David Keith
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| David Keith | |
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| Born | David Lemuel Keith May 8, 1954  Knoxville, Tennessee, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Clark |
David Lemuel Keith (born May 8, 1954) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actor and director.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Career
Keith had an early supporting role in the prison film Brubaker, 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 and television shows such as Navy NCIS, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Law & Order: Criminal Intent and High Incident.
[edit] Personal life
Keith was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Hilda Earle, a worker for the Knoxville County Board of Education, and Lemuel Grady Keith, Jr., a personnel division worker for the Tennessee Valley Authority.[1][2]
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 is a National Advisory Board member and spokesperson for PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children.
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