Fond Farewell: Stars We Lost in 2011

After a successful college football and NFL career that spanned more than a decade, Bubba Smith jumped into the world of acting and landed his best-known role -- Moses Hightower in "Police Academy" in 1984. Smith was found dead in his Los Angeles home on August 3. The autopsy determined he had phentermine, a weight-loss drug, in his system and also suffered from heart disease and high-blood pressure.

After a successful college football and NFL career that spanned more than a decade, Bubba Smith jumped into the world of acting and landed his best-known role -- Moses Hightower in "Police Academy" in 1984. Smith was found dead in his Los Angeles home on August 3. The autopsy determined he had phentermine, a weight-loss drug, in his system and also suffered from heart disease and high-blood pressure.