You may have seen on national news and other sources that Rocky actor
Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed, has passed aged 76 on 1 Feb.
He released, as far as we know, just one recording on Mirage in 1981,
and what a recording, the beautiful ballad "You Ought To Be With Me". It peaked at #71 on the R&B chart in autumn
1981. He is credited as co-writing the song with Dwight Emile and the
recording was produced by Hadley Murrell who also produced all three of
Black Ice's albums.
The flip side, "That's Love Calling" is not too shabby either with producer
Murrell and arranger Ray Jackson also given writing credits alongside
Weathers and Emile.
Before his acting career commenced in earnest in 1975, Weathers was an NFL
footballer working as an extra whilst still playing football. He featured
initially in a couple of Blaxploitation movies in the mid 70s before
securing the role as Apollo Creed in the first Rocky film in 1976 and
continuing in the role for the next three sequels. His other major role was
starring alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Predator in 1987 as Colonel
Al Dillon.
He also featured in several well know US TV series in the 70s such as Six
Million Dollar Man, Kung Fu and Starsky & Hutch. His last movie role was
in Toy Story 4 in 2019 as the voice of Combat Carl and last TV series the Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, in 2023 as Greef Karga and he also directed two
episodes.
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