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Carl Weathers (born January 14, 1948) is an American actor and former professional football player. He is known for his roles as boxer Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films (1976–85), George Dillon in Predator (1987), Action Jackson in Action Jackson (1988), and Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore (1996) and in Little Nicky (2000), and Combat Carl in the Toy Story franchise. He also portrayed Det. Beaudreaux in the television series Street Justice (1991–93) and a fictionalized version of himself in the comedy series Arrested Development (2003–19), and voiced Omnitraxus Prime in Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2017–19). He has a recurring role as Greef Karga in the Star Wars series The Mandalorian (2019–).

Carl Weathers
Weathers at the New York Comic Con in 2017
Born	(1948-01-14) January 14, 1948 (age 74) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Education	San Diego State University San Francisco State University (BA)
Occupation	Actor American football player
Years active	1973–present (actor) 1970–1974 (football player)
Spouses	Mary Ann Castle ​ ​ (m. 1973; div. 1983)​ Rhona Unsell ​ ​ (m. 1984; div. 2006)​ Jennifer Peterson ​ ​ (m. 2007; div. 2009)​
Children	2
American football player Football career
No. 49, 55
Position:	Linebacker
Personal information
Height:	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:	220 lb (100 kg)
Career information
College:	San Diego State
Undrafted:	1970
Career history
Oakland Raiders (1970–1971) B.C. Lions (1971–1973)
Career NFL statistics
Games played: 8
Career CFL statistics
Games played: 13 Fumble recoveries: 1
Player stats at NFL.com

Weathers played college football at San Diego State University. After going undrafted in the 1970 NFL Draft, he signed with the Oakland Raiders. He would sign with the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League after being released by the Raiders.

Early life

Weathers was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.^{[citation needed]} His father was a day laborer. As an eighth-grade student, he earned an athletic scholarship to St. Augustine High School, a private school.[1] He was an all-around athlete, involved in boxing, football, gymnastics, judo, soccer, and wrestling. He graduated in 1966.

College football career

Weathers played football as a defensive end in college. He started his college career in 1966 at Long Beach City College,[1] where he did not play in 1966 due to an ankle injury suffered when he tripped over a curb surrounding the running track while warming up for practice with another linebacker, Paul Snow. He then transferred and played for San Diego State University, becoming a letterman for the San Diego State Aztecs in 1968 and 1969, helping the Aztecs win the 1969 Pasadena Bowl, finishing with an 11–0 record, and a No. 18 ranking in the Final UPI Poll,[2] playing for head coach Don Coryell.

Professional football career

Oakland Raiders

After he went undrafted, Weathers signed with the Oakland Raiders as a free agent in 1970. Now playing as a linebacker,[1] Weathers played in seven games for the Raiders in 1970, helping them win the AFC West Division title, on their way to the first-ever AFC Championship Game. Weathers only played in one game in 1971, before the Raiders released him.

BC Lions

He then signed with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League in 1971 and played until 1973,[3] playing 18 games in total. During the off-seasons, Weathers attended San Francisco State University and earned a bachelor's degree in drama in 1974.

Retirement

He retired from football in 1974, and began pursuing an acting career.[4] In his NFL career he appeared in 8 games in two seasons, but didn't record any stats. The only stat he recorded in his CFL career was a single fumble recovery.

Other contributions to the NFL

Weathers narrated NFL Films' season recap of the 1999, 2000 and 2001 seasons.[5] During the 2017 NFL Draft, he appeared on NFL Network's pre-draft coverage.[6]

Acting career

Weathers began working as an extra while still playing football.[1] He had his first significant roles in two blaxploitation films directed by his longtime friend Arthur Marks: Bucktown (1975) and Friday Foster (1975). Weathers also appeared in an early 1975 episode of the sitcom Good Times titled "The Nude", portraying an angry husband who suspected his wife of cheating on him with J.J. He also guest-starred in a 1975 episode of Kung Fu titled "The Brothers Caine", and in an episode of Cannon titled "The Hero". In 1976, he appeared as a loan shark in an episode of the crime-drama Starsky and Hutch, and in the Barnaby Jones episode "The Bounty Hunter" as escaped convict Jack Hopper.

While auditioning for the role of Apollo Creed alongside Sylvester Stallone in Rocky, Weathers criticized Stallone's acting, which led to him getting the role.[7] He reprised the role of Apollo Creed in the next three Rocky films: Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), and Rocky IV (1985).

Weathers is briefly seen as an Army MP in one of the three released versions of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (originally released in 1977). In 1978, Weathers portrayed Vince Sullivan in a TV movie, Not This Time. In the late 1970s and 1980s, Weathers starred in a number of action films for the small and big screen, including Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Predator (1987), Action Jackson (1988), and Hurricane Smith (1992). As a member of the cast of Predator, Weathers worked with future California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and future Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura. Many years later he appeared in a spoof segment on Saturday Night Live,[8] announcing that he was running for political office and urging viewers to vote for him on the basis that "he was the black guy in Predator".

He also appeared in Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl" music video and co-starred in the Adam Sandler comedy Happy Gilmore, as Chubbs, a golf legend teaching Happy how to play golf. He reprised the role nearly four years later in the Sandler comedy Little Nicky.

Another notable TV role was Sgt. Adam Beaudreaux on the cop show Street Justice. Afterwards, during the final two seasons of In the Heat of the Night, from 1992-1994, his character, Hampton Forbes, replaced Bill Gillespie as the chief of police. He also played as MACV-SOG Colonel Brewster in the CBS series Tour of Duty.[9]

In 2004, Weathers received a career revival as a comedic actor beginning with appearances in three episodes of the comedy series Arrested Development as a cheapskate caricature of himself, who serves as Tobias Fünke's acting coach. He was then cast in the comedies The Sasquatch Gang and The Comebacks. Weathers had a guest role in two episodes of The Shield as the former training officer of main character Vic Mackey.[10]

Weathers provided the voice for Colonel Samuel Garrett in the Pandemic Studios video game Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. In 2005, he was a narrator on Conquest! The Price Of Victory - Witness The Journey of the Trojans!, an 18-part television show about USC athletics. Weathers is a principal of Red Tight Media, a film and video production company that specializes in tactical training films made for the United States armed forces.[11] He also appeared in one episode of ER as the father of an injured boxer during their 2008 finale season.

For the sixth film in the Rocky series, Rocky Balboa (2006), Stallone asked Weathers, Mr. T, and Dolph Lundgren for permission to use footage from their appearances in the earlier Rocky films. Mr. T and Lundgren agreed, but Weathers wanted an actual part in the movie, even though his character had died in Rocky IV.[12] Stallone refused, and Weathers decided not to allow Stallone to use his image for flashbacks from the previous films. They instead used footage of a fighter who looks similar to Weathers.[13] Weathers and Stallone patched up their differences and Weathers agreed to allow footage of him from previous films to be used throughout Creed.[12]

Weathers portrayed the father of Michael Strahan and Daryl "Chill" Mitchell's characters on the short-lived 2009 Fox sitcom Brothers. Weathers acted as Brian "Gebo" Fitzgerald in advertising for Old Spice's sponsorship of NASCAR driver Tony Stewart. He also appears in an ongoing series of web-only advertisements for Credit Union of Washington, dispensing flowers and the advice that "change is beautiful" to puzzled-looking bystanders. He is also starring in a series of commercials for Bud Light, in which he introduces plays from the "Bud Light Playbook." At the conclusion of each commercial, Weathers can be seen bursting through the Bud Light Playbook and shouting "Here we go!"[14]

In 2019, Weathers appeared as Greef Karga in several episodes of the first season of the Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. He returned for the second season and also directed the episode "Chapter 12: The Siege".[15] His performance earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor.

Personal life

Weathers and his ex-wife, Mary Ann, have two sons.[1]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1973	Magnum Force	Demonstrator	Uncredited
1975	Friday Foster	Yarbro
	Bucktown	Hambone
1976	The Four Deuces	Taxi Cab Driver
	Rocky	Apollo Creed
1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	MP Officer
	Semi-Tough	Dreamer Tatum
1978	Force 10 from Navarone	Sgt. Olen Weaver
1979	Rocky II	Apollo Creed
1981	Death Hunt	George Washington Lincoln "Sundog" Brown
1982	Rocky III	Apollo Creed
1985	Rocky IV
1987	Predator	Colonel Al Dillon
1988	Action Jackson	Sgt. / Lt. Jericho "Action" Jackson	Nominated–NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
1992	Hurricane Smith	Billy "Hurricane" Smith
1996	Happy Gilmore	Chubbs Peterson
2000	Little Nicky		Uncredited
2002	Eight Crazy Nights	GNC Water Bottle	Voice
2004	Balto III: Wings of Change	Kirby	Voice
2006	The Sasquatch Gang	Dr. Artimus Snodgrass
2007	The Comebacks	Freddie Wiseman / Narrator
2013	Sheriff Tom Vs. The Zombies	President Weathers
2014	Think Like a Man Too	Mr. Davenport	Uncredited
2019	Toy Story 4	Combat Carl	Voice
2021	Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago - The Ultimate Director's Cut	Apollo Creed

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	Good Times	Calvin Brooks	Episode: "The Nude"
1975	Cannon	Dan Daily Chronicle reporter	Episode: "The Hero"
1975	The Six Million Dollar Man	Stolar	Episode: "One of Our Running Backs Is Missing"
1975	Kung Fu	Bad Sam	Episode: "The Brothers Caine"
1976	Starsky & Hutch	Al Martin	Episode: "Nightmare"
1976	Barnaby Jones	Jack Hopper	Episode: "The Bounty Hunter"
1977	Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected	Hank Dalby	Episode: "A Hand For Sonny Blue"
1978	The Bermuda Depths	Eric	Television film
1985	Braker	Lt. Harry Braker
1986	The Defiant Ones	Cullen Monroe
	Fortune Dane	Fortune Dane	Main role, 5 episodes
1989–90	Tour of Duty	Col. Brewster	Recurring role, 9 episodes
1990	Dangerous Passion	Kyle Western	Television film
1991–1993	Street Justice	Adam Beaudreaux	Main role, 44 episodes
1993–1995	In the Heat of the Night	Police Chief Hampton Forbes	Main role, 28 episodes
1995	OP Center	Gen. Mike Rodgers	Television film
1997	Shadow Warriors: Assault on Devil's Island	Roy Brown
1999	Shadow Warriors 2: Hunt for the Death Merchant
2003; 2007	The Shield	Joe Clark	Episodes: "Haunts", "Partners"
2004; 2013	Arrested Development	Carl Weathers	4 episodes
2005	Alien Siege	Gen. Skyler	Television film
2008	Phoo Action	Chief Benjamin Benson	TV pilot
	ER	Louie Taylor	Episode: "Oh, Brother"
2010	Psych	Boone	Episode: "Viagra Falls"
2011; 2013	Regular Show	God of Basketball, Basketball King	Voices; Episodes: "Slam Dunk", "Bank Shot"
2012	American Warships	Gen. McKraken	Television film
2013	Toy Story of Terror!	Combat Carl and Jr	Voice; TV special
2016	Colony	Bolton "Beau" Miller	Recurring role, 9 episodes
	Chicago P.D.	State's Attorney Mark Jefferies	Episodes: "Justice"; "Favor, Action, Malice or Ill-Will"
2017	Chicago Justice		Main role, 13 episodes
2017–2019	Star vs. the Forces of Evil	Omnitraxus Prime, Additional voices	Voice; Recurring role, 10 episodes
2018	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	State's Attorney Mark Jefferies	Episode: "Zero Tolerance"
	Magnum P.I.	Dan Sawyer	Episode: "From the Head Down"
2019	Pinky Malinky	The Apologizer	Voice
2019–present	The Mandalorian	Greef Karga	7 episodes; Director: "Chapter 12: The Siege" Nominated–Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
2005	Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction	Col. Samuel Garrett
2015	Mortal Kombat X	Jax Briggs	DLC; likeness
2021	The Artful Escape	Lightman

References

External links

• Carl Weathers at IMDb
• Career statistics and player information from Pro Football Reference

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[de] Carl Weathers

Carl Weathers (* 14. Januar 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Regisseur. Der ehemalige American-Football-Spieler erlangte besondere Bekanntheit durch seine Darstellung des Boxers Apollo Creed in den ersten vier Teilen der Rocky-Filmreihe.

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[es] Carl Weathers

Carl Weathers (Nueva Orleans, Luisiana; 14 de enero de 1948) es un actor estadounidense y exjugador de fútbol americano en Estados Unidos y Canadá.[1] Se hizo conocido por haber interpretado a Apollo Creed en la saga de películas Rocky, y por su interpretación de Dillon en la primera película de Depredador. Actualmente interpreta a Greef Karga en la serie The Mandalorian de Disney+.

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[ru] Уэзерс, Карл

Карл Уэ́зерс (англ. Carl Weathers, род. 14 января 1948 года, Новый Орлеан, Луизиана, США) — американский актёр, продюсер, режиссёр и бывший профессиональный игрок в американский футбол. Уэзерс наиболее известен ролями Аполло Крида в серии фильмов «Рокки», Джорджа Диллона в «Хищнике», Чаббса Петерсона в фильмах «Счастливчик Гилмор» и «Никки, дьявол-младший», а также исполнением роли экранной версии самого себя в комедийном сериале «Замедленное развитие».

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