David Keith (actor)

For the scientist, see David Keith (scientist).

Not to be confused with Keith David.

David Keith
Born	David Lemuel Keith (1954-05-08) May 8, 1954 Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Spouse	Nancy Clark

David Lemuel Keith (born May 8, 1954) is an American actor and director. He received Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor and New Star of the Year – Actor for his performance in An Officer and a Gentleman.

Career

Keith had an early supporting role in the prison film Brubaker. He had a supporting role in The Rose, starring Bette Midler, and later co-starred with Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman. Keith played a local thug in The Great Santini, starred in The Lords of Discipline and White of the Eye, and held a prominent supporting role in U-571 opposite Matthew McConaughey. He played opposite child-star Drew Barrymore in the 1984 hit Firestarter and Brooke Shields in 1992's Running Wild.

Keith played Elvis Presley in the 1988 film Heartbreak Hotel. 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 as the cowboy "Boo-Hoo" Boone. He played the leading role of Nate Springfield in the 2003 film Hangman's Curse. He also co-starred in The Class, an American sitcom, as Yonk Allen, a retired professional football player. Other roles include parts in Daredevil and the 2002 TV movie Carrie. He appeared in the 2004 film Raise Your Voice starring Hilary Duff, and the 2006 film Expiration Date.

He has appeared on many television shows, including NCIS, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, CSI: Miami and High Incident. In 2010, Keith co-starred as Robert Allen (James Wolk) father John Allen in the short lived TV drama Lone Star.

Personal life

Keith was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Hilda Earle, a worker for the Knox County Board of Education, and Lemuel Grady Keith, Jr., a personnel division worker for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He is of Scots-Irish ancestry.

Keith was a National Advisory Board member and spokesperson for PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children. Keith was present during the sentencing phase for John Couey, who was convicted by a jury of his peers for kidnapping, raping, and murdering Jessica Lunsford. Keith said that he was planning on going to Washington D.C. with Mark Lunsford after the sentencing, to lobby Congress for more support of child sexual predator laws. Keith gave an interview with Tampa Bay ABC affiliate WFTS-TV 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.

Keith is on the list of worst celebrity tippers.

Filmography

• Happy Days (1978) (TV series)
• Co-ed Fever (1979) (TV series)
• Friendly Fire (1979)
• The Great Santini (1979)
• The Rose (1979)
• The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story (1980)
• Brubaker (1980)
• Back Roads (1981)
• Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
• An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
• The Lords of Discipline (1983)
• Independence Day (1983)
• Firestarter (1984)
• Gulag (1985)
• If Tomorrow Comes (1986)
• White of the Eye (1987)
• The Curse (1987)
• The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988)
• Heartbreak Hotel (1988)
• Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North (1989)
• The Two Jakes (1990)
• Off and Running (1991)
• Flesh 'n' Blood (1991) (TV series)
• Running Wild (1992)
• Caged Fear (1992)
• Liar's Edge (1992)
• Distant Cousins (1993)
• Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica (1993)
• Major League II (1994)
• XXX's & OOO's (1994)
• Raw Justice (1994)
• Temptation (1994)
• Texas (1994)
• Ernest Goes to School (1994) as Squint Westwood
• Till the End of the Night (1995)
• Deadly Sins (1995)
• The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
• Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)
• If Looks Could Kill (1996)
• A Family Thing (1996)
• Judge and Jury (1996)
• Overblood (1996) (Video Game) (Voice only)
• Invasion of Privacy (1996)
• High Incident (1996-1997) (TV series)
• Red-Blooded American Girl II (1997)
• Ambushed (1998)
• The Outer Limits (1998) (TV series)
• Perfect Prey (1998)
• Poodle Springs (1998)
• A Memory in My Heart (1999)
• Question of Privilege (1999)
• Secret of the Andes (1999)
• One Last Score (1999)
• Walker, Texas Ranger (2000) (TV series)
• Martial Law (2000) (TV series)
• U-571 (2000)
• Arli$$ (2000) (TV series)
• Men of Honor (2000)
• Clover Bend (2001)
• Cahoots (2001)
• Burning Down the House (2001)
• Love and Treason (2001)
• Epoch (2001)
• World Traveler (2001)
• Anthrax (2001)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2001) (TV series)
• Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
• Constant Payne (2001) (unaired pilot)
• The Stickup (2002)
• Mother Ghost (2002)
• Carrie (2002)
• Sabretooth (2002)
• Daredevil (2003)
• Hangman's Curse (2003)
• Deep Shock (2003)
• Epoch: Evolution (2003)
• NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2004) (TV series)
• Raise Your Voice (2004)
• All Souls Day (2005)
• Come Away Home (2005)
• Path of Destruction (2005)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2005) (TV series)
• Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)
• Miracle Dogs Too (2006)
• In Her Line of Fire (2006)
• Expiration Date (2006)
• Bottoms Up (2006)
• The Class (2006-2007) (TV series)
• Succubus: Hell Bent (2007)
• Boys of Summerville (2008)
• CSI: Miami (2008) (TV series)
• Beneath the Blue (2010)
• Unrequited (2010)
• Lone Star (2010) (TV Series)

External links

• Biography at CBS's The Class