Actor Keith David was honored for his movie career on Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as a number of dignities, including Mayor Karen Bass, attended the star-unveiling ceremony.
David, who turned 70 Thursday, graduated from Manhattan’s High School of Performing Arts in 1975 and the Juilliard School in 1979. In 1980-81, he toured the country with John Houseman’s The Acting Company in productions of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Waiting for Godot.”
David’s other film credits include “Dead Presidents,” “Armageddon,” “There’s Something About Mary,” “Requiem for a Dream,” “Pitch Black,” “Barbershop,” “Crash,” “The Chronicles of Riddick,” “Cloud Atlas,” “The Nice Guys” and “Nope.”
David has received acclaimed for his work as a narrator and voice in animation. He received two Emmys for outstanding voce-over performance for “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise And Fall Of Jack Johnson” in 2005 and “The War” in 2008.
David has provided voices for such animation projects as “The Princess and the Frog”; “Gargoyles”; “Rick and Morty”; and “Family Guy.”
The star is next to the star of Nat King Cole. David portrayed the legendary singer in the touring theatrical and musical tribute shows “Too Marvelous for Words: A Celebration of Nat King Cole” and ”Let There Be Love.”
The star is the 2,847th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.
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