Keith David Biography
Keith David is best known as Actor, Producer, Voice Artist, Singer who has an estimated Net Worth of $3 Million. Emmy award-winning voice over actor known for his work in films such as Jackie Robinson, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, and The War. He gained further fame for his role as the titular character on the Oprah Winfrey network's hit drama Greenleaf and co-starring as King in Platoon. He was born on June 4,1956, New York City, NY. He won two Primetime Emmy Awards for voice acting in 2007's The War and in Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. He won his third Emmy for Outstanding Narrator in the documentary Jackie Robinson. He had his first uncredited acting role at age 23 in the 1979 film, Disco Godfather. He acted with Kurt Russell in the classic horror film The Thing. He has married and divorced twice, most recently to Margit Edwards Williams, with whom he had two children. His zodiac sign is Gemini
Keith David Bio, Wiki
First Name | Keith |
Last Name | David |
Full Name at Birth | Keith David Williams |
Age | 64 years |
Birthday | 4th June, 1956 |
Birthplace | Harlem, New York City, New York, United States |
Height | 6' 2″ (188 cm) |
Build | Average |
Eye Color | Brown – Dark |
Hair Color | Salt and Pepper |
Distinctive Feature | Gap in front teeth, Deep commanding voice |
Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
Sexuality | Straight |
Religion | Christian |
Ethnicity | Black |
Nationality | American |
High School | High School of the Performing Arts, New York City, NY |
University | Juilliard School (BFA 1979) |
Occupation Text | Actor, Producer, Voice Artist, Singer |
Occupation | Actor |
Claim to Fame | Agent Cody Banks |
Year(s) Active | 1979–present, 1977–present |
Talent Agency (e.g. Modelling) | Stone Manners Agency, Innovative Artists- Voice, Silver Mine Entertainment |
Brand Endorsement | (1999) TV commercial (voiceover): Single White Female (1992) on TNT, (1996) TV commercial (voiceover): For “The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest” (1996) for Cartoon Network, (1973) TV commercial (voiceover): Bumpers for “Super Friends” (1973) on Cartoon Network, (1999) TV commercial (voiceover): Extreme Measures (1996), TV commercial (voiceover): Bumpers for the animated series “Batman: The Animated Series” (1992) on Cartoon Network, (2000) TV commercial (voiceover): The Quick and the Dead (1995) on TNT, (2001) TV commercial (voiceover): Wisk Laundry Detergent Tablets, (2001) TV commercial (voiceover): Chevrolet's “Make Your Money Count” Sales Promotion, (2002) TV commercial (voiceover): AT&T, (2001) TV commercial (voiceover): U.S. Navy, (2002) TV commercial (voiceover): United Parcel Service, (1998-present) TV commercials (voiceover): TNT/TBS Advertisiing, (2002-present) TV commercial (voiceover): X-box, TV commercial (voiceover): Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, (1996) TV commercial (voiceover): HBO, (2009) TV commercial (voiceover); BMW cars, (2004) Radio commercials: Air America Radio, TV commercial (voiceover): Hennessey V.S. Cognac |
Official Websites | www.keithdavid.com/, twitter.com/ImKeithDavid, www.facebook.com/ImKeithDavid, www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVhvrfmcvLk, www.behindthevoiceactors.com/keith-david/, www.nndb.com/people/418/000059241/ |
Friend | Drake Bell |
Keith David Dating, Wife, Girlfriends and Relationships
- Keith David and Dionne Lea have been married for 19 years. They were dating for 1 year after getting together in 2000 and were married on 28th Apr 2001.
- Margit Edwards Williams and Keith David are divorced after a marriage of 8 years.
Keith David Children
Name | Gender | Born | Age | Other Parent |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ruby | Female | Dionne Lea | ||
Maelee | Female | Dionne Lea |
Keith David Movies and TV Shows
Film | Year | Character | Type |
---|---|---|---|
Horizon Line | 2020 | Wyman | Movie |
The Seventh Day | 2020 | Father Louis | Movie |
Fairy Tales | 2020 | TV Show | |
Good | 2020 | Gregory Devereaux | Movie |
The Wedding Year | 2019 | Preston | Movie |
21 Bridges | 2019 | Deputy Chief Spencer | Movie |
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story | 2019 | Howard Thurman (voice) | TV Movie |
The Last Kids on Earth | 2019 | Thrull | TV Show |
American Dresser | 2018 | Charlie | Movie |
Love Jacked | 2018 | Ed | Movie |
Final Space | 2018 | Bolo | TV Show |
HeadShop | 2018 | Mr. Monroe | Movie |
Night School | 2018 | Gerald | Movie |
New Warriors (TV Series) | 2018 | Ernest Vigman | TV Show |
Craig of the Creek | 2018 | Narrator | TV Show |
Champaign ILL | 2018 | Lafonso | TV Show |
You Might Be the Killer | 2018 | Sheriff James (voice) | Movie |
Bewildered | 2018 | Joseph | Short Film |
Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters | 2017 | Malcolm Kane, Malcom Kane | TV Show |
Dirty Lies | 2017 | Doc | Movie |
Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure | 2017 | Additional Voices | TV Show |
Future Man | 2017 | Dr. Elias Kronish | TV Show |
Superior Donuts | 2017 | John | TV Show |
Savage Dog | 2017 | Valentine | Movie |
V-Force: New Dawn of V.I.C.T.O.R.Y. | 2017 | Kevin Bishop | Movie |
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes | 2017 | Crinkly Wrinkly Narration | TV Show |
Pups Alone: A Christmas Peril | 2017 | Movie | |
Liverspots and Astronots | 2017 | Dr. Pesh | TV Show |
Nina | 2016 | Clifton's Father | Movie |
MacGyver | 2016 | Burke | TV Show |
The North Star | 2016 | Frederick Douglas | Movie |
The Gettysburg Address | 2016 | Frederick Douglass (voice) | Movie |
Untitled Livi Zheng Project | 2016 | Captain Duke | Movie |
The Nice Guys | 2016 | Older Guy | Movie |
Greenleaf | 2016 | Bishop James Greenleaf | TV Show |
Service to Man | 2016 | Dean Holmes | Movie |
Range 15 | 2016 | Colonel Holloway | Movie |
Blue: The American Dream | 2016 | Terry Venable | Movie |
Speechless | 2016 | Colonel | TV Show |
Ray Meets Helen | 2016 | Harve | Movie |
Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | 2016 | Lord Marmoo | TV Show |
The American Artist: The Life & Times of George Caleb Bingham | 2016 | Narrator | Movie |
Ben 10 | 2016 | Yawk | TV Show |
H4 | 2015 | Worcester | Movie |
Star vs. the Forces of Evil | 2015 | Glossaryck | TV Show |
Field of Lost Shoes | 2015 | Old Judge | Movie |
Big Time in Hollywood, FL | 2015 | Agent Everett Malloy | TV Show |
Kids vs Monsters | 2015 | Barry | Movie |
Fresh Off the Boat | 2015 | Clyde Roses | TV Show |
Mr. Robot | 2015 | Qwerty | TV Show |
What Lives Inside | 2015 | Soot | TV Show |
Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-cellent Adventure | 2015 | Don Alfonso (English version, voice) | Movie |
Half Moon Bay | 2015 | President of the United Nations General Assembly | Movie |
Chances | 2015 | Man with No Name | Short Film |
Enlisted | 2014 | Sgt. Major Donald Cody | TV Show |
Boiling Pot | 2014 | Agent Long | Movie |
The Last Punch | 2014 | Don King | Movie |
Extant | 2014 | Nicholas Calderon | TV Show |
The 420 Movie: Mary & Jane | 2014 | Chief Ironweed | Movie |
The Flash | 2014 | Solovar | TV Show |
BoJack Horseman | 2014 | Lion Musician | TV Show |
Black-ish | 2014 | Loose Craig | TV Show |
Scorpion | 2014 | Warden | TV Show |
NCIS: New Orleans | 2014 | Gene Holloway | TV Show |
Black Jesus | 2014 | TV Show | |
Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight | 2014 | Dean | TV Show |
Jabbawockeez: Regenerate | 2014 | Ken-Gee | Short Film |
We Bare Bears | 2014 | Mr. Charles | TV Show |
The Marvel Experience | 2014 | Nick Fury (voice) | Movie |
Free Birds | 2013 | Chief Broadbeak (voice) | Movie |
Don't Pass Me By | 2013 | David Knox | Movie |
Assault on Wall Street | 2013 | Freddy | Movie |
The Bible | 2013 | Narrator | TV Show |
Avengers Assemble | 2013 | T'Chaka | TV Show |
Dutch Book | 2013 | Joe Johnson | Movie |
Sons of Liberty | 2013 | Nathan Reynolds | Movie |
Union Furnace | 2013 | 1 | Movie |
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | 2013 | The Cheshire Cat | TV Show |
Rick and Morty | 2013 | Mr. President, Reverse Giraffe, The President | TV Show |
Where Are the Cocoa Puffs? | 2013 | Dr. MacIntyre (rumored) | Movie |
Black Asylum | 2013 | Agent Davis | Short Film |
Frog Kingdom | 2013 | Frog King (voice) | Movie |
Cloud Atlas | 2012 | An-kor Apis, Joe Napier, Kupaka | Movie |
Highway | 2012 | Mustafa | Movie |
Touch | 2012 | Dutch | TV Show |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 2012 | G'Throkka, Sal Commander | TV Show |
Christmas in Compton | 2012 | Big Earl | Movie |
The Undershepherd | 2012 | Brother Wilks | Movie |
The Last Fall | 2012 | Sydney Bishop | Movie |
Smiley | 2012 | Diamond | Movie |
Don Cornelius: Visionary, Trailblazer & Cultural Icon | 2012 | Narrator | TV Movie |
Belle's | 2012 | William 'Big Bill' Cooper | TV Show |
Animen: The Galactic Battle | 2012 | Sergeant Brass (voice) | Movie |
The Greening of Whitney Brown | 2011 | Clerk | Movie |
Hopelessly in June | 2011 | Dalbert Myers | Movie |
The Cape | 2011 | Max Malini | TV Show |
Samuel Bleak | 2011 | Ned Coffman | Movie |
No Saints for Sinners | 2011 | Victor | Movie |
The Inheritance | 2011 | Uncle Melvin | Movie |
Snowflake, the White Gorilla | 2011 | Anvil (voice) | Movie |
Allen Gregory | 2011 | Carl Trent D'Avis, Carl Trent Davis | TV Show |
Person of Interest | 2011 | Terence Beale | TV Show |
Synecdoche | 2011 | Short Film | |
The Magic City | 2011 | Mr. Daniels | Movie |
Double or Nothing | 2011 | Homeless Dude | Short Film |
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You | 2011 | Detective Harris | Movie |
Chain Letter | 2010 | Detective Jim Crenshaw | Movie |
Something Like a Business | 2010 | Sebastian | Movie |
Lottery Ticket | 2010 | Sweet Tee | Movie |
Meet Monica Velour | 2010 | Claude | Movie |
Now Here | 2010 | Detective Brinkman | Movie |
Death at a Funeral | 2010 | Reverend Davis | Movie |
Funny or Die Presents… | 2010 | Sleeping Celebrity | TV Show |
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | 2010 | Terry Harris | Movie |
Young Justice | 2010 | Mongul | TV Show |
Hawaii Five-0 | 2010 | Jimmy Cannon | TV Show |
Spork | 2010 | Coach Jenkins | Movie |
Sealing Your Fate | 2010 | Gavin Taylor | Short Film |
Adventure Time | 2010 | Balthus, Flame King | TV Show |
God in America | 2010 | Frederick Douglass | TV Show |
Tall Justice | 2010 | Voiceover | Short Film |
Murdock | 2010 | Murdock | Short Film |
Uncle Grandpa | 2010 | Santa Claus | TV Show |
All About Steve | 2009 | Corbitt | Movie |
Blue | 2009 | Terry Venable | Movie |
Coraline | 2009 | The Cat (voice) | Movie |
Gamer | 2009 | Agent Keith | Movie |
Free Birds | 2009 | Old Buzzard (voice) | Movie |
The Butcher | 2009 | Larry Cobb | Movie |
The Princess and the Frog | 2009 | Dr. Facilier (voice) | Movie |
The Hitmen Diaries: Charlie Valentine | 2009 | Sal | Movie |
Pastor Brown | 2009 | Pastor Brown | Movie |
Don McKay | 2009 | Otis Kent | Movie |
Community | 2009 | Elroy Patashnik, Narrator | TV Show |
Archer | 2009 | Lemuel Kane | TV Show |
Forgive Us Our Transgressions | 2009 | Narrator (unconfirmed) | Short Film |
Regular Show | 2009 | Streaming | TV Show |
Beautiful Loser | 2008 | Morgan – Adult | Movie |
Chasing 3000 | 2008 | Officer L. | Movie |
First Sunday | 2008 | Judge B. Bennet Galloway | Movie |
My Mom's New Boyfriend | 2008 | FBI Chief Conrad | Movie |
No Bad Days | 2008 | Terrence | Movie |
Seducing Spirits | 2008 | Pastor Bob | Movie |
Superhero Movie | 2008 | The Chief of Police | Movie |
The Fifth Commandment | 2008 | Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton | Movie |
The Sensei | 2008 | The Minister | Movie |
SIS | 2008 | Joseph Armstrong | TV Movie |
Canterbury's Law | 2008 | Miles Grant | TV Show |
The Spectacular Spider-Man | 2008 | Big Man | TV Show |
Delta Farce | 2007 | Sgt. Kilgore | Movie |
If I Had Known I Was a Genius | 2007 | Dad | Movie |
The Last Sentinel | 2007 | Col. Norton, Gun Voice 2 | Movie |
Concrete Road | 2007 | Caesar Fairchild | Short Film |
ATL | 2006 | John Garnett | Movie |
The Oh in Ohio | 2006 | Coach Popovitch | Movie |
Psych | 2006 | Mr. Guster | TV Show |
Dirty | 2005 | Captain Spain | Movie |
Mr. & Mrs. Smith | 2005 | Father | Movie |
Transporter 2 | 2005 | Stappleton | Movie |
The Proud Family Movie | 2005 | Bebe Clone (voice) | TV Movie |
Grey's Anatomy | 2005 | Lloyd Mackie | TV Show |
Numb3rs | 2005 | Jeremiah Miller | TV Show |
Robot Chicken | 2005 | Angry Birds Narrator, The Fugitive Narrator, Train Robber | TV Show |
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London | 2004 | CIA Director | Movie |
Crash | 2004 | Lt. Dixon | Movie |
The Chronicles of Riddick | 2004 | Imam | Movie |
The Big House | 2004 | Clarence Cleveland | TV Show |
Agent Cody Banks | 2003 | CIA Director | Movie |
Head of State | 2003 | Bernard Cooper | Movie |
Hollywood Homicide | 2003 | Leon | Movie |
Kaena: The Prophecy | 2003 | Voxem (English version, voice) | Movie |
All of Us | 2003 | TV Show | |
Spider-Man | 2003 | Agent Mosely, FBI Agent Moseley | TV Show |
Teen Titans | 2003 | Atlas | TV Show |
29 Palms | 2002 | The Sheriff | Movie |
Barbershop | 2002 | Lester Wallace | Movie |
Miss Miami | 2002 | TV Movie | |
Everwood | 2002 | Brian | TV Show |
Hung-Up | 2002 | Mervin | Short Film |
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | 2001 | Council Member #1 (voice) | Movie |
Home Invaders | 2001 | Matador | Movie |
Novocaine | 2001 | Detective Lunt | Movie |
Pretty When You Cry | 2001 | Detective Charles Desett | Movie |
G Spots? | 2001 | The King | Short Film |
Semper Fi | 2001 | Gunnery Sgt. Brinkloff | TV Show |
Going to California | 2001 | Paradise | TV Show |
House of Mouse | 2001 | Mufasa | TV Show |
Justice League | 2001 | Despero | TV Show |
The Job | 2001 | Lt. Williams | TV Show |
The Legend of Tarzan | 2001 | Tublat | TV Show |
PBS Hollywood Presents | 2001 | TV Show | |
Innocents | 2000 | Detective Davis | Movie |
Pitch Black | 2000 | Abu 'Imam' al-Walid | Movie |
Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Big Tim | Movie |
The Replacements | 2000 | Lindell | Movie |
Where the Heart Is | 2000 | Moses Whitecotten | Movie |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | 2000 | Matt Phelps | TV Show |
Tales from the Crypt | 2000 | Dr. Egbert Fleagle | TV Show |
ATF | 1999 | F.B.I. Director Richard Long | TV Movie |
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | 1999 | Frederick Douglass (voice) | TV Show |
Family Guy | 1999 | Jazz Documentary Narrator | TV Show |
SpongeBob SquarePants | 1999 | Gary's Collar | TV Show |
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle | 1999 | Spawn (voice) | Movie |
Armageddon | 1998 | General Kimsey | Movie |
There's Something About Mary | 1998 | Mary's Dad | Movie |
The Tiger Woods Story | 1998 | Earl Woods | TV Movie |
Hercules | 1998 | Apollo | TV Show |
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 | 1998 | Spawn (voice) | Movie |
Executive Target | 1997 | Lamar | Movie |
Flipping | 1997 | Leo Richards, Gang Leader | Movie |
Hercules | 1997 | Apollo the Sun God (voice) | Movie |
Loose Women | 1997 | Stylist #1 | Movie |
Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Additional Voices (English version, voice), Narrator, Okkoto | Movie |
Volcano | 1997 | Police Lieutenant Ed Fox | Movie |
Don King: Only in America | 1997 | Herbert Muhammad | TV Movie |
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | 1997 | Algric Bartles | TV Movie |
Vanishing Point | 1997 | Warren Taft | TV Movie |
Spawn | 1997 | Spawn | TV Show |
Eye for an Eye | 1996 | Martin | Movie |
Johns | 1996 | Homeless John | Movie |
Larger Than Life | 1996 | Hurst | Movie |
Never Met Picasso | 1996 | Larry | Movie |
The Grave | 1996 | The Priest | Movie |
7th Heaven | 1996 | Stanley Sunday | TV Show |
Arli$$ | 1996 | Cecil Pickett | TV Show |
Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles | 1996 | Goliath, Hood 2, Thailog | TV Show |
Blue in the Face | 1995 | Jackie Robinson | Movie |
Clockers | 1995 | André the Giant | Movie |
Dead Presidents | 1995 | Kirby | Movie |
The Quick and the Dead | 1995 | Sgt. Cantrell | Movie |
The Outer Limits | 1995 | Captain Ira Merit | TV Show |
The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat | 1995 | Voices | TV Show |
Timon & Pumbaa | 1995 | Mr. Pig | TV Show |
Reality Bites | 1994 | Roger | Movie |
The Puppet Masters | 1994 | Alex Holland | Movie |
Aladdin | 1994 | King Zahbar, Minos | TV Show |
ER | 1994 | Pastor Watkins | TV Show |
Gargoyles | 1994 | Goliath, Morgan, Thailog | TV Show |
New York Undercover | 1994 | Rev. Harris | TV Show |
Fantastic Four | 1994 | Black Panther, T'Challa | TV Show |
Notes in a Minor Key | 1994 | Kansas | Short Film |
The Last Outlaw | 1993 | Lovecraft | TV Movie |
There Are No Children Here | 1993 | John Paul Rivers | TV Movie |
Tribeca | 1993 | The Reader | TV Show |
Article 99 | 1992 | Luther Jerome | Movie |
Final Analysis | 1992 | Detective Huggins | Movie |
Nails | 1992 | Noah Owens | TV Movie |
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | 1992 | King Oliver | TV Show |
3×3 Eyes | 1991 | Mama (English version, voice) | TV Show |
Marked for Death | 1990 | Max | Movie |
Men at Work | 1990 | Louis Fedders | Movie |
Against the Law | 1990 | Otis Turnbull | TV Show |
Law & Order | 1990 | John Robertson | TV Show |
Murder in Black and White | 1990 | Martin | TV Movie |
Always | 1989 | Powerhouse | Movie |
Road House | 1989 | Ernie Bass | Movie |
A Man Called Hawk | 1989 | Jesse | TV Show |
Bird | 1988 | Buster Franklin | Movie |
Braddock: Missing in Action III | 1988 | Embassy Gate Captain | Movie |
Off Limits | 1988 | Maurice | Movie |
Stars and Bars | 1988 | Eugene Teagarden | Movie |
They Live | 1988 | Frank | Movie |
Ladykillers | 1988 | Abe | TV Movie |
Christmas in Tattertown | 1988 | Saxophone (voice) | TV Show |
Hot Pursuit | 1987 | Alphonso | Movie |
Platoon | 1986 | King | Movie |
The Whoopee Boys | 1986 | Washington Square Peddler | Movie |
The Equalizer | 1985 | Cristo | TV Show |
Screen Two | 1985 | Will | TV Show |
The Thing | 1982 | Childs | Movie |
American Playhouse | 1981 | Big Willie | TV Show |
The Pirates of Penzance | 1980 | Pirates and Police | TV Movie |
Disco Godfather | 1979 | Club Patron (uncredited) | Movie |
Nova | 1974 | Narrator | TV Show |
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood | 1968 | Keith, Keith the Handyman | TV Show |
The Ogilvy Fortune | Movie | ||
Gina's Journey: The Search for William Grimes | Narrator | Movie | |
The Gateway | Movie | ||
Most Guys are Losers | Al | Movie |
Keith David Net Worth
Estimated Net Worth 2020 | $3 Million |
Income Source | Primary Income source Voice Actor (profession). |