Keith David

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith2005
Requiem for a Dream2000
Coraline2009
The Nice Guys2016

About Keith David

Known for: Acting
Born: June 4, 1956 (age 70)
Birthplace: 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…

Also credited as

Keith David Williams, キース・デイヴィッド, کیت دیوید, キースデヴィッド, キース・デヴィッド・ウィリアムズ, David Keith

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Filmography

Captain Zero: The Movie2028as The Depression Demon (voice)

Spider-Man: Brand New Day2026as Narrator of Spider Video (voice)
The Thing Expanded2026as Self
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice2026as Sosa
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas2025as Self - Interviewee
The Gettysburg Address2025as Frederick Douglass (voice)
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway2025as (voice) (uncredited)
Shelby Oaks2025as Morton Jacobson
Finding Faith2025as Henry
Omniscient2025as Alistair
Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II2025as The Depression Demon (voice)
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox2025as The Simulator
Sneaks2025as O.G. (voice)
Portal to Hell2025as Mr. Bobshank
Mufasa: The Lion King2024as Masego (voice)
Mr. Nelson on the North Side2024as Self
Betty & Blue2024as Willie 'Blue' Watson
The Prank2024as Principal Henderson
American Fiction2023as Willy the Wonker
Heist 882023as Buddha Ray
From the Shadows2023as Dr. Leonard Bertram
A Snowy Day in Oakland2023as Mr. Monroe
Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story2023as Jerry
Shut Up and Ride2022as Narrator (voice)
A Miracle Before Christmas2022as David
Entergalactic2022as Mr. Rager (voice)
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story2022as Ink Williams
DC League of Super-Pets2022as Dog-El (voice)
Nope2022as Otis Haywood Sr.
Unplugging2022as Gil
The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse2022as Narrator (voice)
In Search of Tomorrow2022as Self - Interviewee
Catwoman: Hunted2022as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)
African Redemption: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Garvey2022as Narrator
Pups Alone2021as The Wise Bartender
Black as Night2021as Babineaux
The Gateway2021as Terry
The Seventh Day2021as Father Louis
Insight2021as Captain Duke
Horizon Line2020as Freddy Wyman
Most Guys Are Losers2020as Al
Good2020as Gregory Devereaux
In Search of Darkness: Part II2020as Self
Wild Daze2020as Narrator
The 420 Movie2020as Chief Ironweed
Cuba's Cancer Hope2020as Narrator (voice)
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story2020as Self
Rise of the Mammals2019as Self - Narrator
21 Bridges2019as Deputy Chief Spencer
The Wedding Year2019as Preston
You Might Be the Killer2019as Sheriff James
In Search of Darkness2019as Self
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror2019as Self
Love Jacked2018as Ed
Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story2018as Self
Brothers in Arms2018as Self
Night School2018as Gerald
American Dresser2018as Charlie
Sharon 1.2.3.2018as Tyrone
Tales from the Hood 22018as Portifoy Simms
Ray Meets Helen2018as Harve
The '91 Falcons2017as Narrator (voice)
Who Goes There? In Search of The Thing2017as Self
Savage Dog2017as Valentine
Not a War Story2017
V-Force: New Dawn of V.I.C.T.O.R.Y.2017as Kevin Bishop
Service to Man2016as Dean Holmes
The Men of Outpost 312016as Self
School of Rickey2016as Self - Narrator (voice)
Range 152016as Colonel Holloway
The Nice Guys2016as Older Guy
Blue: The American Dream2016as Terry Venable
Nina2016as Clifton's Father
The North Star2016as Frederick Douglass
Dirty Lies2016as Doc
The Last Punch2016as Don King
Dutch Book2015as Joe Johnson
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You2015as Detective Harris
Boiling Pot2015as Agent Long
Kids vs Monsters2015as Barry
Union Furnace2015as Pin Stripe
Secrets of the Magic City2015as Mr. Daniels
Field of Lost Shoes2015as Old Judge
Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary2014
Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man2014as Narrator
H42014as Worcester
Frog Kingdom2013as Frog King (voice)
Free Birds2013as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)
Sons of Liberty2013as Nathan Reynolds
Assault on Wall Street2013as Freddy
Black Asylum2013as Agent Davis
Don't Pass Me By2013as David Knox
Christmas in Compton2012as Big Earl
Cloud Atlas2012as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
Double or Nothing2012as Homeless Dude
Smiley2012as Diamond
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America2012as Charles Buchanan (voice)
Highway2012as Mustafa
The Last Fall2012as Sydney Bishop
The Undershepherd2012as Brother Wilks
AniMen: The Galactic Battle2012as Sergeant Brass
The Greening of Whitney Brown2011as Clerk
Hopelessly in June2011as Dalbert Myers
The Inheritance2011as Uncle Melvin
Samuel Bleak2011as Ned Coffman
No Saints for Sinners2011as Victor
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming2010as Terry
Chain Letter2010as Det. Jim Crenshaw
Baseball: The Tenth Inning2010as Narrator
Lottery Ticket2010as Sweet Tee
New York Street Games2010as Self
Chasing 30002010as Officer L.
Something Like A Business2010as Sebastian
Meet Monica Velour2010as Claude
Spork2010as Coach Jenkins
Death at a Funeral2010as Reverend Davis
Africa's Lost Eden2010as Narrator (voice)
The Princess and the Frog2009as Dr. Facilier (voice)
Beautiful Loser2009as Morgan - Adult
Gamer2009as Agent Keith
All About Steve2009as Corbitt
Coraline: Creepy Coraline2009as The Cat (voice) (archive footage)
The Butcher2009as Larry Cobb
Pastor Brown2009as Pastor Brown
Don McKay2009as Otis Kent
Blue2009as Terry Venable
Charlie Valentine2009as Sal
Against the Dark2009as Lt. Waters
Coraline2009as The Cat (voice)
Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia2009as Commander Scott Boytano
S.I.S.2008as Joseph Armstrong
The Fifth Commandment2008as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton
No Bad Days2008as Terrence
The Sensei2008as Minister
My Mom's New Boyfriend2008as FBI Chief Conrad
Superhero Movie2008as The Chief of Police
Justice League: The New Frontier2008as The Centre (voice)
First Sunday2008as Judge B. Bennet Galloway
The Candlelight Murders2008as Pastor Bob
The Last Sentinel2007as Colonel Norton
Delta Farce2007as Sgt. Kilgore
The Color Purple: The Color of Success2007as Self - Narrator (voice)
If I Had Known I Was a Genius2007as Dad
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil2006as MCPO Scott Boytano
Forbidden Fruits2006as Rev. Walters
ATL2006as John Garnett
The Oh in Ohio2006as Coach Popovitch
Working with a Master: John Carpenter2006as Self
Dirty2005as Captain Spain
Crusades: Crescent & the Cross2005as Self - Narrator
The Proud Family Movie2005as Bebe Clone (voice)
Transporter 22005as Stappleton
Mr. & Mrs. Smith2005as Father
Crash2005as Lt. Dixon
Last Stand of the Great Bear2004as Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson2004as Narrator (voice)
Beef II2004as Narrator (voice)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury2004as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)
The Chronicles of Riddick2004as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man2004as Narrator (voice)
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London2004as CIA Director
Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom2003as Narrator (voice)
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip2003as Narrator (voice)
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked2003as Narrator (voice)
Hollywood Homicide2003as Leon
Head of State2003as Bernard Cooper
Agent Cody Banks2003as CIA Director
Inside Mecca2003as Narrator (voice)
The Shakespeare Sessions2003
29 Palms2002as The Sheriff
Stalking Leopards2002as Narrator (voice)
Ultimate Fights from the Movies2002as Frank (They Live) (archive footage)
Barbershop2002as Lester Wallace
Mark Twain2002as Narrator (voice)
Pretty When You Cry2001as Detective Charles Desett
Novocaine2001as Detective Lunt
Egypt's Golden Empire2001as Narrator
Home Invaders2001as Matador
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within2001as Council Member (voice)
Semper Fi2001as Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff
Boxing: In and Out of the Ring2001as Narrator (voice)
Requiem for a Dream2000as Big Tim
The Replacements2000as Lindell
Where the Heart Is2000as Moses Whitecotten
Pitch Black2000as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
National Geographic: The Photographers2000as Narrator
Innocents2000as Detective Davis
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero1999as Narrator
ATF1999as FBI Director Richard Long
The Grizzlies of Siberia1999as Narrator (voice)
Todd McFarlane's Spawn: Season 21998as Spawn
There's Something About Mary1998as Charlie Jensen
Armageddon1998as General Kimsey
The Tiger Woods Story1998as Earl Woods
Never Met Picasso1997as Larry
Don King: Only in America1997as Herbert Muhammad
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest1997as Algric Bartles
Loose Women1997as Stylist #1
Executive Target1997as Lamar
Hercules1997as Apollo the Sun God (voice)
Volcano1997as Lt. Ed Fox
Flipping1997as Leo Richards, Gang Leader
Vanishing Point1997as Warren Taft
Johns1996as Homeless John
Larger Than Life1996as Hurst
The Grave1996as The Priest
Eye for an Eye1996as Martin
Dead Presidents1995as Kirby
Blue in the Face1995as Jackie Robinson
Clockers1995as André the Giant
Beauty and the Beasts: A Leopard's Story1995as Narrator (voice)
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken1995as Goliath (voice)
The Quick and the Dead1995as Sergeant Cantrell
The Puppet Masters1994as Alex Holland
Notes in a Minor Key1994as Kansas
Jewels of the Caribbean Sea1994as Narrator (voice)
Reality Bites1994as Roger
Hallelujah1993as Big Willie
There Are No Children Here1993as John Paul Rivers
The Last Outlaw1993as Lovecraft
Lions Of Darkness1993as Narrator (voice)
Nails1992as Noah Owens
Article 991992as Luther Jermoe
Final Analysis1992as Detective Huggins
Hallelujah Anyhow1991as Will
Marked for Death1990as Max
Men at Work1990as Louis Fedders
Murder in Black and White1990as Martin
Always1989as Powerhouse
Road House1989as Ernie Bass
Christmas in Tattertown1988as Saxophone (voice)
Ladykillers1988as Abe
They Live1988as Frank Armitage
Bird1988as Buster Franklin
Stars & Bars1988as Eugene Teagarden
Off Limits1988as Maurice
Braddock: Missing in Action III1988as Embassy Gate Captain
The Making of 'They Live'1988as Self
Hot Pursuit1987as Alphonso
Platoon1986as King
The Whoopee Boys1986as Washington Square Peddler
The Thing1982as Childs
The Pirates of Penzance1980as Pirates and Police
Coriolanus1979as Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
Bob's Best FriendsYear unavailableas Cuddles (voice)
Coraline e o Mundo SecretoYear unavailableas The Cat (voice)
Dreams of the MoonYear unavailable
My New Friend JimYear unavailableas Jim Dandy
The NutcaseYear unavailable
The Price for FreedomYear unavailableas Reverend J.W. Bruno