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Rocky actor, former linebacker Carl Weathers dead at 76

Carl Weathers, a former linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star — playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies, facing off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator and teaching golf in Happy Gilmore — has died. He was 76.

Weathers died 'peacefully in his sleep' on Thursday, according to manager and family

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