Keith L. Williams
Keith L. Williams is an actor, born 2007.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas in 2007, Keith Leon Williams was working on television as a small child, first as Kevin on the short-lived sitcom Selfie and then as Jasper on The Last Man on Earth. As of late 2020 he was splitting his time between Mansfield, Texas and Los Angeles, the usual arrangement for a working child actor whose family has not relocated wholesale.
Good Boys in 2019 is what he is known for, and it contains the hardest job in the film. As Lucas, the anxious rule-follower of the three, he had to be the one visibly appalled by everything the other two were doing. Playing the straight man in a comedy built on shock is much harder than it looks, and the film only works because he refuses to break.
Secret Headquarters in 2022 put him in a superhero-adjacent ensemble, and he has kept a hand in comedy across Teachers, Lemon and The Tiny Chef Show. He also appeared as himself in the documentary Who Are You, Charlie Brown?. On television he is further known for The Astronauts, which is not among the credits listed here.
Movies (4)
TV (5)
Where to start with Keith L. Williams
Everyone starts with Good Boys, and everyone is right. It holds up better than most 2019 studio comedies because the three kids are actually good rather than merely well cast, and his Lucas is both the moral centre and the funniest thing in it, largely by refusing to enjoy anything.
The Last Man on Earth is the next stop, a far stranger show than its premise suggests and one that used him well as it went on. Secret Headquarters is a children's adventure with a decent gadget budget and a script that does not match it. Lemon is the odd one out, a deeply uncomfortable indie comedy unlike anything else here. Teachers and The Tiny Chef Show are the small stuff.