BUBBA SMITH
AS
MOSES HIGHTOWER
(1–6)
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.
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.
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 David Carradine.
And Full Clip a violent action thriller starring rappers Busta Rhymes and Xzibit in which Smith rather ironically plays a character named Sleepy…
PREVIOUSLY: STEVE GUTTENBERG | MICHAEL WINSLOW
OTHER MOVIES: TERMINATOR | BEVERLY HILLS COP | BACK TO THE FUTURE
5 Comments
Gareth, you dumbass, that’s Fred Williamson in that pic not Bubba Smith. Are you stupid, or blind?
Jaysmack,
I’m the dumb-ass.
I did the images on this one, I have no idea anything about American football… so when I typed Bubba Smith in google and he came up… I presumed it was him.
Oops!
Who can’t the difference between Bubba Smith and Fred Williamson?
Couldn’t you have bothered to look at the pic? Or did you?
You know what? Forget it. I’m getting disgusted just thinking about this one.
Did look at the pic but he had a mask one, so it was difficult. Did wonder why the image looked so modern though but thought nothing of it.
Honestly though I couldn’t tell you one name of an American football player. Not one.
It’s not a sport shown or discussed in the U.K. unless you hunt for it.
He doesn’t talk about the football picture, but about the one from down n dirty.
That guy is Fred Williamson, whom you may now if you have seen From Dusk Till Down, where he tells his nice Vietnam story.