Keith David was born in New York City's Harlem district and raised in East Elmhurst, in the Queens section of the city. As a child, he realized he wanted to act after playing the cowardly lion in his school's production of "The Wizard of Oz." He later enrolled in New York's High School of the Performing Arts and continued his studies at Juilliard... (imdb)

Credits include: Lost in Space, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest, Held at Reno, Nevada, July 4, 1910 and The September Sessions