Directed by Sylvester Stallone Written by Sylvester Stallone   Cast Sylvester Stallone ... Rocky Balboa Talia Shire ... Adrian Burt Young ... Paulie Carl Weathers ... Apollo Creed Brigitte Nielsen ... Ludmilla Tony Burton ... Duke Michael Pataki ... Nicoli Koloff Dolph Lundgren ... Ivan Drago Stu Nahan ... Commentator #1 R.J. Adams ... Sports Announcer Al Bandiero ... American Commentator #2 Dominic Barto ... Russian Government Official Danial Brown ... Rocky Jr.'s Friend James Brown ... The Godfather of Soul Rose Mary Campos ... Maid Jack Carpenter ... KGB Driver Mark De Alessandro ... Russian Cornerman (as Mark DeAlessandro) Marty Denkin ... Russian Referee Lou Fillipo ... Las Vegas Referee (as Lou Filippo) James 'Cannonball' Green ... Manuel Vega Dean Hammond ... Interviewer Rocky Krakoff ... Rocky Jr. Sergei Levin ... Russian Ring Announcer Tony Maffatone ... KGB Agent (as Anthony Maffatone) Sylvia Meals ... Mrs. Creed Dwayne McGee ... Limo Driver LeRoy Neiman ... Ring Announcer George Pipasik ... Caretaker George Rogan ... Igor Rimsky Barry Tompkins ... American Commentator #1 Warner Wolf ... Commentator #2 in Las Vegas Robert Doornick ... Sico the Robot (voice) Richard Blum ... Reporter Gerald Berns ... Reporter Ray Glanzmann ... Reporter Julie Inouye ... Reporter Patrick Pankhurst ... Reporter Jean Thoreau ... Reporter Jim Bullock ... Reporter Frank D'Annibale ... Reporter Rose Dursey ... Reporter (as Rose Dursy) Richard Kelley ... Reporter (as Rick Kelley) Craig Schaefer ... Reporter Jeff Austin ... Reporter Leslie Morris ... Reporter Bob Giovane ... Reporter Julio Herzer ... Reporter George Spaventa ... Reporter Rolf Williams ... Reporter Jim Hodge ... Reporter Uncredited Cast David Lloyd Austin ... Soviet Leader Dan Bradford ... Ringside Fight Scene Extra-Russian Gabriel Campisi ... Extra Roy Lewis Garton ... Russian Peasant David Paul Hewitt White ... Boxing Fan Douglas Kidd ... Russian Reveller Bobby Mardis ... Reporter Howard Maurer ... Ringside Reporter Burgess Meredith ... Mickey Goldmill (archive footage) Robert Milicevic ... Russian #12 Mr. T ... Clubber Lang (archive footage) Danny Nero ... Videographer Jim Painter ... Soviet Genetics Scientist Robert Prowse ... Corner Man Richard Stewart Rigby ... Photographer Garth Shaw ... Betacam Operator Jeffrey L. Tandy ... Extra James Thom ... Russian Soldier Connie Woods ... Casino Camera Girl Produced by James D. Brubaker   Robert Chartoff   Arthur Chobanian   Irwin Winkler   Original Music by Vince DiCola

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