Keith David
Actor
Biography
Keith David (born June 4, 1956) is an American film, television, and voice actor, and singer. He is perhaps most known for his live-action roles in such films as Crash, There's Something About Mary, Barbershop and Men at Work. He has also had memorable roles in numerous cult favorites, including John Carpenter's films The Thing (as Childs) and They Live (as Armitage), the Riddick films Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick (as the Imam), the General in Armageddon, King in Oliver Stone's Platoon, and Big Tim in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream. David is also well known for his voice over career, primarily his Emmy winning work as the narrator of numerous Ken Burns films. Characters that he has voiced include Goliath on the Disney series Gargoyles, the Arbiter in Halo 2 and Halo 3, David Anderson in Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, the Decepticon Barricade in Transformers: The Game, Julius Little in Saints Row and Saints Row 2, Sgt. Foley in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog, and Chaos in Dissidia: Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy.
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Filmography
Requiem for a Dream
as Big Tim 2000
Coraline
as The Cat (voice) 2009
The Nice Guys
as Older Guy 2016
Armageddon
as General Kimsey 1998
Hercules
as Apollo the Sun God (voice) 1997
The Thing
as Childs 1982
Cloud Atlas
as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient 2012
The Princess and the Frog
as Dr. Facilier (voice) 2009
There's Something About Mary
as Charlie Jensen 1998
Platoon
as King 1986
Pitch Black
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid 2000
Nope
as Otis Haywood Sr. 2022
The Chronicles of Riddick
as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid 2004
Transporter 2
as Stappleton 2005
Crash
as Lt. Dixon 2005
They Live
as Frank Armitage 1988