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.


 * 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 and Mortal Kombat 11
 * 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.