Cast
Keith David
Acting
Cast
Keith David
Known for
Acting
Born
1956-06-04
From
Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Keith David Williams, キース・デイヴィッド, کیت دیوید
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.
★7.9
MOVIE2009
Coraline
as The Cat (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE2024
Mufasa: The Lion King
as Masego (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE2026
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
as Sosa
★8.1
MOVIE1982
The Thing
as Childs
★7.2
MOVIE2009
The Princess and the Frog
as Dr. Facilier (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE1997
Hercules
as Apollo the Sun God (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1998
Armageddon
as General Kimsey
★6.8
MOVIE2022
Nope
as Otis Haywood Sr.
★6.7
MOVIE2005
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Father
★7.1
MOVIE2016
The Nice Guys
as Older Guy
★7.8
MOVIE1986
Platoon
as King
★6.9
MOVIE2012
Cloud Atlas
as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
★7.3
MOVIE1988
They Live
as Frank Armitage
★6.3
MOVIE2005
Transporter 2
as Stappleton
★5.7
MOVIE2025
Shelby Oaks
as Morton Jacobson
★6.6
MOVIE1998
There's Something About Mary
as Charlie Jensen
★8.0
MOVIE2000
Requiem for a Dream
as Big Tim
★7.2
MOVIE2022
DC League of Super-Pets
as Dog-El (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE2013
Free Birds
as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)
★6.0
MOVIE1997
Volcano
as Lt. Ed Fox
★6.5
MOVIE1995
The Quick and the Dead
as Sergeant Cantrell
★7.2
MOVIE2005
Crash
as Lt. Dixon
★6.7
MOVIE2000
The Replacements
as Lindell
★6.8
MOVIE1989
Road House
as Ernie Bass
★5.9
MOVIE2010
Death at a Funeral
as Reverend Davis
★6.9
MOVIE2000
Pitch Black
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
★5.7
MOVIE2009
Gamer
as Agent Keith
★6.6
MOVIE2004
The Chronicles of Riddick
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
★5.6
MOVIE2020
Horizon Line
as Freddy Wyman
★8.5
MOVIE2026
The Thing Expanded
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE2025
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox
as The Simulator
★5.5
MOVIE2003
Agent Cody Banks
as CIA Director
★6.2
MOVIE2001
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
as Council Member (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE2023
American Fiction
as Willy the Wonker
★6.1
MOVIE1990
Marked for Death
as Max
★5.8
MOVIE1999
ATF
as FBI Director Richard Long
★4.3
MOVIE2012
Smiley
as Diamond
★6.8
MOVIE2019
21 Bridges
as Deputy Chief Spencer
★7.0
MOVIE1995
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
as Goliath (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE1996
Eye for an Eye
as Martin
★5.1
MOVIE2002
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Frank (They Live) (archive footage)
★5.9
MOVIE2025
Sneaks
as O.G. (voice)
★6.1
MOVIE2018
Night School
as Gerald
★4.5
MOVIE2011
Samuel Bleak
as Ned Coffman
★5.4
MOVIE2008
My Mom's New Boyfriend
as FBI Chief Conrad
★7.7
MOVIE2022
Entergalactic
as Mr. Rager (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE2019
The Wedding Year
as Preston
★6.9
MOVIE2006
ATL
as John Garnett
★5.6
MOVIE2008
First Sunday
as Judge B. Bennet Galloway
★5.7
MOVIE1990
Men at Work
as Louis Fedders
★7.1
MOVIE2000
Where the Heart Is
as Moses Whitecotten
★6.4
MOVIE2002
Barbershop
as Lester Wallace
★5.6
MOVIE2004
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
as CIA Director
MOVIETBA
ATL 2: The Homecoming
as John Garnett
★5.3
MOVIE2008
Superhero Movie
as The Chief of Police
★5.8
MOVIE2022
Catwoman: Hunted
as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)
★5.8
MOVIE1992
Final Analysis
as Detective Huggins
★5.2
MOVIE2016
Nina
as Clifton's Father
★5.2
MOVIE2003
Hollywood Homicide
as Leon
★6.7
MOVIE1995
Dead Presidents
as Kirby
★6.2
MOVIE1989
Always
as Powerhouse
★5.9
MOVIE2013
Assault on Wall Street
as Freddy
★9.0
MOVIE2025
Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II
as The Depression Demon (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1994
Reality Bites
as Roger
★5.0
MOVIE2009
All About Steve
as Corbitt
★5.9
MOVIE2005
The Proud Family Movie
as Bebe Clone (voice)
★5.5
MOVIE2010
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
as Terry
★5.3
MOVIE2017
Savage Dog
as Valentine
MOVIE2028
Captain Zero: The Movie
as The Depression Demon (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE2019
In Search of Darkness
as Self
★3.9
MOVIE2009
Against the Dark
as Lt. Waters
★5.0
MOVIE2018
Tales from the Hood 2
as Portifoy Simms
★5.6
MOVIE1988
Off Limits
as Maurice
★5.2
MOVIE2021
The Seventh Day
as Father Louis
★7.5
MOVIE2025
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
as Husk (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE2008
Justice League: The New Frontier
as The Centre (voice)
MOVIE2025
The Gettysburg Address
as Frederick Douglass (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1995
Clockers
as André the Giant
★4.9
MOVIE2006
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
as MCPO Scott Boytano
★6.0
MOVIE2012
The Undershepherd
as Brother Wilks
★8.3
MOVIE2025
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
as (voice) (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE2010
Lottery Ticket
as Sweet Tee
★6.0
MOVIE2011
The Greening of Whitney Brown
as Clerk
★4.4
MOVIE2011
The Inheritance
as Uncle Melvin
★6.8
MOVIE2003
Inside Mecca
as Narrator (voice)
★5.6
MOVIE2003
Head of State
as Bernard Cooper
★6.3
MOVIE2006
Forbidden Fruits
as Rev. Walters
★5.8
MOVIE1994
The Puppet Masters
as Alex Holland
★5.8
MOVIE1988
Braddock: Missing in Action III
as Embassy Gate Captain
★5.0
MOVIE2011
No Saints for Sinners
★5.4
MOVIE2005
Dirty
as Captain Spain
★6.6
MOVIE2022
In Search of Tomorrow
as Self - Interviewee
★5.7
MOVIE2009
Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia
as Commander Scott Boytano
★6.0
MOVIE2001
Novocaine
as Detective Lunt
★5.0
MOVIE1979
Coriolanus
as Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
★5.7
MOVIE2008
The Fifth Commandment
as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton
★4.9
MOVIE2022
Unplugging
as Gil
★4.8
MOVIE1997
Executive Target
as Lamar
MOVIE2010
New York Street Games
as Self
★4.6
MOVIE2007
Delta Farce
as Sgt. Kilgore
★3.4
MOVIE2001
Pretty When You Cry
as Detective Charles Desett
★5.3
MOVIE2021
The Gateway
as Terry
★5.5
MOVIE1996
Larger Than Life
as Hurst
★5.7
MOVIE1987
Hot Pursuit
as Alphonso
★3.2
MOVIE2020
The 420 Movie
as Chief Ironweed
MOVIE1995
Beauty and the Beasts: A Leopard's Story
as Narrator (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1995
Blue in the Face
as Jackie Robinson
★6.8
MOVIE1997
Don King: Only in America
as Herbert Muhammad
MOVIE2016
Blue: The American Dream
as Terry Venable
★4.9
MOVIE2009
Don McKay
as Otis Kent
★6.1
MOVIE2015
Field of Lost Shoes
as Old Judge
MOVIETBA
The Nutcase
★4.4
MOVIE2010
Chain Letter
as Det. Jim Crenshaw
★4.7
MOVIE2016
Range 15
as Colonel Holloway
★7.2
MOVIE2020
Good
as Gregory Devereaux
★5.8
MOVIE2019
You Might Be the Killer
as Sheriff James
★6.9
MOVIE1988
Bird
as Buster Franklin
★3.8
MOVIE2007
The Last Sentinel
as Colonel Norton
★7.7
MOVIE2020
In Search of Darkness: Part II
as Self
★4.9
MOVIE2009
The Butcher
as Larry Cobb
★4.5
MOVIE2001
Home Invaders
as Matador
★5.8
MOVIE2010
Meet Monica Velour
as Claude
★6.2
MOVIE1992
Article 99
as Luther Jermoe
★2.6
MOVIE2020
Most Guys Are Losers
as Al
MOVIE2010
Africa's Lost Eden
as Narrator (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE2023
A Snowy Day in Oakland
as Mr. Monroe
★4.3
MOVIE1998
The Tiger Woods Story
as Earl Woods
★5.6
MOVIE2021
Insight
as Captain Duke
★5.4
MOVIE1993
The Last Outlaw
as Lovecraft
★9.0
MOVIE1993
Lions Of Darkness
as Narrator (voice)
★3.2
MOVIE2012
Christmas in Compton
as Big Earl
★6.7
MOVIE2023
Heist 88
as Buddha Ray
★7.0
MOVIE1994
Notes in a Minor Key
as Kansas
★4.4
MOVIE1988
Stars & Bars
as Eugene Teagarden
★5.7
MOVIE1997
Vanishing Point
as Warren Taft
★6.1
MOVIE2018
Love Jacked
as Ed
★5.8
MOVIE1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
as King Oliver
★6.6
MOVIE2018
Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story
as Self
★4.7
MOVIE2013
Frog Kingdom
as Frog King (voice)
★5.6
MOVIE2024
The Prank
as Principal Henderson
★7.0
MOVIE1997
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
as Algric Bartles
★5.2
MOVIE2006
The Oh in Ohio
as Coach Popovitch
MOVIETBA
Bob's Best Friends
as Cuddles (voice)
★7.1
MOVIE2002
Mark Twain
as Narrator (voice)
★5.4
MOVIE1986
The Whoopee Boys
as Washington Square Peddler
★4.6
MOVIE1988
Christmas in Tattertown
as Saxophone (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1980
The Pirates of Penzance
as Pirates and Police
MOVIETBA
Dreams of the Moon
★8.0
MOVIE2016
Service to Man
as Dean Holmes
★8.5
MOVIE2003
The Shakespeare Sessions
★4.1
MOVIE2009
Charlie Valentine
as Sal
★4.7
MOVIE2002
29 Palms
as The Sheriff
★2.5
MOVIE2010
Something Like A Business
as Sebastian
★4.2
MOVIE2008
S.I.S.
as Joseph Armstrong
★9.2
MOVIE2025
Finding Faith
as Henry
★7.0
MOVIE2025
Portal to Hell
as Mr. Bobshank
★4.3
MOVIE2018
Ray Meets Helen
as Harve
★5.2
MOVIE2015
Boiling Pot
as Agent Long
★5.9
MOVIE2023
From the Shadows
as Dr. Leonard Bertram
★8.0
MOVIE2010
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE1990
Murder in Black and White
as Martin
★5.8
MOVIE2021
Pups Alone
as The Wise Bartender
★5.5
MOVIE2021
Black as Night
as Babineaux
MOVIE2025
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
as Self - Interviewee
★5.8
MOVIE2018
Sharon 1.2.3.
as Tyrone
★7.5
MOVIE2003
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2001
Boxing: In and Out of the Ring
as Narrator (voice)
★5.3
MOVIE1996
The Grave
as The Priest
★4.9
MOVIE2018
American Dresser
as Charlie
★5.4
MOVIE1996
Johns
as Homeless John
★5.0
MOVIE2011
Hopelessly in June
as Dalbert Myers
★7.8
MOVIE1998
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
as Spawn
MOVIE1991
Hallelujah Anyhow
as Will
★4.6
MOVIE2017
Not a War Story
MOVIE2025
Omniscient
as Alistair
★5.8
MOVIE2018
Brothers in Arms
as Self
★4.7
MOVIE1997
Never Met Picasso
as Larry
★6.2
MOVIE2010
Chasing 3000
as Officer L.
★7.0
MOVIE2022
Shut Up and Ride
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIETBA
The Price for Freedom
as Reverend J.W. Bruno
★5.8
MOVIE2012
The Last Fall
as Sydney Bishop
MOVIE2024
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
as Self
★4.0
MOVIE2015
Kids vs Monsters
as Barry
★10.0
MOVIE2002
Stalking Leopards
as Narrator (voice)
★4.0
MOVIE2013
Don't Pass Me By
as David Knox
★9.0
MOVIE2017
The '91 Falcons
as Narrator (voice)
★4.9
MOVIE2016
Dirty Lies
as Doc
★5.0
MOVIE2009
Beautiful Loser
as Morgan - Adult
MOVIE2008
The Candlelight Murders
as Pastor Bob
★7.7
MOVIE2003
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
as Narrator (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2004
Beef II
as Narrator (voice)
★7.8
MOVIE2001
Egypt's Golden Empire
as Narrator
★7.7
MOVIE2022
The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse
as Narrator (voice)
★5.6
MOVIE2009
Pastor Brown
as Pastor Brown
★6.0
MOVIE2012
Double or Nothing
as Homeless Dude
★7.2
MOVIE2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Narrator (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE2019
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1993
Hallelujah
as Big Willie
★3.8
MOVIE2013
Sons of Liberty
as Nathan Reynolds
★4.3
MOVIE2000
Innocents
as Detective Davis
★4.0
MOVIE2012
AniMen: The Galactic Battle
as Sergeant Brass
MOVIETBA
My New Friend Jim
as Jim Dandy
★4.9
MOVIE1992
Nails
as Noah Owens
★7.0
MOVIE1993
There Are No Children Here
as John Paul Rivers
★5.5
MOVIE2015
Secrets of the Magic City
as Mr. Daniels
★10.0
MOVIE2013
Black Asylum
as Agent Davis
★3.0
MOVIE1988
Ladykillers
as Abe
★6.0
MOVIE2006
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
as Self
★5.4
MOVIE2022
A Miracle Before Christmas
as David
★4.1
MOVIE2007
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
as Dad
★6.0
MOVIE2001
Semper Fi
as Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff
★3.2
MOVIE2008
No Bad Days
as Terrence
★3.7
MOVIE2022
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
as Ink Williams
★4.2
MOVIE2008
The Sensei
as Minister
MOVIE1988
The Making of 'They Live'
as Self
★7.6
MOVIE2005
Crusades: Crescent & the Cross
as Self - Narrator
★5.5
MOVIE2015
Union Furnace
as Pin Stripe
MOVIE2015
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
as Detective Harris
★8.5
MOVIE2004
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
as Narrator (voice)
★3.0
MOVIE2012
Highway
as Mustafa
★4.0
MOVIE1997
Flipping
as Leo Richards, Gang Leader
★8.0
MOVIE2004
Last Stand of the Great Bear
as Narrator (voice)
★5.0
MOVIE2016
The North Star
as Frederick Douglass
★6.1
MOVIE2004
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)
MOVIE2016
The Last Punch
as Don King
MOVIE2020
Cuba's Cancer Hope
as Narrator (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE1993
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
as Self - Host
★2.0
MOVIE2023
Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story
as Jerry
★7.0
MOVIE2014
Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man
as Narrator
MOVIE2019
Rise of the Mammals
as Self - Narrator
★6.0
MOVIE2015
Dutch Book
MOVIE1999
The Grizzlies of Siberia
as Narrator (voice)
★1.0
MOVIE2024
Betty & Blue
as Willie 'Blue' Watson
★6.0
MOVIE2003
Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom
as Narrator (voice)
★8.3
MOVIE2014
Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary
★9.0
MOVIE2016
School of Rickey
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1994
Jewels of the Caribbean Sea
as Narrator (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE2007
The Color Purple: The Color of Success
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2009
Blue
as Terry Venable