Carl Weathers

Summary

Carl Weathers (January 14, 1948 – February 1, 2024)[1][2] was an American actor, director and gridiron football linebacker. His roles included boxer Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films (1976–1985), Colonel Al Dillon in Predator (1987), Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore (1996), and Combat Carl in the Toy Story franchise. He also portrayed Det. Beaudreaux in the television series Street Justice (1991–1993) and a fictionalized version of himself in the comedy series Arrested Development (2004, 2013), and voiced Omnitraxus Prime in Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2017–2019). He had a recurring role as Greef Karga in the Star Wars series The Mandalorian (2019–2023), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

Carl Weathers
Weathers in 2017
Born(1948-01-14)January 14, 1948
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
DiedFebruary 1, 2024(2024-02-01) (aged 76)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
Years active
  • 1973–2024 (actor)
  • 1970–1974 (football player)
  • 1995–2023 (director)
Spouses
  • Mary Ann Castle
    (m. 1973; div. 1983)
  • Rhona Unsell
    (m. 1984; div. 2006)
  • Jennifer Peterson
    (m. 2007; div. 2009)
Children2

American 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:
Undrafted:1970
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Games played:8
Career CFL statistics
Games played:13
Fumble recoveries:1
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR

Weathers played college football for the San Diego State Aztecs before playing professionally as a linebacker. He joined the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) after going undrafted in the 1970 NFL Draft. After two seasons with the Raiders, he played a year with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

Early life edit

Weathers was born on January 14, 1948,[3] in New Orleans, Louisiana.[4] His father was a day laborer. As an eighth-grade student, he earned an athletic scholarship to St. Augustine High School, a private school.[5] He was an all-around athlete, involved in boxing, football, gymnastics, judo, soccer, and wrestling. He played football and graduated from Long Beach Poly High School in 1966.[6]

College football career edit

Weathers played football as a defensive end in college. He started his college career in 1966 at Long Beach City College,[5] 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. 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,[7] playing for head coach Don Coryell. At San Diego State, Weathers—who considered acting his first love and had been performing in plays even back in grade school[8]—received a master in theatre arts.[9]

Professional football career edit

Weathers signed with the Oakland Raiders of the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 1970. Now playing as a linebacker,[5] 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. Before the 1971 season, Weathers converted into a strong safety.[10] He only played in one game in 1971, before the Raiders released him in September 1971,[11] after coach John Madden told Weathers, "You're just too sensitive."[8][12]

Later that month, Weathers signed with the BC Lions of the CFL.[13] He played for the Lions until 1973,[14] playing 13 games in total. During the off-seasons, Weathers attended San Francisco State University and earned a bachelor's degree in drama in 1974.[15]

Weathers retired from football in 1974, and began pursuing an acting career.[16] In his NFL career he appeared in 8 games in two seasons, but did not record any stats. The only stat he recorded in his CFL career was a single fumble recovery. In later years, Weathers narrated NFL Films' season recap of the 1999, 2000 and 2001 seasons.[17] During the 2017 NFL Draft, he appeared on NFL Network's pre-draft coverage.[18]

Acting career edit

 
Weathers in 2015
Rocky Balboa's (Sylvester Stallone) fight against Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) in 'Rocky' (1976).

Weathers began working as an extra while still playing football.[5] He had his first significant roles in two blaxploitation films directed by his longtime friend Arthur Marks: Bucktown (1975) and Friday Foster (1975).[19] 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 & Hutch,[20] and in the Barnaby Jones episode "The Bounty Hunter" as escaped convict Jack Hopper.[21]

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.[22] He reprised the role of Apollo Creed in the next three Rocky films: Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), and Rocky IV (1985).[23]

Weathers briefly appears 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).[24] Weathers hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1988 and appeared in a skit on the show in 2003.[25]

Weathers appeared in Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl" music video and co-starred in the 1996 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. Filming a fall stunt in Happy Gilmore, Weathers fractured two vertebrae and his osteophytes grew out and connected and self-fused badly. He said he was in excruciating pain for three to four years.[26]

Another notable television role was Sgt. Adam Beaudreaux on the cop show Street Justice. Afterwards, during the final two seasons of In the Heat of the Night (1992–1994), his character, Hampton Forbes, replaced Bill Gillespie as the chief of police. He also played MACV-SOG Colonel Brewster in the CBS series Tour of Duty.[27]

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.[28]

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 was 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.[29] He also appeared in one episode of ER in 2008 during its finale season.[30]

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.[31] 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.[32] Weathers and Stallone patched up their differences and Weathers agreed to allow footage of him from previous films to be used throughout Creed (2015).[31]

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 appeared 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 also starred in a series of commercials for Bud Light, in which he introduced plays from the "Bud Light Playbook." At the conclusion of each commercial, Weathers could be seen bursting through the Bud Light Playbook and shouting "Here we go!"[33]

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".[34] He returned for season 3 and directed the episode "Chapter 20: The Foundling".[35] His performance earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor.[36]

Personal life edit

Weathers married three times, first to Mary-Ann Castle, from 1973 to 1983, ending in divorce. They had two sons. In 1984, he married Rhona Unsell and divorced in 2006. The following year, Weathers married Jennifer Peterson, and divorced in 2009.[5]

Death edit

Weathers died at his home in Los Angeles on February 1, 2024, at the age of 76.[21][24] A death certificate later gave his cause of death as atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and gave his time of death as 12:18 a.m. on February 2, though Deadline Hollywood noted the document was "disputed and has not been confirmed by the actor's family".[37] Weathers' body was cremated and his ashes were given to his family.[38]

Filmography edit

Film edit

Year Title Role Notes
1973 Magnum Force Demonstrator Uncredited[24]
1975 Friday Foster Yarbro [24]
Bucktown Hambone [24]
1976 The Four Deuces Taxi Cab Driver [39]
Rocky Apollo Creed [24]
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind MP Officer [40]
Semi-Tough Dreamer Tatum [41]
1978 Force 10 from Navarone Sgt. Olen Weaver [24]
1979 Rocky II Apollo Creed [42]
1981 Death Hunt George Washington Lincoln "Sundog" Brown [43]
1982 Rocky III Apollo Creed [42]
1985 Rocky IV Director's cut released in 2021[42]
1987 Predator Colonel Al Dillon [24]
1988 Action Jackson Sgt. / Lt. Jericho "Action" Jackson[24] Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture[44]
1992 Hurricane Smith Billy "Hurricane" Smith [45]
1996 Happy Gilmore Derick "Chubbs" Peterson [46]
2000 Little Nicky Uncredited[47]
2002 Eight Crazy Nights GNC Water Bottle Voice[48]
2004 Balto III: Wings of Change Kirby Voice[49]
2006 The Sasquatch Gang Dr. Artimus Snodgrass [50]
2007 The Comebacks Freddie Wiseman / Narrator [51]
2013 Sheriff Tom Vs. The Zombies President Weathers Cameo[52]
2014 Think Like a Man Too Mr. Davenport Uncredited
2019 Toy Story 4 Combat Carl Voice; final film role[53]

Television edit

Year Title Role Notes
1975 Good Times Calvin Brooks Episode: "The Nude"[24]
Cannon Dan Daily Chronicle reporter Episode: "The Hero"[20]
The Six Million Dollar Man Stolar Episode: "One of Our Running Backs Is Missing"[24]
Kung Fu Bad Sam Episode: "The Brothers Caine"[24]
1976 Starsky & Hutch Al Martin Episode: "Nightmare"[20]
Barnaby Jones Jack Hopper Episode: "The Bounty Hunter"[21]
1977 Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected Hank Dalby Episode: "A Hand For Sonny Blue"
The Hostage Heart Bateman Hooks Television film
1978 The Bermuda Depths Eric[54]
1985 Braker Lt. Harry Braker[39]
1986 The Defiant Ones Cullen Monroe[55]
Fortune Dane Fortune Dane Main role, 5 episodes[39]
1989–90 Tour of Duty Col. Carl Brewster Recurring role, 9 episodes[24]
1990 Dangerous Passion Kyle Western Television film[49]
1991–1993 Street Justice Adam Beaudreaux Main role, 44 episodes[56]
1993–1995 In the Heat of the Night Police Chief Hampton Forbes Main role, 28 episodes[57]
1995 OP Center Gen. Mike Rodgers Television film
1997 Assault on Devil's Island Roy Brown[21]
1999 Assault on Death Mountain
2003; 2007 The Shield Joe Clark Episodes: "Haunts", "Partners"[28]
2004–2013 Arrested Development Carl Weathers 4 episodes[24]
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 Beau Recurring role, 7 episodes
Chicago P.D. State's Attorney Mark Jefferies Episodes: "Justice"; "Favor, Action, Malice or Ill-Will"[24]
2017 Chicago Justice Main role, 13 episodes[24]
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[58]
2019–2023 The Mandalorian Greef Karga 10 episodes; Director: "Chapter 12: The Siege" and "Chapter 20: The Foundling"
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series[59]

Video games edit

Year Title Voice role Notes
2005 Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction Col. Samuel Garrett
2015 Mortal Kombat X Jax-'Dillon' Skin
2021 The Artful Escape Lightman

See also edit

References edit

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External links edit

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