Carl Weathers
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.
Born: January 14, 1948 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Filmography (78)
Project Hail Mary
2026
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
2020
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
The Mandalorian
2019
Toy Story 4
2019
FBI
2018
Magnum P.I.
2018
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
Chicago Justice
2017
Colony
2016
From Rocky to Creed: The Legacy Continues
2015
Chicago Med
2015
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
2015
Think Like a Man Too
2014
Chicago P.D.
2014
Toy Story of Terror!
2013
Chicago Fire
2012
American Warships
2012
The Rocky Saga: Going the Distance
2011
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Regular Show
2010
The Comebacks
2007
Psych
2006
The Sasquatch Gang
2006
Alien Siege
2005
Balto III: Wings of Change
2004
Arrested Development
2003
Eight Crazy Nights
2002
The Shield
2002
Little Nicky
2000
Sheena
2000
Strong Medicine
2000
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Assault on Death Mountain
1999
Assault on Devil's Island
1997
Pensacola: Wings of Gold
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Happy Gilmore
1996
OP Center
1995
ER
1994
Hurricane Smith
1992
Silk Stalkings
1991
Street Justice
1991
Law & Order
1990
Dangerous Passion
1990
In the Heat of the Night
1988
Action Jackson
1988
Tour of Duty
1987
Predator
1987
The Defiant Ones
1986
Rocky IV
1985
Rocky III
1982
Death Hunt
1981
Rocky II
1979
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
The Bermuda Depths
1978
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
Semi-Tough
1977
Rocky
1976
Delvecchio
1976
Friday Foster
1975
Saturday Night Live
1975
Starsky & Hutch
1975
Switch
1975
Bucktown
1975
Bronk
1975
S.W.A.T.
1975
Good Times
1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974
Magnum Force
1973
Barnaby Jones
1973
Kung Fu
1972
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Cannon
1971
McCloud
1970
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961