Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1/14/1948
Place of Birth
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Also Known As
کارل ویترز
Carl Weathers
Biography
Carl Weathers (January 14, 1948 – February 2, 2024) was an American actor, director, as well as former professional football player in the United States and Canada. He was best known for playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky series of films. He also played Dillon in the first Predator movie, Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore and Little Nicky, Magistrate Greef Karga in The Mandalorian, and played a fictionalized version of himself in the television series Arrested Development.
Known For
Predator
as Al Dillon
Rocky
as Apollo Creed
Little Nicky
as Chubbs (uncredited)
Toy Story 4
as Combat Carl (voice)
American Warships
as General McKraken
Rocky III
as Apollo Creed
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Military Policeman
The Comebacks
as Freddie Wiseman/Narrator
Semi-Tough
as Dreamer Tatum
Death Hunt
as George Washington Lincoln 'Sundog' Brown
Rocky IV
as Apollo Creed
Hurricane Smith
as Billy 'Hurricane' Smith
Magnum Force
as Demonstrator
Happy Gilmore
as Chubbs
Friday Foster
as Yarbro
Alien Siege
as General Skyler
Balto III: Wings of Change
as Kirby (voice)
Rocky II
as Apollo Creed
Eight Crazy Nights
as GNC Guy (voice)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self