Actor Carl Weathers, a former professional American football player who shot to fame by playing boxer Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies, has died aged 76.
Matt Luber, his manager, said Weathers died on Thursday. His family said he died “peacefully in his sleep”.
Though he had other prominent roles, acting in the recent Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian and the 1987 science-fiction horror movie Predator,…