How Carl Weathers’ Apollo Creed Changed Rocky’s History
Carl Weathers was so closely identified with the role of Apollo Creed in the Rocky film series throughout his career that when Weathers died at the age of 76, it was as if Apollo died a second time. While Weathers successfully reinvented himself as a television director and veteran character actor in his later career, the actor achieved timelessness through the Rocky series, in which he was 28 when the first Rocky film was released in 1976.