Keith David
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Harlem, New York, USA
Actor, singer, and voice actor Keith David has spent much of his career on the stage, but also frequently works in feature films and on television. A native of New York City, David first performed as a child, singing in the All Borough Chorus and later attended the prestigious High School of Performing Arts. Shortly after graduating from Juilliard, where he studied voice and theater, David landed a role in a production of Coriolanus at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. He starred opposite Christopher Walken. David made his Broadway debut in Albee's The Lady From Dubuque (1980) and, two years later, had his first film role in John Carpenter's The Thing. He would not appear in another feature film until he played King in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986). In between, David alternated between stage and television work. He appeared in five films in 1988, including Clint Eastwood's Bird, where he gave a memorable performance as jazz sax player Buster Franklin. In 1992, David showed his considerable skill as a singer and dancer and won a Tony nomination for starring in the musical Jelly's Last Jam, opposite Gregory Hines. David's film career really picked up in the mid-'90s, with roles ranging from a gunslinger in Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead to a New York cop in Spike Lee's Clockers to an amputee who owns a pool parlor in Dead Presidents (all 1995). In 1998, David had a brief but memorable role as Cameron Diaz's boisterous stepfather in the Farrelly brother's zany Something About Mary. In one of the film's funniest scenes, David tries to help Diaz's prom date, Ben Stiller, extricate himself from an embarrassingly sticky situation. He is also well known to animation fans for his voice work in, among other projects, Disney's Gargoyles, HBO's Spawn, and the English-dubbed version of the Japanese-animated film Princess Mononoke. In 2000 he appeared in Requiem for a Dream, Pitch Black, and Where the Heart Is, as well as providing the narration of Ken Burns documentary on the history of jazz. He continued to work steadily in a variety of projects including Barbershop, 29 Palms, Agent Cody Banks, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and the 2005 Oscar winner for Best Picture, Crash. He also found work in Transporter 2, The Oh in Ohio, Meet Monica Velour, Lottery Ticket, and the 2010 remake of Death at a Funeral.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Insight |
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— | 2021 |
0% | The Seventh Day |
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— | 2021 |
No Score Yet | Black as Night |
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— | 2021 |
No Score Yet | The 420 Movie |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Wild Daze |
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— | 2020 |
53% | 21 Bridges |
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— | 2019 |
44% | The Wedding Year |
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— | 2019 |
94% | In Search of Darkness |
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— | 2019 |
26% | Night School |
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— | 2018 |
43% | Ray Meets Helen |
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— | 2018 |
22% | Love Jacked |
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— | 2018 |
60% | You Might Be the Killer |
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— | 2018 |
0% | American Dresser |
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— | 2018 |
78% | Tales from the Hood 2 |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Brothers in Arms |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Union Furnace |
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— | 2017 |
69% | Savage Dog |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Horizon Line |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Range 15 |
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$1.5k | 2016 |
91% | The Nice Guys |
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$32.3M | 2016 |
2% | Nina |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Dirty Lies |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Boiling Pot |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Frog Kingdom |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Kids vs Monsters |
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— | 2015 |
40% | Field of Lost Shoes |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Birds of Paradise |
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— | 2014 |
20% | Free Birds |
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$46.7M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Samuel Bleak |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Don't Pass Me By |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | The Undershepherd |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Sons Of Liberty |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | The North Star |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | The Magic City |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Christmas In Compton |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | The Last Fall |
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— | 2012 |
66% | Cloud Atlas |
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$22.1M | 2012 |
17% | Smiley |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Double or Nothing |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Highway (Hillbilly Highway) |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Hopelessly In June |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Mark Twain |
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— | 2012 |
13% | The Greening Of Whitney Brown |
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— | 2011 |
55% | Spork |
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— | 2011 |
48% | Meet Monica Velour |
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$32.1k | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Saints for Sinners |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Inheritance |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Blue |
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— | 2010 |
33% | Chain Letter |
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$0.2M | 2010 |
34% | Lottery Ticket |
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$24.8M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming |
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— | 2010 |
43% | Death at a Funeral |
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$16.1M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Africa's Lost Eden |
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— | 2010 |
38% | Don McKay |
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— | 2010 |
85% | The Princess and the Frog |
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$104.4M | 2009 |
6% | All About Steve |
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$33.9M | 2009 |
30% | Gamer |
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$20.5M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Against the Dark |
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— | 2009 |
90% | Coraline |
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$75.2M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Pastor Brown |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Charlie Valentine |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | S.I.S. |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Fifth Commandment |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | My Mom's New Boyfriend |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Chasing 3000 |
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— | 2008 |
17% | Superhero Movie |
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$25.9M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Butcher |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Justice League: The New Frontier |
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— | 2008 |
12% | First Sunday |
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$38M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | WWII Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | S.I.S. |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Lost Treasure of the Maya |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Bad Days |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Last Sentinel |
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— | 2007 |
5% | Delta Farce |
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$8.1M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | If I Had Known I Was a Genius |
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— | 2007 |
0% | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil |
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— | 2006 |
23% | The Oh in Ohio |
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— | 2006 |
62% | ATL |
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$21.2M | 2006 |
21% | Dirty |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Crusades: Crescent & the Cross |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Death to the Supermodels |
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— | 2005 |
52% | Transporter 2 |
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$43.1M | 2005 |
60% | Mr. & Mrs. Smith |
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$186.2M | 2005 |
100% | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Forbidden Fruits |
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— | 2005 |
74% | Crash |
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$55.4M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Beef II |
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— | 2004 |
7% | Kaena: The Prophecy |
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No Score Yet | The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury |
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— | 2004 |
29% | The Chronicles of Riddick |
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$56.9M | 2004 |
14% | Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London |
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$23.3M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | NOVA: Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land |
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No Score Yet | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip |
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0% | 29 Palms |
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30% | Hollywood Homicide |
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$30.1M | 2003 |
30% | Head of State |
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$37.8M | 2003 |
38% | Agent Cody Banks |
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$47.3M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | National Geographic |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Empires: Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites |
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No Score Yet | Egypt's Golden Empire |
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83% | Barbershop |
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$75.1M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Inside Islam |
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No Score Yet | Innocents |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Pretty When You Cry |
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— | 2001 |
38% | Novocaine |
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$1.6M | 2001 |
44% | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within |
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— | 2001 |
35% | Where the Heart Is |
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— | 2000 |
60% | Pitch Black |
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— | 2000 |
93% | Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle |
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No Score Yet | ATF |
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— | 1999 |
83% | There's Something About Mary |
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— | 1998 |
38% | Armageddon |
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No Score Yet | Executive Target |
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No Score Yet | The Tiger Woods Story |
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— | 1998 |
49% | Volcano |
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— | 1997 |
54% | Johns |
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No Score Yet | Vanishing Point |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Jewels of the Caribbean Sea |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Never Met Picasso |
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— | 1996 |
11% | Larger Than Life |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | The Grave |
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— | 1996 |
8% | Eye for an Eye |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Flipping |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | National Geographic |
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— | 1996 |
41% | Blue in the Face |
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— | 1995 |
45% | Dead Presidents |
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— | 1995 |
71% | Clockers |
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— | 1995 |
59% | The Quick and the Dead |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Gargoyles: The Movie |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | World of National Geographic |
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— | 1995 |
26% | The Puppet Masters |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | The Last Outlaw |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | There Are No Children Here |
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— | 1993 |
64% | Reality Bites |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Masters of American Music: Bluesland - A Portrait of American Music |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | National Geographic |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Ocean Drifters |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Nails |
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— | 1992 |
43% | Article 99 |
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— | 1992 |
54% | Final Analysis |
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— | 1992 |
27% | Marked for Death |
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— | 1990 |
30% | Men at Work |
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— | 1990 |
64% | Always |
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— | 1989 |
37% | Road House |
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— | 1989 |
86% | They Live |
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— | 1988 |
83% | Bird |
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— | 1988 |
50% | Off Limits |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Braddock: Missing in Action III |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Stars and Bars |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Ladykillers |
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— | 1988 |
0% | Hot Pursuit |
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— | 1987 |
87% | Platoon |
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— | 1986 |
85% | The Thing |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | The Magic City (Magiki polis) |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Home Invaders |
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— | 1942 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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Creepshow
2019
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98% |
The Good Lord Bird
2020
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92% |
black-ish
2014
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91% |
Future Man
2017-2020
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No Score Yet |
Greenleaf
2016
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No Score Yet |
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1968-2001
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94% |
Fresh Off the Boat
2015-2020
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No Score Yet |
The Last Kids on Earth
2019-2020
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No Score Yet |
Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters
2017-2018
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94% |
Rick and Morty
2013
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62% |
Superior Donuts
2017-2018
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89% |
The Flash
2014
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No Score Yet |
Speechless
2016-2019
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100% |
Jackie Robinson
2016
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92% |
Person Of Interest
2011-2016
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No Score Yet |
Vigilados: Person of Interest
2011-2016
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75% |
Big Time in Hollywood, FL
2015
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88% |
Community
2009-2015
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61% |
Scorpion
2014-2018
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87% |
Enlisted
2014
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63% |
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013-2014
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14% |
The Bible
2013
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68% |
Touch
2012-2013
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12% |
Allen Gregory
2011
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No Score Yet |
Hawaii Five-0
2010-2020
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41% |
The Cape
2011
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100% |
Funny Or Die Presents
2010-2011
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No Score Yet |
God in America
2010
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No Score Yet |
Ken Burns' Baseball
1994-2010
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No Score Yet |
Numb3rs
2005-2010
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58% |
Canterbury's Law
2008
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89% |
Psych
2006-2014
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No Score Yet |
Independent Lens
1999
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67% |
The War
2007
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No Score Yet |
All of Us
2003-2007
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No Score Yet |
ER
1994-2009
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93% |
Everwood
2002-2006
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84% |
Grey's Anatomy
2005
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No Score Yet |
NOVA
1974
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95% |
Justice League
2004
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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62% |
Arli$$
1996-2002
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100% |
The Job
2001-2002
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No Score Yet |
American Experience
1988
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No Score Yet |
Jazz
2001
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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No Score Yet |
Nature
1982
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No Score Yet |
Todd McFarlane's Spawn
1997-1999
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No Score Yet |
Gargoyles
1994-1997
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No Score Yet |
Arthur
1996-2020
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No Score Yet |
New York Undercover
1994-1998
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No Score Yet |
The Equalizer
1985-1989
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No Score Yet |
Going to California
2001-2002
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No Score Yet |
Liverspots and Astronots
2018
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Quotes from Keith David's Characters
Moses Whitecotten: | Have you thought of a name yet? |
Novalee Nation: | Well, I was thinkin' about Wendi with an "I." |
Moses Whitecotten: | Oh no, don't you dare. |
Childs: | Cut me loose, dammit! |
Luther Jerome: | The government's come up with a whole new disease called the creeping cutback |
Luther Jerome: | The government's come up with a whole new disease called the creeping cutback. |
Luther Jerome: | This is the VA soldier. Now the enemy is behind those desks....Now you only got one chance. The gospel according to Luther. Whatever you need, you ain't gonna get. And whatever you get, ain't worth shit. |
"Big Daddy" La Bouff: | Are you ready?! |
Dr. Facilier: | Are you ready?! |
CIA Director: | Good work banks |
CIA Director: | Good work Banks. |
Cody Banks: | Noooooooooooooooooooo! |
Emily: | 50 seven scient |
Emily: | 50 seven scient. |
Mrs. Banks: | Let mother have it. |
Marion Silver: | "Anyway, I'm not really hooked..." |
Marion Silver: | Anyway, I'm not really hooked... |
Little John: | "Oh I know, but it's a real nice taste." |
Little John: | Oh I know, but it's a real nice taste. |
Frank: | Dirty motherfucker! |
Childs: | I just can't believe any of this voodoo bullshit! |
Windows: | Childs, what if we're wrong about him? |
Childs: | Well, then we're wrong! |
Coraline Jones: | How can you walk away from something and then come towards it? |
Cat: | Walk around the world. |
Coraline Jones: | Small world. |
Bennings: | Childs, Mac wants the flamethrower! |
Childs: | Mac wants the WHAT? |
Bennings: | That's what he said, now MOVE! |
Blair: | A Cell gets out, and it will IMITATE EVERYTHING on the face of the EARTH! AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT! |
Childs: | Hey, take it easy, come on, Blair, you don't want to hurt nobody. |
Blair: | I'LL KILL YOU! |
Skip: | Just tell me one thing Cleon. Why the fuck you didn't grab the cop? |
Cleon: | You killed him, a young brother. |
Skip: | You wouldn't have froze up like a bitch maybe I wouldn't have to do that shit, now wouldn't I? |
Skip: | If you wouldn't have froze up like a bitch maybe I wouldn't have to do that shit, now wouldn't I? |
Kirby: | Would y'all shut the fuck up?! |
Kirby: | Would y'all shut the fuck up? |
Childs: | (After the thing blows up, the only two alive are Childs and MacReady) So... What should we do now? |
Childs: | [after the thing blows up, the only two alive are Childs and MacReady] So, what should we do now? |
MacReady: | Why don't we just wait here for a while... See what happens (Credits Roll) |
MacReady: | Why don't we just wait here for a while? See what happens [credits roll] |
Gen. Kimsey: | Now Look. Our Fate of our world is in the hands of a bunch of retards. |
Gen. Kimsey: | The fate of the planet is in the hands of a bunch of retards I wouldn't trust with a potato gun. |
Coraline Jones: | How can you walk away from something, and then come towards it? |
Cat: | Walk around the world. |
Coraline Jones: | Small world. |
Coraline Jones: | I can see you don't have button eyes, but... if you're not the same cat, how can you talk? |
Coraline Jones: | I can see you don't have button eyes, but if you're not the same cat, how can you talk? |
Cat: | I just can. |
Cat: | You realize you're walking right into her trap. |
Coraline Jones: | I have to go back. They are my parents. |
Cat: | Challenge her then. She may not play fair, but she won't refuse. She's got a thing for "games.". |
Cat: | Challenge her then. She may not play fair, but she won't refuse. She's got a thing for games. |
Cat: | ... cats have far superior senses, wait I hear something... overrr there! |
Cat: | We cats, however, have far superior senses than humans, and can see and smell and, shh! I hear something. |
Cat: | She hates cats, and tries to keep me out. *head pops out of another tree* But she can't of course, I come and go as I please! |
Cat: | She hates cats, and tries to keep me out. [head pops out of another tree] But she can't of course, I come and go as I please! |
Coraline Jones: | The Other Mother hates cats?! |
Coraline Jones: | The other mother hates cats?! |
Cat: | Not like any "mother!" I've ever known. |
Cat: | Not like any 'mother' I've ever known. |
Cat: | I think I mentioned that I don't like rats at the best of times. |
Coraline Jones: | I think you might've said something like that. |
Cat: | It looked like you needed this one, however. *rolls ball forward* |
Cat: | It looked like you needed this one, however. [rolls ball forward] |
Coraline Jones: | Thank you. |
Cat: | I don't like rats at the best of times, but this one was sounding an alarm. |
Frank: | How long have they been there? |
John Nada: | Who knows? |
Frank: | Where do they come from? |
John Nada: | They ain't from Cleveland. |
Frank: | I don't need that sh*t! What are we going to do? |
John Nada: | Wait. |
Frank: | Wait? Wait for what? |
John Nada: | Well when you get your master plan, you let me know, huh!! |
Frank: | If we can see, we've got to find the people who made these. |
John Nada: | I'm giving you a choice: either put on these glasses or start eating that trash can. |
Frank: | Not this year! |
Frank: | The steel mills were laying people off left and right. They finally went under. We gave the steel companies a break when they needed it. You know what they gave themselves? ...Raises. |
Frank: | The steel mills were laying people off left and right. They finally went under. We gave the steel companies a break when they needed it. You know what they gave themselves? Raises. |
Frank: | (picks up Nada) - Man, I told you, I don't want to be in-VOLVED! [punches Nada back to the ground] |
Frank: | We can't be the only ones who can see, we've got to find the people who made these. |
John Nada: | Yeah, if any of them are still alive. |
Drifter: | What's wrong with having it good for a change? Now they're gonna let us have it good if we just help 'em. They're gonna leave us alone, let us make some money. You can have a little taste of that good life too. Now, I know you want it. Hell, everybody does. |
Frank: | You'd do it to your own kind. |
Drifter: | What's the threat? We all sell out every day, might as well be on the winning team. |
Frank: | Listen, man, I don't like anyone following me if I don't know why they are. |
John Nada: | Well, I don't join up with anyone, unless I know where they're going. |
Frank: | The Golden Rule; he who has the gold, makes the rules. |
Frank: | So how you gonna make it? |
John Nada: | I deliver a hard day's work for my money. I just want the chance. It'll come. I believe in America. I follow the rules. Everybody's got their own hard times these days. |
Frank: | I've walked a white line my entire life, I'm not about to screw that up. |
John Nada: | White line's in the middle of the road, that's the worst place to drive. |
Frank: | (Nada and Frank are fighting, and Nada, trying to get up, grabs Frank's testicles) - You dirty motherfu*ker! |
Childs: | (after MacReady discovers that Clark's (who's now dead) blood was pure) - Then Clark was human, huh? Which makes you a murderer, don't it? |
Childs: | I just cannot believe any of this voodoo bullsh*t. |
Palmer: | Childs, it happens all the time, man. They're falling out of the sky like flies. Government knows all about it, right, Mac? |
Childs: | You believe any of this voodoo bullsh*t, Blair? |
Palmer: | Childs, Childs...Chariots of the Gods, man. They practically own South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know. |
Palmer: | Childs, Childs. Chariots of the Gods, man. They practically own South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know. |
Blair: | A cell gets out, and it will IMITATE EVERYTHING on the face of the EARTH! AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT! |
Childs: | Hey, take it easy, come on, Blair, you don't want to hurt nobody. |
Blair: | I'LL KILL YOU! |
Windows: | Childs, what if we're wrong? |
Childs: | Why, then we're wrong! |
Little John: | I know it's pretty big, but I didn't take it out for air. |
Little John: | I know it's pretty baby, but I didn't take it out for air. |
Childs: | Temperature's up all over the camp. ...Won't last long though. |
Childs: | Temperature's up all over the camp. Won't last long though. |
MacReady: | Neither will we. |
Childs: | How will we make it? |
MacReady: | Maybe we shouldn't. |
Childs: | If you're worried about me... |
MacReady: | If we've got any surprises for each other, I don't think either one of us is in much shape to do anything about it. |
Childs: | You're gonna have to sleep sometime, MacReady. |
MacReady: | I'm a real light sleeper, Childs. |
Childs: | What do we do now? |
MacReady: | Why don't we just wait here for a little while...see what happens... |
MacReady: | Why don't we just wait here for a little while. See what happens. |
MacReady: | Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be. Right now that may be one or two of us. By spring, it could be all of us. |
Childs: | So, how do we know whose human? If I was an imitation, a perfect imitation, how would you know it was really me? |
Little John: | I know its pretty big but I didn't take it out for air. |
Little John: | I know it's pretty baby, but I didn't take it out for air. |