Mykelti Williamson

Known for: Acting
Born: March 4, 1957, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Movies: 73

Michael T. 'Mykelti' Williamson (born March 4, 1957) is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford 'Bubba' Blue in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, as Detective Bobby 'Fearless' Smith in the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful crime drama Boomtown, and recently for appearing as the head of CTU for season 8 of the hit TV series 24.

Upcoming Mykelti Williamson Movies

ATL 2: The Homecoming

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

8.5

Forrest Gump

1994

7.9

Heat

1995

6.4

The Purge: Election Year

2016

6.8

Con Air

1997

7.5

Lucky Number Slevin

2006

5.6

The Final Destination

2009

7.4

August Rush

2007

6.9

Fences

2016

6.7

Three Kings

1999

6.2

Free Willy

1993

Filmography

2026	They Fight	Coach Mac
2026	Is God Is	Chuck Hall
2025	The Last Rodeo	Charlie Williamson
2024	Unstoppable	Eddie
2022	The Holiday Stocking	Robert
2022	American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective	Self
2022	Butter	Professor Dunn
2022	North of the 10	Cole Pruit
2022	Clean	Travis
2020	The 24th	Sgt. Hayes
2020	Emperor	Truesdale
2019	Don't Let Go	Bobby Owens
2019	Run the Race	Coach Hailey
2019	Canal Street	Jackie Styles
2018	Thriller	Detective Raymond Johnson
2018	Saint Judy	Dikembe Mustafa
2017	Convergence	Captain Saul Miller
2016	Fences	Gabriel Maxson
2016	The Purge: Election Year	Joe Dixon
2014	Hollows Grove	F.B.I. Agent Jones
2013	Twist of Faith	Uncle Moe
2011	Have a Little Faith	Donnie
2010	High School	Paranoid
2010	Body Count: The Deaths of "Final Destination"	Self
2009	Black Dynamite	Chicago Wind
2009	The Final Destination	George
2009	Spinning Into Butter	Aaron Carmichael
2008	Vice	Sampson
2007	August Rush	Reverend James
2006	ATL	Uncle George
2006	Fatwa	Grady Frank
2006	Lucky Number Slevin	Sloe
2005	Get Rich or Die Tryin'	Charlene's Stepfather (uncredited)
2005	The Making of Heat	Self
2004	After the Sunset	Agent Stafford
2004	The Assassination of Richard Nixon	Harold Mann
2002	Our America	Graham Ellis
2001	Ali	Don King
2000	Holiday Heart	Silas
1999	Three Kings	Colonel Horn
1999	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years	Papa Delany
1998	Gideon	Coleman Walker
1998	Species II	Dennis Gamble
1998	Primary Colors	Dewayne Smith
1997	Buffalo Soldiers	Cpl. William Christy
1997	Double Tap	Agent Hamilton
1997	12 Angry Men	Juror 10
1997	Con Air	"Baby-O" O'Dell
1997	Truth or Consequences, N.M.	Marcus
1996	Soul of the Game	Josh Gibson
1995	Waiting to Exhale	Troy
1995	Heat	Drucker
1995	How to Make an American Quilt	Winston
1995	Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home	Dwight Mercer
1994	Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump	Self
1994	Forrest Gump	Bubba Blue
1993	Other Women's Children	Leonard
1993	Free Willy	Dwight Mercer
1990	A Killer Among Us	Greg Hopkins
1990	The First Power	Det. Oliver Franklin
1989	Miracle Mile	Wilson
1988	Police Story: Monster Manor	Officer Don Luntner
1987	You Talkin' to Me?	Thatcher Marks
1987	Number One with a Bullet	Casey
1986	Wildcats	Levander 'Bird' Williams
1986	The Delta Force	Delta Force Member (uncredited)
1984	Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper	Leon Jefferson
1984	Streets of Fire	The Sorels - B.J.
1982	Desperate Lives	Jack
1979	Sunnyside	Hot Dog

Directing, Writing & Producing

2023	Spring Breakthrough	Director
2022	Sons 2 the Grave	Director
2012	Jennifer	Director, Writer

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