Keith David’s Printed Polo and Desert Boots in Dead Presidents

Keith David in Dead Presidents (1995) Vitals Keith David as Kirby, small-time neighborhood crime boss The Bronx, Spring 1969 Film: Dead Presidents Release Date: October 4, 1995 Directed by: The Hughes Brothers Costume Designer: Paul A. Simmons, Jr. WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Always the coolest guy in anything he’s in, the prolific Keith David was born June 4, 1956 and celebrates his 70th birthday today by receiving his long-overdue star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. David’s strong screen presence shone from the start, from his credited screen debut in The Thing (1982) that launched an unstoppable career spanning nearly five decades and counting. David co-starred in the Hughes brothers’ 1995 crime drama Dead Presidents as Kirby, an avuncular Bronx crook who acts as de facto second father to local youngsters like Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate). Shortly before Anthony is shipped off to Vietnam with the Marine Corps in early 1969, he unknowingly becomes Kirby’s getaway driver…