Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor. He is mostly known for his bass voice and screen presence in over 400 roles across film, stage, television, and interactive media. He has starred in such films as The Thing (1982), Platoon (1986), They Live (1988), Dead Presidents(1995), Armageddon (1998), There's Something About Mary (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pitch Black (2000), Barbershop (2002), Crash (2004), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Nice Guys (2016), Nope (2022), and American Fiction (2023). He starred as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the NBC series Community (2015) and as Bishop James Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama Greenleaf (2016–2020). His Emmy-winning voice acting career includes narrating Ken Burns films such as The War (2007) and Muhammad Ali (2021). In film, he has voiced Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog (2009) and the Cat in Coraline (2009). On television, he portrayed Goliath in Gargoyles (1994–1997), Al Simmons / Spawn in Todd McFarlane's Spawn (1997–1999), The Flame King in Adventure Time (2012–2017), President Andre Curtis in Rick and Morty (2015–) and its upcoming spin-off President Curtis, King Andrias in Amphibia (2020–2022), Dr. Tenma in Pluto (2023), and Husk in Hazbin Hotel (2024–). Video game roles include the Arbiter Thel 'Vadamee in the Halo franchise (2004–2015), Julius Little and himself in the Saints Row series (2006–2017), Captain Anderson in the Mass Effect series (2007–2013), Chaos in Dissidia Final Fantasy (2008), Sergeant Foley in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009), and Commander Zavala in Destiny 2: The Final Shape (2024), which he assumed after the death of Lance Reddick in March 2023. He was part of the cast of The Nightmare Before Christmas live concert in October 2025, where he voiced Oogie Boogie, taking over the role from his longtime original voice actor, Ken Page, following his death in September 2024. In July 2025, David was selected to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2026. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keith David, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
232 movies · 130 shows
The Thing Expanded
2026·8.5
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
2026·6.7
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
2025·0.0
The Gettysburg Address
2025·0.0
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
2025·8.3
Shelby Oaks
2025·5.7
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
2025·7.5
Finding Faith
2025·9.2
Omniscient
2025·0.0
Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II
2025·9.0
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox
2025·5.6
Sneaks
2025·5.9
Portal to Hell
2025·7.0
Mufasa: The Lion King
2024·7.3
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
2024·0.0
Betty & Blue
2024·1.0
The Prank
2024·5.6
American Fiction
2023·7.3
Heist 88
2023·6.7
From the Shadows
2023·5.9
A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023·6.8
Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story
2023·2.0
Shut Up and Ride
2022·7.0
A Miracle Before Christmas
2022·5.4
Entergalactic
2022·7.7
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022·3.7
DC League of Super-Pets
2022·7.2
Nope
2022·6.8
Unplugging
2022·4.9
The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse
2022·7.7
In Search of Tomorrow
2022·6.6
Catwoman: Hunted
2022·5.8
Pups Alone
2021·5.8
Black as Night
2021·5.5
The Gateway
2021·5.3
The Seventh Day
2021·5.2
Insight
2021·5.6
Horizon Line
2020·5.6
Most Guys Are Losers
2020·2.6
Good
2020·7.2
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020·7.7
The 420 Movie
2020·3.2
Cuba's Cancer Hope
2020·0.0
Rise of the Mammals
2019·0.0
21 Bridges
2019·6.8
The Wedding Year
2019·5.9
You Might Be the Killer
2019·5.8
In Search of Darkness
2019·7.5
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
2019·6.8
Love Jacked
2018·6.1
Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story
2018·6.6
Brothers in Arms
2018·5.8
Night School
2018·6.1
American Dresser
2018·4.9
Sharon 1.2.3.
2018·5.8
Tales from the Hood 2
2018·5.0
Ray Meets Helen
2018·4.3
The '91 Falcons
2017·9.0
Savage Dog
2017·5.4
Not a War Story
2017·4.6
Service to Man
2016·8.0
School of Rickey
2016·9.0
Range 15
2016·4.7
The Nice Guys
2016·7.1
Blue: The American Dream
2016·0.0
Nina
2016·5.2
The North Star
2016·5.0
Dirty Lies
2016·4.9
The Last Punch
2016·0.0
Dutch Book
2015·6.0
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
2015·0.0
Boiling Pot
2015·5.2
Kids vs Monsters
2015·4.0
Union Furnace
2015·5.5
Secrets of the Magic City
2015·5.5
Field of Lost Shoes
2015·6.1
Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary
2014·8.3
Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man
2014·7.0
Frog Kingdom
2013·4.7
Free Birds
2013·5.9
Sons of Liberty
2013·3.8
Assault on Wall Street
2013·5.9
Black Asylum
2013·10.0
Don't Pass Me By
2013·4.0
Christmas in Compton
2012·3.2
Cloud Atlas
2012·6.9
Double or Nothing
2012·6.0
Smiley
2012·4.3
Highway
2012·3.0
The Last Fall
2012·5.8
The Undershepherd
2012·6.0
AniMen: The Galactic Battle
2012·4.0
The Greening of Whitney Brown
2011·6.0
Hopelessly in June
2011·5.0
The Inheritance
2011·4.4
Samuel Bleak
2011·4.5
No Saints for Sinners
2011·5.0
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
2010·5.5
Chain Letter
2010·4.4
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
2010·8.0
Lottery Ticket
2010·5.6
New York Street Games
2010·0.0
Chasing 3000
2010·6.2
Something Like A Business
2010·2.5
Meet Monica Velour
2010·5.8
Death at a Funeral
2010·5.9
Africa's Lost Eden
2010·0.0
The Princess and the Frog
2009·7.2
Beautiful Loser
2009·5.0
Gamer
2009·5.7
All About Steve
2009·5.0
The Butcher
2009·4.7
Pastor Brown
2009·5.6
Don McKay
2009·4.9
Blue
2009·0.0
Charlie Valentine
2009·4.1
Against the Dark
2009·3.9
Coraline
2009·7.9
Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia
2009·5.7
S.I.S.
2008·4.2
The Fifth Commandment
2008·5.7
No Bad Days
2008·3.2
The Sensei
2008·4.2
My Mom's New Boyfriend
2008·5.4
Superhero Movie
2008·5.3
Justice League: The New Frontier
2008·6.8
First Sunday
2008·5.6
The Candlelight Murders
2008·0.0
The Last Sentinel
2007·3.8
Delta Farce
2007·4.6
The Color Purple: The Color of Success
2007·7.5
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
2007·4.1
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006·4.9
Forbidden Fruits
2006·6.3
ATL
2006·6.9
The Oh in Ohio
2006·5.2
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
2006·6.0
Dirty
2005·5.4
Crusades: Crescent & the Cross
2005·7.6
The Proud Family Movie
2005·5.9
Transporter 2
2005·6.3
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005·6.7
Crash
2005·7.2
Last Stand of the Great Bear
2004·8.0
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004·7.2
Beef II
2004·7.0
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury
2004·6.1
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004·6.6
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
2004·8.5
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004·5.6
Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom
2003·6.0
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003·7.7
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
2003·7.5
Hollywood Homicide
2003·5.2
Head of State
2003·5.6
Agent Cody Banks
2003·5.5
Inside Mecca
2003·6.8
The Shakespeare Sessions
2003·8.5
29 Palms
2002·4.7
Stalking Leopards
2002·10.0
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002·5.0
Barbershop
2002·6.5
Mark Twain
2002·7.1
Pretty When You Cry
2001·3.4
Novocaine
2001·6.0
Egypt's Golden Empire
2001·7.8
Home Invaders
2001·4.5
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001·6.2
Semper Fi
2001·6.0
Boxing: In and Out of the Ring
2001·0.0
Requiem for a Dream
2000·8.0
The Replacements
2000·6.7
Where the Heart Is
2000·7.1
Pitch Black
2000·6.9
Innocents
2000·4.3
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
1999·5.8
ATF
1999·5.8
The Grizzlies of Siberia
1999·0.0
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
1998·7.8
There's Something About Mary
1998·6.6
Armageddon
1998·6.8
The Tiger Woods Story
1998·4.3
Never Met Picasso
1997·4.7
Don King: Only in America
1997·6.8
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997·7.0
Executive Target
1997·4.8
Hercules
1997·7.5
Volcano
1997·6.0
Flipping
1997·4.0
Vanishing Point
1997·5.7
Johns
1996·5.4
Larger Than Life
1996·5.5
The Grave
1996·5.3
Eye for an Eye
1996·6.3
Dead Presidents
1995·6.7
Clockers
1995·6.7
Blue in the Face
1995·6.5
Beauty and the Beasts: A Leopard's Story
1995·0.0
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
1995·7.0
The Quick and the Dead
1995·6.5
The Puppet Masters
1994·5.8
Notes in a Minor Key
1994·7.0
Jewels of the Caribbean Sea
1994·0.0
Reality Bites
1994·6.5
Hallelujah
1993·6.5
There Are No Children Here
1993·7.0
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
1993·7.5
The Last Outlaw
1993·5.4
Lions Of Darkness
1993·9.0
Nails
1992·4.9
Article 99
1992·6.2
Final Analysis
1992·5.8
Hallelujah Anyhow
1991·0.0
Marked for Death
1990·6.1
Men at Work
1990·5.7
Murder in Black and White
1990·7.0
Always
1989·6.2
Road House
1989·6.8
Christmas in Tattertown
1988·4.6
Ladykillers
1988·3.0
They Live
1988·7.3
Bird
1988·6.9
Stars & Bars
1988·4.4
Off Limits
1988·5.6
Braddock: Missing in Action III
1988·5.8
The Making of 'They Live'
1988·0.0
Hot Pursuit
1987·5.7
Platoon
1986·7.8
The Whoopee Boys
1986·5.4
The Thing
1982·8.1
The Pirates of Penzance
1980·6.6
Coriolanus
1979·5.0