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For the scientist, see David Keith (scientist).
Not to be confused with Keith David.
David Keith
Born
David Lemuel Keith
SpouseNancy 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.

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.[1][2] He is of Scots-Irish ancestry.[citation needed]

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![citation needed]

Keith is an avid fan of the University of Tennessee. In 1989, he performed a halftime show with the Pride of the Southland Band, singing several Elvis Presley songs from his portrayal of Presley in the movie Heartbreak Hotel.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ David Keith Biography (1954-)
  2. ^ David Keith Biography – Yahoo! Movies
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