Head to headKeith David against Forest Whitaker Both careers by TMDB ratingKeith DavidForest Whitaker
Tale of the tape as an actor
Keith David vs Forest Whitaker
Forest Whitaker averages 6.28 across 83 rated films as an actor, ahead of Keith David at 6.09.
- 130 (97 rated)
- Films acted
- 88 (83 rated)
- 6.09
- Average
- 6.28▶
- 6.26
- Weighted
- 6.40▶
- ◀Spider-Man: Brand New Day 8.4
- Best film
- Platoon 7.7
- 7.21, 2022 to 2024
- Peak five
- 7.38, 2015 to 2018▶
- 2 films
- Longest 7+ run
- 5 films▶
- 6.48 (+0.39)
- Current form
- 7.11 (+0.83)▶
- ◀166K
- TMDB votes
- 144K
- 1982 to 2026
- Career
- 1982 to 2027
- None
- Oscars
- 1 win, 1 nom▶
- ◀$8.06B
- Box office
- $5.34B
Rows won
3 to 6
Forest Whitaker ahead
Films together
3
averaging 6.88
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
 Platoon | 1986 | 7.7 | as King | as Big Harold |
 Bird | 1988 | 6.8 | as Buster Franklin | as Charlie 'Bird' Parker |
 Article 99 | 1992 | 6.1 | as Luther Jermoe | as Dr. Sid Handleman |