FrameThrower · Actors · David Keith
David Keith
4 films · 456 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1987–2001
Born 4 June 1956 · Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Keith David Williams is an American actor. He is mostly known for his bass voice and screen presence in over 400 roles across film, stage, television, and interactive media.
He has starred in such films as The Thing (1982), Platoon (1986), They Live (1988), Dead Presidents(1995), Armageddon (1998), There's Something About Mary (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pitch Black (2000), Barbershop (2002), Crash (2004), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Nice Guys (2016), Nope (2022), and American Fiction (2023).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 456 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1987–2001
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator2016
How their films are shot
Measured across 456 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work David takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 59% of their frames are day, 59% natural — the look of the work David takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 456 frames from David Keith's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.