Carl Weathers died
 

Bye Apollo

Apollo Creed dead
 

https://deadline.com/2024/02/carl-we...ad-1235812684/
Carl Weathers, who starred as Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films and appeared in Predator, The Mandalorian, Happy Gilmore, Action Jackson and dozens of other films and TV shows, died Tuesday, his family announced. He was 76.

“We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Carl Weathers,” his family said in a statement. “He died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday, February 1st, 2024. … Carl was an exceptional human being who lived an extraordinary life. Through his contributions to film, television, the arts and sports, he has left an indelible mark and is recognized worldwide and across generations. He was a beloved brother, father, grandfather, partner, and friend.”


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Born on January 14, 1948, in New Orleans, Weathers appeared in more than 75 films and TV shows during his 50-year screen career. He appeared in nine episodes of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian over three season and voiced Combat Carl in the Oscar-winning Toy Story 4 and originating the character for the 2013 TV special Toy Story of Terror.

Other credits include his 1988 star turn in Action Jackson, which came after he starred opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987’s Predator.

But he is best known for playing Apollo Creed, the heavyweight champion of the world who gave journeyman Philly boxer Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) a shot at the title in 1976’s Rocky. Weathers reprised the role in Rocky II (1979), which featured a title rematch with Balboa, and 1982’s Rocky III, where he brawled with Clubber Lang (Mr. T). Creed’s final film in the franchise was Rocky IV (1985), where he was killed in the ring by Russian heavyweight Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren).

Weathers also had a memorable turn as Derick “Chubbs” Peterson opposite Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore, playing the title character’s golf coach. Peterson was a pro golfer who was forced to leave the tour after losing his hand to an alligator; his wooden replacement hand was the source of many gags.

He was badly injured while filming a fall stunt during the Happy Gilmore shoot, leading to years of terrible pain. “I didn’t know it until years later, but I fractured two vertebrae and osteophytes grew out and connected, and it did a kind of self-fuse in a really bad place,” he told GQ in a 2020 interview. “There were three or four years there where I was just in excruciating pain.”

Damn, repost

I didn’t know he played for Raiders, 8 games.

Awe man I still have my Chubbs Peterson commemorative t-shirt laying around somewhere.

In before someone mentions the clot shot.

Now who’s going to pick up Gronk?

That sucks. Dude was in a lot of my favorite movies. RIP :(

Dude, that's not him...

All black people don't look the same, you know.

This was one of his better characters.

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I'm sick and tired of these mother ****ing snakes in this mother ****ing plane!!

LMAO

I meant it as a joke, but changed my mind afterwards which is why I deleted it.

Lol, what was that pic of Lando Calryssian about?

Edit: nm, but I did find it amusing.

damn - this one hurts.

Action Jackson! Predator, Apollo Creed!

Nah, Billy Dee's best work was being the spokesman for Colt 45. I worked for Pabst back in the late 00's and this was my favorite neon sign out of all the ones we stocked. I may or may not have kept one when I left the company.

https://i.imgur.com/vZ3ZzOi.jpeg

Did he freeze to death too?

Apollo "Vaccine" Creed.

Booooooo

Damn man, hate to hear it

Apollo Creed was the classiest, coolest movie fighter of ALL TIME

Apollo...Dillon...he was also in Force 10 from Navarone with Harrison Ford, forgotten classic.

RIP dude. 76 years old. I always say, anything over 75 is pretty much gravy. Wonder if he had some health issues they kept under wraps, or just a heart attack or something.

Weird timing with all those commercials of him with Gronk I've been seeing. .

:( an actual celebrity death that makes me sad. RIP Carl

Damn. Way too soon. RIP Apollo. Godspeed.

So glad we got to see him one last time in Mando.

Died a thinker not a stinker.

That sucks. Looks like he lived a long and good life.

Damn, I liked him alot in Mando.

I love the Rocky 1 and 2. The rest is garbage and that’s a hill I will die on.

Damn good one.

Thanks for the entertainment you BAMF.

I really enjoyed the third one. They got progressively worse after that.

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Rocky 4 was really good, but after that they stopped being good.

So another dead Raider, eh?

Good. Next up, Bill Romanowski.

“The master of disaster”.

I remember Muhammad Ali saying how much he admired the moniker master of disaster and wished he’d have thought of it. To describe himself.

Thats pretty cool, just goes to show what a helluva script Sly wrote

:(

More and more of these guys I grew up loving are dying... hate to see it. This one hits a little hard. I remember the first celebrity that kinda hit hard... Harold Ramis. Seems weird that guys like John Candy and Robin Williams didn't hit me all that hard. Maybe just holding on to my childhood anymore.

Bummer

Rocky was late on throwing the towel
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Not even in the same atmosphere. Weathers made up for his Raiders days by bringing people happiness via good roles in fun movies. What has Roidmanowski ever done to make anyone happy?

Was invited to his 4th of July BBQ one year

RIP & Thanks for the Burger!

Do tell...

Welcome to that club.

You took my line!

RIP Carl!

Imagine we are next and **** it. Bring it.

RIP Chief Hampton Forbes.

Exactly, it really does suck...RIP Apollo.

Still use that line.

RIP. Thanks for your work.

Over here

Yep. For those of us who grew up in the 70s/80s, all of our movie heroes are now at least in their 70s, and they're starting to drop like flies. It sucks.

If a man builds 1,000 bridges and ****s one goat, people don't call him an bridge-builder...

There's no 'making up' for being a Raider.

RIP Weaver
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I read "Carl Cheffers"
Nuthooks

God bless DJLN.

I thought of you immediately upon seeing this thread. You have had that avatar a long time. RIP to a great entertainer

This sucks. RIP Carl

Man, he was awesome! R.I.P. Carl

Aw man. RIP

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Rocky I, II, and III are some of my favorite movies.. Like someone already said, its like another piece of my youth is gone.. RIP Mr. Weathers...

I bet he was a cool dude. Sorry to see him go.

I'm feeling that Sly tribute hard, wow

Honestly been tripping on just how iconic that dude was these last few hours, the man embodied Apollo like no one else possibly could have... Rocky would've been a BOMB without his singular style and grace as a foil

RIP Carl, even if you'd never done anything but Rocky... you'd still be an American Icon

Never heard a bad word about him. That says it all in that shit Hollywood town. He must have been a real good person.

Years ago I went to a CLE in San Francisco and then went up into Napa Valley. Went to Dr. Wilkinson's Spa. Got in the mud bath where it was warm and relaxing. Took a shower and got in the steam. Then went and had a massage. (No happy ending. This was an above-board place, but it was relaxing).

I step into the steam on the men's side of the spa and there was a guy already in there. It wasn't super hot but enough to make you sweat. There's something about the guy that looked familiar. You don't want to stare because you're in the steam but I kept wondering - how do I know this guy? And then it hits me - it's APOLLO CREED! My eyes are closed as I'm in the steam but I crack them open just a bit and sure enough, it's Apollo. Well, it's only the 2 of us in there and being in the steam, we're both naked although draped with towels. This isn't really the time for me to say, "I'm a big fan of your work." Thought that would be akward. So I kept my mouth and my eyes shut and he left the steam. But I was in the steam naked with Carl Weathers.

Just my 2¢

He was probably more grateful for your forbearance than you'll ever know, no one wants to be this guy lol

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Loved him as Chubbs in Happy Gilmore also. As a golfer that crap will live on forever.

Amazing career. He played like a half dozen iconic characters (including himself in Arrested Development).

Wonder if I was the only one in the theatre rooting for Apollo to win the first time. I thought it made the movie more real and loved that character. He played it perfectly. RIP champ.

dude was always in great shape

i best remember him as chubbs. god damn alligator bit my arm off, but I got one of that bastards eyes, ya see

Great cast. Underrated movie. :thumb:

RIP

Kind of fitting HBO had a Rocky marathon on today

Right when Apollo died in 4 is when the news broke he died. Very weird

This one is tough

When you're driving in a part of town that has malt liquor signs and bars on windows its best to go back they way you came. pro-tip of the day.

My sister used to live out in SoCal and she got to meet him when my niece was little, they ran into him having lunch with his son one day. They said he was a very nice man. RIP