Keith David

American actor known for his deep voice.

Frequently typecast as a Scary Black Man. Fortunately, he found his renaissance as a Voice Actor, from which he ganered a veritable army of devoted fans. He'll always be Goliath to us.

He is not David Keith. What he is, is an awesome singer.

Also, don't mess with his fries.

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Roles:

• Adventure Time - Flame King
• Armageddon - The Air Force general who suggests blasting the asteroid with 50 nukes.
• The Big House - Clarence Cleveland
• The Cape - Max Malini
• The Chronicles of Riddick - Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
• Community - Narrator for the episode "Pillows and Blankets, spoofing his work on Ken Burns' documentaries
• Coraline - The Cat
• Civilization V - One quote in the trailer
• Dissidia Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy - Chaos
• ER - Pastor Watkins
• Fallout - Decker
• Gamer - Agent Keith
• Gargoyles - Goliath, Officer Morgan, and Thailog
• Halo - The Arbiter
• |Hercules - Apollo
• House of Mouse - Mufasa (replacing James Earl Jones)
• The Job - Lieutenant Williams
• Justice League - Despero
  • Justice League: The New Frontier - The Center
• Mass Effect / Mass Effect 2 / Mass Effect 3 - Captain/Councilor/Admiral Anderson
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Keith the Southwood Carpenter
• Modern Warfare 2 - Sergeant Foley (who will make you DO EVERYTHING!)
• Planescape: Torment - Vhailor
• Platoon - King
• The Princess and the Frog - Dr. Facilier, providing his singing voice as well.
• Princess Mononoke - Okkoto (in the dub)
• Psych - Bill Guster
• The Quick and the Dead - Lt. Cantrell
• Requiem for a Dream - "Little" John
• Saints Row - Julius Little
• 7th Heaven - Stanley Sunday
• Spawn in multiple animated appearances
• The Spectacular Spider-Man - Tombstone (only in the first episode)
• There's Something About Mary - Mary's stepfather
• Teen Titans - Atlas
• They Live! - Frank Armitage
• The Thing - Childs
• Transformers - Barricade (sadly, only in the video games)

Other Work:

As might be imagined, someone with his unique voice is often in demand as something other than an actor. Specifically, he makes an excellent narrator for such things as:

• City Confidential, the narration of which he took over after Paul Winfield's death.
• Comic Book Superheroes: Unmasked (a documentary for the History Channel)
• Empires: Egypt's Golden Empire
• Ken Burns' Jazz (a documentary series)
• New York: A Documentary Film (the first three episodes; these were later recycled for the series The American Experience)
• United States Armed Forces commercials
• The War, possibly the definitive World War II documentary in recent years
• WWE documentaries and DVDs, for which David has occasionally narrated.