Carl Weathers
Carl Weathers (born January 14, 1948 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) is an American actor and former American football player. He gained particular fame for his portrayal of the boxer Apollo Creed in the first four parts of the Rocky film series . To date, he has appeared in over 75 film and television roles.
life and work
Before becoming an actor, he played professional American football for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) for several years . From 1971 to 1973 he played for the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League (CFL). In 1974 he ended his sports career and took on smaller film roles, such as alongside Pam Grier in the blaxploitation crime thriller Friday Foster - In the Web of the Black Spider and Bucktown from 1975.
His breakthrough came with the role of Apollo Creed in Rocky in 1976 , which he also played in parts II to IV. Another high point of his career was Predator , where he had to face an alien hunter alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger . But it wasn't until 1988 that Weathers got his first leading role in the movie Action Jackson , which, however, could not convince at the box office or the criticism. After that, his career flattened and he mainly took on TV roles.
From 1991 to 1993 he played the lead role in the television series The Law of the Road . In 2012 he starred as General McKraken in Thunder Levin's science fiction film American Warships .
Since 1993, Weathers has occasionally appeared as a director. He mainly directed several episodes of various series, most often for the Palm Beach Duo .
Carl Weathers married Mary Ann Castle in 1973, but is divorced from her. They have two children together.
Filmography (selection)
actor
- 1976: Rocky
- 1977: The Streets of San Francisco ( The Streets of San Francisco , TV series, episode 5x17 The Youth Gang )
- 1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Close Encounters of the Third Child)
- 1977: Two savvy professionals (semi-tough)
- 1978: The Wild Pile of Navarone (Force 10 from Navarone)
- 1979: Rocky II
- 1981: A Man Becomes a Beast (Death Hunt)
- 1982: Rocky III - The Tiger's Eye (Rocky III)
- 1985: Rocky IV - The Fight of the Century (Rocky IV)
- 1986: Escape in Chains (The Defiant Ones)
- 1986: Fortune Dane (TV movie)
- 1987: Predator
- 1988: Action Jackson
- 1989: NAM service in Vietnam ( Tour of Duty , TV series)
- 1990: Action Jackson 2 ( Dangerous Passion , movie made for TV)
- 1990: Hurricane Smith
- 1991-1993: Street Justice ( Street Justice , television series)
- 1996: Happy Gilmore
- 1997: Shadow Warriors ( Shadow Warriors: Assault On Devil's Island , TV movie)
- 1999: Shadow Warriors II: Hunt for the Death Merchant (TV movie)
- 2000: Little Nicky - Satan Junior (Little Nicky)
- 2003-2007: The Shield - Law of Violence ( The Shield , TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2004–2013: Arrested Development (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 2005: Alien Siege - Death from Space ( Alien Siege , TV movie)
- 2007: The Comebacks
- 2008: Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme ( ER , TV series, 1 episode)
- 2010: Psych (TV series, 1 episode)
- 2012: American Warships
- 2016: Chicago PD (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 2016: Colony (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 2017: Chicago Justice (TV series, 13 episodes)
- 2017-2018: Star vs. The Forces of Evil ( Star vs. The Forces of Evil , TV series, voice, 6 episodes)
- 2018: Magnum PI (TV series, episode 1x02)
- 2018: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series, episode 20x03)
- 2019: The Mandalorian (TV series)
Director
- 2019: Hawaii Five-0 (TV series, episode 9x11)
Web links
- Carl Weathers in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Profile at Pro-Football-Reference.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ stated by Stallone on Jimmy Kimmel Live! December 21, 2006
- ^ Director Thunder Levin Talks The Asylum's American Warships
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Weathers, Carl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actor and American football player |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans , Louisiana , United States |