You were a football hero who became a movie hero, ascending to fame as Apollo Creed in Sylvester Stallone's Rocky saga.
Of course, it's not just in the latter that you excelled. On the feature front, there's Action Jackson; Hurricane Smith; Friday Foster; Predator; Death Hunt; Magnum Force; Force 10 from Navarone; Buck Town, USA; Braker; The Defiant Ones 1986; The Four Deuces; Happy Gilmore; Little Nicky; Semi-Tough; Think Like a Man; Tom Clancy's OP Center; Dangerous Passions; Assault on Devil's Island; Assault on Death Mountain; American Warships; The Bermuda Depths; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Alien Siege; The Sasquatch Gang; and Sheriff Tom vs the Zombies; plus as director, A Burger and a Bullet and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.
On television, you covered even more, with Street Justice (all 44 episodes); Fortune Dane (all 9 episodes); In the Heat of the Night (28 episodes); Tour of Duty (on a recurring basis); Colony (also recurring); The Mandalorian (as Greef Karga); The Six Million Dollar Man; Starsky & Hutch; Barnaby Jones; Magnum P.I.; Kung Fu; ER; Psych; Phoo Action; Good Times; Saturday Night Live; Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected; The Shield; Arrested Development; and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
You were also a leading, voice actor, granting your robust tonality to Pinky Malinky; Star vs the Forces of Evil; Eight Crazy Nights; The Comebacks; Balto III: Wings of Change; Explosion Jones; and Toy Story 4; as well as the video games, Mortal Kombat X; The Artful Escape; and Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction.
You covered so much in your career and in each instance, beamed with unparalleled vitality. You'll now swing hard beyond this mortal world, Mr. Weathers, an Apollo beyond mere Mount Olympus, an icon to be revered for eons to come.
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