Carl Weathers' career in pictures: "We have lost a legend". As Apollo Creed, US actor Carl Weathers fought epic boxing matches with Rocky Balboa.
After his death at age 76, colleagues like Sylvester Stallone paid tribute to his decades-long career. Weathers played a fictionalized version of himself in four episodes of the comedy series “Arrested Development” In doing so he proved that he doesn’t take himself too seriously, for example deliberately skipping full flights in order to collect bonus vouchers.