Keith David

Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He is best known for his co-starring role as King in Platoon and as Childs alongside Kurt Russell in John Carpenter's The Thing. He also starred in Crash, There's Something About Mary, Barbershop, and Men at Work.^[1][2]

Keith David
David in February 2015
Born	Keith David Williams (1956-06-04) June 4, 1956 (age 69) Harlem, New York City, New York, U.S.
Education	Juilliard School (BFA 1979)
Occupations	Actor voice actor comedian singer
Years active	1979–present
Spouse	Dionne Lea Williams ​ (m. 2001)​
Children	3

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Disco Godfather	Club Patron	Uncredited
1982	The Thing	Childs
1986	Platoon	King
1986	The Whoopee Boys	Washington Square Peddler
1987	Hot Pursuit	Alphonso
1988	Braddock: Missing in Action III	Embassy Gate Captain
1988	Off Limits	Maurice
1988	Stars and Bars	Eugene Teagarden
1988	Bird	Buster Franklin
1988	They Live	Frank
1989	Road House	Ernie Bass
1989	Always	Powerhouse
1990	Men at Work	Louis Fedders
1990	Marked for Death	Max
1992	Final Analysis	Detective Huggins
1992	Nails	Noah Owens
1992	Article 99	Luther Jermoe
1994	Reality Bites	Roger
1994	The Puppet Masters	Alex Holland
1995	Clockers	André the Giant
1995	Dead Presidents	Kirby
1995	The Quick and the Dead	Sgt. Cantrell
1995	Blue in the Face	Jackie Robinson
1996	Loose Women	Stylist
1996	The Grave	The Priest
1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Frollo's Soldiers (voice)
1996	Eye for an Eye	Martin
1996	Larger than Life	Hurst
1996	Never Met Picasso	Larry
1996	Johns	Homeless John
1997	Volcano	Police Lieutenant Ed Fox
1997	Hercules	Apollo the Sun God (voice)
1997	Executive Target	Lamar
1997	Princess Mononoke	Okkoto, Narrator (voices)	English dub
1997	Flipping	Leo Richards
1998	Armageddon	General Kimsey
1998	There's Something About Mary	Mary's Dad
2000	Dark Summer	Detective Davis
2000	Pitch Black	Abu "Imam" al-Walid
2000	Requiem for a Dream	Big Tim
2000	Where the Heart Is	Moses Whitecotten
2000	The Replacements	Lindell
2001	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	Council Member #1 (voice)
2001	Novocaine	Detective Lunt
2001	Pretty When You Cry	Detective Charles Desett
2002	29 Palms	The Sheriff
2002	Barbershop	Lester Wallace
2003	Kaena: The Prophecy	Voxem (voice)	English dub
2003	Agent Cody Banks	CIA Director
2003	Head of State	Bernard Cooper
2003	Hollywood Homicide	Leon
2003	The Hard Road	Narrator	Documentary
2004	Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London	CIA Director
2004	The Chronicles of Riddick	Imam
2004	The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury	Imam Abu al-Walid (voice)	Direct-to-video
2004	Crash	Lt. Dixon
2004	Beef II	Narrator	Documentary Direct-to-video
2005	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Father
2005	Transporter 2	Stappleton
2005	Dirty	Captain Spain
2006	The Oh in Ohio	Coach Popovitch
2006	Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil	MCPO Scott Boytano	Direct-to-video
2006	ATL	John Garnett
2007	If I Had Known I Was a Genius	Dad
2007	Delta Farce	Sgt. Kilgore
2007	The Last Sentinel	Col. Norton / Gun Voice 2
2008	Beautiful Loser	Morgan - Adult
2008	First Sunday	Judge B. Bennet Galloway
2008	Justice League: The New Frontier	The Centre (voice)	Direct-to-video
2008	Superhero Movie	The Chief of Police
2008	My Mom's New Boyfriend	FBI Chief Conrad
2008	The Fifth Commandment	Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton
2008	No Bad Days	Terrence
2008	The Sensei	The Minister
2009	Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia	Cmdr. Scott Boytano	Direct-to-video
2009	Coraline	The Cat (voice)
2009	Against the Dark	Lt. Waters	Direct-to-video
2009	Charlie Valentine	Sal
2009	Don McKay	Otis Kent
2009	The Butcher	Larry Cobb
2009	The Princess and the Frog	Dr. Facilier (voice)
2009	Gamer	Agent Keith
2009	All About Steve	Corbitt
2009	Pastor Brown	Pastor Brown
2010	Death at a Funeral	Reverend Davis
2010	Lottery Ticket	Sweet Tee
2010	Chasing 3000	Officer L.
2010	Stomp the Yard: Homecoming	Terry Harris
2010	Something Like a Business	Sebastian
2010	Chain Letter	Detective Jim Crenshaw
2010	Meet Monica Velour	Claude
2010	Spork	Coach Jenkins
2011	The Inheritance	Uncle Melvin
2011	No Saints for Sinners	Victor
2011	The Greening of Whitney Brown	Clerk
2011	Snowflake, the White Gorilla	Anvil (voice)	Direct-to-video
2011	Hopelessly In June	Dalbert Myers
2012	Cloud Atlas	Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
2012	Smiley	Diamond
2012	Hillbilly Highway	Mustafa
2012	Don't Pass Me By	David Knox
2012	The Last Fall	Sydney Bishop
2012	The Undershepherd	Brother Wilks
2012	Christmas in Compton	Big Earl
2013	Assault on Wall Street	Freddy
2013	Free Birds	Chief Broadbeak (voice)
2013	The Frog Kingdom	Frog King (voice)
2013	Sons of Liberty	Nathan Reynolds
2013	H4	Worcester
2014	Field of Lost Shoes	Old Judge
2014	Secrets of the Magic City	Mr. Daniels
2014	Birds of Paradise	Old Buzzard (voice)	Direct-to-video
2015	Kids vs Monsters	Barry
2015	Boiling Pot	Agent Long
2015	Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-cellent Adventure	Don Alfonso (voice)	English dub
2015	Union Furnace	Pin Stripe
2016	Range 15	Colonel Holloway
2016	The Nice Guys	Older Guy
2016	Nina	Clifton's Father
2016	Dirty Lies	Doc
2017	Savage Dog	Valentine
2017	American Dresser	Charlie Wild
2018	Tales from the Hood 2	Portifoy Simms	Direct-to-video
2018	Night School	Gerald Walker
2018	You Might Be the Killer	Sheriff James (voice)
2018	Love Jacked	Ed
2019	The Gettysburg Address	Frederick Douglass (voice)	Documentary
2019	In Search of Darkness	Himself	Documentary
2019	The Wedding Year	Preston
2019	21 Bridges
2020	Mortal Kombat 11	Al Simmons / Spawn