Mykelti Williamson

ActorDirectorProducerWriter Mar 4 (age 69) St. Louis, Missouri, USA 1975–2026 (51 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

Forrest Gump

Bubba Blue

Film

Heat

Drucker

Film

Chicago P.D.

Director

Film

Lucky Number Slevin

Sloe

Film

Chicago Med

Director

Film

August Rush

Reverend James

Film

Con Air

"Baby-O" O'Dell

Film

The Purge: Election Year

Joe Dixon

Filmography

Acting (117)

Movies (72)

Is God Is

2026 Upcoming

as The Lawyer

May 15

The Last Rodeo

2025

as Charlie Williamson

Unstoppable

as Eddie

Clean

as Travis

North of the 10

as Cole Pruit

American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective

as Self

The Holiday Stocking

as Robert

Emperor

as Truesdale

Butter

as Professor Dunn

The 24th

as Sgt. Hayes

Run the Race

as Coach Hailey

Canal Street

as Jackie Styles

Don't Let Go

as Bobby Owens

Saint Judy

as Dikembe Mustafa

Thriller

as Detective Raymond Johnson

4.3

Convergence

2017

as Captain Saul Miller

4.3

The Purge: Election Year

as Joe Dixon

Fences

as Gabriel Maxson

Clementine

as Ray

Hollows Grove

2014

as F.B.I. Agent Jones

Twist of Faith

as Uncle Moe

Have a Little Faith

as Donnie

High School

as Paranoid

The Final Destination

as George

Black Dynamite

as Chicago Wind

Vice

as Sampson

August Rush

as Reverend James

Spinning Into Butter

as Aaron Carmichael

Lucky Number Slevin

as Sloe

Fatwa

as Grady Frank

ATL

as Uncle George

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

2005

as Charlene's Stepfather (uncredited)

The Making of 'Heat'

as Self

After the Sunset

as Agent Stafford

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

2004

as Harold Mann

6.5

Los Angeles Plays Itself

2004

as Det. Oliver Franklin in First Power (archive footage)

Our America

as Graham Ellis

Ali

as Don King

Holiday Heart

as Silas

Three Kings

as Colonel Horn

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

as Papa Delany

Primary Colors

as Dewayne Smith

Species II

as Dennis Gamble

Gideon

as Coleman Walker

Con Air

as "Baby-O" O'Dell

12 Angry Men

as Juror 10

Double Tap

as Agent Hamilton

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

1997

as Marcus

6.2

Buffalo Soldiers

1997

as Cpl. William Christy

Soul of the Game

as Josh Gibson

Heat

as Drucker

Waiting to Exhale

as Troy

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

1995

as Dwight Mercer

5.9

How to Make an American Quilt

as Winston

Forrest Gump

as Bubba Blue

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

as Self

Free Willy

as Dwight Mercer

Other Women's Children

1993

as Leonard

5.0

The First Power

1990

as Det. Oliver Franklin

A Killer Among Us

as Greg Hopkins

Miracle Mile

as Wilson

Police Story: Monster Manor

1988

as Officer Don Luntner

1.0

You Talkin' to Me?

1987

as Thatcher Marks

2.5

Number One with a Bullet

1987

as Casey

4.6

The Delta Force

1986

as Delta Force Member (uncredited)

5.9

Wildcats

1986

as Levander 'Bird' Williams

6.2

Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper

as Leon Jefferson

Streets of Fire

as The Sorels - B.J.

Desperate Lives

as Jack

Sunnyside

as Hot Dog

ATL 2: The Homecoming

as Uncle George

They Fight

Television (45)

Government Cheese

as Gus

Fallout

as Honcho

Law & Order: Organized Crime

as Preston Webb

Rebel

as Rene Knight

Designated Survivor

as Admiral Chernow

Lethal Weapon

as Tom Barnes

Insecure

as Preacher

Chicago P.D.

as Denny Woods

Scorpion

as General Walker

Touch

as Detective Lang

Hawaii Five-0

as Clay Maxwell

Rizzoli & Isles

as U.S. Marshal Whitmore

Justified

as Ellstin Limehouse

The Good Wife

as Matthew Wade

Celebrity Ghost Stories

2009

as Self

7.3

Raines

2007

as Detective Bobby 'Fearless' Smith

Psych

as Sammy Winslow

Justice

Kidnapped

as Virgil Hayes

CSI: NY

as Brigham Sinclair

Monk

as Walter Cage

Boomtown

as Police Department Detective II Bobby 'Fearless' Smith

as Brian Hastings

The Fugitive

as Lt. Philip Gerard

Third Watch

as Detective Rice

The Hoop Life

The Outer Limits

as Dr. Michael Alders

7.7

Touched by an Angel

1994

as Tevis Lockwood

7.2

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993

as Self - Guest

7.2

The New WKRP in Cincinnati

as Donovan Aderhold

China Beach

Midnight Caller

as Deacon Bridges

Midnight Caller

as Deacon Bridges

The Bronx Zoo

J.J. Starbuck

Miami Vice

as Leon Jefferson

Cover Up

Bay City Blues

as Deejay Cunningham

Hill Street Blues

Freebie and the Bean

The Righteous Apples

The White Shadow

as Fred

Alice

Starsky & Hutch

Untitled Snowfall Spinoff

as 'Big Daddy' Casey

Crew (10)

Movies (5)

Spring Breakthrough

Director

Sons 2 the Grave

Director

Sons 2 the Grave

Executive Producer

Jennifer

Director

Jennifer

Writer

Television (5)

Sweet Magnolias

Director

FBI

Director

Chicago Med

Director

Chicago P.D.

Director

The New WKRP in Cincinnati

1991

Director

7.0