Mykelti Williamson

Highest Rated: 94% Three Kings (1999)

Lowest Rated: 9% Species II (1998)

Birthday: Mar 4, 1957

Birthplace: Saint Louis, Missouri

After more than a decade in the business, hard-working actor Mykelti Williamson achieved true fame as Tom Hanks' army buddy in Forrest Gump (1994). Born in St. Louis, Williamson and his family moved frequently during his childhood, finally settling in Los Angeles when he was 15. After studying acting in high school, Williamson landed a recurring role on Hill Street Blues in 1983. Working steadily in TV and movies throughout the 1980s, Williamson appeared in a number of films, including Walter Hill's Streets of Fire (1984); the pilot movie for the stylish cop series Miami Vice (1984); and the Goldie Hawn football comedy Wildcats (1986). By the 1990s, Williamson added a bona fide sleeper hit to his credits with his role as a paternal cop in Free Willy (1993). His transformative performance as Forrest's ill-fated shrimp-loving friend Bubba in the blockbuster, 1994 Best Picture winner Forrest Gump then earned Williamson critical raves, propelling him into a varied range of high-profile films. After appearing in Free Willy 2 (1995) and playing a small but attention-getting role as one of Lela Rochon's unworthy suitors in Waiting to Exhale (1995), Williamson joined forces with Al Pacino in Michael Mann's Heat (1995). Continuing to work in TV as well, Williamson acted in several series, co-starred as Negro League baseball player Josh Gibson in the well-received TV film The Soul of the Game (1996), played a black cavalryman in the TNT Western Buffalo Soldiers (1997), and joined the prestigious ensemble cast of 12 Angry Men (1997). Williamson continued to ride high as Nicolas Cage's ill cell mate in the summer blockbuster Con Air (1997), but his 1998 movie work in Primary Colors and Species 2 was personally overshadowed by his legal troubles when he was arrested for stalking his ex-wife and stabbing her friend. Acquitted of the charges, Williamson returned to form with a blistering performance as an Army colonel in David O. Russell's critically lauded Three Kings (1999). Williamson reprised his role as Lt. Gerard in the second TV series version of The Fugitive(2000). Despite pre-season hype and the prior success of other Fugitives, the series lasted only one season. Williamson then made another onscreen splash when he reunited with Heat director Michael Mann to appear as the flamboyant, shock-haired boxing impresario Don King in Mann's ambitious biopic Ali (2001). Williamson is married and has three daughters.

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Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	Emperor	Actor	—	2020
40%	Don't Let Go (Relive)	Bobby	—	2019
62%	Saint Judy	Dikembe Mustafa	—	2019
40%	Run the Race	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	Canal Street	Actor	—	2019
42%	Thriller	Actor	—	2018
92%	Fences	Gabriel	$57.7M	2016
56%	The Purge: Election Year	Joe Dixon	—	2016
No Score Yet	Convergence	Captain Saul Miller	—	2015
No Score Yet	Hollows Grove	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	You Bury Your Own	Actor	—	2014
28%	High School	Paranoid	$0.2M	2012
No Score Yet	Have A Little Faith	Donnie	—	2011
83%	Black Dynamite	Chicago Wind	$0.2M	2009
29%	The Final Destination	George	$66.5M	2009
16%	Spinning Into Butter	Aaron Carmichael	—	2009
20%	Ball Don't Lie	Dallas	—	2008
29%	Vice	Sampson	—	2008
36%	August Rush	Rev. James	$31.6M	2007
52%	Lucky Number Slevin	Sloe	$22.5M	2006
61%	ATL	Uncle George	$21.2M	2006
No Score Yet	Fatwa	Grady Frank	—	2006
67%	The Assassination of Richard Nixon	Harold Mann	$0.6M	2004
18%	After the Sunset	Agent Stafford	$28.4M	2004
No Score Yet	Our America	Graham Ellis	—	2002
67%	Ali	Don King	$58.2M	2001
No Score Yet	Holiday Heart	Silas	—	2000
No Score Yet	Gideon	Coleman Walker	—	1999
94%	Three Kings	Colonel Horn	—	1999
No Score Yet	Having Our Say: Delany Sisters' First 100 Years	Papa Delany	—	1999
9%	Species II	Dennis Gamble	—	1998
81%	Primary Colors	Dewayne Smith	—	1998
No Score Yet	Buffalo Soldiers	Christy	—	1997
No Score Yet	Double Tap	Actor	—	1997
55%	Con Air	Baby-O	—	1997
38%	Truth or Consequences, N.M.	Marcus Weans	—	1997
92%	12 Angry Men	Juror #10	—	1997
67%	Soul of the Game	Josh Gibson	—	1996
56%	Waiting to Exhale	Troy	—	1995
86%	Heat	Drucker	—	1995
61%	How to Make an American Quilt	Winston	—	1995
31%	Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home	Dwight Mercer	—	1995
70%	Forrest Gump	Bubba Blue	$330.1M	1994
58%	Free Willy	Dwight Mercer	—	1993
22%	The First Power	Detective Oliver Franklin	—	1990
90%	Miracle Mile	Wilson	—	1989
No Score Yet	You Talkin' to Me?	Thatcher Marks	—	1987
No Score Yet	Number One with a Bullet	Casey	—	1987
22%	Wildcats	Levander 'Bird' Williams	—	1986
67%	Streets of Fire	B.J.	—	1984
No Score Yet	Desperate Lives	Jack	—	1982
No Score Yet	Penitentiary	Actor	—	1980
94%	Enter the Dragon	Actor	—	1973

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	Chicago Med 2015	Director	2020
89%	Lethal Weapon 2016-2019	Tom Barnes	2019 2018
No Score Yet	Chicago P.D. 2014	Lt. Denny Woods Hammond Danny Woods Woods	2018 2017 2014
38%	Rebel 2017	Rene Knight, Rebel's father	2017
25%	Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders 2016-2017	Gen. Yazeen Zwane	2017 2016
96%	Underground 2016-2017	Moses	2017 2016
No Score Yet	Hawaii Five-0 2010	Clay Maxwell	2015
61%	Scorpion 2014-2018	Gen. Walker	2015 2014
97%	Justified 2010-2015	Ellstin Limehouse	2015 2013 2012 2011
90%	Nashville 2012-2018	Terry	2014
68%	Touch 2012	Det. Lange	2013
94%	The Good Wife 2009-2016	Matthew Wade	2010
86%	24 2001-2014	Brian Hastings	2010 2009
No Score Yet	CSI: NY 2004-2013	Chief Sinclaire Brigham Sinclair Chief Brigham Sinclair Chief Sinclair	2009 2008 2007
65%	Kidnapped 2006-2007	Virgil Hayes	2007 2006
63%	Justice 2006	Joshua Mortin	2006
No Score Yet	Third Watch 1999-2005	Dante Rice	2005
90%	Monk 2002-2009	Capt. Cage	2004
96%	Boomtown 2002-2003	Det. `Fearless' Bobby Smith	2003 2002
No Score Yet	Touched by an Angel 1994-2003	Tevis	2002
No Score Yet	The Outer Limits 1995-2002		1995
No Score Yet	Hill Street Blues 1981-1987	Garfield	1986
No Score Yet	Miami Vice 1984-1990	Sylvio Leon	1985 1984
No Score Yet	The White Shadow 1978-1981	Fred	1981
No Score Yet	Starsky & Hutch 1975-1979	Bruce	1978
40%	The New WKRP in Cincinnati 1993

QUOTES FROM Mykelti Williamson CHARACTERS

Troy says: You black bitches are all the same.

Robin Stokes says: Bitch?

Troy says: Ya'll always complanin' about how nobody don't want your ass, don't nobody know how to treat ya! Then you meet a man, a brother, with genuine interest in ya, and you gotta act simple. Then you wonder why we date white women.

Robin Stokes says: A white woman can have your sorry ass!

Bubba Blue says: Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.

Bubba Blue says: Forrest?.

Forrest Gump says: Bubba?.

Forrest Gump says: Bubba?

Bubba Blue says: Why did this happen?

Forrest Gump says: You've got shot.

Forrest Gump says: (voice over) Bubba was gonna be a captain, but instead, he died right by the river.

Forrest Gump says: [voice over] Bubba was gonna be a captain, but instead, he died right by the river.

Bubba Blue says: (last words) I wanna go home?.

Bubba Blue says: [last words] I wanna go home?

Troy says: You black bitches are all the same?.

Troy says: You black bitches are all the same.

Bubba Blue says: There's shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes...

Bubba Blue says: There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger...

Bubba Blue says: My name's Benjamin Buford Blue. People call me Bubba.