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.

Filmography

• The Mandalorian — Greef Karga, Director
• 2019Toy Story 4 — Combat Carl (voice)
• FBI — Director
• Magnum P.I. — Dan Sawyer
• Chicago Justice — Mark Jefferies
• 2017Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Battle for Mewni — Omnitraxus Prime (voice)
• Colony — Beau
• Chicago Med — Director
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil — Omnitraxus Prime (voice)
• Chicago P.D. — Mark Jefferies
• 2014Think Like a Man Too — Mr. Davenport (uncredited)
• 2013Toy Story of Terror! — Combat Carl / Combat Carl Jr. (Voice)
• 2012American Warships — General McKraken
• Chicago Fire — Mark Jefferies
• Hawaii Five-0 — Director
• Regular Show — God of Basketball (voice)
• Brothers — 'Coach' Trainor
• Phoo Action — Chief Benjamin Benson
• 2007The Comebacks — Freddie Wiseman/Narrator
• Psych — Boone
• 2006The Sasquatch Gang — Dr. Artimus Snodgrass
• 2005Alien Siege — General Skyler
• 2004Balto III: Wings of Change — Kirby (voice)
• Micro-Minis — Director
• Arrested Development — Carl Weathers
• 2002Eight Crazy Nights — GNC Guy (voice)
• For the People — Director
• The Shield — Joe Clark
• 2000Little Nicky — Chubbs (uncredited)
• Sheena — Director
• Strong Medicine — Director
• 1999Assault on Death Mountain — Roy Brown
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — SA Mark Jefferies
• 1997Assault on Devil's Island — Roy Brown
• Pensacola: Wings of Gold — Director
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1996Happy Gilmore — Chubbs
• 1995In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound — Hampton Forbes
• 1995In the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along with Me — Hampton Forbes
• 1995OP Center — Gen. Mike Rodgers
• OP Center — Gen. Mike Rodgers
• ER — Louie Taylor
• 1994In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice — Hampton Forbes
• 1994In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life — Chief Hampton Forbes
• 1994In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl? — Hampton Forbes
• 1992Hurricane Smith — Billy 'Hurricane' Smith
• Silk Stalkings — Director
• Street Justice — Adam Beaudreaux
• 1990Dangerous Passion — Kyle Western
• Law & Order — Director
• 1988Action Jackson — Sgt. Jericho 'Action' Jackson
• In the Heat of the Night — Hampton Forbes
• 1987Predator — Al Dillon
• Tour of Duty — Col. Carl Brewster
• 1986Fortune Dane — Fortune Dane
• Fortune Dane — Fortune Dane
• 1986The Defiant Ones — Cullen Monroe
• 1985Braker — Lieutenant Harry Braker
• 1985Rocky IV — Apollo Creed
• 1982Rocky III — Apollo Creed
• 1981Death Hunt — George Washington Lincoln 'Sundog' Brown
• 1979Rocky II — Apollo Creed
• 1978Force 10 from Navarone — Weaver
• 1978The Bermuda Depths — Eric
• 1977Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Military Policeman
• 1977Semi-Tough — Dreamer Tatum
• 1977The Hostage Heart — Bateman Hooks
• Delvecchio — Sgt. Bell
• 1976Rocky — Apollo Creed
• Bronk
• 1975Bucktown — Hambone
• 1975Friday Foster — Yarbro
• S.W.A.T.
• Starsky & Hutch — Mitzi Graham
• Switch — Lt. Gifford
• 1975The Four Deuces — Taxi cab driver
• Good Times
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Stolar
• Barnaby Jones — Jack Hopper
• 1973Magnum Force — Demonstrator
• Kung Fu — Bad Sam
• The Streets of San Francisco — Officer Hague
• Cannon
• McCloud — Delaney

Appearances as themselves (20)

• 2026Untold Mr. T: I Pity the Fool — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer — Self
• 202040 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic — Self (archive footage)
• Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian — Self - Greef Karga
• 2018Omar Sy, c'est ta chance — Self
• 2017John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs — Self
• 2015From Rocky to Creed: The Legacy Continues — Self
• 2011The Rocky Saga: Going the Distance — Self
• 2006The Opponents — Self / Apollo Creed
• 2006Tribute To Burgess Meredith — Self (voice)
• 2002Iron and Beyond — Self - Co-star: Predator
• 2001Predator: Classified Action — Self
• 2001Predator: Old Painless — Self
• 2001Predator: The Life Inside — Self
• 2000If It Bleeds We Can Kill It: The Making of 'Predator' — Self
• 1990Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self (uncredited)
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• Predator: The Unseen Arnold — Self