Carl Weathers

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Carl Weathers (born January 14, 1948) is an African-American actor, formerly a professional American and Canadian league football player.

[edit] Career

Weathers was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School and then went to San Diego State University. At San Diego State University, Carl was a member of the school's football team. This led him to a career as a linebacker with the Oakland Raiders and later on with a team in the Canadian Football League (British Columbia Lions); he retired in 1974 to become an actor. He had his first parts in two Arthur Marks directed 1970s blaxploitation films: Bucktown and Friday Foster, both in 1975. Weathers also appeared in an episode on the 70's Sitcom "Good Times".

In 1976, he starred alongside Sylvester Stallone in Rocky as Apollo Creed, a role he would reprise in the next three Rocky films in 1979, 1982, and 1985. He also starred in a number of action films, both theatrically and on television, including: Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Predator (1987), and Action Jackson (1988). He also had parts in the Adam Sandler comedies Happy Gilmore (1996), Little Nicky (2000) and Eight Crazy Nights (2002).

During the final season of In the Heat of the Night, his character of Hampton Forbes replaced Bill Gillespie at the chief of the Sparta, Mississippi police. He continued that role in the television movies based on the series. His noted other TV role was on the cop show Street Justice where he played Sgt. Adam Beaudreaux. He also played as MACV-SOG Lt. Col. Brewster in the CBS series Tour of Duty.

Weathers most recently played a cheapskate caricature of himself in several episodes of the Fox Television comedy series Arrested Development.

Outside of acting he is a member of both Big Brothers and the United States Olympic Committee.

Carl is currently a principal of Red Tight Media. A film/video production company that specializes in tactical training films made for the United States armed forces.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2007	The Comebacks
2006	The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang	Dr. Artimus Snodgrass
2006-	Spawn: The Animation	Captain Edwards	TV series, voice only
2005	Alien Siege	General Skyler
2005	Arrested Development	As himself	TV series
2002	Eight Crazy Nights	GNC Guy	voice only
2000	Little Nicky	Chubbs Peterson
1996	Happy Gilmore	Chubbs Peterson
1993-1994	In the Heat of the Night	Chief Hampton Forbes	TV series
1992	Hurricane Smith	Billy 'Hurricane' Smith
1991-1993	Street Justice	Sgt. Adam Beaudreaux	TV series
1989-1990	Tour Of Duty	Col. Brewster	TV series
1988	Action Jackson	Sgt./Lt. Jericho "Action" Jackson
1987	Predator	Major George Dillon
1986	Fortune Dane	Fortune Dane	TV series
1985	Rocky IV	Apollo Creed
1982	Rocky III	Apollo Creed
1981	Death Hunt	Sundog/George Washington Lincoln Brown
1979	Rocky II	Apollo Creed
1978	Force 10 from Navarone	Sgt. Weaver
1977	Semi-Tough	Dreamer Tatum
1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	MP
1976	Rocky	Apollo Creed
1976	The Four Deuces	Taxi Cab Driver
1975	Bucktown	Hambone
1975	Friday Foster	Yarbro

[edit] External links

• Carl Weathers at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Times article