Forest Whitaker: movies and TV shows
Forest Whitaker has 209 credits in the archive: 159 films and 50 TV series, from 1952 to 2027. Highest rated: The King of Kings (8.3/10).
Career timeline
1952 – 2027 · busiest year: 2013 (11 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | Rose's Baby | Film | — | 65 | |
| 2026 | Lucky Lu | Film | 5.8 | 64 | |
| 2025 | Havoc | Lawrence Beaumont | Film | 6.4 | 63 |
| 2025 | The King of Kings | Peter (voice) | Film | 8.3 | 63 |
| 2025 | To Live and Die and Live | Film | 10.0 | 63 | |
| 2024 | The Emperor of Ocean Park | Judge Oliver Garland | TV | 6.2 | 62 |
| 2024 | Hollywood Black | Self | TV | 3.7 | 62 |
| 2024 | Hollywood Black | TV | 3.7 | 62 | |
| 2024 | Fancy Dance | Film | 6.6 | 62 | |
| 2024 | My Generation | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 1.0 | 62 |
| 2024 | Seaweed Stories | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 62 |
| 2024 | Transplant | Film | — | 62 | |
| 2023 | Extrapolations | Auggie Bolo | TV | 6.0 | 61 |
| 2023 | Big George Foreman | Doc Broadus | Film | 7.6 | 61 |
| 2022 | The Jennifer Hudson Show | Self | TV | 5.6 | 60 |
| 2022 | Andor | Saw Gerrera | TV | 8.3 | 60 |
| 2022 | Prophets of Change | Narrator | Film | — | 60 |
| 2022 | Cannes Festival | Self - Guest | TV | — | 60 |
| 2022 | Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 60 |
| 2022 | For the Sake of Peace | Film | — | 60 | |
| 2022 | Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look | Saw Gerrera (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.4 | 60 |
| 2021 | Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self | TV | 7.0 | 59 |
| 2021 | Respect | C. L. Franklin | Film | 6.8 | 59 |
| 2021 | Passing | Film | 6.3 | 59 | |
| 2020 | Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey | Jeronicus Jangle | Film | 6.6 | 58 |
| 2020 | By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem | Self | TV | 3.3 | 58 |
| 2020 | By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem | TV | 3.3 | 58 | |
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King | Self | Film | 8.1 | 58 |
| 2020 | Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times | Self | Film | 10.0 | 58 |
| 2019 | Godfather of Harlem | Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson | TV | 8.1 | 57 |
| 2019 | Godfather of Harlem | TV | 8.1 | 57 | |
| 2019 | Finding Steve McQueen | Howard Lambert | Film | 6.1 | 57 |
| 2019 | Devil's Pie: D'Angelo | Film | 10.0 | 57 | |
| 2019 | A Kid from Coney Island | Film | 6.8 | 57 | |
| 2018 | Black Panther | Zuri | Film | 7.4 | 56 |
| 2018 | Sorry to Bother You | First Equisapien / Demarius | Film | 6.8 | 56 |
| 2018 | Sorry to Bother You | Film | 6.8 | 56 | |
| 2018 | How It Ends | Tom | Film | 5.3 | 56 |
| 2018 | City of Lies | Jack Jackson | Film | 6.4 | 56 |
| 2018 | The Forgiven | Desmond Tutu | Film | 6.1 | 56 |
| 2018 | Burden | Reverend Kennedy | Film | 6.1 | 56 |
| 2018 | Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace | Narrator (voice) | Film | 4.0 | 56 |
| 2017 | Steve | Self | TV | 6.0 | 55 |
| 2017 | Roxanne Roxanne | Film | 6.0 | 55 | |
| 2017 | The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' | Self | Film | 6.1 | 55 |
| 2017 | Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' | Self | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 2016 | Arrival | Colonel Weber | Film | 7.6 | 54 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Saw Gerrera | Film | 7.5 | 54 |
| 2016 | Roots | Fiddler | TV | 6.9 | 54 |
| 2016 | Star Wars: Go Rogue | Saw Gerrera (voice) | TV | 6.7 | 54 |
| 2016 | I Am You | Narrator (voice) | Film | 3.5 | 54 |
| 2015 | Empire | Eddie Barker | TV | 7.1 | 53 |
| 2015 | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self | TV | 6.2 | 53 |
| 2015 | Southpaw | Titus 'Tick' Wills | Film | 7.4 | 53 |
| 2015 | Dope | The Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 2015 | Dope | Film | 7.0 | 53 | |
| 2015 | Songs My Brothers Taught Me | Film | 6.9 | 53 | |
| 2014 | Star Wars Rebels | Saw Gerrera (voice) | TV | 7.7 | 52 |
| 2014 | Taken 3 | Inspector Frank Dotzler | Film | 6.3 | 52 |
| 2014 | Two Men in Town | William Garnett | Film | 5.5 | 52 |
| 2014 | Repentance | Angel | Film | 4.8 | 52 |
| 2014 | Food Chains | Film | 7.0 | 52 | |
| 2013 | Fruitvale Station | Film | 7.4 | 51 | |
| 2013 | Pawn | Will | Film | 5.6 | 51 |
| 2013 | The Last Stand | Agent John Bannister | Film | 6.1 | 51 |
| 2013 | The Butler | Cecil Gaines | Film | 7.3 | 51 |
| 2013 | Out of the Furnace | Chief Wesley Barnes | Film | 6.6 | 51 |
| 2013 | Zulu | Ali Sokhela | Film | 6.7 | 51 |
| 2013 | Black Nativity | Reverend Cornell Cobbs | Film | 5.2 | 51 |
| 2013 | Making a Scene | 11 Performances | Film | — | 51 | |
| 2013 | Rising from Ashes | Narrator | Film | 6.5 | 51 |
| 2013 | Rising from Ashes | Film | 6.5 | 51 | |
| 2013 | Mysteries of the Unseen World | Narrator | Film | 7.2 | 51 |
| 2012 | A Dark Truth | Francisco Francis | Film | 5.5 | 50 |
| 2012 | Freelancers | Dennis Larue | Film | 5.1 | 50 |
| 2011 | Catch.44 | Ronny | Film | 5.0 | 49 |
| 2011 | Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior | Sam Cooper | TV | 7.2 | 49 |
| 2011 | Monte Carlo | Film | 6.8 | 49 | |
| 2011 | Serving Life | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.3 | 49 |
| 2011 | Serving Life | Film | 5.3 | 49 | |
| 2011 | A Man's Story | Self | Film | 6.9 | 49 |
| 2010 | Repo Men | Jake | Film | 6.3 | 48 |
| 2010 | The Experiment | Barris | Film | 6.4 | 48 |
| 2010 | My Own Love Song | Joey | Film | 6.2 | 48 |
| 2010 | 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift | (archive footage) | Film | 6.1 | 48 |
| 2010 | Our Family Wedding | Brad Boyd | Film | 5.6 | 48 |
| 2010 | Hurricane Season | Al Collins | Film | 6.6 | 48 |
| 2010 | Lullaby for Pi | George | Film | 6.8 | 48 |
| 2010 | Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life | Lion | Film | 7.1 | 48 |
| 2009 | Where the Wild Things Are | Ira (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 47 |
| 2009 | Winged Creatures | Charlie Archenault | Film | 5.9 | 47 |
| 2009 | Powder Blue | Charlie | Film | 6.1 | 47 |
| 2009 | Powder Blue | Film | 6.1 | 47 | |
| 2009 | Crips and Bloods: Made in America | Narrator | Film | 6.7 | 47 |
| 2009 | Brick City | TV | — | 47 | |
| 2009 | Kassim the Dream | Film | 5.7 | 47 | |
| 2008 | Vantage Point | Howard Lewis | Film | 6.4 | 46 |
| 2008 | Street Kings | Captain Jack Wander | Film | 6.7 | 46 |
| 2007 | The Great Debaters | Dr. James Farmer Sr. | Film | 7.3 | 45 |
| 2007 | The Air I Breathe | Happiness | Film | 6.3 | 45 |
| 2007 | Even Money | Clyde Snow | Film | 5.5 | 45 |
| 2007 | Ripple Effect | Philip | Film | 5.4 | 45 |
| 2007 | Ripple Effect | Film | 5.4 | 45 | |
| 2006 | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin | Film | 7.4 | 44 |
| 2006 | Everyone's Hero | Lonnie Brewster (voice) | Film | 6.1 | 44 |
| 2006 | Before the Music Dies | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 2006 | The Marsh | Geoffrey Hunt | Film | 5.1 | 44 |
| 2005 | Criminal Minds | Sam Cooper | TV | 8.3 | 43 |
| 2005 | American Dad! | Turlington (voice) | TV | 7.0 | 43 |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self | TV | 6.8 | 43 |
| 2005 | Mary | Ted Younger | Film | 5.7 | 43 |
| 2005 | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Forest Whitaker | Film | 4.3 | 43 |
| 2005 | A Little Trip to Heaven | Abe Holt | Film | 5.4 | 43 |
| 2005 | Deacons for Defense | Marcus Clay | Film | 6.4 | 43 |
| 2005 | Odyssey in Rome | Film | 7.0 | 43 | |
| 2005 | American Gun | Carter | Film | 5.7 | 43 |
| 2005 | American Gun | Film | 5.7 | 43 | |
| 2004 | First Daughter | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.2 | 42 |
| 2004 | First Daughter | Film | 6.2 | 42 | |
| 2004 | First Daughter | Film | 6.2 | 42 | |
| 2004 | Shooting 'Panic Room' | Self | Film | 7.0 | 42 |
| 2004 | The Misbehavers | Self | Film | 10.0 | 42 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self | TV | 5.3 | 41 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self - Guest | TV | 5.3 | 41 |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | TV | 5.5 | 41 |
| 2003 | Phone Booth | Captain Ramey | Film | 6.9 | 41 |
| 2003 | Chasing Papi | Film | 6.8 | 41 | |
| 2003 | Making of Phone Booth | Self | Film | 8.0 | 41 |
| 2002 | American Idol | Self | TV | 5.0 | 40 |
| 2002 | The Shield | Jon Kavanaugh | TV | 8.2 | 40 |
| 2002 | The Twilight Zone | Self - Host | TV | 7.2 | 40 |
| 2002 | Live from E! | Self | TV | 3.7 | 40 |
| 2002 | Panic Room | Burnham | Film | 6.8 | 40 |
| 2002 | Door to Door | Film | 7.5 | 40 | |
| 2001 | The Hire | The Employer | TV | 7.6 | 39 |
| 2001 | Feast of All Saints | Daguerreotypist Picard | Film | 4.8 | 39 |
| 2001 | The Fourth Angel | Agent Jules Bernard | Film | 5.3 | 39 |
| 2001 | Green Dragon | Addie | Film | 6.2 | 39 |
| 2001 | Green Dragon | Film | 6.2 | 39 | |
| 2001 | A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' | Self | Film | 8.5 | 39 |
| 2001 | The Follow | The Employer | Film | 6.9 | 39 |
| 2001 | Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai | Film | 2.0 | 39 | |
| 2000 | Battlefield Earth | Ker | Film | 3.3 | 38 |
| 2000 | The Paperboy | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 38 |
| 2000 | Four Dogs Playing Poker | Mr. Ellington | Film | 4.0 | 38 |
| 2000 | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Self | Film | 7.3 | 38 |
| 1999 | Where Are They Now? | Self | TV | 7.5 | 37 |
| 1999 | The Early Show | Self | TV | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1999 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Ghost Dog | Film | 7.3 | 37 |
| 1999 | Light It Up | Officer Dante Jackson | Film | 6.7 | 37 |
| 1999 | Witness Protection | Steven Beck | Film | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1998 | Hope Floats | Film | 6.4 | 36 | |
| 1998 | Hope Floats | Film | 6.4 | 36 | |
| 1998 | Body Count | Crane | Film | 5.5 | 36 |
| 1997 | The View | Self | TV | 4.3 | 35 |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | TV | 6.4 | 34 |
| 1996 | Phenomenon | Nate Pope | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1996 | Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault | Mr. Rucker | Film | 7.1 | 34 |
| 1995 | Species | Dan Smithson, Empath | Film | 6.0 | 33 |
| 1995 | Waiting to Exhale | Film | 6.3 | 33 | |
| 1995 | Mr. Holland's Opus | Bobby Tidd as an adult (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 33 |
| 1995 | Smoke | Cyrus Cole | Film | 7.2 | 33 |
| 1994 | ER | Curtis Ames | TV | 7.8 | 32 |
| 1994 | Blown Away | Anthony Franklin | Film | 6.2 | 32 |
| 1994 | Prêt-à-Porter | Cy Bianco | Film | 5.2 | 32 |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | TV | 7.6 | 32 |
| 1994 | The Enemy Within | Col. MacKenzie Casey | Film | 5.8 | 32 |
| 1994 | Jason's Lyric | Maddog | Film | 6.8 | 32 |
| 1994 | Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso | Self | Film | 7.4 | 32 |
| 1993 | Body Snatchers | Major Collins | Film | 6.2 | 31 |
| 1993 | Bank Robber | Officer Battle | Film | 4.4 | 31 |
| 1993 | Lush Life | Buddy Chester | Film | 7.2 | 31 |
| 1993 | Strapped | Film | 5.9 | 31 | |
| 1993 | Last Light | Fred Whitmore | Film | 6.0 | 31 |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | TV | 5.4 | 30 | |
| 1992 | The Crying Game | Jody | Film | 6.8 | 30 |
| 1992 | Consenting Adults | David Duttonville | Film | 5.4 | 30 |
| 1992 | Article 99 | Dr. Sid Handleman | Film | 6.2 | 30 |
| 1991 | Diary of a Hitman | Dekker | Film | 5.4 | 29 |
| 1991 | A Rage in Harlem | Jackson | Film | 5.4 | 29 |
| 1991 | A Rage in Harlem | Film | 5.4 | 29 | |
| 1990 | Criminal Justice | Jessie Williams | Film | 6.0 | 28 |
| 1990 | Downtown | Dennis Curren | Film | 5.7 | 28 |
| 1989 | Johnny Handsome | Dr. Steven Fisher | Film | 6.4 | 27 |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self | TV | 5.6 | 26 |
| 1988 | Bloodsport | Rawlins | Film | 7.1 | 26 |
| 1988 | Bird | Charlie 'Bird' Parker | Film | 6.9 | 26 |
| 1987 | Good Morning, Vietnam | Edward Garlick | Film | 7.3 | 25 |
| 1987 | Stakeout | Det. Jack Pismo | Film | 6.5 | 25 |
| 1987 | Hands of a Stranger | Sergeant Delaney | Film | 4.9 | 25 |
| 1986 | Platoon | Big Harold | Film | 7.8 | 24 |
| 1986 | The Color of Money | Amos | Film | 6.8 | 24 |
| 1986 | A Little Off Mark | Film | 9.0 | 24 | |
| 1985 | North and South | Cuffey | TV | 7.5 | 23 |
| 1985 | Amazing Stories | Jerry | TV | 7.5 | 23 |
| 1985 | Vision Quest | Balldozer | Film | 6.4 | 23 |
| 1983 | The Grand Baby | Film | 5.5 | 21 | |
| 1982 | Cagney & Lacey | Night Manager | TV | 6.9 | 20 |
| 1982 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Charles Jefferson | Film | 6.8 | 20 |
| 1982 | Tag: The Assassination Game | Gowdy's Bodyguard | Film | 5.4 | 20 |
| 1981 | Hill Street Blues | TV | 7.6 | 19 | |
| 1978 | Diff'rent Strokes | TV | 7.1 | 16 | |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 13 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self - Presenter | TV | 7.0 | 8 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 8 |
| 1952 | Today | Self | TV | 5.6 | 9 |
| Rise of the Empress | TV | — | — | ||
| Rosetta | Film | — | — | ||
| Sewing Hope | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | — |