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

• 2026Is God Is — Chuck Hall
• The Drop: A Snowfall Saga — James 'Big Daddy' Kinsey
• 2026They Fight — Coach Mac
• Government Cheese — Gus
• 2025The Last Rodeo — Charlie Williamson
• Dark Matter — Grandpa Vance
• Fallout — Honcho
• 2024Unstoppable — Eddie
• 2023Spring Breakthrough — Director
• 2022Butter — Professor Dunn
• 2022Clean — Travis
• 2022North of the 10 — Cole Pruit
• 2022Sons 2 the Grave — Director, Executive Producer
• 2022The Holiday Stocking — Robert
• Law & Order: Organized Crime — Preston Webb
• 2020Emperor — Truesdale
• Sweet Magnolias — Director
• 2020The 24th — Sgt. Hayes
• 2019Canal Street — Jackie Styles
• 2019Don't Let Go — Bobby Owens
• 2019Run the Race — Coach Hailey
• FBI — Director
• 2018Saint Judy — Dikembe Mustafa
• 2018Thriller — Detective Raymond Johnson
• 2017Convergence — Captain Saul Miller
• Rebel — Rene Knight
• Designated Survivor — Admiral Chernow
• 2016Fences — Gabriel Maxson
• Insecure — Preacher
• Lethal Weapon — Tom Barnes
• 2016The Purge: Election Year — Joe Dixon
• Chicago Med — Director
• Chicago P.D. — Denny Woods, Director
• 2014Hollows Grove — F.B.I. Agent Jones
• Scorpion — General Walker
• 2013Twist of Faith — Uncle Moe
• 2012Jennifer — Director, Writer
• Touch — Detective Lang
• 2011Have a Little Faith — Donnie
• Hawaii Five-0 — Clay Maxwell
• 2010High School — Paranoid
• Justified — Ellstin Limehouse
• Rizzoli & Isles — U.S. Marshal Whitmore
• 2009Black Dynamite — Chicago Wind
• 2009Spinning Into Butter — Aaron Carmichael
• 2009The Final Destination — George
• The Good Wife — Matthew Wade
• 2008Vice — Sampson
• 2007August Rush — Reverend James
• Raines — Detective Bobby 'Fearless' Smith
• 2006ATL — Uncle George
• 2006Fatwa — Grady Frank
• Justice
• Kidnapped — Virgil Hayes
• 2006Lucky Number Slevin — Sloe
• Psych — Sammy Winslow
• 2005Get Rich or Die Tryin' — Charlene's Stepfather (uncredited)
• 2004After the Sunset — Agent Stafford
• CSI: NY — Brigham Sinclair
• 2004The Assassination of Richard Nixon — Harold Mann
• Boomtown — Police Department Detective II Bobby 'Fearless' Smith
• Monk — Walter Cage
• 2002Our America — Graham Ellis
• 24 — Brian Hastings
• 2001Ali — Don King
• 2000Holiday Heart — Silas
• The Fugitive — Lt. Philip Gerard
• 1999Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years — Papa Delany
• The Hoop Life
• Third Watch — Detective Rice
• 1999Three Kings — Colonel Horn
• 1998Gideon — Coleman Walker
• 1998Primary Colors — Dewayne Smith
• 1998Species II — Dennis Gamble
• 199712 Angry Men — Juror 10
• 1997Buffalo Soldiers — Cpl. William Christy
• 1997Con Air — "Baby-O" O'Dell
• 1997Double Tap — Agent Hamilton
• 1997Truth or Consequences, N.M. — Marcus
• 1996Soul of the Game — Josh Gibson
• 1995Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home — Dwight Mercer
• 1995Heat — Drucker
• 1995How to Make an American Quilt — Winston
• The Outer Limits — Dr. Michael Alders
• 1995Waiting to Exhale — Troy
• 1994Forrest Gump — Bubba Blue
• Touched by an Angel — Tevis Lockwood
• 1993Free Willy — Dwight Mercer
• 1993Other Women's Children — Leonard
• The New WKRP in Cincinnati — Donovan Aderhold, Director
• 1990A Killer Among Us — Greg Hopkins
• 1990The First Power — Det. Oliver Franklin
• 1989Miracle Mile — Wilson
• China Beach
• Midnight Caller — Deacon Bridges
• Police Story — Officer Don Luntner
• 1988Police Story: Monster Manor — Officer Don Luntner
• J.J. Starbuck
• 1987Number One with a Bullet — Casey
• The Bronx Zoo
• 1987You Talkin' to Me? — Thatcher Marks
• 1986The Delta Force — Delta Force Member (uncredited)
• 1986Wildcats — Levander 'Bird' Williams
• Cover Up — Rick
• Miami Vice — Leon Jefferson, Sylvio Romulus
• 1984Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper — Leon Jefferson
• 1984Streets of Fire — The Sorels - B.J.
• Bay City Blues — Deejay Cunningham
• 1982Desperate Lives — Jack
• Hill Street Blues
• Freebie and the Bean
• The Righteous Apples
• 1979Sunnyside — Hot Dog
• The White Shadow — Fred
• Alice
• Starsky & Hutch
• ATL 2: The Homecoming — Uncle George

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2022American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective — Self
• 2010Body Count: The Deaths of "Final Destination" — Self
• Celebrity Ghost Stories — Self
• 2005The Making of 'Heat' — Self
• 1994Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest