Keith David
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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.
Known for
Credits
Coraline (2009)
as The Cat (voice)
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
as Masego (voice)
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026)
as Sosa
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
as Dr. Facilier (voice)
The Thing (1982)
as Childs
Hercules (1997)
as Apollo the Sun God (voice)
Platoon (1986)
as King
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
as Father
Armageddon (1998)
as General Kimsey
The Nice Guys (2016)
as Older Guy
Nope (2022)
as Otis Haywood Sr.
Cloud Atlas (2012)
as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
They Live (1988)
as Frank Armitage
The Replacements (2000)
as Lindell
There's Something About Mary (1998)
as Charlie Jensen
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
as Sergeant Cantrell
Volcano (1997)
as Lt. Ed Fox
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
as Big Tim
Superhero Movie (2008)
as The Chief of Police
Transporter 2 (2005)
as Stappleton
DC League of Super-Pets (2022)
as Dog-El (voice)
Shelby Oaks (2025)
as Morton Jacobson
Crash (2005)
as Lt. Dixon
Free Birds (2013)
as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)
Gamer (2009)
as Agent Keith
Death at a Funeral (2010)
as Reverend Davis
Road House (1989)
as Ernie Bass
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
as Council Member (voice)
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
Pitch Black (2000)
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
American Fiction (2023)
as Willy the Wonker
Marked for Death (1990)
as Max
My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008)
as FBI Chief Conrad
Agent Cody Banks (2003)
as CIA Director
Barbershop (2002)
as Lester Wallace
Eye for an Eye (1996)
as Martin
The Thing Expanded (2026)
as Self
Where the Heart Is (2000)
as Moses Whitecotten
Horizon Line (2020)
as Freddy Wyman
Smiley (2012)
as Diamond
Night School (2018)
as Gerald
Ultimate Fights from the Movies (2002)
as Frank (They Live) (archive footage)
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox (2025)
as The Simulator
21 Bridges (2019)
as Deputy Chief Spencer
First Sunday (2008)
as Judge B. Bennet Galloway
Reality Bites (1994)
as Roger
ATF (1999)
as FBI Director Richard Long
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
as Leon
Sneaks (2025)
as O.G. (voice)
Entergalactic (2022)
as Mr. Rager (voice)
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken (1995)
as Goliath (voice)
Final Analysis (1992)
as Detective Huggins
The Wedding Year (2019)
as Preston
Men at Work (1990)
as Louis Fedders
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming (2010)
as Terry
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas (2025)
as Self - Interviewee
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
as CIA Director
The Proud Family Movie (2005)
as Bebe Clone (voice)
Assault on Wall Street (2013)
as Freddy
Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)
as The Centre (voice)
Catwoman: Hunted (2022)
as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)
Always (1989)
as Powerhouse
Dead Presidents (1995)
as Kirby
The Gettysburg Address (2025)
as Frederick Douglass (voice)
Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)
as Embassy Gate Captain
Head of State (2003)
as Bernard Cooper
The Seventh Day (2021)
as Father Louis
Savage Dog (2017)
as Valentine
ATL 2: The Homecoming (—)
as John Garnett
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006)
as MCPO Scott Boytano
Clockers (1995)
as André the Giant
Bird (1988)
as Buster Franklin
Off Limits (1988)
as Maurice
ATL (2006)
as John Garnett
Lottery Ticket (2010)
as Sweet Tee
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along (2025)
as Husk (voice)
Samuel Bleak (2011)
as Ned Coffman
Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II (2025)
as The Depression Demon (voice)
All About Steve (2009)
as Corbitt
Executive Target (1997)
as Lamar
Don King: Only in America (1997)
as Herbert Muhammad
The Greening of Whitney Brown (2011)
as Clerk
Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia (2009)
as Commander Scott Boytano
In Search of Darkness (2019)
as Self
Against the Dark (2009)
as Lt. Waters
Larger Than Life (1996)
as Hurst
Novocaine (2001)
as Detective Lunt
Forbidden Fruits (2006)
as Rev. Walters
Nina (2016)
as Clifton's Father
Inside Mecca (2003)
as Narrator (voice)
The Inheritance (2011)
as Uncle Melvin
No Saints for Sinners (2011)
Actor
Article 99 (1992)
as Luther Jermoe
Captain Zero: The Movie (2028)
as The Depression Demon (voice)
Hot Pursuit (1987)
as Alphonso
Delta Farce (2007)
as Sgt. Kilgore
In Search of Tomorrow (2022)
as Self - Interviewee
Dirty (2005)
as Captain Spain
Chain Letter (2010)
as Det. Jim Crenshaw
The Oh in Ohio (2006)
as Coach Popovitch
Bob's Best Friends (—)
as Cuddles (voice)
Pretty When You Cry (2001)
as Detective Charles Desett
The Undershepherd (2012)
as Brother Wilks
29 Palms (2002)
as The Sheriff
The Shakespeare Sessions (2003)
Actor
Blue in the Face (1995)
as Jackie Robinson
The Gateway (2021)
as Terry
Tales from the Hood 2 (2018)
as Portifoy Simms
Stars & Bars (1988)
as Eugene Teagarden
Range 15 (2016)
as Colonel Holloway
You Might Be the Killer (2019)
as Sheriff James
Meet Monica Velour (2010)
as Claude
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway (2025)
as (voice) (uncredited)
Coriolanus (1979)
as Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
The Last Outlaw (1993)
as Lovecraft
Heist 88 (2023)
as Buddha Ray
The Grave (1996)
as The Priest
Africa's Lost Eden (2010)
as Narrator (voice)
Dreams of the Moon (—)
Actor
The Butcher (2009)
as Larry Cobb
New York Street Games (2010)
as Self
Field of Lost Shoes (2015)
as Old Judge
Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story (2018)
as Self
Don McKay (2009)
as Otis Kent
Christmas in Compton (2012)
as Big Earl
The Whoopee Boys (1986)
as Washington Square Peddler
Home Invaders (2001)
as Matador
The Puppet Masters (1994)
as Alex Holland
The 420 Movie (2020)
as Chief Ironweed
Vanishing Point (1997)
as Warren Taft
The Last Sentinel (2007)
as Colonel Norton
A Snowy Day in Oakland (2023)
as Mr. Monroe
Beauty and the Beasts: A Leopard's Story (1995)
as Narrator (voice)
Unplugging (2022)
as Gil
Blue: The American Dream (2016)
as Terry Venable
Mark Twain (2002)
as Narrator (voice)
Good (2020)
as Gregory Devereaux
S.I.S. (2008)
as Joseph Armstrong
The Fifth Commandment (2008)
as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton
The Nutcase (—)
Actor
If I Had Known I Was a Genius (2007)
as Dad
Kids vs Monsters (2015)
as Barry
Charlie Valentine (2009)
as Sal
Lions Of Darkness (1993)
as Narrator (voice)
Johns (1996)
as Homeless John
Not a War Story (2017)
Actor
Portal to Hell (2025)
as Mr. Bobshank
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 (1998)
as Spawn
Insight (2021)
as Captain Duke
In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020)
as Self
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997)
as Algric Bartles
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
as Narrator (voice)
Double or Nothing (2012)
as Homeless Dude
Omniscient (2025)
as Alistair
Frog Kingdom (2013)
as Frog King (voice)
The Tiger Woods Story (1998)
as Earl Woods
The Prank (2024)
as Principal Henderson
Pastor Brown (2009)
as Pastor Brown
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues (1999)
as King Oliver
Hopelessly in June (2011)
as Dalbert Myers
American Dresser (2018)
as Charlie
Murder in Black and White (1990)
as Martin
Pups Alone (2021)
as The Wise Bartender
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked (2003)
as Narrator (voice)
Nails (1992)
as Noah Owens
Notes in a Minor Key (1994)
as Kansas
Chasing 3000 (2010)
as Officer L.
Egypt's Golden Empire (2001)
as Narrator
Hallelujah Anyhow (1991)
as Will
The Pirates of Penzance (1980)
as Pirates and Police
Beef II (2004)
as Narrator (voice)
Black as Night (2021)
as Babineaux
The Last Fall (2012)
as Sydney Bishop
My New Friend Jim (—)
as Jim Dandy
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003)
as Narrator (voice)
Dirty Lies (2016)
as Doc
Hallelujah (1993)
as Big Willie
Innocents (2000)
as Detective Davis
Service to Man (2016)
as Dean Holmes
Ray Meets Helen (2018)
as Harve
Sharon 1.2.3. (2018)
as Tyrone
Christmas in Tattertown (1988)
as Saxophone (voice)
Finding Faith (2025)
as Henry
There Are No Children Here (1993)
as John Paul Rivers
Boiling Pot (2015)
as Agent Long
Most Guys Are Losers (2020)
as Al
The '91 Falcons (2017)
as Narrator (voice)
Something Like A Business (2010)
as Sebastian
Don't Pass Me By (2013)
as David Knox
Brothers in Arms (2018)
as Self
Never Met Picasso (1997)
as Larry
Mr. Nelson on the North Side (2024)
as Self
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)
as Self
Crusades: Crescent & the Cross (2005)
as Self - Narrator
The Sensei (2008)
as Minister
AniMen: The Galactic Battle (2012)
as Sergeant Brass
Baseball: The Tenth Inning (2010)
as Narrator
Boxing: In and Out of the Ring (2001)
as Narrator (voice)
Sons of Liberty (2013)
as Nathan Reynolds
The Price for Freedom (—)
as Reverend J.W. Bruno
Love Jacked (2018)
as Ed
The Candlelight Murders (2008)
as Pastor Bob
Shut Up and Ride (2022)
as Narrator (voice)
The Making of 'They Live' (1988)
as Self
Beautiful Loser (2009)
as Morgan - Adult
From the Shadows (2023)
as Dr. Leonard Bertram
No Bad Days (2008)
as Terrence
Highway (2012)
as Mustafa
Flipping (1997)
as Leo Richards, Gang Leader
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You (2015)
as Detective Harris
A Miracle Before Christmas (2022)
as David
Stalking Leopards (2002)
as Narrator (voice)
Semper Fi (2001)
as Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff
Working with a Master: John Carpenter (2006)
as Self
The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse (2022)
as Narrator (voice)
School of Rickey (2016)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Secrets of the Magic City (2015)
as Mr. Daniels
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man (2004)
as Narrator (voice)
Black Asylum (2013)
as Agent Davis
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story (2022)
as Ink Williams
The Grizzlies of Siberia (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (2004)
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)
The Last Punch (2016)
as Don King
Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man (2014)
as Narrator
Ladykillers (1988)
as Abe
The North Star (2016)
as Frederick Douglass
Rise of the Mammals (2019)
as Self - Narrator
Union Furnace (2015)
as Pin Stripe
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993)
as Self - Host
Last Stand of the Great Bear (2004)
as Narrator (voice)
Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom (2003)
as Narrator (voice)
Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story (2023)
as Jerry
Cuba's Cancer Hope (2020)
as Narrator (voice)
Blue (2009)
as Terry Venable
Jewels of the Caribbean Sea (1994)
as Narrator (voice)
The Color Purple: The Color of Success (2007)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Dutch Book (2015)
Actor
Betty & Blue (2024)
as Willie 'Blue' Watson
Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary (2014)
Actor