1. Carl Weathers was an American actor, director and gridiron football player.
43 Facts About Carl Weathers
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Carl Weathers had a recurring role as Greef Karga in the Star Wars series The Mandalorian, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
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Carl Weathers joined the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League after going undrafted in the 1970 NFL draft.
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Carl Weathers was born on January 14,1948, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Carl Weathers was an all-around athlete, involved in boxing, football, gymnastics, judo, soccer, and wrestling.
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Carl Weathers played football and graduated from Long Beach Poly High School in 1966.
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Carl Weathers started his college career in 1966 at Long Beach City College, where he did not play in 1966 due to an ankle injury suffered when he tripped over a curb surrounding the running track while warming up for practice with another linebacker.
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Carl Weathers signed with the Oakland Raiders of the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 1970.
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Now playing as a linebacker, Carl Weathers played in seven games for the Raiders in 1970, helping them win the AFC West Division title, on their way to the first-ever AFC Championship Game.
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Later that month, Carl Weathers signed with the BC Lions of the CFL.
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Carl Weathers played for the Lions until 1973, playing 13 games in total.
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Carl Weathers retired from football in 1974, and began pursuing an acting career.
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In later years, Carl Weathers narrated NFL Films' season recap of the 1999,2000 and 2001 seasons.
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Carl Weathers began working as an extra while still playing football.
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Carl Weathers had his first significant roles in two blaxploitation films directed by his longtime friend Arthur Marks: Bucktown and Friday Foster.
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Carl Weathers reprised the role of Apollo Creed in the next three Rocky films: Rocky II, Rocky III, and Rocky IV.
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Carl Weathers briefly appears as an Army MP in one of the three released versions of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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In 1978, Carl Weathers portrayed Vince Sullivan in a TV movie, Not This Time.
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Carl Weathers hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1988 and appeared in a skit on the show in 2003.
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Carl Weathers appeared in Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl" music video and co-starred in the 1996 Adam Sandler comedy Happy Gilmore, as Chubbs, a golf legend teaching Happy how to play golf.
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Carl Weathers reprised the role nearly four years later in the Sandler comedy Little Nicky.
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Carl Weathers said he was in excruciating pain for three to four years.
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Carl Weathers played MACV-SOG Colonel Brewster in the CBS series Tour of Duty.
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In 2004, Carl Weathers received a career revival as a comedic actor beginning with appearances in three episodes of the comedy series Arrested Development as a cheapskate caricature of himself, who serves as Tobias Funke's acting coach.
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Carl Weathers was then cast in the comedies The Sasquatch Gang and The Comebacks.
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Carl Weathers had a guest role in two episodes of The Shield as the former training officer of main character Vic Mackey.
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Carl Weathers provided the voice for Colonel Samuel Garrett in the Pandemic Studios video game Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction.
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Carl Weathers was a principal of Red Tight Media, a film and video production company that specializes in tactical training films made for the United States armed forces.
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Carl Weathers appeared in one episode of ER in 2008 during its finale season.
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Mr T and Lundgren agreed, but Carl Weathers wanted an actual part in the movie, even though his character had died in Rocky IV.
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Stallone refused, and Carl Weathers decided not to allow Stallone to use his image for flashbacks from the previous films.
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Carl Weathers portrayed the father of Michael Strahan and Daryl "Chill" Mitchell's characters on the short-lived 2009 Fox sitcom Brothers.
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Carl Weathers acted as Brian "Gebo" Fitzgerald in advertising for Old Spice's sponsorship of NASCAR driver Tony Stewart.
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Carl Weathers appeared in an ongoing series of web-only advertisements for Credit Union of Washington, dispensing flowers and the advice that "change is beautiful" to puzzled-looking bystanders.
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In 2019, Carl Weathers appeared as Greef Karga in several episodes of the first season of the Star Wars series The Mandalorian.
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Carl Weathers returned for the second season and directed the episode "Chapter 12: The Siege".
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Carl Weathers returned for season 3 and directed the episode "Chapter 20: The Foundling".
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Carl Weathers's performance earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor.
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Carl Weathers married Mary-Ann Castle in 1973; they had two sons and divorced in 1983.
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In 1984, Carl Weathers married Rhona Unsell; they divorced in 2006.
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Carl Weathers was married to Jennifer Peterson from 2007 until 2009.
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Carl Weathers was with his longtime partner Christine Kludjian from 2014, until his death in 2024.
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Carl Weathers died at his home in Los Angeles on February 2,2024, at age 76, from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.