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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.<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n 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.” <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n David has provided voices for such animation projects as “The Princess and the Frog”; “Gargoyles”; “Rick and Morty”; and “Family Guy.”<\/p>\n 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.”<\/p>\n The star is the 2,847th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nbclosangeles.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2445254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[314867],"class_list":["post-2445253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-hollywood-walk-of-fame"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Actor-Keith-David-gets-a-star-on-Hollywood-Walk-of.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445255,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445253\/revisions\/2445255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2445254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}