Television Appearances
At the early stages of his acting career, Schwarzenegger played several small roles in episodes for several television shows. This list includes appearances in various episodes of fictional shows, while excluding appearances as himself on talk shows, interview shows, ceremonies, and the like.
"After I directed that little Tales from the Crypt, I felt ecstatic. It was something I never expected. To work with actors and mold a scene. It's wild."
–Schwarzenegger on directing an episode of the television series.| Show | Year | Role | Run | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Streets of San Francisco | 1977 | Josef Schmidt | Single episode | |
| The San Pedro Beach Bums | 1977 | Muscleman | Single episode | |
| The Jayne Mansfield Story | 1980 | Mickey Hargitay | Television film | |
| Tales from the Crypt | 1990 | X-Con | Single episode | Also the director |
| Liberty's Kids | 2002 | Baron von Steuben | Single episode | Voice only |
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Famous quotes containing the words television and/or appearances:
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
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