Mykelti Williamson
Acting • Born 1957-03-04
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.
Filmography
117 credits
Forrest Gump
Movie • 1994
Bubba Blue
Lucky Number Slevin
Movie • 2006
Sloe
Heat
Movie • 1995
Drucker
Free Willy
Movie • 1993
Dwight Mercer
Species II
Movie • 1998
Dennis Gamble
Con Air
Movie • 1997
"Baby-O" O'Dell
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Movie • 2004
Harold Mann
After the Sunset
Movie • 2004
Agent Stafford
August Rush
Movie • 2007
Reverend James
Waiting to Exhale
Movie • 1995
Troy
Miracle Mile
Movie • 1989
Wilson
Ali
Movie • 2001
Don King
12 Angry Men
Movie • 1997
Juror 10
Primary Colors
Movie • 1998
Dewayne Smith
North of the 10
Movie • 2022
Cole Pruit
Wildcats
Movie • 1986
Levander 'Bird' Williams
Police Story: Monster Manor
Movie • 1988
Officer Don Luntner
The Final Destination
Movie • 2009
George
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Movie • 2004
Det. Oliver Franklin in First Power (archive footage)
Soul of the Game
Movie • 1996
Josh Gibson
Have a Little Faith
Movie • 2011
Donnie
Twist of Faith
Movie • 2013
Uncle Moe
Buffalo Soldiers
Movie • 1997
Cpl. William Christy
Double Tap
Movie • 1997
Agent Hamilton
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Movie • 1994
Self
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Movie • 1997
Marcus
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
Movie • 1995
Dwight Mercer
The Making of 'Heat'
Movie • 2005
Self
Black Dynamite
Movie • 2009
Chicago Wind
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
Movie • 2022
Self
Our America
Movie • 2002
Graham Ellis
The First Power
Movie • 1990
Det. Oliver Franklin
Hollows Grove
Movie • 2014
F.B.I. Agent Jones
The Holiday Stocking
Movie • 2022
Robert
You Talkin' to Me?
Movie • 1987
Thatcher Marks
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Movie • 1999
Papa Delany
Sunnyside
Movie • 1979
Hot Dog
Convergence
Movie • 2017
Captain Saul Miller
The Purge: Election Year
Movie • 2016
Joe Dixon
Fences
Movie • 2016
Gabriel Maxson
Three Kings
Movie • 1999
Colonel Horn
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
Movie • 1984
Leon Jefferson
The Delta Force
Movie • 1986
Delta Force Member (uncredited)
Number One with a Bullet
Movie • 1987
Casey
Fatwa
Movie • 2006
Grady Frank
High School
Movie • 2010
Paranoid
Streets of Fire
Movie • 1984
The Sorels - B.J.
How to Make an American Quilt
Movie • 1995
Winston
Other Women's Children
Movie • 1993
Leonard
Don't Let Go
Movie • 2019
Bobby Owens
Thriller
Movie • 2018
Detective Raymond Johnson
Spinning Into Butter
Movie • 2009
Aaron Carmichael
Canal Street
Movie • 2019
Jackie Styles
Saint Judy
Movie • 2018
Dikembe Mustafa
Run the Race
Movie • 2019
Coach Hailey
A Killer Among Us
Movie • 1990
Greg Hopkins
Gideon
Movie • 1998
Coleman Walker
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Movie • 2005
Charlene's Stepfather (uncredited)
ATL
Movie • 2006
Uncle George
Emperor
Movie • 2020
Truesdale
The 24th
Movie • 2020
Sgt. Hayes
Vice
Movie • 2008
Sampson
Holiday Heart
Movie • 2000
Silas
Butter
Movie • 2020
Professor Dunn
Clean
Movie • 2022
Travis
Desperate Lives
Movie • 1982
Jack
The Last Rodeo
Movie • 2025
Charlie Williamson
Unstoppable
Movie • 2024
Eddie
ATL 2: The Homecoming
Movie
Uncle George
Is God Is
Movie • 2026
The Lawyer
They Fight
Movie
Clementine
Movie • 2014
Ray
Alice
TV • 1976
Third Watch
TV • 1999
Detective Rice
Kidnapped
TV • 2006
Virgil Hayes
Psych
TV • 2006
Sammy Winslow
Justice
TV • 2006
Boomtown
TV • 2002
Police Department Detective II Bobby 'Fearless' Smith
Starsky & Hutch
TV • 1975
Monk
TV • 2002
Walter Cage
Miami Vice
TV • 1984
Leon Jefferson
China Beach
TV • 1988
CSI: NY
TV • 2004
Brigham Sinclair
Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Raines
TV • 2007
Detective Bobby 'Fearless' Smith
Cover Up
TV • 1984
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Bay City Blues
TV • 1983
Deejay Cunningham
The White Shadow
TV • 1978
Fred
The New WKRP in Cincinnati
TV • 1991
Donovan Aderhold
Midnight Caller
TV • 1988
Deacon Bridges
The Bronx Zoo
TV • 1987
The Hoop Life
TV • 1999
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Dr. Michael Alders
The Righteous Apples
TV • 1980
Freebie and the Bean
TV • 1980
J.J. Starbuck
TV • 1987
Justified
TV • 2010
Ellstin Limehouse
Scorpion
TV • 2014
General Walker
Law & Order: Organized Crime
TV • 2021
Preston Webb
The Fugitive
TV • 2000
Lt. Philip Gerard
Rebel
TV • 2017
Rene Knight
Lethal Weapon
TV • 2016
Tom Barnes
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV • 2009
Self
Miami Vice
TV • 1984
Sylvio Romulus
Designated Survivor
TV • 2016
Admiral Chernow
Fallout
TV • 2024
Honcho
Rizzoli & Isles
TV • 2010
U.S. Marshal Whitmore
Insecure
TV • 2016
Preacher
Touch
TV • 2012
Detective Lang
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Tevis Lockwood
Chicago P.D.
TV • 2014
Denny Woods
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Matthew Wade
Hawaii Five-0
TV • 2010
Clay Maxwell
Government Cheese
TV • 2025
Gus
24
TV • 2001
Brian Hastings
Untitled Snowfall Spinoff
TV
'Big Daddy' Casey