Keith David

ActorCrewProducer Jun 4 (age 69) Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA 1956–2028 (72 year career)

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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 Nic…

Known For

Film

Requiem for a Dream

Big Tim

Film

The Thing

Childs

Film

Coraline

The Cat (voice)

Film

Hercules

Apollo the Sun God (voice)

Film

Platoon

King

Film

The Nice Guys

Older Guy

Film

Hazbin Hotel

Husk (voice)

Film

The Princess and the Frog

Dr. Facilier (voice)

Filmography

Acting (367)

Movies (241)

Captain Zero: The Movie

2028 Upcoming

as The Depression Demon (voice)

Jun 18

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

2026

as Sosa

7.3

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

2026 Upcoming

Jul 29

The Thing Expanded

2026 Upcoming

as Self

Apr 1

Shelby Oaks

as Morton Jacobson

Sneaks

as O.G. (voice)

The Gettysburg Address

2025

as Frederick Douglass (voice)

Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along

2025

as Husk (voice)

7.6

Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway

2025

as (voice) (uncredited)

8.3

Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox

2025

as The Simulator

5.9

What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas

2025

as Self - Interviewee

Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II

2025

as The Depression Demon (voice)

9.0

Portal to Hell

2025

as Mr. Bobshank

Rachel Sennott Directorial Debut: I Love NY

2025

as Leon Marcus

Finding Faith

2025

10.0

Omniscient

2025

as Alistair

Mufasa: The Lion King

2024

as Masego (voice)

7.3

The Prank

2024

as Principal Henderson

5.6

Mr. Nelson on the North Side

2024

as Self

Betty & Blue

2024

as Willie 'Blue' Watson

Heist 88

as Buddha Ray

American Fiction

as Willy the Wonker

A Snowy Day in Oakland

2023

as Mr. Monroe

6.8

From the Shadows

2023

as Dr. Leonard Bertram

5.6

Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story

as Jerry

Nope

as Otis Haywood Sr.

DC League of Super-Pets

2022

as Dog-El (voice)

7.2

A Miracle Before Christmas

as David

Entergalactic

as Mr. Rager (voice)

Catwoman: Hunted

as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)

5.8

Unplugging

2022

as Gil

4.8

The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse

2022

as Narrator (voice)

7.5

In Search of Tomorrow

2022

as Self - Interviewee

Shut Up and Ride

as Narrator (voice)

Amphibia: All In

as King Andrias

1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!

2022

as Self

7.5

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story

2022

as Ink Williams

3.7

Amphibia: The Hardest Thing

as King Adrias

Black as Night

as Babineaux

The Gateway

as Terry

Insight

as Captain Duke

Pups Alone

as The Wise Bartender

The Seventh Day

as Father Louis

Horizon Line

as Freddy Wyman

Good

as Gregory Devereaux

The 420 Movie

as Chief Ironweed

In Search of Darkness: Part II

as Self

Most Guys Are Losers

as Al

Cuba's Cancer Hope

as Narrator (voice)

21 Bridges

2019

as Deputy Chief Spencer

6.8

You Might Be the Killer

as Sheriff James

The Wedding Year

as Preston

In Search of Darkness

2019

as Self

7.5

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

as Self

Night School

as Gerald

Brothers in Arms

as Self

Love Jacked

as Ed

American Dresser

as Charlie

Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story

2018

as Self

6.6

Tales from the Hood 2

as Portifoy Simms

Sharon 1.2.3.

as Tyrone

Ray Meets Helen

as Harve

Not a War Story

Savage Dog

as Valentine

The '91 Falcons

as Narrator (voice)

The Nice Guys

as Older Guy

Service to Man

as Dean Holmes

Blue: The American Dream

2016

as Terry Venable

Nina

as Clifton's Father

Dirty Lies

as Doc

The Last Punch

as Don King

The North Star

2016

as Frederick Douglass

Range 15

as Colonel Holloway

School of Rickey

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Field of Lost Shoes

as Old Judge

Kids vs Monsters

as Barry

If I Tell You I Have to Kill You

2015

as Detective Harris

Boiling Pot

2015

as Agent Long

5.2

Secrets of the Magic City

as Mr. Daniels

Dutch Book

Union Furnace

as Pin Stripe

Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary

2014

8.3

Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man

2014

as Narrator

7.0

Free Birds

2013

as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)

5.9

Assault on Wall Street

as Freddy

Frog Kingdom

as Frog King (voice)

Don't Pass Me By

as David Knox

Sons of Liberty

as Nathan Reynolds

Black Asylum

as Agent Davis

Cloud Atlas

as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient

The Last Fall

as Sydney Bishop

Smiley

as Diamond

The Undershepherd

as Brother Wilks

Highway

as Mustafa

Double or Nothing

as Homeless Dude

AniMen: The Galactic Battle

as Sergeant Brass

Christmas in Compton

as Big Earl

Samuel Bleak

as Ned Coffman

The Inheritance

as Uncle Melvin

No Saints for Sinners

2011

5.0

The Greening of Whitney Brown

as Clerk

Hopelessly in June

as Dalbert Myers

Something Like A Business

as Sebastian

Lottery Ticket

as Sweet Tee

Death at a Funeral

as Reverend Davis

Africa's Lost Eden

as Narrator (voice)

Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming

as Terry

Meet Monica Velour

as Claude

Chasing 3000

as Officer L.

Chain Letter

as Det. Jim Crenshaw

Baseball: The Tenth Inning

2010

as Narrator

8.0

New York Street Games

2010

as Self

Coraline

2009

as The Cat (voice)

7.9

The Princess and the Frog

2009

as Dr. Facilier (voice)

7.2

Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia

2009

as Commander Scott Boytano

Gamer

as Agent Keith

Don McKay

as Otis Kent

Pastor Brown

as Pastor Brown

All About Steve

as Corbitt

Charlie Valentine

as Sal

The Butcher

as Larry Cobb

Against the Dark

as Lt. Waters

Blue

as Terry Venable

Beautiful Loser

2009

as Morgan - Adult

5.0

Justice League: The New Frontier

2008

as The Centre (voice)

6.8

First Sunday

2008

as Judge B. Bennet Galloway

5.7

Superhero Movie

2008

as The Chief of Police

5.3

My Mom's New Boyfriend

2008

as FBI Chief Conrad

5.4

The Candlelight Murders

2008

as Pastor Bob

The Sensei

2008

as Minister

4.1

The Fifth Commandment

2008

as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton

S.I.S.

as Joseph Armstrong

No Bad Days

as Terrence

Delta Farce

as Sgt. Kilgore

The Last Sentinel

as Colonel Norton

If I Had Known I Was a Genius

2007

as Dad

4.1

The Color Purple: The Color of Success

2007

as Narrator (voice)

7.5

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

2006

as MCPO Scott Boytano

ATL

as John Garnett

The Oh in Ohio

as Coach Popovitch

Forbidden Fruits

as Rev. Walters

Working with a Master: John Carpenter

as Self

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

as Father

Crash

as Lt. Dixon

Transporter 2

as Stappleton

Dirty

as Captain Spain

The Proud Family Movie

2005

as Bebe Clone (voice)

5.8

Crusades: Crescent & the Cross

2005

as Self - Narrator

7.7

Last Stand of the Great Bear

2004

as Narrator (voice)

The Chronicles of Riddick

2004

as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid

6.5

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

2004

as CIA Director

5.6

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2004

as Narrator (voice)

7.1

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury

2004

as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)

6.0

Beef II

2004

as Narrator (voice)

6.7

Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man

as Narrator (voice)

Hollywood Homicide

as Leon

Agent Cody Banks

as CIA Director

The Shakespeare Sessions

Head of State

as Bernard Cooper

Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom

2003

as Narrator (voice)

6.0

Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked

as Narrator (voice)

Inside Mecca

as Narrator (voice)

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

as Narrator (voice)

29 Palms

as The Sheriff

Barbershop

as Lester Wallace

Mark Twain

as Narrator (voice)

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

2002

as Frank (They Live) (archive footage)

4.9

Stalking Leopards

2002

as Narrator (voice)

10.0

Egypt's Golden Empire

2001

as Narrator

7.7

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

2001

as Council Member (voice)

6.2

Pretty When You Cry

2001

as Detective Charles Desett

3.0

Boxing: In and Out of the Ring

2001

as Narrator (voice)

Novocaine

as Detective Lunt

Home Invaders

as Matador

Semper Fi

as Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff

Requiem for a Dream

as Big Tim

The Replacements

as Lindell

Pitch Black

as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid

Where the Heart Is

as Moses Whitecotten

Innocents

as Detective Davis

Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle

1999

as Spawn

7.0

The Grizzlies of Siberia

1999

as Narrator (voice)

ATF

1999

as FBI Director Richard Long

4.7

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues

as King Oliver

Armageddon

as General Kimsey

Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2

1998

as Spawn

8.0

There's Something About Mary

1998

as Charlie Jensen

6.6

The Tiger Woods Story

1998

as Earl Woods

2.0

Hercules

1997

as Apollo the Sun God (voice)

Volcano

as Lt. Ed Fox

Executive Target

as Lamar

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

1997

as Algric Bartles

7.0

Don King: Only in America

as Herbert Muhammad

Never Met Picasso

as Larry

Flipping

as Leo Richards, Gang Leader

Eye for an Eye

as Martin

Larger Than Life

as Hurst

The Grave

as The Priest

Johns

as Homeless John

The Quick and the Dead

1995

as Sgt. Clay Cantrell

Clockers

as André the Giant

Dead Presidents

as Kirby

Blue in the Face

as Jackie Robinson

Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken

as Goliath (voice)

Reality Bites

as Roger

The Puppet Masters

as Alex Holland

Jewels of the Caribbean Sea

1994

as Narrator (voice)

Notes in a Minor Key

1994

as Kansas

Hallelujah

as Big Willie

The Last Outlaw

as Lovecraft

Lions Of Darkness

as Narrator (voice)

Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music

1993

as Self - Host

6.0

There Are No Children Here

as John Paul Rivers

Nails

as Noah Owens

Final Analysis

as Detective Huggins

Article 99

as Luther Jermoe

Hallelujah Anyhow

as Will

Men at Work

as Louis Fedders

Marked for Death

as Max

Murder in Black and White

1990

as Martin

Always

as Powerhouse

Road House

as Ernie Bass

They Live

as Frank Armitage

Bird

as Buster Franklin

Christmas in Tattertown

1988

as Saxophone (voice)

4.2

Braddock: Missing in Action III

1988

as Embassy Gate Captain

5.6

Ladykillers

1988

as Abe

2.2

The Making of 'They Live'

1988

as Self

Off Limits

as Maurice

Stars & Bars

as Eugene Teagarden

Hot Pursuit

as Alphonso

Platoon

as King

The Whoopee Boys

as Washington Square Peddler

5.1

The Thing

1982

as Childs

8.1

The Pirates of Penzance

1980

as Pirates and Police

6.1

Coriolanus

1979

as Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen

3.5

ATL 2: The Homecoming

as John Garnett

My New Friend Jim

as Jim Dandy

Dreams of the Moon

The Price for Freedom

as Reverend J.W. Bruno

Rise of the Mammals

as Narrator

Television (126)

Strip Law

I Love LA

as Leon Marcus

The American Revolution

as (voice)

Duster

as Ezra Saxton

The Lowdown

as Marty

Haunted Hotel

as Additional Voices (voice)

7.9

Oh My God... Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances

2025

as Toy COD Leader (voice)

7.7

E.B. White's Charlotte's Web

as Old Sheep (voice)

High Potential

as Captain Pacheco

Hazbin Hotel

as Husk (voice)

Kite Man: Hell Yeah!

as Darkseid (voice)

Masters of the Universe: Revolution

2024

as Hordak (voice)

7.7

Invincible Fight Girl

as Narrator (voice)

Leonardo da Vinci

as Narrator (voice)

Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou

as Narrator (voice)

Krapopolis

as Asskill (voice)

True Lies

as Albert 'Al' Gibson

6.1

My Dad the Bounty Hunter

2023

as B'Caala (voice)

8.3

Justified: City Primeval

2023

as Judge Alvin Guy

6.9

Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982

as Self - Actor

Firebuds

as Manny Kablamee

From Scratch

as Hershel Wheeler

Chibiverse

as King Andrias (voice)

7.0

The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time

as Self

Abbott Elementary

as Frank

Leverage: Redemption

as Billy Spencer

Marvel's Hit-Monkey

as The Devil

Muhammad Ali

as Narrator (voice)

Close Enough

as World’s Greatest Teacher Mug (voice)

7.9

DC's Stargirl

2020

as Mister Bones (voice)

Love Life

as Narrator (voice)

Central Park

as Ward Wittlinger (voice)

The Good Lord Bird

as Herbert

Woke

as Bible (voice)

Dead Talk Live

as Self - Guest

Amphibia

as King Andrias (voice)

8.5

Creepshow

2019

as Murdoch

7.4

The Last Kids on Earth

as Thrull (voice)

Craig of the Creek

as Narrator (voice)

Summer Camp Island

as Lithophone (voice)

7.9

Champaign Ill

2018

as Lafonso

5.8

Liverspots and Astronots

as Dr. Pesh

DuckTales

as Manny (voice)

Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure

2017

as Additional Voices (voice)

7.3

Future Man

2017

as Dr. Elias Kronish

7.1

Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters

2017

as Malcom Kane (voice)

MacGyver

as Burke / Man

Greenleaf

as Bishop James Greenleaf

7.0

Speechless

2016

as Colonel

7.0

Kulipari: An Army of Frogs

2016

as Lord Marmoo (voice)

Jackie Robinson

as Narrator (voice)

Mr. Robot

as Qwerty (voice) (uncredited)

8.3

We Bare Bears

2015

as Mr. Charles (voice)

7.7

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

2015

as Glossaryck (voice)

8.4

Fresh Off the Boat

2015

as Clyde Roses

7.2

Big Time in Hollywood, Fl

2015

as Agent Everett Malloy

The Flash

as Solovar (voice)

BoJack Horseman

as Lion Musician (voice)

NCIS: New Orleans

as Gene Holloway

black-ish

as Loose Craig

Scorpion

as Warden

Extant

as Nicholas Calderon

Enlisted

as Sgt. Major Donald Cody

6.3

The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW

2014

as Narrator (voice)

7.4

Rick and Morty

2013

as Reverse Giraffe (voice)

Teen Titans Go!

as Narrator (voice)

Uncle Grandpa

as Santa Claus (voice)

4.5

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

2013

as The Cheshire Cat (voice)

The Bible

as Narrator

Belle's

as William 'Big Bill' Cooper

10.0

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

2012

as Sal Commander (voice)

Touch

as Dutch

Person of Interest

as Terence Beale

The Cape

as Max Malini

Hawaii Five-0

as Jimmy Cannon

Adventure Time

as Flame King (voice)

8.5

Young Justice

2010

as Mongul (voice)

8.4

Baseball: The Tenth Inning

as Narrator (voice)

Community

as Elroy Patashnik

Community

as Narrator (voice)

Archer

as Lemuel Kane (voice)

Canterbury's Law

The War

as Narrator (voice)

Psych

as Mr. Guster

Grey's Anatomy

as Lloyd Mackie

American Dad!

as Fire Captain (voice)

7.0

Numb3rs

2005

as Jeremiah Miller

7.0

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2005

as Jack Johnson (voice)

The Crusades Crescent and the Cross

2005

as Narrator

The Big House

Teen Titans

as Atlas (voice)

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

2003

as Agent Mosely (voice)

7.2

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites

2003

as Narrator

Everwood

2002

as Brian

7.6

Mark Twain

2002

as Narrator (voice)

Justice League

as Despero (voice)

The Legend of Tarzan

as Tublat (voice)

The Job

Jazz

as Narrator (voice)

Egypt's Golden Empire

2001

as Narrator (voice)

7.0

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000

as Matt Phelps

7.6

Silent Service

2000

as Self - Host

Family Guy

1999

as Jazz Documentary Narrator (voice)

7.4

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

1999

as Frederick Douglass (voice)

Hercules

as Apollo (voice)

Spawn

as Al Simmons / Spawn (voice)

Arli$$

7th Heaven

as Stanley

E! True Hollywood Story

as Self

The Outer Limits

as Captain Ira Merit

as Pastor Watkins

Gargoyles

as Goliath (voice)

Aladdin

New York Undercover

Fantastic Four

as Black Panther/T'challa (voice)

6.5

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

1992

as King Oliver

6.5

Law & Order

1990

as Bronx D.A. John Robertson

7.3

American Experience

1988

as W.E. Henderson / Other Voices

The Oldest Rookie

The Equalizer

as Cristo

Reading Rainbow

as Narrator (voice)

Nature

as Narrator

NOVA

as Narrator

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

The Oscars

as The Cat (voice)

President Curtis

as President Andre Curtis (voice)

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II

2025

Thanks

9.0

Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man

Producer

The Inheritance

Executive Producer

Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man

2004

Producer

7.0