Keith David played in 51 movies in the Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Music, Action, Drama, War, Crime, Comedy, Romance, Western, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Family, Short, Musical genres.
Keith David got succeed with average imdb rating 5.9.
Actor, singer, and participation actor Keith David has dead beat much of his career on the stage, but also generally works in feature films and on boob tube. A first of New York City, David first performed as a daughter, singing in the All Borough Chorus and later attended the eminent School of Performing Arts. Ere long after graduating from Juilliard, where he feigned spokesman and theater, David landed a role in a production of Coriolanus at Joseph Papp's Public Theater.
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... tarred opposite Christopher Walken. David made his Broadway debut in Albee's The Lady From Dubuque (1980) and, two years later, had his first overlay role in John Carpenter's The Device. He would not put in an appearance in another feature film until he played King in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986). In between, David alternated between place and television commission. He appeared in five films in 1988, including Clint Eastwood's Bird, where he gave a memorable performance as jazz sax player Buster Franklin. In 1992, David showed his considerable skilfulness as a choir girl and dancer and won a Tony nomination an eye to starring in the musical Jelly's Last Jam, antithesis Gregory Hines. David's film rush indeed picked up in the mid-'90s, with roles ranging from a gunslinger in Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead to a Creative York cop in Spike Lee's Clockers to an amputee who owns a merge parlor in Unfruitful Presidents (all 1995). In 1998, David had a brief but unforgettable part as Cameron Diaz's boisterous stepfather in the Farrelly fellow-creature's zany Something Around Mary.
In bromide of the smokescreen's funniest scenes, David tries to help Diaz's prom date, Ben Stiller, extricate himself from an embarrassingly discomfiting situation. He is also well known to animation fans for his words under way in, among other projects, Disney's Gargoyles, HBO's Spawn, and the English-dubbed translation of the Japanese-vivacious veil Princess Mononoke.
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