Keith David

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. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cast

Armageddon

(General Kimsey)

The Thing

(Childs)

There's Something About Mary

(Charlie Jensen)

Men at Work

(Louis Fedders)

Marked for Death

(Max)

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

(MCPO Scott Boytano)

The Princess and the Frog

(Dr. Facilier (voice))

Crash

(Lt. Dixon)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

(Father)

Platoon

(King)

Africa's Lost Eden

(Narrator)

Dirty

(Captain Spain)

Barbershop

(Lester Wallace)

Volcano

(Lt. Ed Fox)

Pitch Black

(Abu 'Imam' al-Walid)

The Chronicles of Riddick

(Imam)

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury

(Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice))

Agent Cody Banks

(CIA Director)

Final Analysis

(Detective Huggins)

The Last Outlaw

(Lovecraft)

Clockers

(André the Giant)

Blue in the Face

(Jackie Robinson)

Always

(Powerhouse)

Novocaine

(Detective Lunt)

Sneaks

(O.G. (voice))

Dead Presidents

(Kirby)

They Live

(Frank Armitage)

Superhero Movie

(The Chief of Police)

Bird

(Buster Franklin)

All About Steve

(Corbitt)

The Quick and the Dead

(Sgt. Clay Cantrell)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

(Narrator (voice))

Article 99

(Luther Jermoe)

The Puppet Masters

(Alex Holland)

No Bad Days

(Terrence)

Head of State

(Bernard Cooper)

Transporter 2

(Stappleton)

Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming

(Terry)

Braddock: Missing in Action III

(Embassy Gate Captain)

Death at a Funeral

(Reverend Davis)

The Sensei

(Minister)

Don McKay

(Otis Kent)

The Fifth Commandment

(Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton)

ATL

(John Garnett)

Justice League: The New Frontier

(The Centre (voice))

First Sunday

(Judge B. Bennet Galloway)

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia

(Commander Scott Boytano)

Lottery Ticket

(Sweet Tee)

Hot Pursuit

(Alphonso)

Ladykillers

(Abe)

The Last Sentinel

(Colonel Norton)

Coraline

(Cat (voice))

Against the Dark

(Lt. Waters)

Something Like A Business

(Sebastian)

Chain Letter

(Det. Jim Crenshaw)

Don King: Only in America

(Herbert Muhammad)

The Inheritance

(Uncle Melvin)

Pastor Brown

(Pastor Brown)

The Making of 'They Live'

(Self)

Off Limits

(Maurice)

Highway

(Mustafa)

Stalking Leopards

(Narrator)

Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story

(Jerry)

Todd McFarlane's Spawn

(Al Simmons / Spawn (voice))

Beef II

(Narrator (voice))

If I Had Known I Was a Genius

(Dad)

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

(Frank (They Live) (archive footage))

Brothers in Arms

(Self)

Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle

(Al Simmons/Spawn)

The Prank

(Principal Henderson)

Cloud Atlas

(Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient)

S.I.S.

(Joseph Armstrong)

Nails

(Noah Owens)

Meet Monica Velour

(Claude)

29 Palms

(The Sheriff)

Blue

(Terry Venable)

Betty & Blue

(Willie "Blue" Watson)

Mr. Nelson on the North Side

(Self)

Seduced: Pretty When You Cry

(Detective Charles Desett)

Hopelessly in June

(Dalbert Myers)

Flipping

(Leo Richards, Gang Leader)

Stars & Bars

(Eugene Teagarden)

Mark Twain

(Narrator (voice))

Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom

(Narrator (voice))

Executive Target

(Lamar)

Unplugging

(Gil)

Smiley

(Diamond)

Christmas in Compton

(Big Earl)

Nope

(Otis Haywood Sr.)

The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse

(Narrator (voice))

Assault on Wall Street

(Freddy)

Heist 88

(Buddha Ray)

Shelby Oaks

(Morton Jacobson)

Samuel Bleak

American Fiction

(Willy the Wonker)

From the Shadows

(Dr. Leonard Bertram)

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

(Algric Bartles)

Don't Pass Me By

(David Knox)

Larger Than Life

(Hurst)

Eye for an Eye

(Martin)

Kaena: The Prophecy

(Voxem (english voice))

Charlie Valentine

(Sal)

The Butcher

(Larry Cobb)

DC League of Super-Pets

(Dog-El (voice))

The Grizzlies of Siberia

(Narrator)

Home Invaders

(Matador)

The Pirates of Penzance

(Pirates and Police)

Sons of Liberty

(Nathan Reynolds)

The Oh in Ohio

(Coach Popovitch)

The Last Fall

The Nice Guys

(Older Guy)

A Miracle Before Christmas

(David)

Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2

(Al Simmons/Spawn)

Entergalactic

(Mr. Rager (voice))

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

(Council Member (voice))

AniMen: The Galactic Battle

(Sergeant Brass)

A Snowy Day in Oakland

(Mr. Monroe)

Coriolanus

(Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen)

Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary

Frog Kingdom

(Frog King (voice))

The Proud Family Movie

(Bebe Clone (voice))

Hollywood Homicide

(Leon)

Union Furnace

(Pin Stripe)

No Saints for Sinners

Requiem for a Dream

(Big Tim)

Shut Up and Ride

(Narrator)

Last Stand of the Great Bear

(Narrator)

Boiling Pot

(Agent Long)

Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked

(Narrator (voice))

My Mom's New Boyfriend

(FBI Chief Conrad)

Secrets of the Magic City

(Mr. Daniels)

Mufasa: The Lion King

(Masego (voice))

Delta Farce

(Sgt. Kilgore)

Field of Lost Shoes

(Old Judge)

The Grave

(The Priest)

Dirty Lies

(Doc)

Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox

(The Simulator)

Double or Nothing

(Homeless Dude)

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

(CIA Director)

The Whoopee Boys

(Washington Square Peddler)

Hercules

(Apollo the Sun God (voice))

Range 15

(Colonel Holloway)

ATF

(F.B.I. Director Richard Long)

New York Street Games

(Self)

Service to Man

(Dean Holmes)

Where the Heart Is

(Moses Whitecotten)

The Greening of Whitney Brown

(Clerk)

Road House

(Ernie Bass)

Free Birds

(Chief Broadbeak (Voice))

Semper Fi

(Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff)

Kids vs Monsters

(Barry)

Savage Dog

(Valentine)

Baseball: The Tenth Inning

(Narrator)

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

(Narrator (voice))

Gamer

(Agent Keith)

Johns

(Homeless John)

Reality Bites

(Roger)

Black Asylum

(Agent Davis)

Egypt's Golden Empire

(Narrator)

Ray Meets Helen

(Harve)

Chasing 3000

(Officer L.)

Working with a Master: John Carpenter

(Self)

The Candlelight Murders

(Pastor Bob)

Not a War Story

Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music

(Self - Host)

Inside Mecca

(Narrator)

Night School

(Gerald)

Never Met Picasso

(Larry)

Christmas in Tattertown

(Saxophone (voice))

If I Tell You I Have to Kill You

(Detective Harris)

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues

(King Oliver)

The Wedding Year

(Preston)

Tales from the Hood 2

(Portifoy Simms)

Love Jacked

(Ed)

Nina

(Clifton's Father)

Boxing: In and Out of the Ring

(Narrator)

American Dresser

(Charlie)

F. You All: The Uwe Boll Story

(Self)

Innocents

(Detective Davis)

The Replacements

(Lindell)

Hallelujah Anyhow

(Will)

In Search of Darkness

(Self)

The North Star

(Frederick Douglas)

21 Bridges

(Deputy Chief Spencer)

There Are No Children Here

(John Paul Rivers)

In Search of Tomorrow

(Self - Interviewee)

Horizon Line

(Freddy Wyman)

The Gettysburg Address

(Frederick Douglass (voice))

Beautiful Loser

(Morgan - Adult)

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

(Self)

Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken

(Goliath (voice))

The 420 Movie

(Chief Ironweed)

Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man

(Narrator)

The '91 Falcons

(Narrator)

The Shakespeare Sessions

The Gateway

(Terry)

School of Rickey

(Self - Narrator (voice))

The Tiger Woods Story

(Earl Woods)

Blue: The American Dream

(Terry Venable)

The Color Purple: The Color of Success

(Narrator)

In Search of Darkness: Part II

(Self)

Most Guys Are Losers

(Al)

Pups Alone

(The Wise Bartender)

Black as Night

(Babineaux)

Forbidden Fruits

(Rev. Walters)

The Seventh Day

(Father Louis)

Hallelujah

(Big Willie)

Insight

(Captain Duke)

Cuba's Cancer Hope

(Narrator)

Murder in Black and White

(Martin)

The Undershepherd

(Brother Wilks)

Dutch Book

You Might Be the Killer

(Sheriff James)

Catwoman: Hunted

(Tobias Whale / Morax (voice))

Good

(Gregory Devereaux)

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story

(Ink Williams)

Jewels of the Caribbean Sea

((Self) Narrator)

Finding Faith

Biography: “Rowdy” Roddy Piper

(Self)

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!

(Self)

The Thing Expanded

(Self)

Portal to Hell

The Job

Arliss

Grey's Anatomy

(Lloyd Mackie)

Numb3rs

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

(Matt Phelps)

Teen Titans

(Atlas (voice))

Gargoyles

(Goliath (voice))

Gargoyles

The Legend of Tarzan

(Tublat (voice))

Everwood

(Brian)

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

(King Oliver)

Disney's House of Mouse

E! True Hollywood Story

Aladdin

Fantastic Four

Close Enough

(World’s Greatest Teacher Mug (voice))

New York Undercover

Canterbury's Law

Mr. Robot

(Qwerty (voice) (uncredited))

The Equalizer

(Cristo)

Creepshow

(Murdoch)

7th Heaven

(Stanley)

Hallelujah!

The Big House

DuckTales

(Manny (voice))

ER

(Pastor Watkins)

Community

(Elroy Patashnik)

We Bare Bears

(Mr. Charles (voice))

Spawn

(Spawn (voice))

Hot Pursuit

Muhammad Ali

(Narrator)

Extant

(Nicholas Calderon)

The Outer Limits

(Captain Ira Merit)

Central Park

(Ward Wittlinger (voice))

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

The Oldest Rookie

Amphibia

(King Andrias (voice))

The Bible

(Narrator)

Rick and Morty

(President Curtis / Turkey President Curtis (voice))

The Cape

(Max Malini)

Enlisted

(Sgt. Major Donald Cody)

Justice League

(Despero (voice))

Community

(Narrator (voice))

Scorpion

(Warden)

NOVA

(Narrator)

Love Life

(Narrator (voice))

Baseball: The Tenth Inning

(Self - Narrator (voice))

DC's Stargirl

(Mister Bones (voice))

Nature

(Narrator)

Mark Twain

(Narrator (voice))

Greenleaf

(Bishop James Greenleaf)

Silent Service

(Self - Host)

Justified: City Primeval

(Judge Alvin Guy)

Big Time in Hollywood, Fl

(Agent Everett Malloy)

Young Justice

(Mongul (voice))

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

(Glossaryck (voice))

My Dad the Bounty Hunter

(B'Caala (voice))

Hercules

(Apollo (voice))

Egypt's Golden Empire

(Himself - Narrator)

The Flash

(Solovar (voice))

Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982

(Self - Actor)

Krapopolis

(Asskill (voice))

True Lies

(Albert “Al” Gibson)

Adventure Time

(Balthus (voice))

Reading Rainbow

(Himself - Narrator (voice))

Hazbin Hotel

(Husk (voice))

American Dad!

(Fire Captain (voice))

The War

(Narrator)

Kulipari: An Army of Frogs

(Lord Marmoo (voice))

Jackie Robinson

(Narrator)

Belle's

(William 'Big Bill' Cooper)

Jazz

(Narrator)

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

(Frederick Douglass (voice))

Future Man

(Dr. Elias Kronish)

Person of Interest

(Terence Beale)

Baseball

(Narrator)

Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters

(Malcom Kane (voice))

The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time

(Self)

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

(Agent Mosely (voice))

Craig of the Creek

(Narrator (voice))

Law & Order

(Bronx D.A. John Robertson)

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

(The Cheshire Cat (voice))

Summer Camp Island

(Lithophone (voice))

Summer Camp Island

(Tummy (voice))

Champaign Ill

(Lafonso)

The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW

(Narrator)

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones

(King Oliver)

From Scratch

(Hershel Wheeler)

Dead Talk Live

(Self - Guest)

The Last Kids on Earth

(Thrull (voice))

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

(Sal Commander (voice))

Firebuds

(Manny Kablamee)

Speechless

(Colonel)

BoJack Horseman

(Lion Musician (voice))

Psych

(Mr. Guster)

Woke

(Bible (voice))

Adventure Time

(Flame King (voice))

Leonardo da Vinci

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Leverage: Redemption

(Billy Spencer)

Duster

(Ezra)

NCIS: New Orleans

(Gene Holloway)

black-ish

(Loose Craig)

Hawaii Five-0

(Jimmy Cannon)

Touch

(Dutch)

Fresh Off the Boat

(Clyde Roses)

MacGyver

(Burke / Man)

Rick and Morty

(Reverse Giraffe (voice))

Rick and Morty

(President/Governor Andre Curtis (voice))

Uncle Grandpa

(Santa Claus (voice))

Archer

(Lemuel Kane (voice))

Family Guy

(Jazz Documentary Narrator (voice))

Kite Man: Hell Yeah!

(Darkseid (voice))

Masters of the Universe: Revolution

(Hordak (voice))

Liverspots and Astronots

(Dr. Pesh)

The Sensitive Kind

Marvel's Hit-Monkey

(The Devil)

Invincible Fight Girl

(Narrator (voice))

American Experience

(W.E. Henderson / Other Voices)

Abbott Elementary

(Frank)

Invincible Fight Girl

(Scouter (voice))

Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou

(Narrator)