If either of these actors were famous, you'd probably be confusing them all the time. Dudes with two first names are hard enough to remember, but these two share the same two first name combo only inverted. As it happens, both men aren't famous and probably only encounter this issue from newbie casting directors.
Having spent roughly 30 years as steady-working character actors, standing next to or sometimes behind the stars who's names you'd never forget, they have carved out thriving careers as the kind of performers who illicit this typical response from the average viewer: "oh, it's that guy, what have I seen him in again?" Answer: Everything.
While the fortunes of other movie stars have risen and crashed, while the Next-Big-Things have become No-Big-Deals, KD-DK, like most accomplished character actors, have been booking jobs year after year. You may not remember their names, or if you know a little more than most about movies, you may confuse which one is a Keith and which one is a David. But one thing is for sure, you know their faces, and whenever they pop up in a movie or TV show, you are comforted by their presence.
Ok, but who is the better David? Which one is the more badass Keith? Let's take a look.
Just so we don't confuse the two again, let's look at them one more time.
This is KD:
And this is DK:
First, let's look at who has nabbed the most work so far in their careers:
According to IMDB, DK has been involved in 103 projects starting with the TV show Happy Days in '78. KD on the other hand has booked 173 jobs between movies, TV shows and video game voice work.
1 point goes to KD.
Second, let's see who has branched out more into other areas of film besides acting:
KD has worn the hat of Producer on two different projects and contributed his vocal stylings to the soundtracks of 4 different films including a rendition of "I Got You Babe" in the flaming piece of redneck shit Delta Farce. Like I said, these guys aren't movie stars and don't really get to pick and choose their films. Work is work.
Also, musically inclined it seems, DK has composed theme songs and additional music for two TV shows. He has directed 3 features, shaping the performance of Wil Wheaton in The Curse (whatever that is) and directing himself in an Indiana Jones ripoff called The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck. Holy fuck why haven't I seen this yet?!? He has produced one feature and even tried his hand at stunt work early on in a film with perhaps the greatest title of all time, Barn of the Naked Dead.
1 point goes to DK.
The final round of this cage match will be the measure of coolness, basically who has been in more actually cool movies:
KD's cool list:
The fucking Thing
Pla-fucking-toon
Hot Pursuit
Braddock: Missing in fucking Action 3
Off Limits
Bird
They fucking Live
Road fucking House
(maybe I should just stop right here, DK looks to be in trouble this round)
Men at fucking Work
Marked for fucking Death
The Quick and the Dead
Clockers
Dead Presidents
Murder, She fucking Wrote (Holy shit, Angela Landsbury and KD is the most badass murder-solving duo ever)
Pitch Black
The Chronicles of fucking Riddick
7th Heaven (perhaps the greatest TV show America has ever produced)
Phew, that was almost too much cool.
And now DK's cool list:
Firestarter
White of the Eye
Whose Child is This? The War for Baby Jessica? (this might not seem cool now, but remember Baby Jessica? The kid in the well? She was a big deal)
Major fucking League 2 (finally, DK's first emphasis "fuck")
Ernest Goes to fucking School
The Indian in the Cupboard
Walker fucking Texas Ranger
Daredevil
Ok, no surprises there, KD would've won this based on "fucking's" alone, but he basically just unleashed an avalanche of cool that completely buried DK. Point for KD.
Winner: KD.
Ok, this was never really up for debate, but it's Sunday morning and I'm in my underwear drinking cold coffee, what else is there to do but use IMDB to decide imaginary gladiator battles between character actors?
Next cage match: It's going to be a bloodbath when M. Emmet Walsh faces off against J.T Walsh to decide who is the better Walsh.
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