach Popovitch (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 62% | 86% | ATL | John Garnett (Character) | $21.2M | 2006 |
| 21% | 42% | Dirty | Capt. Spain (Character) | $271.1K | 2005 |
| 52% | 58% | Transporter 2 | Stappleton (Character) | $43.1M | 2005 |
| 60% | 58% | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Father (Character) | $186.3M | 2005 |
| 74% | 88% | Crash | Lt. Dixon (Character) | $54.6M | 2004 |
| 29% | 65% | The Chronicles of Riddick | Imam (Character) | $57.6M | 2004 |
| 14% | 31% | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | CIA Director (Character) | $23.2M | 2004 |
| 7% | 44% | Kaena: The Prophecy | Voxem (Voice) | $7.7K | 2003 |
| 30% | 27% | Hollywood Homicide | Leon (Character) | $30.0M | 2003 |
| 30% | 47% | Head of State | Bernard Cooper (Character) | $37.8M | 2003 |
| 38% | 32% | Agent Cody Banks | CIA Director (Character) | $47.3M | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 97% | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 0% | 36% | 29 Palms | The Sheriff (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 83% | 62% | Barbershop | Lester (Character) | $75.1M | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Pretty When You Cry | Detective Charles Desett (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 38% | 38% | Novocaine | Detective Lunt (Character) | $2.0M | 2001 |
| 44% | 48% | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member #1 (Voice) | $32.1M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Home Invaders | Matador (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 79% | 93% | Requiem for a Dream | Little John (Character) | $3.6M | 2000 |
| 41% | 66% | The Replacements | Lindell (Character) | $44.7M | 2000 |
| 35% | 76% | Where the Heart Is | Moses Whitecotten (Character) | $33.8M | 2000 |
| 60% | 77% | Pitch Black | Imam (Character) | $39.2M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | ATF | F.B.I. Director Richard Long (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dark Summer | Det. Davis (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 38% | 73% | Armageddon | Lt. General Kimsey (Character) | $201.6M | 1998 |
| 83% | 61% | There's Something About Mary | Charlie Jensen (Character) | $176.5M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tiger Woods Story | Earl Woods (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Vanishing Point | Warren Taft (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | Don King: Only in America | Herbert Muhammad (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 49% | 32% | Volcano | Police Lieutenant Ed Fox (Character) | $47.5M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 10% | Executive Target | Lamar (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Algric Bartles (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flipping | Leo Richards (Character) | $14.3K | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | The Grave | The Priest (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 54% | 57% | Johns | Homeless John (Character) | $106.0K | 1996 |
| 11% | 29% | Larger Than Life | Hurst (Character) | $8.3M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Loose Women | Stylist 1 (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Never Met Picasso | Larry (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 8% | 55% | Eye for an Eye | Martin (Character) | $25.7M | 1996 |
| 72% | 74% | Clockers | André the Giant (Character) | $13.0M | 1995 |
| 58% | 53% | The Quick and the Dead | Sgt. Clay Cantrell (Character) | $17.3M | 1995 |
| 43% | 76% | Blue in the Face | Jackie Robinson (Character) | $586.3K | 1995 |
| 45% | 78% | Dead Presidents | Kirby (Character) | $24.1M | 1995 |
| 64% | 74% | Reality Bites | Roger (Character) | $20.0M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Gargoyles, the Movie: The Heroes Awaken | Unknown (Voice) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | The Last Outlaw | Lovecraft (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues | King Oliver (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | There Are No Children Here | John Paul Rivers (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 43% | 54% | Article 99 | Luther Jermoe (Character) | $6.2M | 1992 |
| 54% | 36% | Final Analysis | Detective Huggins (Character) | $27.0M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Nails | Noah Owens (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 30% | 45% | Men at Work | Louis Fedders (Character) | $14.1M | 1990 |
| 27% | 50% | Marked for Death | Max (Character) | $43.1M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hallelujah Anyhow | Will (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 64% | 60% | Always | Powerhouse (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Stars and Bars | Eugene Teagarden (Character) | $14.9K | 1988 |
| 83% | 79% | Bird | Buster Franklin (Character) | $1.5M | 1988 |
| 85% | 79% | They Live | Frank (Character) | $12.3M | 1988 |
| 50% | 32% | Off Limits | Maurice (Character) | $6.9M | 1988 |
| 87% | 93% | Platoon | King (Character) | $138.5M | 1986 |
| 82% | 92% | The Thing | Childs (Character) | - | 1982 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79% | 81% | Love Life | Narrator | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | Creepshow | Murdoch (Character) | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Kids on Earth | Thrull (Voice) | 2019-2020 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Greenleaf | Bishop James Greenleaf (Character) | 2016-2020 |
| 92% | 57% | black-ish | Loose Craig (Guest Star) | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | MacGyver |
Burke/ |
2020 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | NCIS: New Orleans | Gene Holloway (Guest Star) | 2020 |
| 89% | 66% | The Flash |
Solovar (Guest Voice), Unknown (Voice) |
2017 2020 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | NOVA | Narrator | 2019 |
| 94% | 78% | Fresh Off the Boat | Clyde Roses (Guest Star) | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Access Daily | Guest | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Real | Guest | 2017-2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stretch Armstrong & The Flex Fighters | Kane (Voice) | 2017-2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sister Circle | Guest | 2018 |
| 83% | 85% | James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | SpongeBob SquarePants | Gary (Guest Voice) | 2018 |
| 62% | 53% | Superior Donuts | John (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Speechless | The Colonel (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 91% | 83% | Future Man | Doctor Kronish (Character) | 2017 |
| 94% | 86% | Rick and Morty | The President (Guest Voice) | 2015 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | We Bare Bears | Mr. Charles (Guest Voice) | 2017 |
| 100% | 94% | Adventure Time | Balthus (Guest Voice) | 2012-2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Steve Harvey | Guest | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Unknown (Voice) | 2016 |
| 92% | 76% | Person of Interest | Terence Beale (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 88% | 88% | Community | Elroy Patashnik (Guest Star) | 2012 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What Lives Inside | Soot (Character) | 2015 |
| 90% | 86% | Archer | LemuelKane. (Guest Voice) | 2015 |
| 61% | 78% | Scorpion | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 87% | 85% | Enlisted | Sgt. Major Donald Cody (Character) | 2014 |
| 63% | 66% | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bible | Narrator | 2013 |
| 68% | 67% | Touch | Dutch (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Belle's | Big Bill Cooper (Character) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 91% | Robot Chicken | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2012 |
| 12% | 8% | Allen Gregory | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | Hawaii Five-0 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| 41% | 40% | The Cape | Max Malini (Character) | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | God in America | Unknown (Character) | 2010 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | Funny or Die Presents | Sleeping Celebrity (Character) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Brian McKnight Show | Guest | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | Numb3ers | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| 89% | 92% | Psych | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 58% | No Score Yet | Canterbury's Law | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ken Burns: The War | Narrator | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | ER | Pastor Watkins (Guest Star) | 2006-2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All of Us | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| 93% | 96% | Everwood | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| 84% | 76% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big House | Clarence Cleveland (Character) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Matt Phelps (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | The Job | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001-2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ken Burns American Lives | Narrator | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 96% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spawn | Unknown (Voice) | 1997-1999 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | Gargoyles | Goliath (Voice) | 1994-1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gargoyles | Goliath (Voice) | 1996-1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New York Undercover | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Aladdin | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 1994 |
| 77% | 100% | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Unknown (Character) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Equalizer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ricking Morty | Unknown (Character) |