{"id":346977,"date":"2026-06-04T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346977\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:25:09","slug":"actor-keith-david-gets-a-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346977\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Keith David gets a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Keith David was honored for his movie career on Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as a number of dignities, including Mayor Karen Bass, attended the star-unveiling ceremony.<\/p>\n

David, who turned 70 Thursday, graduated from Manhattan’s High School of Performing Arts in 1975 and the Juilliard School in 1979. In 1980-81, he toured the country with John Houseman’s The Acting Company in productions of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Waiting for Godot.”<\/p>\n

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David’s other film credits include “Dead Presidents,” “Armageddon,” “There’s Something About Mary,” “Requiem for a Dream,” “Pitch Black,” “Barbershop,” “Crash,” “The Chronicles of Riddick,” “Cloud Atlas,” “The Nice Guys” and “Nope.” <\/p>\n

David has received acclaimed for his work as a narrator and voice in animation. He received two Emmys for outstanding voce-over performance for “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise And Fall Of Jack Johnson” in 2005 and “The War” in 2008.<\/p>\n

David has provided voices for such animation projects as “The Princess and the Frog”; “Gargoyles”; “Rick and Morty”; and “Family Guy.”<\/p>\n

The star is next to the star of Nat King Cole. David portrayed the legendary singer in the touring theatrical and musical tribute shows “Too Marvelous for Words: A Celebration of Nat King Cole” and ”Let There Be Love.”<\/p>\n

The star is the 2,847th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Keith David was honored for his movie career on Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23739,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-346977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-hollywood-walk-of-fame","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}