FrameThrower · Actors · Mykelti Williamson
Mykelti Williamson
7 films · 389 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1994–2016
Born 4 March 1957 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Michael T. 'Mykelti' Williamson 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.
How their films are shot
Measured across 389 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mykelti takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Mykelti takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 389 frames from Mykelti Williamson's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.