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Gloria Gloria

Billed as Arnold Strong, Schwarzenegger tried his hand at acting, making his screen debut in the low-budget adventure Hercules in New York (1970). After a few years struggling to find suitable film work, he landed his first substantial acting role in the offbeat comedy Stay Hungry (1976), which starred Jeff Bridges and Sally Field. Other memorable projects followed shortly thereafter, including the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron (1977) and the TV biopic The Jane Mansfield Story (1980).

In the early 1980s, Schwarzenegger established himself as the leading figure in a new genre of herculean action films, beginning with Conan the Barbarian (1982) and its reliably vapid sequel Conan the Destroyer (1984). Later that year, he landed the role which catapulted him to superstardom—that of the indestructible cyborg in the post-apocalyptic blockbuster The Terminator. Over the next few years, Schwarzenegger’s films became increasingly technological and violent, including Commando (1...

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