David Keith Biography, Age, Family, Wife, Movies and Net Worth

David Keith Biography

David Keith (David Lemuel Keith) is an American actor and director. David’s breakthrough role was that of aspiring Navy pilot Sid Worley in An Officer and also a Gentleman (1982), for which he was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards.

He had positive reception for this role which led him to lead parts in the films The Lords of Discipline (1983), Firestarter (1984), and White of the Eye (1987). He also had notable supporting roles in features including The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), U-571 (2000), Men of Honor (2000), and also Daredevil (2003).

Keith is an avid University of Tennessee Volunteers fan and is also present on the sidelines for Volunteer football games when his schedule allows.

How Old Is David Keith?

David Lemuel Keith was born on May 8, 1954, in Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. He is 64 years old as of 2018.

David Keith Family

David was born to Hilda Earle, a worker for the Knox County Board of Education, and Lemuel Grady Keith, Jr., a personnel division worker for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He has a cousin, Mike Keith, play-by-play announcer for the Tennessee Titans NFL football team.

David Keith Wife

He married Nancy Clark, a realtor, in 2000 and they reside in Knoxville, Tennessee. The couple has two children.

David Keith Actor

David had an early supporting role in the prison film Brubaker. He also had supporting roles in The Rose, starring Bette Midler, and An Officer and a Gentleman, with Richard Gere. He played a local thug in The Great Santini, starred in The Lords of Discipline and White of the Eye, and also held a prominent supporting role in U-571 opposite Matthew McConaughey. Keith played opposite child-star Drew Barrymore in the 1984 hit Firestarter and Brooke Shields in 1992’s Running Wild. David is also well known for his role as Jack Parkman in Major League II starring Charlie Sheen and also Tom Berenger.

He played Elvis Presley in the 1988 film Heartbreak Hotel. He also directed The Curse and The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (in which he also starred). David appeared in Ernest Goes to School as Squint Westwood (a spoof of Clint Eastwood) and also in The Indian in the Cupboard as the cowboy “Boo-Hoo” Boone. He also played the leading role of Nate Springfield in the 2003 film Hangman’s Curse. He then co-starred in The Class, an American sitcom, as Yonk Allen, who is a retired professional football player. His other roles include parts in Daredevil and in the 2002 television film Carrie. David appeared in the 2004 film Raise Your Voice starring Hilary Duff, and also the 2006 film Expiration Date.

Keith has also appeared on many television series, including NCIS, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, CSI: Miami, High Incident and Hawaii Five-0. He co-starred as John Allen, father of Robert Allen (James Wolk) in the short-lived television drama Lone Star in 2010.

David Keith Net Worth

The An Officer and a Gentleman star has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.

David Keith Movies

Year

Title

Role

2019

The Gettysburg Address

Frederick Douglass(voice)

17 Bridges

2018

Tales from the Hood 2

Portifoy Simms

Night School

Gerald Walker

You Might Be the Killer

2017

Savage Dog

Valentine

American Dresser

John Moore

2016

Range 15

Colonel Holloway

The Nice Guys

Older Guy

Nina

Clifton’s Father

Dirty Lies

Doc

2015

Kids vs Monsters

Barry

Boiling Pot

Agent Long

Huevos: Little Rooster’s Egg-cellent Adventure

Don Alfonso (voice)

Union Furnace

Pin Stripe

2014

Field of Lost Shoes

Old Judge

Secrets of the Magic City

Mr. Daniels

Birds of Paradise

Old Buzzard (voice)

2013

Assault on Wall Street

Freddy

Free Birds

Chief Broadbeak (voice)

The Frog Kingdom

Frog King (voice)

Sons of Liberty

Nathan Reynolds

H4

Worcester

2012

Cloud Atlas

Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient

Smiley

Diamond

Hillbilly Highway

Mustafa

Don’t Pass Me By

David Knox

The Last Fall

Sydney Bishop

The Undershepherd

Brother Wilks

Christmas in Compton

Big Earl

2011

The Inheritance

Uncle Melvin

No Saints for Sinners

Victor

The Greening of Whitney Brown

Clerk

Snowflake, the White Gorilla

Anvil (voice)

Hopelessly In June

Dalbert Myers

2010

Death at a Funeral

Reverend Davis

Lottery Ticket

Sweet Tee

Chasing 3000

Officer L.

Stomp the Yard: Homecoming

Terry Harris

Something Like a Business

Sebastian

Chain Letter

Detective Jim Crenshaw

Meet Monica Velour

Claude

Spork

Coach Jenkins

2009

Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia

Commander Scott Boytano

Coraline

The Cat (voice)

Against the Dark

Lt. Col. Wyaters

Charlie Valentine

Sal

Don McKay

Otis Kent

The Butcher

Larry Cobb

The Princess and the Frog

Doctor Facilier (voice)

Gamer

Agent Keith

All About Steve

Corbitt

Pastor Brown

Pastor Joe Brown

2008

Beautiful Loser

Adult Morgan

First Sunday

Judge B. Bennet Galloway

Justice League: The New Frontier

The Centre (voice)

Superhero Movie

The Chief of Police

My Mom’s New Boyfriend

FBI Chief Conrad

The Fifth Commandment

Max “Coolbreeze” Templeton

No Bad Days

Terrence

The Sensei

The Minister

2007

If I Had Known I Was a Genius

Dad

Delta Farce

Sergeant Kilgore

The Last Sentinel

Colonel Norton

2006

The Oh in Ohio

Coach Popovitch

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

MCPO Scott Boytano

ATL

John Garnett

2005

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Father

Transporter 2

Stappleton

Dirty

Captain Spain

2004

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

CIA Director

The Chronicles of Riddick

Imam Abu al-Walid

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury

Imam Abu al-Walid (voice)

Crash

Lieutenant Dixon

Beef II

Narrator (voice)

2003

Kaena: The Prophecy

Voxem (voice)

Agent Cody Banks

CIA Director

Head of State

Bernard Cooper

Hollywood Homicide

Leon

The Hard Road

Narrator (voice)

2002

29 Palms

The Sheriff

Barbershop

Lester Wallace

2001

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Council Member #1 (voice)

Novocaine

Detective Lunt

Pretty When You Cry

Detective Charles Desett

2000

Dark Summer

Detective Davis

Pitch Black

Abu ‘Imam’ al-Walid

Requiem for a Dream

Big Tim

Where the Heart Is

Moses Whitecotten

The Replacements

Lindell

1998

Armageddon

General Kimsey

There’s Something About Mary

Mary’s Dad

1997

Volcano

Police Lieutenant Ed Fox

Hercules

Apollo (voice)

Executive Target

Lamar

Princess Mononoke

Okkoto, Narrator (voices)

Flipping

Leo Richards

1996

Loose Women

Stylist

The Grave

The Priest

Eye for an Eye

Martin

Larger than Life

Hurst

Never Met Picasso

Larry

Johns

Homeless John

1995

Clockers

André the Giant

Dead Presidents

Kirby

The Quick and the Dead

Sgt. Cantrell

Blue in the Face

Jackie Robinson

1994

Reality Bites

Roger

The Puppet Masters

Alex Holland

1992

Final Analysis

Detective Huggins

Nails

Noah Owens

Article 99

Luther Jermoe

1990

Men at Work

Louis Fedders

Marked for Death

Max

1989

Road House

Ernie Bass

Always

Powerhouse

1988

Braddock: Missing in Action III

Embassy Gate Captain

Off Limits

Specialist Five Maurice

Stars and Bars

Eugene Teagarden

Bird

Buster Franklin

They Live

Frank Armitage

1987

Hot Pursuit

Alphonso

1986

Platoon

King

The Whoopee Boys

Washington Square Peddler

1982

The Thing

Childs

1979

Disco Godfather

Club Patron

Is David Keith Related To Brian Keith

There is no available proof that David and Brian are related in any way.

David Keith Height

He stands at a height of 1.83 m.