Keith David was born on June 4, 1956 in Harlem, New York City, USA. He is an Emmy Award-winning American film, television, and voice actor.

In 1980–81, David honed his craft touring the country with John Houseman's The Acting Company in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot. Less than two years later he went on to star as Childs, opposite Kurt Russell in John Carpenter's The Thing.

He appeared in films such as They Live, Road House, Men at Work, Marked for Death, Stars and Bars, Oliver Stone's Platoon, Dead Presidents (1995) and 1995 Spike Lee's film Clockers

Other his credits include Volcano, Armageddon, There's Something About Mary, Pitch Black, Barbershop, Agent Cody Banks, The Chronicles of Riddick, and Crash.

His last movies role was Delta Farce (2007), Superhero Movie (2008) and The Fifth Commandment (2008).

Filmography

• "Spawn: The Animation" (2008) TV series
• Between Heaven and Earth (2008)
• Blue (2008)
• Chain Letter (2008)
• The Princess and the Frog (2009)
• Coraline (2008)
• No Bad Days (2008)
• SIS (2008) (TV)
• Something Like a Business (2008)
• The Sensei (2008)
• Beautiful Loser (2008)
• Seducing Spirits (2008)
• Chasing 3000 (2008)
• The Fifth Commandment (2008)
• Superhero Movie (2008)
• "Canterbury's Law" (1 episode, 2008)
• "The Spectacular Spider-Man" (1 episode, 2008)
• Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) (V) (voice)
• First Sunday (2008)
• The Last Sentinel (2007)
• Delta Farce (2007)
• The Color Purple: The Color of Success (2007) (TV) (voice)
• "ER" (5 episodes, 2006-2007)
• If I Had Known I Was a Genius (2007)
• "7th Heaven" (3 episodes, 2006)
• "Fear Files" (1 episode, 2006)
• ATL (2006)
• The Oh in Ohio (2006)
• Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006)
• "Everwood" (1 episode, 2005)
• Dirty (2005)
• The Proud Family Movie (2005) (TV) (voice)
• Transporter 2 (2005)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
• "Grey's Anatomy" (1 episode, 2005)
• Crash (2004)
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
• "The Big House" (5 episodes, 2004)
• Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
• "Teen Titans" (1 episode, 2004)
• "Justice League" (2 episodes, 2003)
• "Spider-Man" (1 episode, 2003)
• Hollywood Homicide (2003)
• Kaena: La prophétie (2003)
• Head of State (2003)
• Agent Cody Banks (2003)
• "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (1 episode, 2003)
• Miss Miami (2002) (TV)
• "House of Mouse" (4 episodes, 2001-2002)
• "Arli$$" (1 episode, 2002)
• Barbershop (2002)
• 29 Palms (2002)
• Hung-Up (2002)
• Pretty When You Cry (2001)
• "The Legend of Tarzan" (3 episodes, 2001)
• Novocaine (2001)
• "Going to California" (1 episode, 2001)
• Home Invaders (2001)
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) (voice)
• "PBS Hollywood Presents" (2001) TV series
• G Spots? (2001)
• Semper Fi (2001) (TV)
• "The Job" (2001) TV series
• "Law & Order" (1 episode, 2001)
• The Replacements (2000)
• "The Outer Limits" (1 episode, 2000)
• Requiem for a Dream (2000)
• Where the Heart Is (2000)
• Pitch Black (2000)
• Dark Summer (2000)
• ATF (1999) (TV)
• Spawn 3: Ultimate Battle (1999) (V) (voice)
• "Spawn" (18 episodes, 1997-1999)
• "Hercules" (1 episode, 1998)
• There's Something About Mary (1998)
• Armageddon (1998)
• The Tiger Woods Story (1998) (TV)
• Gargoyles: The Hunted (1998) (V) (voice)
• Behind the Zipper with Magda (1998) (V)
• Gargoyles: The Force of Goliath (1998) (V) (voice)
• Gargoyles: Brothers Betrayed (1998) (V) (voice)
• Don King: Only in America (1997) (TV)
• Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997) (TV)
• Mononoke-hime (1997)
• Executive Target (1997)
• Hercules (1997) (voice)
• Volcano (1997)
• Flipping (1997)
• Vanishing Point (1997) (TV)
• Johns (1996)
• The Grave (1996)
• "Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles" (13 episodes, 1996)
• Never Met Picasso (1996)
• "New York Undercover" (2 episodes, 1996)
• Larger Than Life (1996)
• "Gargoyles" (57 episodes, 1994-1996)
• Eye for an Eye (1996)
• Loose Women (1996)
• "Fantastic Four" (1 episode, 1995)
• Dead Presidents (1995)
• Blue in the Face (1995)
• Clockers (1995)
• Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken (1995) (V) (voice)
• The Quick and the Dead (1995)
• Yellowstone: Realm of the Coyote (1995) (V) (voice)
• "Aladdin" (2 episodes, 1994)
• The Puppet Masters (1994)
• Notes in a Minor Key (1994)
• The Last Outlaw (1994) (TV)
• Reality Bites (1994)
• "American Playhouse" (1 episode, 1993)
• There Are No Children Here (1993) (TV)
• "Tribeca" (1 episode, 1993)
• "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (1 episode, 1993)
• Nails (1992) (TV)
• Article 99 (1992)
• Final Analysis (1992)
• Sazan aizu (1991) (V)
• Marked for Death (1990)
• Men at Work (1990)
• Murder in Black and White (1990) (TV)
• Hallelujah Anyhow (1990) (TV)
• Always (1989)
• Road House (1989)
• "A Man Called Hawk" (1 episode, 1989)
• Ladykillers (1988) (TV)
• They Live (1988)
• "The Equalizer" (1 episode, 1988)
• Bird (1988)
• Stars and Bars (1988)
• Off Limits (1988)
• Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)
• Hot Pursuit (1987)
• Christmas in Tattertown (1987) (TV) (voice)
• Platoon (1986)
• "MisteRogers' Neighborhood" (1986) TV series
• The Thing (1982)
• The Pirates of Penzance (1980) (TV)

Awards

• Emmy Best voice-over performance "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson" 2005
• NAACP Theater Award Best Actor in a Play "Seven Guitars" 1996