WATN: BUBBA SMITH

By Gareth Bunkham /

BUBBA SMITH

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MOSES HIGHTOWER

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Charles "Bubba" Smith was a professional American football player in the 60€™s and 70€™s before turning his hand to €˜acting€™ on his retirement from the game. He won the Superbowl with the Baltimore Colts in 1970 and in 2006, Michigan State, his college team, retired his number 95 jersey, the greatest tribute a team can pay a former player.

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Police Academy is definitely the highlight of Smith€™s TV and film career thus far, prior to playing Moses Hightower; Smith had appeared in episodes of Wonder Woman and Charlie's Angels.

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Since his final Police Academy appearance in 1989€™s City Under Siege, Smith has continued a steady pace of TV guest spots and bargain bin movie appearances, the highlights, and I use the term highlights extremely loosely, being; Down "N' Dirty, a low rent drama about police corruption starring Gary Busey and DavidCarradine.

And Full Clip a violent action thriller starring rappers Busta Rhymes and Xzibit in which Smith rather ironically plays a character named Sleepy€

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