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 fictional version of himself in four episodes of the comedy series “Arrested Development,” most recently in 2013. In the 2005 film "Alien Siege - Death from Space" Weathers fights against aliens in a role to cure a viral disease that afflicted them.