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.
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.