David Adkins, known by his stage name Sinbad, is an American actor, voice actor, and stand-up comedian. He became widely known for being featured on his own HBO specials, appearing in several television series, such as Coach Walter Oakes in A Different World (1987–1991) and David Bryan in The Sinbad Show (1993–1994), as well as starring in films, including Andre Krimm in the 1991 sports comedy film Necessary Roughness, Myron Larabee, the main antagonist of the 1996 Fox Christmas comedy film Jingle All the Way, Mr. Wheat in the 1997 comedy film Good Burger, and as the voice of Eddie in the adult animated sitcom Slacker Cats.
For Disney, he played Kevin Franklin in the 1995 Hollywood Pictures film Houseguest and Sam Simms in First Kid. He also provided the voices of Riley in Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, Hollywood Shuffle in Ready to Run, Roper in Planes, and additional voices in Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular. Additionally, he voiced Uroho in The Lion Guard episode "The Traveling Baboon Show" and appeared in Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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- Sinbad is commonly mistaken for allegedly starring in a film called Shazaam, where he supposedly portrayed a genie. In actuality, the movie was Kazaam and it starred Shaquille O'Neal. Sinbad would later make a sketch with CollegeHumor poking fun at this mistake.
- He was considered to voice Mushu in Mulan before the role went to Eddie Murphy.[1]
