Acting · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA · Born January 14, 1948
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.
MovieWerner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self
Movie40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
2020
as Self (archive footage)
TVDisney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
as Self - Greef Karga
TVThe Mandalorian
2019
as Greef Karga
MovieToy Story 4
2019
as Combat Carl (voice)
MovieOmar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018
as Self
TVMagnum P.I.
2018
as Dan Sawyer
MovieJohn G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
as Self
MovieStar vs. the Forces of Evil: The Battle for Mewni
2017
as Omnitraxus Prime (voice)
TVChicago Justice
2017
as Mark Jefferies
TVColony
2016
as Beau
MovieFrom Rocky to Creed: The Legacy Continues
2015
as Self
TVStar vs. the Forces of Evil
2015
as Omnitraxus Prime (voice)
MovieThink Like a Man Too
2014
as Mr. Davenport (uncredited)
TVChicago P.D.
2014
as Mark Jefferies
MovieToy Story of Terror!
2013
as Combat Carl / Combat Carl Jr. (Voice)
TVChicago Fire
2012
as Mark Jefferies
MovieAmerican Warships
2012
as General McKraken
MovieThe Rocky Saga: Going the Distance
2011
as Self
TVRegular Show
2010
as God of Basketball (voice)
TVBrothers
2009
as 'Coach' Trainor
TVPhoo Action
2008
as Chief Benjamin Benson
MovieThe Comebacks
2007
as Freddie Wiseman/Narrator
MovieThe Opponents
2006
as Self / Apollo Creed
TVPsych
2006
as Boone
MovieThe Sasquatch Gang
2006
as Dr. Artimus Snodgrass
Tribute To Burgess Meredith
2006
as Self (voice)
MovieAlien Siege
2005
as General Skyler
MovieBalto III: Wings of Change
2004
as Kirby (voice)
TVArrested Development
2003
as Carl Weathers
MovieEight Crazy Nights
2002
as GNC Guy (voice)
MovieIron and Beyond
2002
as Self - Co-star: Predator
TVThe Shield
2002
as Joe Clark
MoviePredator: Classified Action
2001
as Self
MoviePredator: Old Painless
2001
as Self
MoviePredator: The Life Inside
2001
as Self
MovieIf It Bleeds We Can Kill It: The Making of 'Predator'
2000
as Self
MovieLittle Nicky
2000
as Chubbs (uncredited)
TVLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as SA Mark Jefferies
MovieAssault on Death Mountain
1999
as Roy Brown
MovieAssault on Devil's Island
1997
as Roy Brown
TVE! True Hollywood Story
1996
MovieHappy Gilmore
1996
as Chubbs Peterson
MovieIn the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along with Me
1995
as Hampton Forbes
MovieOP Center
1995
as Gen. Mike Rodgers
TVOP Center
1995
as Gen. Mike Rodgers
MovieIn the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound
1995
as Hampton Forbes
MovieIn the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
1994
as Hampton Forbes
MovieIn the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice
1994
as Hampton Forbes
TVER
1994
as Louie Taylor
MovieIn the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life
1994
as Chief Hampton Forbes
MovieHurricane Smith
1992
as Billy 'Hurricane' Smith
TVStreet Justice
1991
as Adam Beaudreaux
MovieHappy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
1990
as Self
MovieDangerous Passion
1990
as Kyle Western
MovieRocky Special: Burning Youth
1990
as Apollo Creed (archive footage)
TVIn the Heat of the Night
1988
as Hampton Forbes
MovieAction Jackson
1988
as Sgt. Jericho 'Action' Jackson
TVTour of Duty
1987
as Col. Carl Brewster
MoviePredator
1987
as Al Dillon
MovieFortune Dane
1986
as Fortune Dane
TVFortune Dane
1986
as Fortune Dane
MovieThe Defiant Ones
1986
as Cullen Monroe
MovieRocky IV
1985
as Apollo Creed
MovieBraker
1985
as Lieutenant Harry Braker
MovieRocky III
1982
as Apollo Creed
MovieDeath Hunt
1981
as George Washington Lincoln 'Sundog' Brown
MovieRocky II
1979
as Apollo Creed
MovieForce 10 from Navarone
1978
as Weaver
MovieThe Bermuda Depths
1978
as Eric
MovieClose Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
as Military Policeman
MovieSemi-Tough
1977
as Dreamer Tatum
MovieThe Hostage Heart
1977
as Bateman Hooks
MovieRocky
1976
as Apollo Creed
TVDelvecchio
1976
as Sgt. Bell
MovieFriday Foster
1975
as Yarbro
TVSaturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
TVStarsky & Hutch
1975
as Mitzi Graham
TVSwitch
1975
as Lt. Gifford
MovieThe Four Deuces
1975
as Taxi cab driver
MovieBucktown
1975
as Hambone
TVBronk
1975
TVS.W.A.T.
1975
TVGood Times
1974
TVThe Six Million Dollar Man
1974
as Stolar
MovieMagnum Force
1973
as Demonstrator
TVBarnaby Jones
1973
as Jack Hopper
TVKung Fu
1972
as Bad Sam
TVThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
as Officer Hague
TVCannon
1971
TVMcCloud
1970
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
MoviePredator: The Unseen Arnold
as Self
