The amazing ability of actor David Keith to create different images: a singer, a boxer, a young man in love and a psychopath. The talent for singing helps him not only to act in films, but also to record clips and sound film soundtracks. And the love of cinema inspires directorial work.
Biography
David Keith was born in 1954 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Even at school, he noticed a talent for singing and acting, so the choice of the future path was obvious. The family supported his desire for creativity.
Keith went to university in Tennessee, and immediately began playing at the university theater. He played in classical productions and musicals, often he was given the main roles. As the actor himself later said, it was an invaluable experience - in those years his acting skills were polished, and he received many useful skills.
It was at the university that David firmly established his opinion that the acting profession should be the main business of his life. Therefore, having received his education, he went to New York and became an artist of the musical theater.
Movie career
For a year, Keith sang in musicals, and then decided to move to Los Angeles to try his luck at the movies. Very soon he made his debut in the sitcom "Happy Days", and then in the comedy "Co-Ed Fever".
Each aspiring actor dreams of a major role, and Keith was lucky in this regard with the picture "Rose" (1979), where he played a bodyguard. This film was followed by the paintings "The Great Santini" (1979), "Generating Fire" (1984) and others. The last tape brought David worldwide fame.
In 1982, Keith had the opportunity to act on the same platform with Richard Gere in the film "Officer and Gentleman." This is the story of cadets of a flight school, forced to go through the difficulties of military training, through love torment and the search for the meaning of life. Young people passed all tests with honor, becoming real officers. For a role in this picture, David Keith was nominated for a Golden Globe as a supporting actor.
In subsequent years, Keith starred in a lot, and still in his plans there are a lot of different projects related to cinema and music. Back in 1988, he starred in the movie Hotel of Broken Hearts, where he got the role of Elvis Presley.
Among the latest acting work of David, the films “Waterfall of Memory” (2016) and “All Saints” (2017) can be called. His best films are considered to be Yu-571, Officer and Gentleman, Superstar and Military Diver.
In 1987, David sat in the director’s chair to make the film Curse. The film was a success, and Keith decided to continue to do this business - he shot the film “Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck” (1988), and then acted as producer and director of the film “Waterville” (2003). Today it is not known whether Keith plans to make another film.
