Carl Weathers - wikipedia Carl Weathers Carl Weathers Carl Weathers at the Calgary Expo 2015 ( 1948 - 01 - 14 ) January 14, 1948 ( age 70 ) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. Alma mater San Diego State University San Francisco State University ( BA ) Occupation Actor, professional football player Years active 1973 -- present ( actor ) 1970 -- 1974 ( football player ) Spouse ( s ) Mary Ann Castle ( m. 1973 ; div. 1983 ) Rhona Unsell ( m. 1984 ; div. 2006 ) Jennifer Peterson ( m. 2007 ; div. 2009 ) Children Football career No. 49, 55 Position : Linebacker Career information College : San Diego State Undrafted : 1970 Career history Oakland Raiders ( 1970 -- 1971 ) B.C. Lions ( 1971 -- 1974 ) Career NFL statistics Sacks : 0 Games played ( NFL ) : 8 Games played ( CFL ) : 10 Player stats at NFL.com Carl Weathers ( born January 14, 1948 ) is an American actor and former professional football player. He is best known for portraying Apollo Creed in the Rocky series of films, George Dillon in Predator, Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore and Little Nicky, and a fictionalized version of himself on the comedy series Arrested Development. As a football player, Weathers played for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League and the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League. Contents 1 Early life 2 Football career 3 Acting career 4 Personal life 5 Filmography 5.1 Film 5.2 Television 5.3 Video games 6 References 7 External links Early life Weathers was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was a day laborer. As an eighth - grade student, he earned an athletic scholarship to St. Augustine High School, a private high school. During high school, he was an all - around athlete, involved in boxing, football, gymnastics, judo, soccer, and wrestling. He graduated in 1966. Football career Weathers played football as a defensive end in college. He 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, Paul Snow. He then transferred and played for San Diego State University, becoming a letterman for the San Diego State Aztecs in 1968 and 1969, playing for head coach Don Coryell. After he went undrafted, Weathers signed with the Oakland Raiders as a free agent in 1970. Now playing as a linebacker, Weathers played seven games for the Raiders in 1970 and one in 1971. The Raiders released Weathers, and he signed with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League in 1971 and played until 1973, 18 games in total. During the off - seasons, Weathers attended San Francisco State University and finished his B.A. in Drama in 1974. He retired from football in 1974, and began pursuing an acting career. Weathers narrated NFL Films ' season recap of the 1999, 2000 and 2001 seasons. During the 2017 NFL Draft, he appeared on NFL Network 's pre-draft coverage. Acting career Weathers began working as an extra while still playing football. He had his first significant roles in two blaxploitation films directed by his longtime friend Arthur Marks : Bucktown ( 1975 ) and Friday Foster ( 1975 ). Weathers also appeared in an episode of the 1970s sitcom Good Times entitled `` The Nude '', portraying an angry husband who suspected his wife of cheating on him with J.J. In 1975, he guest starred in an episode of Kung Fu entitled `` The Brothers Caine ''. In 1976, he appeared as a loan shark in an episode of the crime - drama Starsky and Hutch. While auditioning for the role of Apollo Creed alongside Sylvester Stallone in Rocky, Weathers criticized Stallone 's acting, which led him to get the role. He reprised the role of Apollo Creed in the next three Rocky films in 1979, 1982, and 1985. Weathers is briefly seen as an Army MP in one of the three released versions of Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( originally released in 1977 ). In 1978, Weathers portrayed misogynist Vince Sullivan in a TV movie, Not This Time. In the late 1970s and 1980s, Weathers starred in a number of action films for the small and big screen, including Force 10 from Navarone ( 1978 ), Predator ( 1987 ), Action Jackson ( 1988 ), and Hurricane Smith ( 1992 ). As a member of the cast of Predator, Weathers worked with future California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and future Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura. Many years later he appeared in a spoof segment on Saturday Night Live, announcing that he was running for political office and urging viewers to vote for him on the basis that `` he was the black guy in Predator ''. He also appeared in Michael Jackson 's `` Liberian Girl '' music video and co-starred in the Adam Sandler comedy Happy Gilmore, as Chubbs, a golf legend teaching Happy how to play golf. He reprised the role nearly four years later in the Sandler comedy Little Nicky. During the final two seasons of In the Heat of the Night, his character, Hampton Forbes, replaced Bill Gillespie as the chief of police. Another noted TV role was Sgt. Adam Beaudreaux on the cop show Street Justice. He also played as MACV - SOG Colonel Brewster in the CBS series Tour of Duty. In 2004, 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 Fünke 's acting coach. He was then cast in the comedies The Sasquatch Gang and The Comebacks. Weathers had a guest role in two episodes of The Shield as the former training officer of main character Vic Mackey. Weathers provided the voice for Colonel Samuel Garrett in the Pandemic Studios video game Mercenaries : Playground of Destruction. In 2005, he was a narrator on Conquest ! The Price Of Victory - Witness The Journey of the Trojans !, an 18 - part television show about USC athletics. Weathers is 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. He also appeared in one episode of ER as the father of an injured boxer during their 2008 finale season. For the sixth film in the Rocky series, Rocky Balboa ( 2006 ), Stallone asked Weathers, Mr. T, and Dolph Lundgren for permission to use footage from their appearances in the earlier Rocky films. Mr. T and Lundgren agreed, but Weathers wanted an actual part in the movie, even though his character had died in Rocky IV. Stallone refused, and Weathers decided not to allow Stallone to use his image for flashbacks from the previous films. They instead used footage of a fighter who looks similar to Weathers. Weathers portrayed the father of Michael Strahan and Daryl `` Chill '' Mitchell 's characters on the short - lived 2009 Fox sitcom Brothers. Weathers is currently acting as Brian `` Gebo '' Fitzgerald in advertising for Old Spice 's sponsorship of NASCAR driver Tony Stewart. He also appears 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. He is also starring in a series of commercials for Bud Light, in which he introduces plays from the `` Bud Light Playbook ''. At the conclusion of each commercial, Weathers can be seen bursting through the Bud Light Playbook and shouting `` Here we go ! ''. Personal life Weathers and his ex-wife, Mary Ann, have two sons. Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1973 Magnum Force Demonstrator Uncredited Friday Foster Yarbro Bucktown Hambone 1976 The Four Deuces Taxi Cab Driver 1976 Rocky Apollo Creed 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind MP 1977 Semi-Tough Dreamer Tatum 1978 The Bermuda Depths Eric 1978 Force 10 from Navarone Sgt. Weaver 1979 Rocky II Apollo Creed 1981 Death Hunt Sundog / George Washington Lincoln Brown 1982 Rocky III Apollo Creed 1985 Rocky IV Apollo Creed 1985 Braker Lieutenant Harry Braker 1986 The Defiant Ones Cullen Monroe Predator Colonel Al Dillon Action Jackson Sgt. / Lt. Jericho `` Action '' Jackson Dangerous Passion Kyle Hurricane Smith Billy `` Hurricane '' Smith 1995 Op Center Gen. Mike Rodgers Uncredited Happy Gilmore Chubbs Peterson Shadow Warriors : Assault on Devil 's Island Roy Brown 1999 Shadow Warriors 2 : Hunt for the Death Merchant Roy Brown 2000 Little Nicky Chubbs Peterson 2002 Eight Crazy Nights GNC Water Bottle Voice Balto III : Wings of Change Kirby Voice 2005 Alien Siege General Skyler 2006 The Sasquatch Gang Dr. Artimus Snodgrass 2007 The Comebacks Freddie Wiseman / Narrator 2012 American Warships General McKraken 2017 Sandy Wexler Himself Cameo Television Year Title Role Episode Good Times Calvin Brooks Episode : `` The Nude '' Kung Fu Bad Sam Episode : `` The Brothers Caine '' 1976 Starsky and Hutch Al Martin Episode : `` Nightmare '' 1977 Quinn Martin 's Tales of the Unexpected Hank Dalby Episode : `` A Hand For Sonny Blue '' 1986 Fortune Dane Fortune Dane 1989 -- 1990 Tour of Duty Colonel Carl Brewster Recurring role, 9 episodes 1991 -- 1993 Street Justice Adam Beaudreaux Main role In the Heat of the Night Police Chief Hampton Forbes 2003 -- 2007 The Shield Joe Clark Episodes : `` Haunts '', `` Partners '' 2004 -- 2013 Arrested Development Carl Weathers 4 episodes 2008 ER Louie Taylor. Episode : `` Oh, Brother '' Psych Boone Episode : `` Viagra Falls '' 2011 -- 13 Regular Show God of Basketball Voice role ; episodes : `` Slam Dunk '', `` Bank Shot '' 2013 Toy Story of Terror Combat Carl Voice 2016 Colony Bolton `` Beau '' Miller Recurring role, 9 episodes 2016 Chicago P.D. State 's Attorney Mark Jefferies Episode : `` Justice '' 2017 Chicago Justice State 's Attorney Mark Jefferies Main role 2017 Star vs. the Forces of Evil Omnitraxus Prime Voice role ; episodes : `` Mathmagic '', `` Starcrushed '' Video games Year Title Role Notes 2005 Mercenaries : Playground of Destruction Colonel Samuel Garrett voice 2015 Mortal Kombat X Jax Briggs DLC ; voice and likeness References Jump up ^ `` Carl Weathers Biography ( 1948 -- ) ''. Filmreference.com. Retrieved July 22, 2017. ^ Jump up to : Arnold, Gary ( June 25, 1979 ). `` Carl Weathers of ' Rocky II, ' in Search of Something Cerebral ''. The Washington Post. Retrieved July 22, 2017. Jump up ^ `` IT WAS ' BU WHO ? ' : Aztecs Saw Their Hopes of ' Big Time ' Go Awry - latimes ''. Articles.latimes.com. December 28, 1986. Retrieved July 22, 2017. Jump up ^ Hoglund, Andy ( June 5, 1968 ). `` When to Turn Your Football Career Into an Acting Career ''. Newsweek.com. Retrieved July 22, 2017. Jump up ^ Peters, Ida. `` The Afro American ''. Retrieved February 9, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Catching up with Carl Weathers : ROCKY 'S Apollo Creed ''. Silver Screen Artists. Retrieved March 17, 2018. Jump up ^ Apollo Creed lives again : Carl Weathers joins NFL Draft coverage on ' Rocky ' steps Jump up ^ `` Carl Weathers Looks Back on Creed : Sparring With Ali, Slighting Stallone and Passing the Torch ''. Hollywood Reporter. December 3, 2015. Retrieved July 22, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Thanks for the Memories ''. Tour of Duty Info. Retrieved March 17, 2018. Jump up ^ Norden, Martin F. ( 2007 ). The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television. Rodopi. p. 116. Jump up ^ `` Red Tight Media ''. Red Tight Media. Retrieved July 22, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Carl Weathers, Sylvester Stallone May Have Mended Their Differences Over ' Creed ' ''. Inquisitr. November 24, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2018. Jump up ^ stated by Stallone on Jimmy Kimmel Live ! ( December 21, 2006 ). Jump up ^ `` Bud Light Airraid : Carl Weathers and Bud Light steal Norm Chow 's ( and Bruce Eien 's ) playbook ''. Smart Football. October 23, 2010. Retrieved March 17, 2018. Jump up ^ `` YouTube ''. YouTube. Retrieved July 22, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Classic Television Archive : Quinn Martin 's Tales of the Unexpected ( 1977 ) ''. Ctva.biz. Retrieved July 22, 2017. External links Carl Weathers on IMDb Carl Weathers at Pro-Football-Reference.com View Carl Weathers at FanBase In the Heat of the Night Fan Club BNF : cb13901046p ( data ) ISNI : 0000 0001 0857 3610 LCCN : no99054544 SNAC : w6vt1tks SUDOC : 172411351 VIAF : 49409745 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl_Weathers&oldid=843441630 '' Categories : 1948 births Living people St. Augustine High School ( New Orleans ) alumni 20th - century American male actors 21st - century American male actors Male actors from Long Beach, California African - American players of American football African - American television directors American television directors American male voice actors American actor - athletes Oakland Raiders players American players of Canadian football BC Lions players Canadian football linebackers Long Beach City College alumni Male actors from New Orleans Sportspeople from Long Beach, California Sportspeople from New Orleans San Diego State Aztecs football players San Diego State University alumni San Francisco State University alumni African - American male actors American male film actors American male television actors Hidden categories : Use mdy dates from July 2017 Pages which use embedded infobox templates with the title parameter NFL player missing current team parameter Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Asturianu تۆرکجه Български Čeština Dansk Deutsch Ελληνικά Español فارسی Français Galego 한국어 Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Kiswahili Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Русский Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska Türkçe 18 more Edit links This page was last edited on 29 May 2018, at 05 : 23. 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Question: who played apollo creed in the rocky films
Answer: Carl Weathers