David Keith
Keith on right
Born	David Lemuel Keith May 8, 1954 (1954-05-08) (age 55) Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Spouse(s)	Nancy Clark

David Lemuel Keith (born May 8, 1954) is an American actor and director.

Contents 1 Career 2 Personal life 3 Selected filmography 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Career

Keith had an early supporting role in the prison film Brubaker. He also appeared in the 1995 film The Indian in the Cupboard as the cowboy "Boo-Hoo" Boone. He also had a supporting role in The Rose, starring Bette Midler, and later co-starred with Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman. Keith also 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 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, the 2002 TV-movie Carrie as the Detective John Mulcahey and television shows such as Navy NCIS, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Law & Order: Criminal Intent and High Incident. More recently, he appeared in the 2004 film Raise Your Voice starring Hilary Duff, and the 2006 film Expiration Date.

[edit] 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 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 was a National Advisory Board member and spokesperson for PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children.

[edit] Selected filmography

• Friendly Fire (1979)
• The Great Santini (1979)
• The Rose (1979)
• 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 Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988)
• Heartbreak Hotel (1988)
• The Two Jakes (1990)
• Off and Running (1991)
• Running Wild (1992)
• Flesh 'n' Blood (1991-1992) (TV series)
• Ernest Goes to School (1994)
• Major League II (1994)
• Raw Justice (1994)
• Deadly Sins (1995)
• The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
• Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)
• A Family Thing (1996)
• High Incident (1996-1997) (TV series)
• Epoch (2000)
• U-571 (2000)
• Men of Honor (2000)
• Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
• Carrie (2002)
• Sabretooth (2002)
• Daredevil (2003)
• Hangman's Curse (2003)
• Deep Shock (2003)
• Raise Your Voice (2004)
• All Souls Day (2005)
• Path of Destruction (2005)
• Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)
• In Her Line of Fire (2006)
• Expiration Date (2006)
• Bottoms Up (2006)
• The Class (2006-2007) (TV series)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Biography at CBS's The Class
• David Keith at the Internet Movie Database