Arnold Schwarzenegger
Acting • Born 1947-07-30
Biography
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder, known for his roles in high-profile action films. He served as the 38th governor of California from 2003 to 2011. Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at age 15 and won the Mr. Universe title at age 20 and, subsequently, the Mr. Olympia title seven times. He is tied with Phil Heath for the joint-second number of all-time Mr. Olympia wins, behind Ronnie Coleman and Lee Haney, who are joint-first with eight wins each. Nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, he is regarded as one of the greatest bodybuilders ever. He has written books and articles about bodybuilding, including the autobiographical Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder (1977) and The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding (1998). The Arnold Sports Festival, the second-most prestigious bodybuilding event after Mr. Olympia, is named after him. He appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron (1977), which set him on his way to a film career. After retiring from bodybuilding, Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action star with his breakthrough in the sword and sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian (1982), a box-office success with a sequel in 1984. After playing the title character in the science fiction film The Terminator (1984), he starred in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and three other sequels. His other successful action films included Commando (1985), The Running Man (1987), Predator (1987), Total Recall(1990), and True Lies (1994), in addition to comedy films such as Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990) and Jingle All the Way (1996). At the height of his career, Schwarzenegger was known for his rivalry with Sylvester Stallone. He is the founder of the film production company Oak Productions. As a registered member of the Republican Party, Schwarzenegger chaired the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports during most of the George H. W. Bush administration. In 2003, he was elected governor of California in a special recall election to replace Gray Davis, the governor at the time. He received 48.6 per cent of the vote, 17 points ahead of the runner-up, Cruz Bustamante of the Democratic Party. He was sworn in on November 17 to serve the remainder of Davis' term. He was reelected in the 2006 gubernatorial election with an increased vote share of 55.9 per cent to serve a full term. In 2011, he reached his term limit as governor and returned to acting.
Filmography
239 credits
Predator
Movie • 1987
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer
The Terminator
Movie • 1984
Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Movie • 1991
The Terminator
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Movie • 2003
The Terminator
Total Recall
Movie • 1990
Douglas Quaid / Hauser
The Running Man
Movie • 1987
Ben Richards
Batman & Robin
Movie • 1997
Dr. Victor Fries / Mr. Freeze
Raw Deal
Movie • 1986
Mark Kaminski / Joseph P. Brenner
The Comeback
Movie • 1980
Self
Commando
Movie • 1985
John Matrix
Hercules in New York
Movie • 1970
Hercules
Stay Hungry
Movie • 1976
Joe Santo
Dolph: Unbreakable
Movie • 2025
Self
Junior
Movie • 1994
Dr. Alex Hesse
The 6th Day
Movie • 2000
Adam Gibson
Twins
Movie • 1988
Julius Benedict
Eraser
Movie • 1996
U.S. Marshal John 'The Eraser' Kruger
Jingle All the Way
Movie • 1996
Howard Langston
Last Action Hero
Movie • 1993
Jack Slater / Self
End of Days
Movie • 1999
Jericho Cane
Red Heat
Movie • 1988
Ivan Danko
Conan the Destroyer
Movie • 1984
Conan
Red Sonja
Movie • 1985
Kalidor
Conan the Barbarian
Movie • 1982
Conan
Collateral Damage
Movie • 2002
Gordy Brewer
Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
Movie • 2002
Self
True Lies
Movie • 1994
Harry Tasker
Breakout
Movie
Terry Reynolds
...So Goes the Nation
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
The Last Stand
Movie • 2013
Sheriff Ray Owens
The Expendables 2
Movie • 2012
Trench
Arnold: Made in Britain
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Terminator Genisys
Movie • 2015
Guardian / The Terminator
Commando: Retribution
Movie
John Matrix
Escape Plan
Movie • 2013
Emil Rottmayer
Sabotage
Movie • 2014
John "Breacher" Wharton
The Expendables 3
Movie • 2014
Trench
Arnold's Blueprint
Movie • 2012
Self
Bio.
Movie • 2005
Self
Generation Iron
Movie • 2013
Self
Al Franken: God Spoke
Movie • 2006
Self
The Expendables
Movie • 2010
Trench (uncredited)
Gerrymandering
Movie • 2010
Self
Taming The Beast
Movie
Self
Maggie
Movie • 2015
Wade Vogel
The Original Action Hero
Movie
Self
WWE Hall of Fame 2015
Movie • 2015
Self
The Man with the Bag
Movie
Santa
Iron Mask
Movie • 2019
James Hook
Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma
Movie • 2005
Conan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 2004
Prince Hapi
Dr. Dolittle 2
Movie • 2001
White Wolf (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'
Movie • 2001
Self
Imagining 'Total Recall'
Movie • 2001
Self
The Making of 'Terminator 2 3D'
Movie • 2000
Self
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Movie • 2000
Self
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
Iron and Beyond
Movie • 2002
Self (uncredited)
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
Movie • 1999
Self
The Making of 'The Terminator': A Retrospective
Movie • 1992
Self
The Making of 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'
Movie • 1991
Self
The Power of the Market
Movie • 1980
Self
The Making of the Terminator
Movie • 1985
Self
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
Movie • 1995
Self - Presenter
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie • 1995
Self
Beretta's Island
Movie • 1994
Arnold Schwarzenegger (uncredited)
Arnold: The Man Behind the Muscle
Movie • 1994
Self (archive footage)
Dave
Movie • 1993
Arnold Schwarzenegger
T2: More Than Meets the Eye
Movie • 1993
Self
Lincoln
Movie • 1992
John G. Nicolay (voice)
Feed
Movie • 1992
Self
Christmas in Connecticut
Movie • 1992
Man in Chair in Front of Media Truck (uncredited)
Return Engagement
Movie • 1983
Self
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Movie • 1983
Self
Party in Rio
Movie • 1983
Self - Host
This Is America
Movie • 1977
Bodybuilder at Gold's Gym (uncredited)
The Long Goodbye
Movie • 1973
Hood in Augustine's Office (uncredited)
The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Making of The Expendables 3
Movie • 2014
Self
Milius
Movie • 2013
Self
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Pumping Iron
Movie • 1977
Self
Jean-Claude van Damme: Karate King
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
Movie • 1974
Rico
The Villain
Movie • 1979
Handsome Stranger
Scavenger Hunt
Movie • 1979
Lars
The Jayne Mansfield Story
Movie • 1980
Mickey Hargitay
Andre the Giant
Movie • 2018
Self
KURZ
Movie • 2023
Self
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Movie • 2022
Self
Total Recall(ed)
Movie • 2021
Self
I Am Greta
Movie • 2020
Self
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out
Movie • 2020
Self
Arnold Schwarzenegger – The Art of Bodybuilding
Movie • 2020
Self
Bruno Sammartino
Movie • 2019
Self
Wonders of the Sea
Movie • 2017
Narrator (voice)
LA DA Story
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Movie • 2019
Self - Actor (archive footage)
T2: Reprogramming The Terminator
Movie • 2017
Self
Workers Con
Movie • 2017
Self - Former CA Governor (archive footage)
David Blaine: Beyond Magic
Movie • 2016
Self
Arnie's 50 Greatest Ever Stunts
Movie • 2016
Self - Presenter
WWE WrestleMania 31
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Anything Is Possible
Movie • 2015
(voice)
WWE Hall Of Fame 2013
Movie • 2013
Self
Revenge of the Electric Car
Movie • 2011
Self
Reagan
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
Movie • 2010
Self
Right America: Feeling Wronged
Movie • 2009
Self
Bigger Stronger Faster*
Movie • 2008
Self
Ultimate Reality
Movie • 2007
(archive footage)
Global Warming: Our Searing Earth
Movie • 2007
Self
Running with Arnold
Movie • 2006
Self
Midnight Blue, Vol. 3: Celebrities Edition
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
The Kid & I
Movie • 2005
Arnold
Pursuit of Equality
Movie • 2005
Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
"STARdate" with Ralf Moeller!
Movie • 2002
Self
Sly
Movie • 2023
Self
Christmas in Hollywood
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons
Movie • 2024
Self
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Movie • 2007
Self
Aftermath
Movie • 2017
Roman Melnyk
Junket Whore
Movie • 1998
Self
Jackie Chan: Down to Earth
Movie
Self
Killing Gunther
Movie • 2017
Robert "Gunther" Bendik
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
Movie • 2001
Self
The Making of 'Superman II'
Movie • 1983
Self
Conor McGregor: Notorious
Movie • 2017
Self
Terminator: Dark Fate
Movie • 2019
T-800 / Carl
Born Strong
Movie • 2017
Self
Kung Fury 2
Movie
The President
Kindergarten Cop
Movie • 1990
John Kimble
Generation Iron 2
Movie • 2017
Self
The Game Changers
Movie • 2019
Self
A Century of Science Fiction
Movie • 1996
Self
A Riddle of Steel: The Definitive History of Conan the Barbarian
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Dare2Dream: The Flex Wheeler Story
Movie • 2015
Self
Dirty Harry: The Original
Movie • 2001
Self - Actor
WWE: The Best of SmackDown - 10th Anniversary, 1999-2009
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Schwarzenegger: Total Rebuild
Movie • 1988
Self
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Movie • 2005
Self
The Rundown
Movie • 2003
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Stallone: Frank, That Is
Movie • 2021
Self
Schwarzenegger's Superstars of Muscle
Movie • 1991
Self
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Guide to Blowing Sh*T Up
Movie • 2015
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Body by Garret
Movie • 1982
Self
Superstars and their Moms
Movie • 1987
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains
Movie • 2003
Self - Host
Bill Nye's Global Meltdown
Movie • 2016
Self
Sauna Report Germany - The Naked Joy of Sweating
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage)
If It Bleeds We Can Kill It: The Making of 'Predator'
Movie • 2000
Self
How Arnold Won the West
Movie • 2004
I Am Not Your Negro
Movie • 2017
Self
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Movie • 1999
Self
WEAKEND
Movie • 2003
Adam Gibson (Archive)
Playboy's Playmate Party
Movie • 1977
Making of Commando
Movie
King Conan
Movie
Conan
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
X-Con (uncredited) (segment "The Switch")
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Two and a Half Men
TV • 2003
Lieutenant Wagner
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Josef Schmidt
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Web Junk 20
TV • 2006
The Celebrity Apprentice
TV • 2004
Anderson Cooper 360°
TV • 2003
Meet the Press
TV • 1947
60 Minutes
TV • 1968
Self
The Jay Leno Show
TV • 2009
Self
Celebrities Uncensored
TV • 2003
Self
The Magic Hour
TV • 1998
Self
Liberty's Kids
TV • 2002
Harty
TV • 1983
Self
The San Pedro Beach Bums
TV • 1977
Little Demon
TV • 2022
Game Show Host (voice)
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Arnold
TV • 2023
Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV • 2022
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
TV • 1999
Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Hallo, wie geht's
TV • 1991
Self
The Movies That Made Us
TV • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
The Celebrity Apprentice
TV • 2004
Self - Host
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
McGREGOR FOREVER
TV • 2023
Self
The Howard Stern Interview
TV • 2006
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV • 1971
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Na sowas!
TV • 1982
Self
OBJECTified
TV • 2017
Self
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
TV • 2020
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten
TV • 2021
Arnold Armstrong / Captain Fantastic (voice)
Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles
TV • 2015
Terminator
Auf los geht's los
TV • 1977
Self
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
TV • 2018
Self
Entertainment Tonight
TV • 1981
Self
Jay Leno's Garage
TV • 2015
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Family
TV • 2019
Self (archive footage)
FUBAR
TV • 2023
Luke Brunner
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
TV • 2021
Self
Epic Rap Battles of History
TV • 2010
Self
American Masters
TV • 1986
Self
Österreich-Bild
TV • 1968
Self
Kiwis große Partynacht
TV • 2023
Self
Stars 90
TV • 1990
Self
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
TV • 2020
Self
Explosiv - Das Magazin
TV • 1992
self
Race for the White House
TV • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Taff
TV • 1997
self
Secret Level
TV • 2024
King Aelstrom (voice)
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
TV • 2022
Self
Biography
TV • 1987
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Killer Sally
TV • 2022
Self - Champion Bodybuilder & Actor (archive footage)
The Family Stallone
TV • 2023
Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV • 2022
Self – Actor and climate activist
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Hårde muller og stramme baller
TV • 2025
Himself
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV • 2003
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
10 самых...
TV • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self (uncredited)