{"id":13107,"date":"2024-02-02T21:41:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T21:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13107"},"modified":"2024-03-23T21:49:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T21:49:17","slug":"carl-weathers-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/02\/02\/carl-weathers-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Weathers Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/rcna137031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from NBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Carl Weathers, Apollo Creed from \u2018Rocky\u2019 and \u2018Mandalorian\u2019 star, dies at 76<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The beloved actor, who also had roles in &#8220;Happy Gilmore&#8221; and &#8220;Predator,&#8221; died in his sleep, his family said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/author\/diana-dasrath-ncpn898216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Diana Dasrath<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/author\/antonio-planas-ncpn1265773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Antonio Planas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Apollo Creed\u2019s Death Scene\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bsF1FGjTAbk?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Carl Weathers, the actor best known as Apollo Creed in the \u201cRocky\u201d movies and more recently for his role in the hit &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; series &#8220;The Mandalorian,&#8221; died Thursday in his sleep, according to his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was 76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weathers got his big-screen break in 1976, when he landed the role of Creed in \u201cRocky,\u201d according to his bio on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001835\/bio\/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IMDb<\/a>. He continued his role in three other \u201cRocky\u201d movies. Weathers also landed parts in 1987\u2019s &#8220;Predator,&#8221; starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, in Adam Sandler\u2019s &#8220;Happy Gilmore&#8221; in 1996 and on the small screen in \u201cThe Mandalorian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weathers also was the voice for Combat Carl in &#8220;Toy Story 4&#8221; and other shorts in the beloved Disney-Pixar franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also earned comedy cred by playing a bizarro version of himself in the cult sitcom &#8220;Arrested Development.&#8221; Other TV acting credits include &#8220;Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit,&#8221; &#8220;Magnum P.I.&#8221; and &#8220;Chicago P.D.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/rcna137031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NBC News Carl Weathers, Apollo Creed from \u2018Rocky\u2019 and \u2018Mandalorian\u2019 star, dies at 76 The beloved actor, who also had roles in &#8220;Happy Gilmore&#8221; and &#8220;Predator,&#8221; died in his sleep, his family said. By\u00a0Diana Dasrath\u00a0and\u00a0Antonio Planas LOS ANGELES \u2014 Carl Weathers, the actor best known as Apollo Creed in the \u201cRocky\u201d movies and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}