Mykelti Williamson
Biography
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.
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Acting History
2026
Is God Is
2025The Last Rodeo as Charlie Williamson
2025Government Cheese as Gus
2024Unstoppable as Eddie
2024Fallout as Honcho
2022The Holiday Stocking as Robert
2022American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective as Self
2022North of the 10 as Cole Pruit
2022Clean as Travis
2021Law & Order: Organized Crime as Preston Webb
2020The 24th as Sgt. Hayes
2020Emperor as Truesdale
2020Butter as Professor Dunn
2019Don't Let Go as Bobby Owens
2019Saint Judy as Dikembe Mustafa
2019Run the Race as Coach Hailey
2019Canal Street as Jackie Styles
2018Thriller as Detective Raymond Johnson
2017Rebel as Rene Knight
2017Convergence as Captain Saul Miller
2016Fences as Gabriel Maxson
2016Insecure as Preacher
2016Designated Survivor as Admiral Chernow
2016Lethal Weapon as Tom Barnes
2016The Purge: Election Year as Joe Dixon
2014Hollows Grove as F.B.I. Agent Jones
2014Scorpion as General Walker
2014Chicago P.D. as Denny Woods
2013Twist of Faith as Uncle Moe
2012Touch as Detective Lang
2011Have a Little Faith as Donnie
2010Hawaii Five-0 as Clay Maxwell
2010Rizzoli & Isles as U.S. Marshal Whitmore
2010High School as Paranoid
2010Justified as Ellstin Limehouse
2009Black Dynamite as Chicago Wind
2009Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
2009The Good Wife as Matthew Wade
2009The Final Destination as George
2008Vice as Sampson
2007August Rush as Reverend James
2007Raines as Detective Bobby 'Fearless' Smith
2007Spinning Into Butter as Aaron Carmichael
2006Kidnapped as Virgil Hayes
2006Justice
2006Psych as Sammy Winslow
2006ATL as Uncle George
2006Fatwa as Grady Frank
2006Lucky Number Slevin as Sloe
2005Get Rich or Die Tryin' as Charlene's Stepfather (uncredited)
2005The Making of 'Heat' as Self
2004After the Sunset as Agent Stafford
2004CSI: NY as Brigham Sinclair
2004Los Angeles Plays Itself as Det. Oliver Franklin in First Power (archive footage)
2004The Assassination of Richard Nixon as Harold Mann
2002Boomtown as Police Department Detective II Bobby 'Fearless' Smith
2002Our America as Graham Ellis
2002Monk as Captain Walter Cage
2001Ali as Don King
200124 as Brian Hastings
2000Holiday Heart as Silas
2000The Fugitive as Lt. Philip Gerard
1999Three Kings as Colonel Horn
1999Third Watch as Detective Rice
1999The Hoop Life
1999Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years as Papa Delany
1998Gideon as Coleman Walker
1998Species II as Dennis Gamble
1998Primary Colors as Dewayne Smith
1997Buffalo Soldiers as Cpl. William Christy
1997Double Tap as Agent Hamilton
199712 Angry Men as Juror 10
1997Con Air as "Baby-O" O'Dell
1997Truth or Consequences, N.M. as Marcus
1996Soul of the Game as Josh Gibson
1995Waiting to Exhale as Troy
1995Heat as Drucker
1995How to Make an American Quilt as Winston
1995Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home as Dwight Mercer
1995The Outer Limits as Dr. Michael Alders
1994Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump as Self
1994Touched by an Angel as Tevis Lockwood
1994Forrest Gump as Bubba Blue
1993Other Women's Children as Leonard
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Free Willy as Dwight Mercer
1991The New WKRP in Cincinnati as Donovan Aderhold
1990A Killer Among Us as Greg Hopkins
1990The First Power as Det. Oliver Franklin
1989Miracle Mile as Wilson
1988Police Story: Monster Manor as Officer Don Luntner
1988Midnight Caller as Deacon Bridges
1988China Beach
1987J.J. Starbuck
1987You Talkin' To Me? as Thatcher Marks
1987The Bronx Zoo
1987Number One with a Bullet as Casey
1986The Delta Force as Delta Force Member (uncredited)
1986Wildcats as Levander 'Bird' Williams
1984Cover Up
1984Miami Vice as Leon Jefferson
1984Miami Vice as Sylvio Romulus
1984Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper as Leon Jefferson
1984Streets of Fire as The Sorels - B.J.
1983Bay City Blues as Deejay Cunningham
1982Desperate Lives as Jack
1981Hill Street Blues
1980Freebie and the Bean
1980The Righteous Apples
1979Sunnyside as Hot Dog
1978The White Shadow as Fred
1976Alice
1975Starsky & Hutch
—ATL 2: The Homecoming as Uncle George
—They Fight