Carl Weathers

Carl Weathers. Actor: Rocky. Carl Weathers was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1948. A famous and successful football star at San Diego State, he played with the Oakland Raiders and retired from the sport in 1974, to give full attention to his goal: to be a real actor. Weathers first played small parts in two blaxploitation flicks, Friday Foster (1975) (in which he played "Yarbro") and Bucktown (1975) (playing "Hambone"),...