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Arnold was born on July 30th 1947, in the small Austrian village of Thal, just outside the town of Graz. Graz is located in the south-east portion of Austria. Arnold is the son of Gustav and Aurelia Schwarzenegger, and had an older brother Meinhard. Because their father was the chief of police in Thal and also an Austrian curling champion, the Schwarzenegger's had a strict and athletic upbringing.

Arnold was first introduced to weightlifting during a soccer team fieldtrip to a local gym in Graz. After watching the dedicated bodybuilders there, Arnold was fascinated by the sport, but his father was disappointed. Bodybuilding was the least popular sport in Austria, and he forbid his son to go to the gym to workout more than three times a week. Undaunted, Arnold made a gym at home so he could continue his sport there.

Right from the start, Arnold was very dedicated to bodybuilding. He broke a window at the gym to workout on a Sunday, and conditions there were so harsh that more than once his hands froze to the weight bars.

In 1965 when Arnold turned eighteen he joined the Austrian army for mandatory service. His parents hoped the time in the army would cure him of his bodybuilding obsession. However, Arnold had a different idea. While in basic training, he found out that the Junior Mr. Europe bodybuilding competition was going to be held in nearby Stuttgard. Arnold went a.w.o.l. from the army to compete and won with a perfect 300 point score, the first time anyone had ever had a perfect score. But his absence didn't go unnoticed and while trying to sneak back into camp he was caught, arrested and thrown in jail for 7 days. Despite going a.w.o.l. to compete, Arnold became the company hero because of his determination and accomplishment - and was even ordered to continue to workout, which he did until he was released from service in 1966.

In 1966, Arnold moved to Munich by invitation to train at the Putzingger gym. In September of that year, he placed second in the Mr. Universe competition held in London. One year later, Arnold bought Putzinger gym and returned to London to win his first Amature Mr. Universe title and became the youngest competitor to do so. As one of Arnold's dreams began to materialized, his brother Meinhard was killed in a tragic car accident. A year later Arnold's father died of a stroke not seeing the success his son was soon to achieve. Just after his father's death in 1968 Arnold won his first Professional Mr. Universe title and was invited by the American bodybuilding champion Joe Weider to train in America. Despite having completed two years at the University of Munich studying marketing, Arnold moved across the ocean.

Two years after arriving in America, Arnold starred in his first movie Hercules in New York. His part in the movie was the first step to Arnold's longterm dream of starring in the movies like his boyhood idol Reg Park. Reg Park was not only an actor but also a bodybuilding champion. Arnold also won his first Mr. Olympia and Mr. World titles the same year. It would be another six years before Arnold starred in another movie. But he wasn't standing still during those six years, he won the Mr. Olympia title each year, eventually deciding to retire from bodybuilding in 1975.
Arnold retired from bodybuilding to realize his second boyhood dream of becoming a movie star. while working towards this dream Arnold with the help of Joe Lorimar helped legitimize and raise prize money for the sport of Bodybuilding. This work eventually lead to the creation of the Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic Bodybuilding Competition. By the time he had retired from bodybuilding Arnold had written two books and many informative articles about bodybuilding.
His second movie Stay Hungry came out in 1976,  won him compliments from critics and was nominated a Golden Globe award for "Best New-Comer", which he won. In 1980 Arnold returned to bodybuilding and stunned everyone involved by capturing his seventh Mr. Olympia title. Arnold then hit the big time when he took the lead role of a muscle-bound warrior in Conan the Barbarian. Although not a blockbuster hit, Conan quickly became a cult classic and helped Arnold get the reputation that would see him chosen for such films as The Terminator, Commando, Predator and Red Heat. However Arnold was dissatisfied with his stereotypical 'violent-hardman' image and in 1988 embarked on a change. With the help of Ivan Reitman and costarr Danny DeVito he produced a whole new genre of comedy with Twins. With its success and Arnold's newfound mainstream fan base he went on to make another comedy, Kindergarten Cop, then two blockbuster action hits Total Recall and Terminator 2 in which he endeavoured to please both his mainstream audience and his old cult fans by offering the thinking man's action thriller. Arnold was enjoying huge popularity and his increasingly powerful position in Hollywood circles allowed him to branch out from acting to direct an episode of Tales from the Crypt and a made for TV movie Christmas in Conneticut. Yet, when Arnold starred in and executively produced Last Action Hero his popularity dipped. The film was a disappointment at the box-office and condemned by critics who argued Arnold had taken his mainstream characterisation too far and shunned his many fans by aiming toward a far younger audience. With the action packed hit True Lies, Arold made an impressive comeback, using his still considerable power in the Los Angeles film making community and paybacks from wise real estate investments to redeem his lagging reputation with massive special effects and talented writing/directing teams. Lately, however Arnold has once again lost many of his dedictated fans by combining comedy with unimpressive action plots. Batman & Robin and the Christmas comedy Jingle All the Way are two examples of Arnold's more recent flops. With the failure of his latest project, Crusade, a movie stalled in the making due to budget problems, it seems there is little light at the end of the Schwarzenneger tunnel.

Arnold met Maria Shriver at a New York tennis tournament in 1977 and soon after, she became his girlfriend. After proposing to her in a rowboat on Lake Tollersee in Austria, when they went to visit Arnold's mother, they married in 1986. Perhaps most interesting are the couple's differing political views and the little effect this has on their marriage - Arnold is a devout Republican and Maria is a Democrate. They have three children Katherine, Christina, and Patrick, and now are expecting their fourth.

In 1989 Arnold was named Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness. While serving in this office, Arnold visited all fifty states to promote physical fitness for children. Arnold is a proud supporter of the Special Olympics, which was founded by the Shriver family. With Danny Hernandez, Arnold has also become a major sponsor and organizer of the Inner-City Games for youth, a project that aims to help keep America's youth out of gangs, drugs and trouble.

On April 16 1997 Arnold underwent elective heart surgery to repair a defective aortic heart valve. The surgery had no complications and Arnold made a complete recovery. In an interview with Access Hollywood Arnold expressed his desire to get back to making quality movies now that he has completly recovered from his surgery. Aswell as continuing his efforts on Crusade he is currently filming End of Days which is set for an Autumn 1999 release.

Personal quotes

"Sometimes before a competition my friends and my competitors would come to me for advice. Well, its not so hard to give the wrong advice now and then."
"I did in eight weeks what takes most bodybuilders eight years." - of his final and seventh Mr Olympia
"For me it is like coming, it is like having sex with a woman and coming, so you can imagine - I am in heaven!" - when asked what he liked about bodybuilding

Filmography

Feature Films
1970
Hercules in New York
1973 
The Long Goodbye (uncredited)
1976 
Stay Hungry
1977 
Pumping Iron 
The Villain  
1979
Scavenger Hunt
1980 
The Jayne Mansfield Story (TV)
1981 
Conan the Barbarian
1984 
The Terminator 
Conan the Destroyer
1985
Red Sonja
Commando
1986 
Raw Deal 
The Running Man
1987
Predator
1988
Red Heat
Twins
1989
Tales from the Crypt (directed) 
1990
Total Recall
Kindergarten Cop
1991 
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992 
Lincoln (TV) (voice) 
Christmas in Connecticut (TV) (Directed)
1993
The Last Party 
Last Action Hero (also executive produced) 
Dave (cameo)
1994 
True Lies  
Junior
1995 
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way (TV)
1996 
Terminator 2: 3-D 
Eraser 
Jingle All the Way
1997 
Batman and Robin
1998 - 2000 
On Wings As Eagles (presently unreleased) 
Crusade (presently unreleased)
End of Days (presently unreleased) 

The information provided is derived from the internet and fan sites. Saturn does not guarantee the accuracy of all the information presented here. This edition of Amateur Cathedral Swallower is not endorsed by Mr Arnold Schwarzenneger, nor does any of the above information represent Mr Scharzenegger of any of his business interests.

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