'Police Academy' star Bubba Cruz dies

Bubba Cruz, an exciting-Professional defensive finish who performed the majority of his nine-year National football league career using the Baltimore Colts, winning an excellent Bowl championship together before switching jobs being an actress, most particularly like a mainstay from the "Police Academy" film comedies, was discovered accurate Wednesday at his home in La. He was 66. The reason for dying was unknown, but natural causes are suspected.After retiring from professional football in 1976, Cruz started work in TV, including like a pitchman for Burns Lite in a number of noted advertisements, and then film. He guested on "The Brand New Adventures of Question Lady," "Charlie's Angels" and "The Whitened Shadow," and that he were built with a recurring role on CBS sitcom "Good Occasions."He would be a series regular on three brief ABC series: 1980's "Semi-Tough," an adaptation from the film sitcom "Open Through The Night" almost 30 years ago-82 as well as an adaptation of action film "Blue Thunder" back in 1984. On NBC, he starred with Dick Butkus within the brief comedy "Half Nelson" in 1985.Throughout the eighties, the "Police Academy" films, by which he described the strong but soft-spoken Moses Hightower, provided Cruz with steadier employment. Cruz ongoing guesting on television series throughout the the nineteen nineties and made an appearance inside a couple of films throughout the 2000s: "Lower 'n Dirty," "The Coach,""Full Clip" and 2010's "Bloodstream River."Born in Beaumont, Texas, Charles Aaron Cruz would be a three-time NCAA All-American at Michigan Condition (he was awarded with a Nfl And College Football Hall of Fame in 1988), and that he was selected through the Baltimore Colts because the No. 1 pick within the NFL's 1967 college draft. He also performed appropriately for that Concord Raiders and Houston Oilers. Contact Carmel Dagan at carmel.dagan@variety.com