Carl Weathers, who was best known for playing ... The character was killed in the ring by Ivan Drogo (Dolph Lundgren) in 1985’s “Rocky IV.” The Post has reached out to Weathers’ reps ...

BIANCULLI: That's actor Carl Weathers in the role of prize fighter-turned-trainer Apollo Creed in the film "Rocky IV." He played in all of those early "Rocky" films. Weathers died last week at the ...

Carl Weathers, an actor and director known for ... again in 1982 with Rocky III and once more for Rocky IV, which debuted in 1985. Weathers, who was born Jan. 14, 1948, in New Orleans, was an ...

Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker turned ... The Creed character appeared in the first four “Rocky” movies, dying in “Rocky IV” (1984) while going toe-to-toe with the hulking, steroid ...

Carl Weathers is dead at the age of 76. It’s shocking to consider, even though his best-known character, Apollo Creed, in some ways was ultimately defined by his death in 1985’s “Rocky IV.” ...

as his character's legacy lived on after they killed him off in Rocky IV to be the starting base for the Creed franchise. Carl Weathers proved he could light the screen up in supporting or leading ...

Carl Weathers, the NFL player-turned-Hollywood ... in three subsequent sequels before the character's death in 1985's "Rocky IV." In the ongoing "Creed" franchise, Michael B.

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