A fair actor, though he was typecast. I loved the Lite Beer commercials he and Bubba were in.
He was also in the TV series version of Blue Thunder:
When TV was great. here's the pitch: We turn that helicopter movie into a TV show with Bubba Smith, Dick Butkus and Dana Carvey as a guy named Clinton Wonderlove.
And even though it tanked, it scared NBC so bad there execs said, "We need our own helicopter show! And a talking car! And a super-powered motorcycle! Make it happen!"