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Keith David
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Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor. He is known for his signature deep voice and commanding screen presence in over 300 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), and Nope (2022). He starred as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the NBC series Community (2015) and starred as Bishop James Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama Greenleaf (2016–2020). His Emmy-winning voice-over career includes work as the narrator of Ken Burns films such as The War (2007) and Muhammad Ali (2021). In film, characters that he has voiced in...
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
The Thing Expanded
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
Shelby Oaks
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
Portal to Hell
Finding Faith
Mr. Nelson on the North Side
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox
Heist 88
Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story
Shut Up and Ride
Entergalactic
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Nope
Catwoman: Hunted
African Redemption: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Garvey
The Prank
A Miracle Before Christmas
Unplugging
From the Shadows
Pups Alone
The Gateway
Insight
Black as Night
The Seventh Day
Horizon Line
Most Guys Are Losers
Good
Wild Daze
The 420 Movie
21 Bridges
In Search of Darkness
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
The Wedding Year
Night School
Platoon: Brothers in Arms
Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story
Love Jacked
American Dresser
Triple Trouble
Savage Dog
Not a War Story
Ray Meets Helen- V-V-Force: New Dawn of V.I.C.T.O.R.Y.
Dirty Lies
Service to Man
The Men of Outpost 31
The Nice Guys
Blue: The American Dream
The North Star- THThe Last Punch
Nina
Range 15
Dutch Book
Secrets of the Magic City
Boiling Pot
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
Kids vs Monsters
Union Furnace
Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man
H4
Remaking the Legend: Halo 2 Anniversary
Free Birds
Assault on Wall Street
Samuel Bleak
Don't Pass Me By
Sons of Liberty
Cloud Atlas- DODouble or Nothing
Smiley
Highway
The Undershepherd
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
Christmas in Compton
The Last Fall
Animen: The Galactic Battle
The Greening of Whitney Brown
No Saints for Sinners
The Inheritance
Hopelessly in June
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
Chain Letter
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
Lottery Ticket
Meet Monica Velour
Now Here
New York Street Games
Something Like a Business
Chasing 3000
The Princess and the Frog
Beautiful Loser
All About Steve
The Butcher
Don McKay
Charlie Valentine
Against the Dark
Coraline
Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia
Blue
Pastor Brown
S.I.S.
My Mom's New Boyfriend
Superhero Movie
First Sunday
The Candlelight Murders
No Bad Days
The Fifth Commandment
The Sensei
Delta Farce
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
The Last Sentinel
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
Forbidden Fruits
ATL
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
The Oh in Ohio
Dirty
Transporter 2
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Black Theater Today: 2005
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Beef II
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury
The Chronicles of Riddick
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
Hollywood Homicide
Head of State
Agent Cody Banks
The Shakespeare Sessions
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Barbershop
Mark Twain
Pretty When You Cry
Home Invaders
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Semper Fi
Boxing: In and Out of the Ring
The Replacements
Where the Heart Is
Pitch Black
Innocents
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
ATF
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle
There's Something About Mary
The Tiger Woods Story
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
Never Met Picasso
Don King: Only in America
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Loose Women
Volcano
Executive Target
Johns
Larger Than Life
Eye for an Eye
The Grave
Flipping
Dead Presidents
Blue in the Face
Clockers
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
The Quick and the Dead
Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken
The Puppet Masters
Notes in a Minor Key- HAHallelujah
There Are No Children Here
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
The Last Outlaw
Nails
Article 99
Final Analysis
Hallelujah Anyhow
Marked for Death
Men at Work
Murder in Black and White
Always
Christmas in Tattertown
Ladykillers
They Live
Bird
Stars & Bars
Off Limits
Braddock: Missing in Action III
The Making of 'They Live'
Hot Pursuit
Platoon
The Thing
Coriolanus- MYMy New Friend Jim
- THThe Price for Freedom
ATL 2: The Homecoming
Bob's Best Friends