Carl Weathers
Carl Weathers was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States on January 14th, 1948 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 76, Carl Weathers biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Carl Weathers (born January 14, 1948) is an American actor and former professional American football player.
He is best known for portraying Apollo Creed in the Rocky series of films, Al Dillon in Predator, Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore and Little Nicky, 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 web series, The Mandalorian.
As a football player, Weathers played for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League and the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League.
Early life
Weathers was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was a day laborer. As an eighth-grade student, he earned an athletic scholarship to St. Augustine High School, a private school. He was an all-around athlete, involved in boxing, football, gymnastics, judo, soccer, and wrestling. He graduated in 1966.
Personal life
Weathers and his ex-wife, Mary Ann, have two sons.
College football career
Weathers played football in college as a defensive end. He began his college career in 1966 at Long Beach City College, where he did not play in 1966 due to a foot injury when he tripped over a curb separating the running track while warming up for practice with another linebacker, Paul Snow. 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. 0 field. Don Coryell, head coach Don Coryell, has been ranked 18th in the Final UPI Poll, despite being ranked number 18 in the Final UPI Poll.
Professional football career
Weathers came from undrafted and joined the Oakland Raiders as a free agent in 1970. Weathers played in seven games for the Raiders in 1970, helping them win the AFC West Division crown on their way to the first-ever AFC Championship Game. Weathers only played in one game in 1971 before the Raiders released him.
In 1971, he signed with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League and continued playing 18 games in total. Weathers obtained a bachelor's degree in drama in 1974 at San Francisco State University during the off-seasons.
In 1974, he retired from football and started a acting career. He played in 8 games in two seasons during his NFL career, but no statistics were available. A single fumble recovery was the only statistic he posted in his CFL career.
Weather's season recap of the 1999, 2000, and 2001 seasons narrated by Weathers. He appeared on NFL Network's pre-draft coverage during the 2017 NFL Draft.
Acting career
Weather was active as an extra while playing football. He appeared in two blaxploitation films directed by his longtime buddy Arthur Marks (1975) and Friday Foster (1975). Weather also appeared in "The Nude," a 1975 episode of the Good Times, portraying an angry husband who accused his wife of cheating on her. He appeared in a 1975 episode of Kung Fu called "The Brothers Caine," as well as in a Cannon episode titled "The Hero." In 1976, he appeared as a loan shark in an episode of Starsky and Hutch, as a result of Jack Hopper's parole, and in the Barnaby Jones story "The Bounty Hunter" as a result of his release.
Weathers criticized Apollo Creed's performance in Rocky alongside Sylvester Stallone, resulting in his casting. Apollo Creed appeared in three Rocky films: Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), and Rocky IV (1985).
Weathers appears briefly as an Army MP in one of the three newly released Close Encounters of the Third Kind (originally released in 1977). Weathers portrayed Vince Sullivan in Not This Time, a television show in 1978. Weathers appeared in a number of action films for the small and big screen, including Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Predator (1988), and Hurricane Smith (1992). Weathers worked with future California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and future Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura as a member of Predator's cast members. Several years later, 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 Predator."
He appeared in Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl" music video and co-starred in Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore as Chubbs, a golf legend who shows Happy how to golf. He reprised his role in Sandler's comedy Little Nicky almost four years ago.
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Weathers' career as a comedic actor began in three episodes of Arcade's Arranged Development as a cheapskate caricature of himself, who appears as Tobias Fünke's acting coach in 2004. He was then cast in The Sasquatch Gang and The Comebacks. Weathers appeared in two episodes of The Shield as the former training officer of principal character Vic Mackey.
Colonel Samuel Garrett was 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 Trojans' journey! An 18-part television program about USC athletics. Weathers is a principal of Red Tight Media, a film and video production firm that specializes in tactical training films made for the US Armed Forces. During the 2008 final season of ER, he appeared in one episode of ER as the father of an injured boxer.Stallone's sixth film in the Rocky series Rocky Balboa (2006) pleaded with Weathers, Mr. T., and Dolph Lundgren for permission to use footage from their appearances in earlier Rocky films. Mr. T and Lundgren agreed, but Weathers wanted a realistic part in the film, even though his character was dead in Rocky IV. Stallone refused, and Weatherford decided not to encourage Stallone to use his image for flashbacks from his previous films. Weathers was replaced by a video of a fighter who appears to be similar to Weathers. Weather and Stallone worked out their differences, and Weatherman decided to allow a video of him from previous films to be used throughout Creed.
On the short-lived 2009 Fox sitcom Brothers, Weathers portrayed Michael Strahan and Daryl "Chill" Mitchell's father. In advertising for Old Spice's sponsorship of NASCAR driver Tony Stewart, Weathers portrayed him as Brian "Gebo" Fitzgerald. He also appears in a slew of web-only advertisements for Credit Union of Washington, dispensing flowers, and the reminder that "change is beautiful" to confused-looking bystanders. He is also appearing in a string of commercials for Bud Light in which he performs characters from the "Bud Light Playbook." Weathers can be seen bursting through the Bud Light Playbook and screaming "Here we go!" at the end of each commercial.
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 produced the film "Chapter 12: The Siege." He has been nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor for his work.