Carl Weathers (created January 14, 1948) is an American actor and former professional football player. Weathers had his first parts in two blaxploitation movies directed by his longtime pal Arthur Marks: Bucktown and Friday Foster (both 1975). In 1975, he guest starred in a episode of Kung Fu entitled “The Brothers Caine”. In 1976, he starred alongside Sylvester Stallone in Rocky as Apollo Creed, a role he’d reprise in another three Rocky movies in 1979, 1982, and 1985. Mr. T and Dolph Lundgren consented, but Weathers needed an actual part in the film, even though his character died in Rocky IV. Stallone refused and Weathers determined to not let Stallone to utilize his picture for Rocky flashbacks in the last films. They instead used footage of a combatant who seems similar to Weathers. In 1978, Carl impersonated misogynist Vince Sullivan in a TV movie, Not This Time. Weathers also starred in numerous action films for the little and large screen, including: Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Predator (1987), Action Jackson (1988), and Hurricane Smith (1992). He’s briefly viewed as an Army MP in among the three published versions of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Many years afterwards he appeared in a spoof section on Saturday Night Live, declaring that he was running for political office and encouraging viewers to vote for him on the idea that “he was the black man in Predator”.
‘The Shield’, ‘Street Justice’, ‘Psych’, ‘Fortune Dane’, 'In the Heat of the Night, Brothers', 'Spawn: The Animation'
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Capricorn
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I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
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When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.
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I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leadership issues, that sort of stuff. And try to, in essence, look at what training they're doing and say, 'This is how you can improve the training from a humanistic point of view.'
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"My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor".
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Has two sons Jason and Matthew.
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Inducted into the International Mustache Hall of Fame in 2016.
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Currently assisting the US Military with simulated Iraqi villages at Fort Irwin, California. He has directed and narrated at least one training video: "IFAK First Aid." IFAK stands for "individual first aid kit". [April 2006]