About
| Birth Name: | Keith David Williams |
| Birth Notes: | 4 June 1956, Harlem, New York, USA |
| Height: | 6' 2" |
| Family: | * 'Margit Edwards Williams' (22 September 1990 - ?) (divorced) |
| Biography: | Keith David was born in New York City's Harlem district and raised in East Elmhurst, in the Queens section of the city. As a child, he realized he wanted to act after playing the cowardly lion in his school's production of "The Wizard of Oz." He later enrolled in New York's High School of the Performing Arts and continued his studies at Juilliard. After graduation, he was hired as an understudy for Tullus Aufidius in William Shakespeare 's "Coriolanus." In 1992, he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his role in the Broadway play "Jelly's Last Jam." Keith's extraordinary range of talent is evidenced by his body of work. Recent films include "The Princess and the Frog", "Coraline", and "Crash". Other credits include "Barbershop", "Agent Cody Banks", and "Requiem for a Dream". Prior to that, Keith was featured in "There's Something About Mary", "Armageddon" and "Dead Presidents". Keith has received Emmy Awards for his narration of two Ken Burns documentaries: "The War" and "Unforgivable Blackness", and was nominated for his narration of "Jazz". He received a daytime Emmy nomination for his work in Showtime's "The Tiger Wood's Story". Keith David gained wide attention in 1986 for his role as King in the Oscar winning film "Platoon". Other of his over 75 film credits includes "Men at Work", "Clockers", and "Pitch Black". Keith has also worked with notable directors including Clint Eastwood ("Bird"), Steven Spielberg ("Always") and John Carpenter ("The Thing" and "They Live"). Born in Harlem, New York and raised in East Elmhurst, Queens, Keith sang in the all borough choir as a boy. He knew he wanted to act at the age of nine when he appeared as the cowardly lion in his school's production of "The Wizzard of Oz". He later attended New York's famed High School of the Performing Arts and then graduated from Julliard. There he studied under such voice and speech teachers as Robert Williams and Edith Skinner. |
Filmography
| Agent Cody Banks (2003) as CIA Director |
| Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) as CIA Director |
| All About Steve (2009) as Corbitt |
| Always (1989) as Powerhouse |
| Armageddon (1998) as General Kimsey |
| Article 99 (1992) as Luther Jermoe |
| ATL (2006) as John Garnett |
| Charlie Valentine (2009) as Sal |
| Chasing 3000 (2010) as Officer L. |
| Clockers (1995) as André the Giant |
| Coraline (2009) as The Cat |
| Crash (2004) as Lt. Dixon |
| Death at a Funeral (2010) as Reverend Davis |
| Eye for an Eye (1996) as Martin |
| Final Analysis (1992) as Detective Huggins |
| Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) as Council Member #1 |
| First Sunday (2008) as Judge B. Bennet Galloway |
| Gamer (2009) as Agent Keith |
| Head of State (2003) as Bernard Cooper |
| Hercules (1997) as Apollo the Sun God |
| Hollywood Homicide (2003) as Leon |
| Hot Pursuit (1987) as Alphonso |
| Lottery Ticket (2010) as Sweet Tee |
| My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008) as FBI Chief Conrad |
| No Bad Days (2008) as Terrence |
| Novocaine (2001) as Detective Lunt |
| Off Limits (1988) as Maurice |
| Pitch Black (2000) as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid |
| Platoon (1986) as King |
| Pretty When You Cry (2001) as Detective Charles Desett |
| Something Like a Business (2010) as Sebastian |
| Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming (2010) as Terry |
| Superhero Movie (2008) as The Chief of Police |
| The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) as Imam |
| The Fifth Commandment (2008) as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton |
| The Grave (1996) as The Priest |
| The Last Sentinel (2007) as Col. Norton/Gun Voice 2 |
| The Oh in Ohio (2006) as Coach Popovitch |
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) as Dr. Facilier |
| The Quick and the Dead (1995) as Sgt. Cantrell |
| The Thing (1982) as Childs |
| There's Something About Mary (1998) as Mary's Dad |
| They Live (1988) as Frank Armitage |
| Transporter 2 (2005) as Stappleton |
| Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) as Narrator |
| Volcano (1997) as Police Lieutenant Ed Fox |
| 29 Palms (2002) as The Sheriff |
| Barbershop (2002) as Lester Wallace |
| Beautiful Loser (2008) as Morgan - Adult |
| Between Heaven and Earth (2011) as William 'Bo' Tucker |
| Bird (1988) as Buster Franklin |
| Black Theater Today: 2005 (2005) |
| Blue (2009) as Terry Venable |
| Blue in the Face (1995) as Jackie Robinson |
| Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993) as Himself - Host |
| Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) as Embassy Gate Captain |
| Car (2010) as Agent Dames |
| Chain Letter (2010) as Det. Jim Crenshaw |
| Dark Summer (2000) as Detective Davis |
| Dead Presidents (1995) as Kirby |
| Delta Farce (2007) as Sgt. Kilgore |
| Dirty (2005) as Captain Spain |
| Disco Godfather (1979) as Club patron |
| Don McKay (2009) as Otis Kent |
| Executive Target (1997) as Lamar |
| Flipping (1997) as Leo Richards, Gang Leader |
| Forgive Us Our Transgressions (2009) as Narrator |
| G Spots? (2001) as The King |
| Hillbilly Highway (2011) as Mustafa |
| Home Invaders (2001) as Matador |
| Hopelessly in June (2010) as Dalbert Myers |
| Hung-Up (2002) as Mervin |
| If I Had Known I Was a Genius (2007) as Dad |
| Johns (1996) as Homeless John |
| Kaena: La prophétie (2003) as Voxem |
| Larger Than Life (1996) as Hurst |
| Loose Women (1997) as Stylist #1 |
| Lost in Reverie (2010) as Edward Powell |
| Marked for Death (1990) as Max |
| Meet Monica Velour (2010) as Claude |
| Men at Work (1990) as Louis Fedders |
| Mononoke-hime (1997) as Okkoto/Additional Voices |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) as Father |
| Never Met Picasso (1996) as Larry |
| New York Street Games (2010) as Himself |
| No Saints for Sinners (2010) as Victor |
| Notes in a Minor Key (1994) as Kansas |
| Now Here (2010) as Detective Brinkman |
| Pastor Brown (2010) as Pastor Brown |
| Reality Bites (1994) as Roger |
| Requiem for a Dream (2000) as Big Tim |
| Road House (1989) as Ernie Bass |
| Samuel Bleak (2011) as Ned Coffman |
| Sealing Your Fate (2010) as Gavin Taylor |
| Seducing Spirits (2008) as Pastor Bob |
| Shut Up and Ride (2007) as Narrator |
| Song of the Knife (2010) |
| Spork (2010) as Coach Jenkins |
| Stars and Bars (1988) as Eugene Teagarden |
| Take Back (2012) as Steve Hicks |
| Terror in the Aisles (1984) as Childs ('The Thing' 1982) |
| The Book of Matthew (2011) as Henry |
| The Butcher (2009) as Larry Cobb |
| The Greening of Whitney Brown (2011) as Clerk |
| The Inheritance (2010) as Uncle Melvin |
| The Preacher Man (2010) as Pastor Frye |
| The Puppet Masters (1994) as Alex Holland |
| The Replacements (2000) as Lindell |
| The Sensei (2008) as Minister |
| The Whoopee Boys (1986) as Washington Square Peddler |
| Where the Heart Is (2000) as Moses Whitecotten |
Trivia
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* Following the 1986 film Platoon (1986), Charlie Sheen -- who starred in the films -- did a TV interview and credits Keith David with saving his life. While shooting dailies in an open-doored Huey gunship, the helicopter banked too hard, and Sheen was thrown towards -- and would have gone through -- the open door. David grabbed Sheen by the back and pulled him back in. * Very popular voice-over actor. * Took over as narrator for the show "City Confidential" (1998) after the death of Paul Winfield . * Nominated for Broadway's 1992 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) for "Jelly's Last Jam." * Frequent voice collaborator with fellow voice-actor Ron Perlman. Computer games: Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game (1997) (VG), Lords of Everquest (2003) (VG), Halo 2 (2004) (VG), Halo 3 (2007) (VG). Animated series: "Aladdin" (1994), "Fantastic Four" (1994), "Justice League" (2001), "Teen Titans" (2003). And they have both had a guest appearance on the TV series "The Outer Limits" (1995). * His ex-wife attended Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) with Lisa Nicole Carson where they both appeared (and worked backstage) in theater department productions. * Studied acting with Michael Howard in New York City. * In February 2010 he became the first actor to provide his voice for two films nominated for Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. He played the part of The Cat in Coraline (2009) and the villain Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog (2009). |
Quotes
| * Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old. |
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