Carl Weathers is an American actor, director, and former professional Gridiron football player. He is best known for portraying Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films, George Dillon in Predator, Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore and in Little Nicky. He also played Detective Adam Beaudreaux in television series Street Justice and a fictionalized version of himself on the comedy series Arrested Development. He currently holds a recurring role as Greef Karga on the Star Wars-spinoff series The Mandalorian.
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Carl Weathers is an American actor, director, and former professional Gridiron football player. He is best known for portraying Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films, George Dillon in Predator, Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore and in Little Nicky. He also played Detective Adam Beaudreaux in television series Street Justice and a fictionalized version of himself on the comedy series Arrested Development. He currently holds a recurring role as Greef Karga on the Star Wars-spinoff series, The Mandalorian. Weathers was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He played football as a defensive end in college. 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, Predator, Action Jackson, and Hurricane Smith.
He narrated NFL Films’ season recap of the 1999, 2000 and 2001 seasons. He co-starred in the Adam Sandler comedy Happy Gilmore with Sandler. In 2004, he received a revival of his comedy role as a caricature of himself in the series Tour of Duty. He appeared in a spoof segment on Saturday Night Live, 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 the movie Happy Gilmore”. He also appeared in Michael Jackson’s \”Liberian Girl\” music video. He reprised the role of Apollo Creed nearly four years later in the final two seasons of the comedy LittleNicky.
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