Keith David
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.
Movies (227)
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
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hot Pursuit
1987
Platoon
1986
The Whoopee Boys
1986
The Thing
1982
The Pirates of Penzance
1980
Coriolanus
1979
ATL 2: The Homecoming
Dreams of the Moon
TV Shows (130)
Strip Law
2026
The American Revolution
2025
I Love LA
2025
E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
2025
The Lowdown
2025
Haunted Hotel
2025
Duster
2025
Devil May Cry
2025
Oh My God... Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances
2025
Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou
2024
Leonardo da Vinci
2024
Invincible Fight Girl
2024
Invincible Fight Girl
2024
High Potential
2024
Kite Man: Hell Yeah!
2024
Masters of the Universe: Revolution
2024
Hazbin Hotel
2024
Krapopolis
2023
Justified: City Primeval
2023
Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982
2023
True Lies
2023
My Dad the Bounty Hunter
2023
From Scratch
2022
Firebuds
2022
The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time
2022
Chibiverse
2022
Abbott Elementary
2021
Marvel's Hit-Monkey
2021
Muhammad Ali
2021
Leverage: Redemption
2021
The Good Lord Bird
2020
Woke
2020
Close Enough
2020
Central Park
2020
Love Life
2020
DC's Stargirl
2020
Dead Talk Live
2020
Creepshow
2019
The Last Kids on Earth
2019
Amphibia
2019
Champaign Ill
2018
Liverspots and Astronots
2018
Summer Camp Island
2018
Summer Camp Island
2018
Craig of the Creek
2018
Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters
2017
Future Man
2017
DuckTales
2017
Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
2017
MacGyver
2016
Speechless
2016
Kulipari: An Army of Frogs
2016
Greenleaf
2016
Jackie Robinson
2016
We Bare Bears
2015
Mr. Robot
2015
Big Time in Hollywood, Fl
2015
Fresh Off the Boat
2015
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
2015
The Flash
2014
black-ish
2014
NCIS: New Orleans
2014
Scorpion
2014
The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW
2014
BoJack Horseman
2014
Extant
2014
Enlisted
2014
Rick and Morty
2013
Rick and Morty
2013
Rick and Morty
2013
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013
Uncle Grandpa
2013
Teen Titans Go!
2013
The Bible
2013
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2012
Touch
2012
Person of Interest
2011
The Cape
2011
Young Justice
2010
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
2010
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Adventure Time
2010
Adventure Time
2010
Community
2009
Community
2009
Archer
2009
Canterbury's Law
2008
The War
2007
Psych
2006
The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross
2005
Grey's Anatomy
2005
American Dad!
2005
Numb3rs
2005
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2005
The Big House
2004
Teen Titans
2003
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
2003
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
2003
Everwood
2002
Mark Twain
2002
Justice League
2001
Egypt's Golden Empire
2001
The Legend of Tarzan
2001
The Job
2001
Disney's House of Mouse
2001
Jazz
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
1999
Family Guy
1999
Family Guy
1999
Hercules
1998
Spawn
1997
7th Heaven
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Arli$$
1996
The Outer Limits
1995
Gargoyles
1994
Fantastic Four
1994
ER
1994
New York Undercover
1994
Aladdin
1994
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Law & Order
1990
American Experience
1988
The Oldest Rookie
1987
The Equalizer
1985
Reading Rainbow
1983
Nature
1982
NOVA
1974
The Oscars
1953