The legendary American actor Carl Weathers died today “peacefully in his sleep” at the age of 76. This was announced by his manager Matt Luber, who gave the tragic news to which millions of fans and actors around the world are reacting.
Weathers rose to fame by playing the mythical Apollo Creed in Rocky, the film created and starring Sylvester Stallone that in 1976 caused quite a shock in the world of cinema with the stellar fight between both actors, until now unknown to the general public. .
The critical and box office success of Rocky catapulted the career of this former American football player who combined his imposing physical presence with an unusual charisma for someone of his stature and which earned him the love of an entire generation.
Later he would participate in the boxer's sequels, completing one of the most beloved characters in cinema with his friendship with Rocky that would be immortalized in the epic Rocky III training where he runs on the beach with Stallone.
In 1987 and with well-earned fame in Hollywood, he would appear as another great action figure in Predator playing Dillon, the character who would share the screen with Arnold Schwarzenegger and with whom he would make a greeting that would go down in cinema history.
He had recently returned to success among the general public with the popular series set in the Star Wars universe The Mandalorian, where he played Greef Karga, an intergalactic bounty hunter.
