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