Keith David (born June 4, 1956; age 68) is an American screen and voice actor, comedian, and singer. In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Chatterbox Gary," he does the voice of the chatterbox translation collar.
Biography[]
David was born in Harlem, New York City, and raised in Corona, Queens. His mother, Dolores (née Dickenson), was a manager at New York Telephone, and his father, Lester Williams, worked as a director of payroll operations.
He initially intended to become an actor after playing the Cowardly Lion in a school production of The Wizard of Oz and went on to study at Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts. He attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division (1975–1979, Group 8) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1979.
In 1980–81, David toured the country with John Houseman's The Acting Company in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Less than two years later, he went on to star as Childs, opposite Kurt Russell in John Carpenter's The Thing, and his lengthy on-screen career had begun. In the 1980s run of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he portrayed Keith the Southwood Carpenter in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe segments. He also played Keith, the game coin collector in an episode where Rogers and a small child learn to play the arcade game Donkey Kong.
David also works extensively as a voice actor, he was the voice of Goliath from Gargoyles, the title character in the Spawn animated series, and Lemuel Kane in Archer. In the English dub of Princess Mononoke, David played the narrator and Okkoto. He played the role of Mama in the English dub of 3×3 Eyes. He provided the voice for the character Decker in the role-playing video game Fallout and the voice for the character Vhailor in Planescape: Torment. He provided the voice of the Arbiter for the video game Halo 2, released in 2004; later, he reprised that role in the Xbox 360 follow-up Halo 3. He portrayed the character again in Halo: The Master Chief Collection and also in Halo 5: Guardians, released in 2014 and 2015 respectively. He played the role of Captain David Anderson in BioWare's Mass Effect series.
Non-SpongeBob discography[]
Television[]
- Gargoyles - Goliath
- Todd McFarlane's Spawn - Al Simmons / Spawn
- The Legend of Tarzan - Tublat
- Adventure Time - Flame King
- Archer - Lemuel Kane
- Regular Show - Streaming
- Amphibia (removed) - King Andrias
Films[]
- Platoon - King
- Coraline - The Cat
- The Princess and the Frog - Dr. Faciler
- The Thing - Childs
- Free Birds - Chief Broadbeak
- DC League of Super-Pets - Dog-El
Video games[]
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Sgt. Foley
- Halo 2 - Arbiter
- Halo 3 - Arbiter
- Halo 5: Guardians - Arbiter
- Mortal Kombat 11 - Al Simmons, Spawn
Roles[]
External links[]
- Keith David on Wikipedia
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