David Keith (born May 8, 1954 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actor and director. Keith had an early supporting role in the prison film Brubaker and later co-starred with Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman. Keith ... 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).