This legend has been on our WISH LIST for many years, and we knew that we needed Husk for our HUGE Hazbin Hotel cast reunion this year. Keith David has an amazing resume in film, television, voice acting, narration, and on stage. Please welcome Keith to the 2025 Washington State Summer Con lineup in Puyallup from June 20th through the 22nd.
Keith has starred in such films as The Thing, Platoon, Road House, Men at Work, Final Analysis, The Quick and the Dead, Larger than Life, Armageddon, Where the Heart Is, Novocaine, Head of State, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Gamer, and American Fiction. He starred as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the NBC series Community and starred as Bishop James Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama Greenleaf.
In animation, characters that he has voiced include Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog and the Cat in Coraline. On television, he portrayed Goliath in Gargoyles, Al Simmons / Spawn in Todd McFarlane’s Spawn, The Flame King in Adventure Time, Andre Curtis / The President in Rick and Morty, King Andrias in Amphibia, Dr. Tenma in Pluto, Husk in Hazbin Hotel, and Mephisto in Hit-Monkey.
His Emmy-winning voice-over career includes work as the narrator of Ken Burns films such as Jazz, The War, and Muhammad Ali. He has worked narrating Burns’ Mark Twain, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson, and Leonardo da Vinci. David won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his work in The War and Unforgivable Blackness. He performs the narration duties in the BBC documentary, World War II: Behind Closed Doors.
Video game roles include the Arbiter Thel ‘Vadamee in the Halo franchise, Julius Little and himself in the Saints Row series, Admiral Anderson in the Mass Effect series, Chaos in Dissidia Final Fantasy, Sergeant Foley in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Grimlock in Transformers: EarthSpark and Commander Zavala in Destiny 2: The Final Shape.