Keith David Williams was born on June 4,1956 and is an American actor.
49 Facts About Keith David
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Keith David is known for his signature deep voice and commanding screen presence in over 300 roles across film, stage, television, and interactive media.
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Keith David has starred in such films as The Thing, Platoon, They Live, Dead Presidents, Armageddon, There's Something About Mary, Requiem for a Dream, Pitch Black, Barbershop, Crash, The Chronicles of Riddick, Cloud Atlas, The Nice Guys, and Nope.
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Keith David starred as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the NBC series Community and starred as Bishop James Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama Greenleaf.
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Keith David's mother, Dolores, was a manager at New York Telephone, and his father, Lester Williams, worked as a director of payroll operations.
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Keith David initially intended to become an actor after playing the Cowardly Lion in a school production of The Wizard of Oz and went on to study at Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts.
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Keith David attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1979.
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Keith David played Keith, the game coin collector in an episode where Rogers and a small child learn to play the arcade game Donkey Kong.
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Keith David went on to appear in films such as Platoon, They Live, Men at Work, Marked for Death, and Stars and Bars.
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Keith David played Kirby in the 1995 film Dead Presidents, and he appeared in the 1995 Spike Lee film Clockers.
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Keith David followed this up with roles in other films such as Volcano, There's Something About Mary, Pitch Black, Barbershop, Agent Cody Banks, Head of State, Hollywood Homicide, Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, The Chronicles of Riddick, Crash, ATL, Delta Farce and First Sunday.
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Keith David has appeared extensively in television productions since the 1980s and as a regular character Lieutenant Williams on the short-lived television series The Job.
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Keith David was a regular on another shoot made for ABC entitled The Big House in 2004.
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Keith David portrayed Detective Jim Crenshaw in the 2010 horror film Chain Letter.
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In 2010, Keith David was cast as Max Malini for the NBC television series The Cape.
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In 2013, Keith David appeared in the controversial drama Boiling Pot which is based on true events of racism.
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In 2014, Keith David portrayed Command Sergeant Major Donald Cody in the Fox comedy series Enlisted.
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Later in 2014, Keith David was cast as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the sitcom Community.
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In 2015, Keith David was cast in the leading role alongside Lynn Whitfield in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series Greenleaf.
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Keith David played the role of Mama in the English dub of 3x3 Eyes.
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Keith David provided the voice for the character Decker in the role-playing video game Fallout and the voice for the character Vhailor in Planescape: Torment.
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Keith David provided the voice of the Arbiter for the video game Halo 2, released in 2004; later, he reprised that role in the Xbox 360 follow-up Halo 3.
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Keith David portrayed the character again in Halo: The Master Chief Collection and in Halo 5: Guardians, released in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
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Keith David played the role of Captain David Anderson in BioWare's Mass Effect series.
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Keith David did voice work in the video game Saints Row and its sequel Saints Row II, playing gang leader of the 3rd Street Saints Julius Little, as well as voicing himself in Saints Row IV.
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Keith David is heard on the intro of several Ice Cube projects, including Westside Connection's 2003 release Terrorist Threats, Cube's 2008 solo album Raw Footage, Cube's 2010 solo album I Am the West, and he narrated the documentary Beef II, which featured Ice Cube.
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Keith David provides the voice for the UPS "What Can Brown Do for You" commercials.
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Keith David did the voice of Despero in the two part episode "Hearts and Minds" of Justice League.
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Keith David has done voice work for early Adult Swim commercials for Inuyasha.
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Keith David has worked with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns numerous times, narrating Burns' Jazz, Mark Twain, The War, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali.
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Keith David won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his work in The War and Unforgivable Blackness.
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Keith David later parodied his documentary work by narrating the 2012 episode of Community, "Pillows and Blankets", a mockumentary revolving around a pillow fight between rival blanket forts.
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Keith David has done voice-over work for many other documentaries including several for National Geographic and the documentary Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked for the History Channel.
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Keith David voiced the trailer for the film Primeval, which was released in the United States on January 12,2007.
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Keith David provided the voice of police detective Alex Cross for the audiobook versions of three novels by James Patterson: Cat and Mouse, Pop Goes the Weasel, and Roses are Red.
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Keith David voiced Apollo the Sun God in Hercules, Council Member in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the Black Cat in Coraline, Sergeant Foley in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Dr Facilier in The Princess and the Frog, and the Big Man for The Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Survival of the Fittest".
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Keith David returned to the Saints Row series in Saints Row IV, voicing a fictionalized version of himself as well as reprising Julius Little.
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Keith David is the narrator of the History Channel series The Bible which premiered on March 3,2013.
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Keith David voiced the superhero gorilla Solovar in the two-part Gorilla City episode of The Flash.
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Keith David has a recurring role as the President of the United States in the adult animated series Rick and Morty.
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Keith David was the narrator of the MLB Network special Mr Padre, the video biography of San Diego Padres Hall-of-Fame outfielder Tony Gwynn.
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Keith David has narrated several WWE documentaries including The True Story of Wrestlemania and the 20 episodes of The Monday Night War, documenting the battle between WWE Raw and WCW Nitro.
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Keith David later recurred in Stargirl as the voice of Mister Bones.
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In 1992, Keith David received a Tony Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his performance in Jelly's Last Jam.
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Keith David received raves for his Shakespeare work on stage in Central Park, New York City.
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In 1995, David acted alongside Whitney Houston, Cedric the Entertainer, and Samuel E Wright in the 1995 Apollo revival of The Wiz.
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Keith David appeared in the 2013 revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone at the Mark Taper Theater in Los Angeles.
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From April 21,2015, to May 10,2015, Keith David starred as "Dolomite" in the off-Broadway play ToasT.
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Keith David has one son from his first marriage and two daughters from his second marriage.