Keith David

Keith David

67 · Born: Jun 4, 1956

Personal Details

Official Socials
Born Jun 4, 1956 Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Spouse
  • Dionne Lea

    ( Apr 28, 2001 to Apr 16, 2024 )
  • Margit Edwards

    ( Sep 22, 1990 to Apr 16, 2024 )
Parents
  • Dolores Dickenson
  • Lester Williams

Biography

Keith David (born June 4, 1956) is an American film, television, and voice actor, and singer. He is perhaps most known for his live-action roles in such films as Crash, There's Something About Mary, Barbershop and Men at Work. He has also had memorable roles in numerous cult favorites, including John Carpenter's films The Thing (as Childs) and They Live (as Armitage), the Riddick films Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick (as the Imam), the General in Armageddon, King in Oliver Stone's Platoon, and Big Tim in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream. David is also well known for his voice over career, primarily his Emmy winning work as the narrator of numerous Ken Burns films. Characters that he has voiced include Goliath on the Disney series Gargoyles, the Arbiter in Halo 2 and Halo 3, David Anderson in Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, the Decepticon Barricade in Transformers: The Game, Julius Little in Saints Row and Saints Row 2, Sgt. Foley in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog, and Chaos in Dissidia: Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Career

2024
The Prank
The Prank as Principal Henderson
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Hazbin Hotel
Hazbin Hotel as Husk (voice)
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Masters of the Universe: Revolution
Masters of the Universe: Revolution as Hordak (voice)
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2023
Heist 88
Heist 88 as Buddha Ray
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Betty & Blue
Betty & Blue as Willie "Blue" Watson
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From the Shadows
From the Shadows as Dr. Leonard Bertram
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Parallel Worlds: A Psychedelic Love Story
All Fun and Games
All Fun and Games
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Justified: City Primeval
Justified: City Primeval as Judge Alvin Guy
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2022
Catwoman: Hunted
Catwoman: Hunted as Tobias Whale / Morax (voice)
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Amphibia
Amphibia as King Andrias
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Unplugging
Unplugging as Gil
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Nope
Nope as Otis Haywood Sr.
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A Miracle Before Christmas
A Miracle Before Christmas as David
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Entergalactic
Entergalactic as Mr. Rager (voice)
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Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story as Ink Williams
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From Scratch
From Scratch as Hershel Wheeler
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Leverage: Redemption
Leverage: Redemption as Billy Spencer
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Stargirl
Stargirl as Mister Bones (voice)
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2021
The Gateway
The Gateway as Terry
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Pups Alone
Pups Alone as The Wise Bartender
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Insight
Insight as Captain Duke
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Amphibia
Amphibia as King Andrias
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Pups Alone
Pups Alone as The Wise Bartender
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Black as Night
Black as Night as Babineaux
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The Seventh Day
The Seventh Day as Father Louis
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali as Narrator
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Love Life
Love Life as Narrator (voice)
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Central Park
Central Park as Ward Wittlinger (voice)
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Amphibia
Amphibia as King Andrias (voice)
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Creepshow
Creepshow as Murdoch
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2020
Nova
Nova as Narrator
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Horizon Line
Horizon Line as Freddy Wyman
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Good
Good as Gregory Devereaux
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Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
Most Guys Are Losers
Most Guys Are Losers as Al
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The 420 Movie: Mary & Jane
The 420 Movie: Mary & Jane as Chief Ironweed
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Wild Daze
Wild Daze as Narrator
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Summer Camp Island
Summer Camp Island as Lithophone (voice)
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MacGyver
MacGyver as Burke / Man
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2019
The Wedding Year
The Wedding Year as Preston
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21 Bridges
21 Bridges as Deputy Chief Spencer
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The Last Kids on Earth
The Last Kids on Earth as Thrull (voice)
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Fresh Off the Boat
Fresh Off the Boat as Clyde Roses
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NCIS: New Orleans
NCIS: New Orleans as Gene Holloway
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Family Guy
Family Guy as Jazz Documentary Narrator (voice)
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2018
American Dresser
American Dresser as Charlie
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Love Jacked
Love Jacked as Ed
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Night School
Night School as Gerald
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Sharon 1.2.3.
Sharon 1.2.3. as Tyrone
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Tales from the Hood 2
Tales from the Hood 2 as Portifoy Simms
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Ray Meets Helen
Ray Meets Helen as Harve
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Champaign ILL
Champaign ILL as Lafonso
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Liverspots and Astronots
Liverspots and Astronots as Dr. Pesh
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2017
Not a War Story
Not a War Story
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Savage Dog
Savage Dog as Valentine
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Future Man
Future Man as Dr. Elias Kronish
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Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters
Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters as Malcom Kane (voice)
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We Bare Bears
We Bare Bears as Mr. Charles (voice)
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BoJack Horseman
BoJack Horseman as Lion Musician (voice)
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2016
Dirty Lies
Dirty Lies as Doc
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Nina
Nina as Clifton's Father
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Blue: The American Dream
Blue: The American Dream as Terry Venable
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Range 15
Range 15 as Colonel Holloway
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The Nice Guys
The Nice Guys as Older Guy
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The North Star
The North Star as Frederick Douglas
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Service to Man
Service to Man as Dean Holmes
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Greenleaf
Greenleaf as Bishop James Greenleaf
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Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson as Narrator
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Kulipari
Kulipari as Lord Marmoo (voice)
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The Flash
The Flash as Solovar (voice)
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Person of Interest
Person of Interest as Terence Beale
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2015
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address as Frederick Douglass (voice)
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Union Furnace
Union Furnace as Pin Stripe
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Secrets of the Magic City
Secrets of the Magic City as Mr. Daniels
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Dutch Book
Dutch Book
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Kids vs Monsters
Kids vs Monsters as Barry
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Field of Lost Shoes
Field of Lost Shoes as Old Judge
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Boiling Pot
Boiling Pot as Agent Long
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If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You as Detective Harris
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Big Time in Hollywood, FL
Big Time in Hollywood, FL as Agent Everett Malloy
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Extant
Extant as Nicholas Calderon
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Rick and Morty
Rick and Morty as President/Governor Andre Curtis (voice)
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2014
The Marvel Experience
The Marvel Experience as Nick Fury
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H4
H4 as Worcester
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Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man
Enlisted
Enlisted as Sgt. Major Donald Cody
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The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW
The Monday Night War: WWE vs. WCW as Narrator
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2013
Sons of Liberty
Sons of Liberty as Nathan Reynolds
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Free Birds
Free Birds as Chief Broadbeak (Voice)
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Frog Kingdom
Frog Kingdom as Frog King
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Black Asylum
Black Asylum as Agent Davis
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Don't Pass Me By
Don't Pass Me By as David Knox
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Assault on Wall Street
Assault on Wall Street as Freddy
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The Bible
The Bible as Narrator
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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as The Cheshire Cat (voice)
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Belle's
Belle's as William 'Big Bill' Cooper
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2012
The Last Fall
The Last Fall
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The Undershepherd
The Undershepherd as Brother Wilks
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Highway
Highway as Mustafa
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The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
Animen: The Galactic Battle
Animen: The Galactic Battle as Sergeant Brass
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Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
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Christmas in Compton
Christmas in Compton as Big Earl
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Smiley
Smiley as Diamond
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American Experience
Adventure Time
Adventure Time as Flame King (voice)
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Young Justice
Young Justice as Mongul (voice)
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2011
The Inheritance
The Inheritance as Uncle Melvin
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No Saints for Sinners
No Saints for Sinners as Victor
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Samuel Bleak
Samuel Bleak
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Hopelessly in June
Hopelessly in June as Dalbert Myers
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The Greening of Whitney Brown
The Greening of Whitney Brown as Clerk
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The Cape
The Cape as Max Malini
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Community
Community as Narrator (voice)
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2010
Chasing 3000
Chasing 3000 as Officer L. highway patrolman
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Africa's Lost Eden
Africa's Lost Eden as Narrator
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Lottery Ticket
Lottery Ticket as Sweet Tee
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Something Like a Business
Something Like a Business as Sebastian
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Death at a Funeral
Death at a Funeral as Reverend Davis
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Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming as Terry
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Meet Monica Velour
Meet Monica Velour as Claude
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Chain Letter
Chain Letter as Det. Jim Crenshaw
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Hawaii Five-0
Hawaii Five-0 as Jimmy Cannon
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2009
Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia
Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia as Commander Scott Boytano
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Coraline
Coraline as Cat (voice)
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The Hitmen Diaries: Charlie Valentine
Pastor Brown
Pastor Brown as Pastor Brown
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All About Steve
All About Steve as Corbitt
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Blue
Blue as Terry Venable
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The Butcher
The Butcher as Larry Cobb
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Against the Dark
Against the Dark as Lt. Waters
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The Princess and the Frog
The Princess and the Frog as Dr. Facilier (voice)
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Beautiful Loser
Beautiful Loser as Morgan - Adult
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Don McKay
Don McKay as Otis Kent
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Numb3rs
Numb3rs
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2008
SIS
SIS as Joseph Armstrong
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Justice League: The New Frontier
Justice League: The New Frontier as The Centre (voice)
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The Fifth Commandment
The Fifth Commandment as Max "Coolbreeze" Templeton
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No Bad Days
No Bad Days as Terrence
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My Mom's New Boyfriend
My Mom's New Boyfriend as FBI Chief Conrad
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First Sunday
First Sunday as Judge B. Bennet Galloway
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Superhero Movie
Superhero Movie as The Chief of Police
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The Sensei
The Sensei as Minister
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The Candlelight Murders
The Candlelight Murders as Pastor Bob
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Canterbury's Law
Canterbury's Law
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The War
The War as Narrator
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2007
Delta Farce
Delta Farce as Sgt. Kilgore
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If I Had Known I Was a Genius
The Color Purple: The Color of Success
The Last Sentinel
The Last Sentinel as Colonel Norton
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2006
ATL
ATL as John Garnett
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Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil as MCPO Scott Boytano
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The Oh in Ohio
The Oh in Ohio as Coach Popovitch
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Forbidden Fruits
Forbidden Fruits as Rev. Walters
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ER
ER as Pastor Watkins
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2005
Dirty
Dirty as Captain Spain
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Crusades: Crescent & the Cross
Crusades: Crescent & the Cross as Narrator
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Transporter 2
Transporter 2 as Stappleton
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Father
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Crash
Crash as Lt. Dixon
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Grey's Anatomy
Grey's Anatomy as Lloyd Mackie
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2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid (voice)
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The Chronicles of Riddick
The Chronicles of Riddick as Imam
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The Last Stand of the Great Bear
The Last Stand of the Great Bear as Narrator
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Beef II
Beef II as Narrator
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Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
Teen Titans
Teen Titans as Atlas (voice)
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Nova
Nova as Narrator
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2003
Inside Mecca
Inside Mecca as Narrator
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Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked as Narrator (voice)
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Head of State
Head of State as Bernard Cooper
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Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom
Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom as Narrator (voice)
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Agent Cody Banks
Agent Cody Banks as CIA Director
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The Shakespeare Sessions
Hollywood Homicide
Hollywood Homicide as Leon
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Kaena: The Prophecy
Kaena: The Prophecy as Voxem (english voice)
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip as Narrator (voice)
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2002
National Geographic Explorer
National Geographic Explorer as Narrator
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29 Palms
29 Palms as The Sheriff
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain as Narrator (voice)
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Barbershop
Barbershop as Lester Wallace
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain as Narrator (voice)
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Matt Phelps
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2001
Home Invaders
Home Invaders as Matador
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Boxing: In and Out of the Ring
Boxing: In and Out of the Ring as Narrator
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as Council Member (voice)
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Pretty When You Cry
Pretty When You Cry as Detective Charles Desett
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Empires: Egypt's Golden Empire
Empires: Egypt's Golden Empire as Narrator
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The Job
The Job
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Jazz
Jazz as Narrator
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2000
Pitch Black
Pitch Black as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
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Innocents
Innocents as Detective Davis
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Where the Heart Is
Where the Heart Is as Moses Whitecotten
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The Replacements
The Replacements as Lindell
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Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream as Big Tim
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The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits as Captain Ira Merit
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Law & Order
Law & Order as Bronx D.A. John Robertson
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1999
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle as Al Simmons/Spawn
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ATF
ATF as F.B.I. Director Richard Long
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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
1998
There's Something About Mary
There's Something About Mary as Charlie Jensen
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The Tiger Woods Story
The Tiger Woods Story as Earl Woods
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Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 as Al Simmons/Spawn
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1997
Hercules
Hercules as Apollo the Sun God
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Todd McFarlane's Spawn
Todd McFarlane's Spawn as Al Simmons / Spawn (voice)
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Executive Target
Executive Target as Lamar
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Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest as Algric Bartles
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Don King: Only in America
Don King: Only in America as Herbert Muhammad
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Volcano
Volcano as Lt. Ed Fox
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Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke as Okkoto and Narrator and Additional Voices
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Flipping
Flipping as Leo Richards, Gang Leader
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Spawn
Spawn as Spawn (voice)
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1996
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
Eye for an Eye
Eye for an Eye as Martin
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Larger Than Life
Larger Than Life as Hurst
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Johns
Johns as Homeless John
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The Grave
The Grave as The Priest
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Never Met Picasso
Never Met Picasso as Larry
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1995
Clockers
Clockers as André the Giant
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National Geographic Explorer
National Geographic Explorer as Narrator
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Blue in the Face
Blue in the Face as Jackie Robinson
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The Quick and the Dead
The Quick and the Dead as Sgt. Cantrell
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Dead Presidents
Dead Presidents as Kirby
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Fantastic Four: The Animated Series
1994
The Puppet Masters
The Puppet Masters as Alex Holland
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Gargoyles
Gargoyles as Goliath (voice)
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Aladdin
Aladdin
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1993
American Playhouse
American Playhouse as Big Willie
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There Are No Children Here
There Are No Children Here as John Paul Rivers
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as King Oliver
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The Last Outlaw
The Last Outlaw as Lovecraft
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1992
Nails
Nails as Noah Owens
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Final Analysis
Final Analysis as Detective Huggins
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Article 99
Article 99 as Luther Jermoe
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1991
Screen Two
Screen Two as Will
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1990
Men at Work
Men at Work as Louis Fedders
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Murder in Black and White
Murder in Black and White as Martin
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Marked for Death
Marked for Death as Max
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1989
Always
Always as Powerhouse
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1988
Bird
Bird as Buster Franklin
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Christmas in Tattertown
Christmas in Tattertown as Saxophone (voice)
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Ladykillers
Ladykillers as Abe
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Stars and Bars
Stars and Bars as Eugene Teagarden
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They Live
They Live as Frank Armitage
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Off Limits
Off Limits as Maurice
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The Equalizer
The Equalizer as Cristo
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1987
Hot Pursuit
Hot Pursuit as Alphonso
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1986
Platoon
Platoon as King
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1982
The Thing
The Thing as Childs
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2022
In Search of Tomorrow
2021
Mr Nelson on the North Side
2019
2018
Platoon: Brothers in Arms
Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story
2017
2016
The Men of Outpost 31
2010
New York Street Games
2006
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
2001
Empires: Egypt's Golden Empire