Keith David Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Keith David filmography covers 117 movie titles and 95 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Keith David movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• The Thing (1982) as Childs
• Platoon (1986) as King
• Hot Pursuit (1987) as Alphonso
• Bird (1988) as Buster Franklin
• Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) as Embassy Gate Captain
• Off Limits (1988) as Maurice
• Stars & Bars (1988) as Eugene Teagarden
• They Live (1988) as Frank Armitage
• Always (1989) as Powerhouse
• Road House (1989) as Ernie Bass
• Marked for Death (1990) as Max
• Men at Work (1990) as Louis Fedders
• Article 99 (1992) as Luther Jermoe
• Final Analysis (1992) as Detective Huggins
• The Last Outlaw (1993) as Lovecraft
• Reality Bites (1994) as Roger
• The Puppet Masters (1994) as Alex Holland
• Blue in the Face (1995) as Jackie Robinson
• Clockers (1995) as André the Giant
• Dead Presidents (1995) as Kirby
• Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken (1995) as Goliath (voice)
• The Quick and the Dead (1995) as Sergeant Cantrell
• Eye for an Eye (1996) as Martin
• Johns (1996) as Homeless John
• Larger Than Life (1996) as Hurst
• Executive Target (1997) as Lamar
• Hercules (1997) as Apollo the Sun God (voice)
• Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997) as Algric Bartles
• Vanishing Point (1997) as Warren Taft
• Volcano (1997) as Lt. Ed Fox
• Armageddon (1998) as General Kimsey
• There's Something About Mary (1998) as Charlie Jensen
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues (1999) as King Oliver
• Pitch Black (2000) as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
• Requiem for a Dream (2000) as Big Tim
• The Replacements (2000) as Lindell
• Where the Heart Is (2000) as Moses Whitecotten
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) as Council Member (voice)
• Novocaine (2001) as Detective Lunt
• 29 Palms (2002) as The Sheriff
• Barbershop (2002) as Lester Wallace
• Ultimate Fights from the Movies (2002) as Frank (They Live) (archive footage)
• Agent Cody Banks (2003) as CIA Director
• Head of State (2003) as Bernard Cooper
• Hollywood Homicide (2003) as Leon
• Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) as CIA Director
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (2004) as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) as Narrator (voice)
• Crash (2005) as Lt. Dixon
• Dirty (2005) as Captain Spain
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) as Father
• The Proud Family Movie (2005) as Bebe Clone (voice)
• Transporter 2 (2005) as Stappleton
• ATL (2006) as John Garnett
• Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006) as MCPO Scott Boytano
• The Oh in Ohio (2006) as Coach Popovitch
• Delta Farce (2007) as Sgt. Kilgore
• The Last Sentinel (2007) as Colonel Norton
• First Sunday (2008) as Judge B. Bennet Galloway
• Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) as The Centre (voice)
• My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008) as FBI Chief Conrad
• Superhero Movie (2008) as The Chief of Police
• The Fifth Commandment (2008) as Max 'Coolbreeze' Templeton
• Against the Dark (2009) as Lt. Waters
• All About Steve (2009) as Corbitt
• Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia (2009) as Commander Scott Boytano
• Coraline (2009) as The Cat (voice)
• Don McKay (2009) as Otis Kent
• Gamer (2009) as Agent Keith
• The Princess and the Frog (2009) as Dr. Facilier (voice)
• Chain Letter (2010) as Det. Jim Crenshaw
• Chasing 3000 (2010) as Officer L.
• Death at a Funeral (2010) as Reverend Davis
• Lottery Ticket (2010) as Sweet Tee
• Meet Monica Velour (2010) as Claude
• Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming (2010) as Terry
• The Greening of Whitney Brown (2011) as Clerk
• The Inheritance (2011) as Uncle Melvin
• Cloud Atlas (2012) as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
• Smiley (2012) as Diamond
• Assault on Wall Street (2013) as Freddy
• Free Birds (2013) as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)
• Field of Lost Shoes (2015) as Old Judge
• Nina (2016) as Clifton's Father
• Range 15 (2016) as Colonel Holloway
• The Nice Guys (2016) as Older Guy
• Savage Dog (2017) as Valentine
• Love Jacked (2018) as Ed
• Night School (2018) as Gerald
• Sharon 1.2.3. (2018) as Tyrone
• Tales from the Hood 2 (2018) as Portifoy Simms
• 21 Bridges (2019) as Deputy Chief Spencer
• Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019) as Self
• In Search of Darkness (2019) as Self
• The Wedding Year (2019) as Preston
• You Might Be the Killer (2019) as Sheriff James
• Good (2020) as Gregory Devereaux
• Horizon Line (2020) as Freddy Wyman
• In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020) as Self
• Black as Night (2021) as Babineaux
• Insight (2021) as Captain Duke
• Pups Alone (2021) as The Wise Bartender
• The Gateway (2021) as Terry
• The Seventh Day (2021) as Father Louis
• Catwoman: Hunted (2022) as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)
• DC League of Super-Pets (2022) as Dog-El (voice)
• Entergalactic (2022) as Mr. Rager (voice)
• In Search of Tomorrow (2022) as Self - Interviewee
• Nope (2022) as Otis Haywood Sr.
• Unplugging (2022) as Gil
• American Fiction (2023) as Willy the Wonker
• Heist 88 (2023) as Buddha Ray
• Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) as Masego (voice)
• Shelby Oaks (2025) as Morton Jacobson
• Sneaks (2025) as O.G. (voice)
• Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) as Sosa

Keith David television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Keith David; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• 7th Heaven as Stanley
• Abbott Elementary as Frank
• Adventure Time as Balthus (voice); Flame King (voice)
• Aladdin
• American Dad! as Fire Captain (voice)
• American Experience as W.E. Henderson / Other Voices
• Amphibia as King Andrias (voice)
• Archer as Lemuel Kane (voice)
• black-ish as Loose Craig
• BoJack Horseman as Lion Musician (voice)
• Central Park as Ward Wittlinger (voice)
• Close Enough as World’s Greatest Teacher Mug (voice)
• Community as Elroy Patashnik; Narrator (voice)
• Craig of the Creek as Narrator (voice)
• Creepshow as Murdoch
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Matt Phelps
• DC's Stargirl as Mister Bones (voice)
• Devil May Cry as Lucan (voice)
• Disney's House of Mouse as Card Soldier (voice)
• DuckTales as Manny (voice)
• Duster as Ezra Saxton
• E! True Hollywood Story as Self
• Enlisted as Sgt. Major Donald Cody
• ER as Pastor Watkins
• Everwood as Brian
• Extant as Nicholas Calderon
• Family Guy as Jazz Documentary Narrator (voice); Commander Bensinger (voice)
• Fantastic Four as Black Panther/T'challa (voice)
• Fresh Off the Boat as Clyde Roses
• From Scratch as Hershel Wheeler
• Future Man as Dr. Elias Kronish
• Gargoyles as Goliath (voice)
• Greenleaf as Bishop James Greenleaf
• Grey's Anatomy as Lloyd Mackie
• Haunted Hotel as Additional Voices (voice)
• Hawaii Five-0 as Jimmy Cannon
• Hazbin Hotel as Husk (voice)
• Hercules as Apollo (voice)
• High Potential as Captain Pacheco
• I Love LA as Leon Marcus
• Jazz as Narrator (voice)
• Justice League as Despero (voice)
• Justified: City Primeval as Judge Alvin Guy
• Kite Man: Hell Yeah! as Darkseid (voice)
• Krapopolis as Asskill (voice)
• Law & Order as Bronx D.A. John Robertson
• Leverage: Redemption as Billy Spencer
• Love Life as Narrator (voice)
• MacGyver as Burke / Man
• Marvel's Hit-Monkey as The Devil
• Masters of the Universe: Revolution as Hordak (voice)
• Mr. Robot as Qwerty (voice) (uncredited)
• Muhammad Ali as Narrator (voice)
• My Dad the Bounty Hunter as B'Caala (voice)
• Nature as Narrator
• NCIS: New Orleans as Gene Holloway
• New York Undercover
• NOVA as Narrator
• Numb3rs as Jeremiah Miller
• Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as The Cheshire Cat (voice)
• Person of Interest as Terence Beale
• Psych as Mr. Guster
• Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure as Additional Voices (voice)
• Reading Rainbow as Narrator (voice)
• Rick and Morty as President Curtis / Turkey President Curtis (voice); Reverse Giraffe (voice); President/Governor Andre Curtis (voice)
• Scorpion as Warden
• Spawn as Al Simmons / Spawn (voice)
• Speechless as Colonel
• Spider-Man: The New Animated Series as Agent Mosely (voice)
• SpongeBob SquarePants as Chatterbox Translation Collar (voice)
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil as Glossaryck (voice)
• Summer Camp Island as Lithophone (voice); Tummy (voice)
• Teen Titans as Atlas (voice)
• Teen Titans Go! as Narrator (voice)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Sal Commander (voice)
• The American Revolution as (voice)
• The Bible as Narrator
• The Cape as Max Malini
• The Equalizer as Cristo
• The Flash as Solovar (voice)
• The Good Lord Bird as Herbert
• The Job
• The Last Kids on Earth as Thrull (voice)
• The Legend of Tarzan as Tublat (voice)
• The Lowdown as Marty
• The Oscars as The Cat (voice)
• The Outer Limits as Captain Ira Merit
• The War as Narrator (voice)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as King Oliver
• Touch as Dutch
• True Lies as Albert 'Al' Gibson
• Uncle Grandpa as Santa Claus (voice)
• We Bare Bears as Mr. Charles (voice)
• Woke as Bible (voice)
• Young Justice as Mongul (voice)

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Keith David's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.