Keith David

Keith David Williams is an American actor and voice actor, known for his distinctive deep husky voice.
For Disney, he most notably voiced Goliath, Thailog, and Officer Morgan in Gargoyles and Dr. Facilier, the main antagonist of the 2009 Disney animated feature film The Princess and the Frog. He also voiced Mr. Pig in the Timon & Pumbaa episode "Animal Barn", Tublat in The Legend of Tarzan, a Card Soldier in the House of Mouse episode "The Stolen Cartoons", and the Cheshire Cat in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. Additionally, he took over the voice role of Glossaryck in Star vs. the Forces of Evil (beginning with the Season 3 finale "Conquer" and for the rest of the series), Manny the Headless Man-Horse in the DuckTales reboot finale "The Last Adventure!", King Andrias in Amphibia, narrated The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse, and Clone Bebe in the The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder episode "Us Again", which originated in The Proud Family Movie. He also played Kirby in the 1995 Hollywood Pictures film Dead Presidents, General Kimsey in the 1998 Touchstone Pictures film Armageddon, and Alex Holland in The Puppet Masters. In 2024, he was announced as the voice of Mufasa's father Masego, after having voiced Mufasa himself in the video game Simba's Mighty Adventures and during the House of Mouse shorts, along with the role of Mr Pig during the Timon and Pumbaa series.
Outside of Disney, David appeared in films, such as The Thing (1982), Platoon, Bird, Road House, There's Something About Mary, Requiem for a Dream, Barbershop, Volcano, The Chronicles of Riddick, Coraline, and Nope as well as television shows, like Grey's Anatomy, Community, Greenleaf, Spawn, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty, Black-ish, The Flash, and Hazbin Hotel. Including the 2016 Frog Show Kulipari. He even Narrated some National Geographic Documentaries.
==Filmography==
Year 	Title 	Role
1994–1995	Aladdin 	Minos, King Zahbar
1994–1997	Gargoyles 	Goliath, Thailog, Officer Morgan, Hood #2
1996 	Timon & Pumbaa 	Mr. Pig
1996 	The Hunchback of Notre Dame 	Additional voices
1997 	Hercules 	Apollo
1998 	Hercules: The Series 	Apollo
2001 	The Legend of Tarzan 	Tublat
2001–2002	House of Mouse 	Additional Voices
2005 	The Proud Family Movie 	BeBe Clone
2009 	The Princess and the Frog 	Dr. Facilier
2018 	Tangled: The Series 	Additional Voices
2018–2019	Star vs. the Forces of Evil 	Glossaryck
2019 	Avengers Assemble 	T'Chaka
2020–2022	Amphibia 	King Andrias, Leviathan
2021 	DuckTales 	Manny the Headless Man-Horse
2022 	The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse 	Narrator
2022–2023	Firebuds 	Manny Kablamee
2023 	The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder	Clone BeBe
2024 	Mufasa: The Lion King 	Masego
==Roles==
Goliath.jpg|Goliath(Gargoyles)
ThailogCU.png|Thailog(Gargoyles)
Gargoyles - Officer Morgan Morgan.png|Morgan Morgan(Gargoyles)
Hercules-br-disneyscreencaps jpg (1).png|Apollo(Hercules franchise)
Sloc1092.jpg|Minos(Aladdin TV series)
Gr194.jpg|King Zahbar(Aladdin TV series)
Mr. Pig.png|Mr. Pig(Timon & Pumbaa)
Naipes HouseOfMouse.png|Card Soldier(House of Mouse; "The Stolen Cartoons")
Tublatanger.png|Tublat(The Legend of Tarzan)
Princess-and-the-frog-dr-facilier.jpg|Dr. Facilier(The Princess and the Frog)
Glossaryck.jpg|Glossaryck(Star vs. the Forces of Evil; "Conquer"–Season 4)
DuckTales(2017)-S03E22-TheLastAdventure!-MannyGoliath-02.png|Manny the Headless Man-Horse(DuckTales reboot)
King Andrias.png|King Andrias(Amphibia)
K David Armageddon.jpg|General Kimsey(Armageddon)
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland - 1x01 - Down the Rabbit Hole - Cheshire Cat.jpg|Cheshire Cat(Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
File:Masego.jpeg|Masego(Mufasa: The Lion King)
==Gallery==
Keith David 2.JPG|Keith David in 2006.
Keith David behind the scenes of PatF.jpg|Keith David behind the scenes of The Princess and the Frog.
Keith David PatF premiere.jpg|Keith David at the premiere of The Princess and the Frog in November 2009.
Keith David SDCC.jpg|Keith David speaks at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con.
Keith David Summer TCA Tour13.jpg|Keith David speaks at the panel at the 2013 Summer TCA Tour.
Keith David Tribeca16.jpg|Keith David attending the 2016 Tribeca Film Fest.
Keith David at NAACP Awards.jpg|Keith David attending the 49th NAACP Image Awards in January 2018.
==Trivia==
*David was initially cast as the role of Ernest Vigman in the ultimately unproduced Marvel series New Warriors; had the show been picked up, his character would have become M.O.D.O.K..
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