Keith David
Acting
Born June 4, 1956 · Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Films (231)
Captain Zero: The Movie
2028
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2026
The Thing Expanded
2026
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
2026
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
2025
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
2025
Shelby Oaks
2025
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
2025
Finding Faith
2025
Omniscient
2025
Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II
2025
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox
2025
Sneaks
2025
Portal to Hell
2025
Mufasa: The Lion King
2024
Betty & Blue
2024
The Prank
2024
American Fiction
2023
Heist 88
2023
From the Shadows
2023
A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023
Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story
2023
Shut Up and Ride
2022
A Miracle Before Christmas
2022
Entergalactic
2022
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022
DC League of Super-Pets
2022
Nope
2022
Unplugging
2022
The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse
2022
In Search of Tomorrow
2022
Catwoman: Hunted
2022
Pups Alone
2021
Black as Night
2021
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
2021
The Gateway
2021
The Seventh Day
2021
Insight
2021
Horizon Line
2020
Most Guys Are Losers
2020
Good
2020
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020
The 420 Movie
2020
Cuba's Cancer Hope
2020
21 Bridges
2019
The Wedding Year
2019
You Might Be the Killer
2019
In Search of Darkness
2019
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
2019
Love Jacked
2018
Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story
2018
Brothers in Arms
2018
Night School
2018
American Dresser
2018
Sharon 1.2.3.
2018
Tales from the Hood 2
2018
Ray Meets Helen
2018
The '91 Falcons
2017
Savage Dog
2017
Not a War Story
2017
Service to Man
2016
School of Rickey
2016
Range 15
2016
The Nice Guys
2016
Blue: The American Dream
2016
Nina
2016
The North Star
2016
Dirty Lies
2016
The Last Punch
2016
Dutch Book
2015
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
2015
Boiling Pot
2015
Kids vs Monsters
2015
Union Furnace
2015
Secrets of the Magic City
2015
Field of Lost Shoes
2015
Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary
2014
Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man
2014
Frog Kingdom
2013
Free Birds
2013
Sons of Liberty
2013
Assault on Wall Street
2013
Black Asylum
2013
Don't Pass Me By
2013
Christmas in Compton
2012
Cloud Atlas
2012
Double or Nothing
2012
Smiley
2012
Highway
2012
The Last Fall
2012
The Undershepherd
2012
AniMen: The Galactic Battle
2012
The Greening of Whitney Brown
2011
Hopelessly in June
2011
The Inheritance
2011
Samuel Bleak
2011
No Saints for Sinners
2011
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
2010
Chain Letter
2010
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
2010
Lottery Ticket
2010
New York Street Games
2010
Chasing 3000
2010
Something Like A Business
2010
Meet Monica Velour
2010
Death at a Funeral
2010
Africa's Lost Eden
2010
The Princess and the Frog
2009
Beautiful Loser
2009
Gamer
2009
All About Steve
2009
The Butcher
2009
Pastor Brown
2009
Don McKay
2009
Blue
2009
Charlie Valentine
2009
Against the Dark
2009
Coraline
2009
Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia
2009
S.I.S.
2008
The Fifth Commandment
2008
No Bad Days
2008
The Sensei
2008
My Mom's New Boyfriend
2008
Superhero Movie
2008
Justice League: The New Frontier
2008
First Sunday
2008
The Candlelight Murders
2008
The Last Sentinel
2007
Delta Farce
2007
The Color Purple: The Color of Success
2007
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
2007
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006
Forbidden Fruits
2006
ATL
2006
The Oh in Ohio
2006
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
2006
Dirty
2005
Crusades: Crescent & the Cross
2005
The Proud Family Movie
2005
Transporter 2
2005
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005
Crash
2005
Last Stand of the Great Bear
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Beef II
2004
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury
2004
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
2004
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004
Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom
2003
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
2003
Hollywood Homicide
2003
Head of State
2003
Agent Cody Banks
2003
Inside Mecca
2003
The Shakespeare Sessions
2003
29 Palms
2002
Stalking Leopards
2002
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002
Barbershop
2002
Mark Twain
2002
Pretty When You Cry
2001
Novocaine
2001
Egypt's Golden Empire
2001
Home Invaders
2001
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001
Semper Fi
2001
Boxing: In and Out of the Ring
2001
Requiem for a Dream
2000
The Replacements
2000
Where the Heart Is
2000
Pitch Black
2000
Innocents
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
1999
ATF
1999
The Grizzlies of Siberia
1999
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
1998
There's Something About Mary
1998
Armageddon
1998
The Tiger Woods Story
1998
Never Met Picasso
1997
Don King: Only in America
1997
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997
Executive Target
1997
Hercules
1997
Volcano
1997
Flipping
1997
Johns
1996
Larger Than Life
1996
The Grave
1996
Eye for an Eye
1996
Dead Presidents
1995
Clockers
1995
Blue in the Face
1995
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
1995
The Quick and the Dead
1995
The Puppet Masters
1994
Notes in a Minor Key
1994
Jewels of the Caribbean Sea
1994
Reality Bites
1994
Hallelujah
1993
There Are No Children Here
1993
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
1993
The Last Outlaw
1993
Lions Of Darkness
1993
Nails
1992
Article 99
1992
Final Analysis
1992
Hallelujah Anyhow
1991
Marked for Death
1990
Men at Work
1990
Murder in Black and White
1990
Always
1989
Road House
1989
Christmas in Tattertown
1988
Ladykillers
1988
They Live
1988
Bird
1988
Stars & Bars
1988
Off Limits
1988
Braddock: Missing in Action III
1988
The Making of 'They Live'
1988
Hot Pursuit
1987
Platoon
1986
The Whoopee Boys
1986
The Thing
1982
The Pirates of Penzance
1980
Coriolanus
1979