David Lemuel Keith is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

. He received Golden Globe

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...

 nominations for Best Supporting Actor and New Star of the Year – Actor for his performance in An Officer and a Gentleman

An Officer and a Gentleman

A Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American drama film that tells the story of a U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate who comes into conflict with the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who trains him. It was written by Douglas Day Stewart and directed by Taylor Hackford...

.

Career

Keith had an early supporting role in the prison film Brubaker

Brubaker

Brubaker is an American 1980 film about a prison in distress and the Warden Henry Brubaker who attempts to reform the system....

. He had a supporting role in The Rose

The Rose (film)

The Rose is a 1979 American musical drama film which tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star who struggles to cope with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager...

, starring Bette Midler, and later co-starred with Richard Gere

Richard Gere

Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol...

 in An Officer and a Gentleman

An Officer and a Gentleman

A Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American drama film that tells the story of a U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate who comes into conflict with the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who trains him. It was written by Douglas Day Stewart and directed by Taylor Hackford...

. Keith played a local thug in The Great Santini

The Great Santini

The Great Santini is a 1979 film which tells the story of a Marine officer whose success as a military aviator contrasts with his shortcomings as a husband and father. The film explores the high price of heroism and self-sacrifice...

, starred in The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline (film)

The Lords of Discipline is a 1983 film based on the novel by Pat Conroy and directed by Franc Roddam. The film stars David Keith, Robert Prosky, Judge Reinhold, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Michael Biehn, and Olympic boxer Mark Breland...

and White of the Eye

White of the Eye (film)

White of the Eye is a 1987 British thriller film directed by Donald Cammell and starring David Keith and Cathy Moriarty. It was adapted in film by Donald Cammell and his wife China Kong from the novel Mrs. White, written by Laurence and Andrew Klavan....

, and held a prominent supporting role in U-571

U-571 (film)

U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry...

opposite Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey

Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor.After a series of minor roles in the early 1990s, McConaughey gained notice for his breakout role in Dazed and Confused . He then appeared in films such as A Time to Kill, Contact, U-571, Tiptoes, Sahara, and We Are Marshall...

. He played opposite child-star Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore

Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer and model. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American actors and granddaughter of John Barrymore. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was 11 months old. Barrymore made her film debut in Altered...

 in the 1984 hit Firestarter

Firestarter (film)

Firestarter is a 1984 science fiction thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. The plot concerns a young girl who develops pyrokinesis and the secret government agency which seeks to control her. The film was directed by Mark L. Lester, and stars Drew Barrymore and David...

and Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields

Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress and model. Some of her better-known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon, as well as TV shows such as Suddenly Susan, That '70s Show and Lipstick Jungle....

 in 1992's Running Wild

Running Wild (1992 film)

Running Wild is a 1992 movie starring Brooke Shields, Martin Sheen and David Keith. The movie was written by Andrea Buck, Duncan McLachlan and John Varty. It is rated PG in the USA.-Plot:...

.

Keith played Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

 in the 1988 film Heartbreak Hotel

Heartbreak Hotel (film)

Heartbreak Hotel is a 1988 comedy film written and directed by Chris Columbus and starring David Keith and Tuesday Weld. Set in 1972, the story deals with one of the many "legends" involving Elvis Presley about his fictional kidnapping, and his subsequent redemption from decadence.The film was...

. He directed The Curse and The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (in which he also starred). He appeared in the 1995 film The Indian in the Cupboard

The Indian in the Cupboard (film)

The Indian in the Cupboard is a 1995 American fantasy film based on the children's book of the same name by Lynne Reid Banks. The story is about a boy who receives a cupboard as a gift on his ninth birthday...

as the cowboy "Boo-Hoo" Boone. He played the leading role of Nate Springfield in the 2003 film Hangman's Curse

Hangman's Curse (film)

Hangman's Curse is a movie released in 2003 which is based on the 2001 Christian novel, Hangman's Curse written by Frank Peretti.-Cast:*David Keith as Nate Springfield*Mel Harris as Sarah Springfield*Leighton Meester as Elisha Springfield...

. He also co-starred in The Class, an American sitcom

Situation comedy

A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

, as Yonk Allen, a retired professional football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player. Other roles include parts in Daredevil

Daredevil (film)

Daredevil is a 2003 American superhero film written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, the film stars Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who fights for justice in the courtroom and out of the courtroom as the masked vigilante Daredevil...

and the 2002 television film Carrie

Carrie (2002 film)

Carrie is a 2002 horror television film based on the novel Carrie by Stephen King, originally intended as a pilot for a TV series in which Carrie moves to Florida to help others with telekinetic problems, which never materialized...

. He appeared in the 2004 film Raise Your Voice

Raise Your Voice

Raise Your Voice is a 2004 American teen musical drama film directed by Sean McNamara-Plot:Terri Fletcher , a teenager with a passion for singing, has been accepted into a music program in Los Angeles to compete for a $10,000 scholarship shortly after her brother Paul 's tragic death in a car crash...

starring Hilary Duff

Hilary Duff

Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and author. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, she achieved fame playing the title role in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. She also reprised her role in...

, and the 2006 film Expiration Date

Expiration Date (film)

Expiration Date is an independent black comedy film that won many film festival awards.-Plot summary:The story is told by a Native American elderly man to a Native American boy who wants to give up dancing and leave the reservation by bus...

.

He has appeared on many television shows, including NCIS

NCIS (TV series)

NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...

, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...

, Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama...

, CSI: Miami

CSI: Miami

CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....

and High Incident

High Incident

High Incident is a police drama series produced by DreamWorks Television for the ABC network. The show was created by Steven Spielberg, Michael Pavone, Eric Bogosian and Dave Alan Johnson...

. In 2010, Keith co-starred as Robert Allen (James Wolk

James Wolk

James Joseph Wolk , also credited as Jimmy Wolk, is an American actor, known for his roles in the 2010 series Lone Star and the film You Again.-Career:...

) father of John Allen in the short lived TV drama Lone Star

Lone Star

- Locations :* Lone Star State, the official state nickname of Texas** Lone Star, Texas, a city in Morris County, Texas* Lone Star, California** Lone Star, Fresno County, California, an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California...

.

Personal life

Keith was born in Knoxville

Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, U.S.A., behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is the largest city in East Tennessee, and the second-largest city in the Appalachia region...

, Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

, the son of Hilda Earle, a worker for the Knox County Board of Education

Board of education

A board of education or a school board or school committee is the title of the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or higher administrative level....

, and Lemuel Grady Keith, Jr., a personnel division worker for the Tennessee Valley Authority

Tennessee Valley Authority

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected...

. He is of Scottish

Scottish American

Scottish Americans or Scots Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland. Scottish Americans are closely related to Scots-Irish Americans, descendants of Ulster Scots, and communities emphasize and celebrate a common heritage...

 ancestry.

Keith was a National Advisory Board member and spokesperson for PROTECT

PROTECT

Protect , or The National Association to Protect Children, is a political organization established in 2002 and dedicated to the protection of children from abuse, exploitation, and neglect. It is a nonprofit, 501 membership association with members in every U.S. state and 10 nations...

: The National Association to Protect Children. Keith was present during the sentencing phase for John Couey

John Couey

John Evander Couey was an American sex offender convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering nine-year old Jessica Lunsford in February 2005, in Florida. Lunsford's disappearance and Couey's subsequent confession and trial received extensive media coverage...

, who was convicted by a jury of his peers for kidnapping, raping, and murdering Jessica Lunsford

Jessica Lunsford

Jessica Marie Lunsford was a nine-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in Homosassa, Florida in the early morning of February 24, 2005. Believed held captive over the weekend, she was raped and later murdered by 47-year-old John Couey who lived nearby. The media covered the investigation...

. Keith said that he was planning on going to Washington D.C. with Mark Lunsford after the sentencing, to lobby Congress

United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

 for more support of child sexual predator laws. Keith gave an interview with Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor and estuary along the Gulf of Mexico on the west central coast of Florida, comprising Hillsborough Bay, Old Tampa Bay, Middle Tampa Bay, and Lower Tampa Bay."Tampa Bay" is not the name of any municipality...

 ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 affiliate WFTS-TV

WFTS-TV

WFTS, virtual channel 28, is the ABC affiliate television station for the Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida market, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 29. Its transmitter is located in Riverview, Florida.-History:...

 and was quoted saying this:

One of the great things I said about Mark (Lunsford) is he wants justice and he wants closure in this, he wants justice for his daughter. But what he really wants is to protect children and if we can get child molesters in jail, that's the way you protect children!

Keith married Nancy Clark, a realtor, in 2000 and the couple resides in Knoxville, TN.

As actor

• Happy Days
  Happy Days
  Happy Days is an American television sitcom that originally aired from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in mid-1950s to mid-1960s America....
  
  (TV series) (1978) - Fred Collins
• Co-ed Fever
  Co-Ed Fever
  Co-Ed Fever is an American sitcom that aired on CBS in 1979. The series attempted to capitalize on the success of the motion picture National Lampoon's Animal House. It was the third of three "frat house" comedy series to air in early 1979...
  
  (TV series) (1979) - Tuck
• Friendly Fire
  Friendly Fire (1979 film)
  Friendly Fire is an American television movie first broadcast on the ABC network on April 22, 1979. Watched that night by an estimated 64 million people, Friendly Fire went on to win four Emmy awards, including Outstanding Drama Special....
  
  (television film) (1979) - Leroy Hamilton
• The Great Santini
  The Great Santini
  The Great Santini is a 1979 film which tells the story of a Marine officer whose success as a military aviator contrasts with his shortcomings as a husband and father. The film explores the high price of heroism and self-sacrifice...
  
  (1979) - Red Petus
• The Rose
  The Rose (film)
  The Rose is a 1979 American musical drama film which tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star who struggles to cope with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager...
  
  (1979) - Pfc. Mal
• The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story (television film) (1980) - Wayne Robinson
• Brubaker
  Brubaker
  Brubaker is an American 1980 film about a prison in distress and the Warden Henry Brubaker who attempts to reform the system....
  
  (1980) - Larry Lee Bullen
• Back Roads
  Back Roads (1981 film)
  Back Roads is a 1981 American romantic comedy film starring Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones. It is directed by Martin Ritt. It got middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office.- Plot :...
  
  (1981) - Mason
• Take This Job and Shove It
  Take This Job and Shove It (film)
  Take This Job and Shove It is a 1981 film starring Robert Hays, Barbara Hershey, Art Carney, and David Keith, and directed by Gus Trikonis....
  
  (1981) - Harry Meade
• An Officer and a Gentleman
  An Officer and a Gentleman
  A Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American drama film that tells the story of a U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate who comes into conflict with the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who trains him. It was written by Douglas Day Stewart and directed by Taylor Hackford...
  
  (1982) - Sid Worley
• The Lords of Discipline
  The Lords of Discipline (film)
  The Lords of Discipline is a 1983 film based on the novel by Pat Conroy and directed by Franc Roddam. The film stars David Keith, Robert Prosky, Judge Reinhold, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Michael Biehn, and Olympic boxer Mark Breland...
  
  (1983) - Will McLean
• Independence Day
  Independence Day (1983 film)
  Independence Day is a 1983 film directed by Robert Mandel from a script by the novelist Alice Hoffman. It was designed by Stewart Campbell and shot by Charles Rosher...
  
  (1983) - Jack Parker
• Firestarter
  Firestarter (film)
  Firestarter is a 1984 science fiction thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. The plot concerns a young girl who develops pyrokinesis and the secret government agency which seeks to control her. The film was directed by Mark L. Lester, and stars Drew Barrymore and David...
  
  (1984) - Andrew 'Andy' McGee
• Gulag
  Gulag (film)
  Gulag is a 1985 drama film by Roger Young, aired originally on HBO and later released to home video.-Plot:TV reporter and former star athlete Mickey Almon is covering a World athletic event in Moscow when he is arrested by the KGB after being approached by a scientist wanting him to smuggle secret...
  
  (television film) (1985) - Mickey Almon
• If Tomorrow Comes
  If Tomorrow Comes
  If Tomorrow Comes is a 1985 crime fiction novel by American author Sidney Sheldon. It is a story pertaining an ordinary woman who is framed by a mafia, her quest for vengeance towards them and later life as a con artist...
  
  (TV mini-series) (1986) - Daniel Cooper
• White of the Eye
  White of the Eye (film)
  White of the Eye is a 1987 British thriller film directed by Donald Cammell and starring David Keith and Cathy Moriarty. It was adapted in film by Donald Cammell and his wife China Kong from the novel Mrs. White, written by Laurence and Andrew Klavan....
  
  (1987) - Paul White
• The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988) - Buck Malone
• Heartbreak Hotel
  Heartbreak Hotel (film)
  Heartbreak Hotel is a 1988 comedy film written and directed by Chris Columbus and starring David Keith and Tuesday Weld. Set in 1972, the story deals with one of the many "legends" involving Elvis Presley about his fictional kidnapping, and his subsequent redemption from decadence.The film was...
  
  (1988) - Elvis Presley
• Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North (television film) (1989) - Lt. Col. Oliver North
• The Two Jakes
  The Two Jakes
  The Two Jakes is a 1990 American mystery film, and a sequel to the 1974 film Chinatown.Directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, it also features Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Richard Farnsworth, Frederic Forrest, Pia Gronning, David Keith, Rubén Blades, Tracey Walter and Eli Wallach...
  
  (1990) - Det. Lt. Loach
• Off and Running
  Off and Running
  Off and Running is a 1991 American film starring singer and actress Cyndi Lauper as a mermaid-themed lounge singer who gets involved with a caring but troubled man. Because of his involvement with horse racing and breeding , the man is murdered in front of her, and she goes on the lam to escape his...
  
  (1991) - Jack Cornett
• Flesh 'n' Blood (TV series) (1991) - Arlo Weed
• Running Wild
  Running Wild (1992 film)
  Running Wild is a 1992 movie starring Brooke Shields, Martin Sheen and David Keith. The movie was written by Andrea Buck, Duncan McLachlan and John Varty. It is rated PG in the USA.-Plot:...
  
  (1992) - Jack Hutton
• Caged Fear (1992) - Tommy Lane
• Liar's Edge (1992) - Gary Kirkpatrick
• Distant Cousins (1993) - Harry Young
• Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica (television film) (1993) - Dan Schmidt
• Major League II
  Major League II
  Major League II is a 1994 sequel to the 1989 film Major League. Major League II stars most of the same cast from the original, including Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Corbin Bernsen. Absent from this film is Wesley Snipes, who played Willie Mays Hayes in the first film and who by 1994 had become...
  
  (1994) - Jack Parkman
• XXX's & OOO's (television film) (1994) - Bullet Dobbs
• Raw Justice
  Raw Justice
  Raw Justice also known as Good Cop, Bad Cop or Strip Girl is a 1994 film starring Stacy Keach, David Keith, Airplane! star Robert Hays and Pamela Anderson.- Plot summary :...
  
  (1994) - Mace
• Temptation (1994) - Bone Babancourt
• Texas
  James A. Michener's Texas
  James A. Michener's Texas is a 1994 ABC television movie directed by Richard Lang and starring Patrick Duffy as Stephen Austin, Stacy Keach as Sam Houston, Chelsea Field as Maddie Quimper, Rick Schroder as Otto McNab, Grant Show as William Travis, David Keith as Jim Bowie, John Schneider as Davy...
  
  (1994) - Jim Bowie
  Jim Bowie
  James "Jim" Bowie , a 19th-century American pioneer, slave trader, land speculator, and soldier, played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo...
  
  
• Ernest Goes to School
  Ernest Goes to School
  Ernest Goes to School is a 1994 comedy film written and directed by Coke Sams and starring Jim Varney. It is the seventh film to feature the character Ernest P. Worrell, and the first to be released direct-to-video. It never had a DVD release in Region 1. This motion picture is also the only film...
  
  (1994) - Squint Westwood
• Till the End of the Night (1995) - Garrett Hill
• Deadly Sins
  Deadly Sins (film)
  Deadly Sins is a 1995 film directed by Michael Robison. Deadly Sins had a limited VHS release. In Germany, the movie was released on VHS under the title Sins.-Plot:...
  
  (1995) - Jack Gales
• The Indian in the Cupboard
  The Indian in the Cupboard (film)
  The Indian in the Cupboard is a 1995 American fantasy film based on the children's book of the same name by Lynne Reid Banks. The story is about a boy who receives a cupboard as a gift on his ninth birthday...
  
  (1995) - Boo-hoo Boone
• Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
  Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
  Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain is a 1995 drama film starring Christina Ricci and Anna Chlumsky. It takes place in the fictional town of Wheaton, Washington, but was filmed on location in Norfolk, Virginia, Vancouver, B.C, Nelson, B.C, Pleasant Grove, Utah, and Pemberton, B.C....
  
  (1995) - Ray Karnisak
• If Looks Could Kill (television film) (1996) - Det. Peter Stanford
• A Family Thing (1996) - Sonny
• Judge and Jury (1996) - Joseph Meeker
• Overblood
  Overblood
  Overblood is a science fiction video game developed by Riverhillsoft and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation. It is considered one of the first survival horror games to make use of a fully three-dimensional virtual environment, second only to Riverhillsoft's own Doctor Hauzer, a fully...
  
  (Video game) (1996) - Raz (voice only)
• Invasion of Privacy (1996) - Sgt. Rutherford
• High Incident
  High Incident
  High Incident is a police drama series produced by DreamWorks Television for the ABC network. The show was created by Steven Spielberg, Michael Pavone, Eric Bogosian and Dave Alan Johnson...
  
  (TV series) (1996–1997) - Jim Marsh
• Red-Blooded American Girl II (1997) - Mr. Colbert
• Ambushed (1998) - Deputy Lawrence
• The Outer Limits
  The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)
  The Outer Limits is an American television series that originally aired on Showtime,the Sci Fi Channel and in syndication between 1995 and 2002...
  
  (TV series) (1998) - Major Jason Mercer
• Perfect Prey (television film) (1998) - Dwayne Alan Clay
• Poodle Springs
  Poodle Springs (film)
  Poodle Springs is a 1998 neo-noir HBO film directed by Bob Rafelson starring James Caan, Dina Meyer, and David Keith. The film is based on the unfinished novel Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler, completed after his death by Robert B...
  
  (television film) (1998) - Larry Victor/Charles Nichols
• A Memory in My Heart (television film) (1999) - Matt
• Question of Privilege (1999) - Carter Roberts
• Secret of the Andes
  Secret of the Andes (film)
  Secret of the Andes is a 1999 Argentine family fantasy adventure film. Directed by Alejandro Azzano, it stars Roshan Seth as a powerful shaman, Camilla Belle as a young girl with unusual gifts, David Keith as her archaeologist father, Nancy Allen as her mother and John Rhys-Davies as a Catholic...
  
  (1999) - Brooks Willings
• One Last Score (1999) - Parole Officer Gilmore
• Walker, Texas Ranger
  Walker, Texas Ranger
  Walker, Texas Ranger is an American television action crime drama series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis, and starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first season consisting of three pilot episodes. Eight full...
  
  (TV series) (2000) - Cliff Eagleton
• Martial Law
  Martial Law (TV series)
  Martial Law was a TV crime drama that ran on CBS from 1998 to 2000, and was created by Carlton Cuse. The title character, Sammo Law, portrayed by Sammo Hung, was a Chinese law officer and martial arts expert who came to Los Angeles in search of a colleague and remains in the US.The show was a...
  
  (TV series) (2000) - Cliff Eagleton
• U-571
  U-571 (film)
  U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry...
  
  (2000) - Maj. Matthew Coonan
• Arli$$ (TV series) (2000) - Archie Michaels
• Men of Honor
  Men of Honor
  Men of Honor is a 2000 drama film, starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding, Jr. The film was directed by George Tillman, Jr...
  
  (2000) - Captain Hartigan
• Clover Bend (2001) - Mcgrary
• Cahoots (2001) - Harley
• Burning Down the House (2001) - Carolina
• Love and Treason (television film) (2001) - Eli Dixon
• Epoch
  Epoch (film)
  Epoch is a 2001 science fiction film directed by Matt Codd, starring David Keith, Stephanie Niznik, and Brian Thompson. In it, a strange monolith is discovered, and the team sent to study it encounters repeated disasters.-Marketing:...
  
  (television film) (2001) - Mason Rand
• World Traveler
  World Traveler
  World Traveler is a 2001 drama directed by Bart Freundlich. It stars Billy Crudup and Julianne Moore. It was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  (2001) - Richard
• Anthrax (2001) - Adam Stewart
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...
  
  (TV series) (2001) - Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins
• Behind Enemy Lines (2001) - Master Chief Tom O'Malley
• Constant Payne (unaired TV pilot) (2001) - Alexander "Doc" Payne
• The Stickup (2002) - Ray DeCarlo
• Mother Ghost (2002) - Carey
• Carrie
  Carrie (2002 film)
  Carrie is a 2002 horror television film based on the novel Carrie by Stephen King, originally intended as a pilot for a TV series in which Carrie moves to Florida to help others with telekinetic problems, which never materialized...
  
  (television film) (2002) - Detective John Mulchaey
• Sabretooth
  Sabretooth (film)
  Sabretooth is a 2002 made for television science fiction-horror film directed by James D.R. Hickox. It premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel on November 16, 2002.-Plot:...
  
  (television film) (2002) - Bob Thatcher
• Daredevil
  Daredevil (film)
  Daredevil is a 2003 American superhero film written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, the film stars Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who fights for justice in the courtroom and out of the courtroom as the masked vigilante Daredevil...
  
  (2003) - Jack Murdock
• Hangman's Curse
  Hangman's Curse (film)
  Hangman's Curse is a movie released in 2003 which is based on the 2001 Christian novel, Hangman's Curse written by Frank Peretti.-Cast:*David Keith as Nate Springfield*Mel Harris as Sarah Springfield*Leighton Meester as Elisha Springfield...
  
  (2003) - Nate Springfield
• Deep Shock
  Deep Shock
  Deep Shock is an American film which premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel on 2003. Its plot concerns an unknown underwater object that disables an American nuclear-powered submarine and attacks a submerged Arctic research complex. It was directed by Phillip J. Roth...
  
  (television film) (2003) - Capt. Andy Raines
• Epoch: Evolution (television film) (2003) - Mason Rand
• NCIS
  NCIS (TV series)
  NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...
  
  (TV series) (2004) - Capt. Mike Watson
• Raise Your Voice
  Raise Your Voice
  Raise Your Voice is a 2004 American teen musical drama film directed by Sean McNamara-Plot:Terri Fletcher , a teenager with a passion for singing, has been accepted into a music program in Los Angeles to compete for a $10,000 scholarship shortly after her brother Paul 's tragic death in a car crash...
  
  (2004) - Simon Fletcher
• All Souls Day
  All Souls Day (film)
  All Souls Day, or All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos, is a 2005 zombie film written by Mark A. Altman and directed by Jeremy Kasten. It premiered 11 June 2005 on Sci Fi Channel. There is also an uncut version on dvd.-Plot Overview:...
  
  (2005) - Sheriff Blanco
• Come Away Home (2005) - Sheriff Jantz
• Path of Destruction
  Path of Destruction (film)
  Path of Destruction is a 2005 made-for-TV TBS original film. It concerns a nanotechnology experiment gone awry.-Plot:After the government cuts funding to a nanotechnology project, the fictional company StarkCorp stores samples on an oil rig near Alaska. However, an accident releases the...
  
  (television film) (2005) - Roy Stark
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama...
  
  (TV series) (2005) - Detective Mark Virgini
• Locusts: The 8th Plague
  Locusts: The 8th Plague
  Locusts: The 8th Plague is a 2005 natural horror film directed by Ian Gilmour and starring Dan Cortese, Julie Benz and David Keith. The film is about a group of scientists who have to stop a swarm of flesh eating locusts that escape from a secret genetics laboratory in Idaho.-Plot:The film starts...
  
  (television film) (2005) - Gary
• Miracle Dogs Too (2006) - Mr. Mulvaney
• In Her Line of Fire
  In Her Line of Fire
  In Her Line of Fire is a 2006 film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring Mariel Hemingway, David Keith, David Millbern and Jill Bennett. It is also known as Air Force Two in several countries.Much of the filming was done in New Zealand...
  
  (2006) - Vice President Walker
• Expiration Date
  Expiration Date (film)
  Expiration Date is an independent black comedy film that won many film festival awards.-Plot summary:The story is told by a Native American elderly man to a Native American boy who wants to give up dancing and leave the reservation by bus...
  
  (2006) - Wild William
• Bottoms Up (2006) - Uncle Earl
• The Class (TV series) (2006–2007) - Yonk Allen
• Succubus: Hell Bent (2007) - Wallace
• Boys of Summerville (2008) - Joe
• CSI: Miami
  CSI: Miami
  CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
  
  (TV series) (2008) - Evan Caldwell
• Beneath the Blue
  Beneath the Blue (film)
  Beneath the Blue is a 2010 American drama film sequel to the 2007 Michael Sellers' film Eye of the Dolphin starring Carly Schroeder. It is distributed by Monterey Media and Quantum Entertainment. The film was written by the same writer as the prequel, Wendell Morris. The film stars Paul Wesley,...
  
  (2010) - Hawk
• Unrequited (2010) - Nate Grissom
• Lone Star (TV series) (2010) - John Allen
• Hawaii Five-0 (TV series) (2011) - Navy SEAL Team Nine Commanding Officer Wade Gutches
• Nikita
  Nikita
  Nikita is a French thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson; it was released in the United States as La Femme Nikita. The film is about a young criminal who is recruited to work for French intelligence. Nikita was remade into the U.S...
  
  (TV series) (2011) - Richard Ellison

As director

• The Curse
  The Curse (1987 film)
  The Curse is a 1987 horror film adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space directed by David Keith.-Plot:Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr...
  
  (1987)
• The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988)

External links

• Biography at CBS's The Class