Keith David

ACTOR, SOUNDTRACK, PRODUCER

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Keith David was born Keith David Williams in New York City's Harlem district, and was raised in East Elmhurst, in the Queens section of the city. He is the son of Dolores (Dickenson), a New York Telephone manager, and Lester Williams, a payroll operations director. As a child, he realized he wanted to act after playing the cowardly lion in his school's production of "The Wizard of Oz." He later enrolled in New York's High School of the Performing Arts and continued his studies at Juilliard. After graduation, he was hired as an understudy for Tullus Aufidius in William Shakespeare's "Coriolanus." In 1992, he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his role in the Broadway play "Jelly's Last Jam."Keith's extraordinary range of talent is evidenced by his body of work. His films include "The Princess and the Frog", "Coraline", and "Crash". Other credits are "Barbershop", "Agent Cody Banks", and "Requiem for a Dream". Prior to that, Keith was featured in "There's Something About Mary", "Armageddon" and "Dead Presidents". Keith has received Emmy Awards for his narration of two Ken Burns documentaries: "The War" and "Unforgivable Blackness", and was nominated for his narration of "Jazz". He received a daytime Emmy nomination for his work in Showtime's "The Tiger Wood's Story". Keith David gained wide attention in 1986 for his role as King in the Oscar winning film "Platoon". Other of his over 75 film credits includes "Men at Work", "Clockers", and "Pitch Black". Keith has also worked with notable directors including Clint Eastwood ("Bird"), Steven Spielberg ("Always") and John Carpenter ("The Thing" and "They Live"). Born in Harlem, New York and raised in East Elmhurst, Queens, Keith sang in the all borough choir as a boy. He knew he wanted to act at the age of nine when he appeared as the cowardly lion in his school's production of "The Wizard of Oz". He later attended New York's famed High School of the Performing Arts and then graduated from Juilliard. There he studied under such voice and speech teachers as Robert Williams and Edith Skinner. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Matt Dicker and Silvermine Entertainment

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Keith David’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Keith David on average has worked on 6 movies per year from 1982 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Keith David movies released per year from 2010 till 2021.

Top Genres

Keith David works mostly in Documentary Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 24% of Keith David movies are Documentary Genre movies. See Top Genres that Keith David worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Keith David has worked on is 6.5.

6.5 / 10

Keith David's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Documentary,History,War
The War (2007)

A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.

9/10124 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Documentary,History,Music
Jazz (2001)

A survey of the musical form's history and major talents.

8.6/10114 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Crime,Documentary
City Confidential (1998)

City Confidential features real life stories in a wide variety of American cities. While many of these stories deal with murder, some also deal with attempted murder, and public officials caught in compromising situations, among other things. The cities featured vary widely in size, from the smallest village to the largest urban areas.

8.6/1050 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Documentary
Wild Daze (2020)

Covering the dire elephant poaching crisis: poachers, rangers, victims and those who save the elephants. An unbridled terrorist-driven slaughter of the African elephant; weighs both the human and environmental toll.

8.5/10100 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight boxing champion.

8.3/10214 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Journey to the untamed Great Bear Rain Forest where the wildlife is like nothing you have ever seen.

8.3/1056 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Documentary
Jackie Robinson (2016)

Documentary chronicles the personal and professional life of Jackie Robinson from his birth in 1919 to his death in 1972. Robinson's rise from humble beginnings to became an American hero and pivotal figure in American history are detailed.

8.2/10240 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Horror,Mystery,Sci-Fi
The Thing (1982)

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

8.2/10109 min

Available in 10 platform(s).