RALEIGH -- Tab Thacker, a Winston-Salem native who appeared in two Police Academy movies, died yesterday after several years of declining health, according to N.C. State University. He was 45.

Talmadge Layne "Tab" Thacker (March 10, 1962 – December 28, 2007) was an American wrestler and actor. Thacker was the NCAA Division I Wrestling heavyweight national champion in 1984 as a senior. He ...