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This is an archive article published on February 27, 2016
‘Rocky’ actor Tony Burton dies at 78
Tony Burton, the actor who played trainer Tony "Duke" Evers in the "Rocky" films, has died, his sister Loretta Kelley said. He was 78.
Tony Burton, the actor who played trainer Tony “Duke” Evers in the “Rocky” films, has died, his sister Loretta Kelley said. He was 78.
Tony Burton, the actor who played trainer Tony “Duke” Evers in the “Rocky” films, has died, his sister Loretta Kelley said. He was 78.
Burton, who died in Sun City, California, had been sick for a while, Kelley said. She did not give a cause of death, reported CNN.
Burton, who was once a Golden Gloves heavyweight champion in his native Michigan, played the trainer of Apollo Creed in the first two “Rocky” films, in which Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa took on the Muhammad Ali-like Creed.
In four later “Rocky” films, Evers was in Rocky’s corner, helping him defeat such competitors as Clubber Lang (Mr T) in “Rocky III” and Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) in “Rocky IV.”
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