Carl Weathers
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Predator
1987
as Al Dillon
Toy Story 4
2019
as Combat Carl (voice)
Rocky
1976
as Apollo Creed
Rocky III
1982
as Apollo Creed
Rocky IV
1985
as Apollo Creed
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
as Military Policeman
Rocky II
1979
as Apollo Creed
Happy Gilmore
1996
as Chubbs
Little Nicky
2000
as Chubbs (uncredited)
Magnum Force
1973
as Demonstrator
Think Like a Man Too
2014
as Mr. Davenport (uncredited)
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
as Weaver
Death Hunt
1981
as George Washington Lincoln 'Sundog' Brown
Balto III: Wings of Change
2004
as Kirby (voice)
The Comebacks
2007
as Freddie Wiseman/Narrator
Eight Crazy Nights
2002
as GNC Guy (voice)
Action Jackson
1988
as Sgt. Jericho 'Action' Jackson
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self
Semi-Tough
1977
as Dreamer Tatum