Conan the Barbarian (1982)
John Milius directed and co-wrote with Oliver Stone. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Conan in his first significant English-language role.
Actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger won Mr Olympia seven times before acting, and his early casting was entirely physical, in Conan the Barbarian and as a machine in The Terminator, where limited English was an asset.
Terminator 2 is the performance that matters, playing the same machine as a protector and locating something close to pathos in a character with no interior life.
The comedies, Twins, Kindergarten Cop and True Lies, revealed a genuine comic instinct, and he has been unusually candid that the accent and the physique defined what he could be offered.
He served two terms as Governor of California. Total Recall, Predator and Terminator 2 are the ones that hold up as filmmaking instead of as artefacts.
