Forrest Gump
1994
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Benjamin "Bubba" Buford Blue (March 2, 1943 — June 7, 1967) was Forrest Gump's companion during the Vietnam War. He knew everything there was to know about the shrimping business, and directly inspired the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Bubba appears as a major character in both the Forrest Gump...
Mykelti Williamson is an American actor who played Bubba in the Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump (1994). He also starred in The Fugitive (2000), Fences (2016), and many other movies and TV shows.
- January 1, 1
- 1.88 m
- Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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Williamson is best known as Private Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the Academy Award–winning 1994 film Forrest Gump. He also received favorable reviews when he played Negro league baseball player Josh Gibson in the HBO film Soul of the Game (1996).
YearTitleRoleNotes2024HonchoEpisode: "The End"2022RobertTV movie2021–2022Preston WebbRecurring cast (season 2)2020Two DegreesTEpisode: "Cigar Cave"The film is based on the 1986 novel by Winston Groom. Both center on the character of Forrest Gump. However, the film primarily focuses on the first eleven chapters of the novel before skipping ahead to the end of the novel, with the founding of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and the meeting with Forrest Jr.
Bubba Blue is Forrest Gump's best friend and shrimping partner in Vietnam. He is played by Mykelti Williamson, who also appeared in other movies and TV shows.
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 ...
