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Carl Weathers, prolific actor famous for ‘Rocky’ and ‘The Mandalorian,’ dead at 76 | CNN

Carl Weathers, an Emmy-nominated actor with a screen career stemming back to the mid-1970s, has died. He was 76.

The character was obviously inspired by Muhammad Ali, who Weathers later met.Weathers parlayed his “Rocky” exposure into a number of other roles that capitalized on his imposing physicality, including the 1987 sci-fi action movie “Predator,” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Subsequent roles included the Adam Sandler comedy “Happy Gilmore” and “In the Heat of the Night” TV movies, the series “Arrested Development” and providing the voice of Combat Carl in the “Toy Story” franchise. Upon learning of Weathers’ death, his “Mandalorian” costar Pedro Pascal simply wrote “words fail” alongside a broken heart emoji in the caption next to a photo of the fallen star on Instagram.

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