Carl Weathers (January 14, 1948 \u2013 February 2, 2024) was an American actor, director, as well as former professional football player in the United States and Canada. He was best known for playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky series of films. He also played Dillon in the first Predator movie, Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore and Little Nicky, Magistrate Greef Karga in The Mandalorian, and played a fictionalized version of himself in the television series Arrested Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The complete Snarkive personnel file on Carl Weathers. Known for acting, discover their full filmography, biography, and career highlights. All the essentials, none of the fluff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1000046290,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"character":[1655],"snarkive_curation":[],"job-type":[],"job":[],"keyword":[],"class_list":["post-1000046260","person","type-person","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","character-chubbs"],"acf":{"person_profile_image":false,"person_profile_image_source":{"label":"Person Profile Image","type":"image","formatted_value":false},"tmdb_id":"1101","tmdb_id_source":{"label":"TMDB ID","type":"text","formatted_value":"1101"},"imdb_id":"nm0001835","imdb_id_source":{"label":"IMDb ID","type":"text","formatted_value":"nm0001835"},"birthday":"1948-01-14","birthday_source":{"label":"Birthday","type":"date_picker","formatted_value":"January 14, 1948"},"deathday":"2024-02-02","deathday_source":{"label":"Deathday","type":"date_picker","formatted_value":"02\/02\/2024"},"place_of_birth":"New Orleans, Louisiana, USA","place_of_birth_source":{"label":"Place of Birth","type":"text","formatted_value":"New Orleans, Louisiana, USA"},"gender":"","gender_source":{"label":"Gender","type":"radio","formatted_value":""},"known_for_department":"Acting","known_for_department_source":{"label":"Known For Department","type":"text","formatted_value":"Acting"},"filmography":[1000046244],"filmography_source":{"label":"Filmography","type":"relationship","formatted_value":[{"ID":1000046244,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2025-11-29 16:23:19","post_date_gmt":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","post_content":"Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore \u2014 whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin \u2014 is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.","post_title":"Happy Gilmore (1996)","post_excerpt":"Snarkive deep-dive on Happy Gilmore (1996). He doesn't play golf... he destroys it. Get cast info, trailers, and reviews. Is it Legendary\ud83c\udfc6 or Should we Burn it?\ud83d\udd25 We've got the unfiltered details.","post_status":"pending","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","post_password":"","post_name":"happy-gilmore-1996","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-11-29 16:23:19","post_modified_gmt":"2025-11-29 22:23:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/?post_type=movie&p=1000046244","menu_order":0,"post_type":"movie","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"characters_played":[],"characters_played_source":{"label":"Characters Played","type":"taxonomy","formatted_value":false},"person_related_editorials":null,"person_related_editorials_source":{"label":"Person Related Editorials","type":"relationship","formatted_value":null},"person_homepage":"","person_homepage_source":{"label":"Homepage","type":"url","formatted_value":""},"twitter_id":"","twitter_id_source":{"label":"Twitter ID","type":"text","formatted_value":""},"facebook_id":"","facebook_id_source":{"label":"Facebook ID","type":"text","formatted_value":""},"instagram_id":"","instagram_id_source":{"label":"Instagram ID","type":"text","formatted_value":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/person\/1000046260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000046260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/person\/1000046260\/revisions"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/movie\/1000046244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000046290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000046260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000046260"},{"taxonomy":"character","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcharacter&post=1000046260"},{"taxonomy":"snarkive_curation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fsnarkive_curation&post=1000046260"},{"taxonomy":"job-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjob-type&post=1000046260"},{"taxonomy":"job","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjob&post=1000046260"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyword&post=1000046260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}