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Forest Whitaker

Highest Rated:: 100% The Crying Game (1992)
Lowest Rated:: 2% Battlefield Earth (2000)

Birthday:: Jul 15, 1961
Birthplace:: Longview, Texas
Bio:: Born July 15th, 1961, the hulking, unmistakably burly Forest Whitaker initially got into college on a football scholarship, but upon transferring to the University of Southern California, he majored in music, winning two more scholarships in that field. Still another scholarship, this one in the…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 2% - 100%

Number of Movies: 96

Box Office Since 2001: $535.5M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2013		Pawn	Actor	$2.1k
2013		Black Nativity	Reverend Cornell Cobbs	--
2013		The Butler	Eugene Allen	--
2013		Serving Life	Actor	--
2013	59%	The Last Stand	Agent John Bannister	$12.0M
2013		Out of the Furnace	Actor	--
2012		Freelancers	LaRue	--
2012		What a Wonderful World	Louis Armstrong	--
2012		Rising From Ashes	Producer Actor	--
2012	73%	Toys In The Attic (Na Pude)	Actor	$64.9k
2012	8%	A Dark Truth	Francisco Francis	$5.8k
2012	31%	A Man's Story	Actor	--
2011		John Legend - Duke Ellington	Actor	--
2011		Catch .44	Ronny	--
2010		My Own Love Song	Joey	--
2010	41%	The Expendables	Actor	$103.0M
2010	13%	Our Family Wedding	Brad Boyd	$18.6M
2010	22%	Repo Men	Jake	$13.2M
2010		The Experiment	Barris	--
2010		Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More To Life	Actor	--
2009		Lullaby for Pi	George	--
2009		Na pude aneb Kdo m� dneska narozeniny? (In the Attic or Who Has a Birthday Today?)	Mucha (English Version)	--
2009		Hurricane Season	Al Collins	--
2009	25%	Powder Blue	Actor	--
2009	73%	Where the Wild Things Are	Ira	$77.2M
2008	35%	Vantage Point	Howard Lewis	$72.3M
2008	67%	Chasseurs de Dragons (Dragon Hunters)	Actor	--
2008	36%	Street Kings	Capt. Jack Wander	$26.4M
2008		King	Actor	--
2008	45%	Fragments	Charlie	--
2008	75%	Crips and Bloods: Made in America	Narrator	--
2007	12%	The Air I Breathe	Happiness	--
2007	78%	The Great Debaters	James Farmer Sr.	$30.0M
2007	29%	Ripple Effect	Phillip Blackman Producer	--
2007	24%	Even Money	Clyde Snow	--
2006		The Marsh	Actor	--
2006	40%	Everyone's Hero	Lonnie Brewster	$14.5M
2006	87%	The Last King of Scotland	Director Idi Amin	$17.4M
2006		Jumbo Box of Storybook Classics 2	Actor	--
2006		Before the Music Dies	Narrator	--
2005		Special Thanks to Roy London	Actor	--
2005	37%	American Gun	Carl Carter Producer	--
2005	59%	Mary	Ted Younger	--
2005	33%	A Little Trip to Heaven	Director Holt	--
2004	8%	First Daughter	Director Narrator	$9.0M
2004	22%	Jiminy Glick in La La Wood	Actor	$25.7k
2003		Deacons for Defense	Marcus	--
2003		American Storytellers	Actor	--
2003	71%	Phone Booth	Captain Ramey	$46.5M
2002	76%	Panic Room	Burnham	$95.3M
2002	61%	Green Dragon	Addie	--
2001		The Fourth Angel (The 4th Angel)	Agent Jules Bernard	--
2001		The Follow	Husband's Assistant (uncredited)	--
2001		A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'	Actor	--
2001		The Feast of All Saints	Daguerreotypist Picard	--
2000		Four Dogs Playing Poker	Ellington	--
2000	2%	Battlefield Earth	Ker	--
2000		Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows	Actor	--
2000		American Storytellers	Actor	--
1999	38%	Light It Up	Officer Dante Jackson	--
1999	82%	Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai	Ghost Dog	--
1999		Witness Protection	Actor	--
1998		Body Count	Crane	--
1998	24%	Hope Floats	Director	--
1996		Rebound: The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault	Mr. Rucker	--
1996	50%	Phenomenon	Nate Pope Director	--
1995	36%	Species	Dan Smithson	--
1995	52%	Waiting to Exhale	Director	--
1995	93%	Smoke	Cyrus Cole	--
1994	26%	Ready to Wear (Pr�t-�-Porter)	Cy Bianco	--
1994		Lush Life	Buddy Chester	--
1994		The Enemy Within	Colonel MacKenzie Casey	--
1994	28%	Blown Away	Anthony Franklin	--
1994	67%	Jason's Lyric	Maddog	--
1994	71%	Body Snatchers	Major Collins	--
1993		Last Light	Fred Whitmore	--
1993		Bank Robber	Officer Battle	--
1993		Strapped	Director	--
1992	27%	Consenting Adults	David Duttonville	--
1992	100%	The Crying Game	Jody	--
1992	46%	Article 99	Dr. Sid Handleman	--
1991	75%	A Rage in Harlem	Jackson	--
1991		Diary of a Hitman	Dekker	--
1990		Criminal Justice	Jessie Williams	--
1990		Downtown	Dennis Curren	--
1989	62%	Johnny Handsome	Dr. Steven Fisher	--
1988	78%	Bird	Charlie "Yardbird" Parker	--
1987	89%	Good Morning, Vietnam	Edward Garlick	--
1987		Hands of a Stranger	Sergeant Delaney	--
1987	83%	Stakeout	Jack Pismo	--
1986	92%	The Color of Money	Amos	--
1986	33%	Bloodsport	Rawlins	--
1986	88%	Platoon	Big Harold	--
1985	58%	Vision Quest	Bulldozer	--
1982		Tag: The Assassination Game(Everybody Gets It in the End)(Kiss Me, Kill Me )	Gowdy's Bodyguard	--
1982	80%	Fast Times At Ridgemont High	Charles Jefferson	--

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1. James Farmer Sr.: Are you fooling around with that girl son?
From The Great Debaters. Submitted by Jesse K (4 months ago)

1. Agent Jules Bernard: Napoleon taught us never to stop an enemy when he's making a mistake.
From The Fourth Angel (The 4th Angel). Submitted by Frances H (6 months ago)