'I'll be back': Arnold Schwarzenegger's most memorable roles

"Conan" was the movie that turned Arnold Schwarzenegger into an international film star. He played a slave who had to navigate various adventures after his liberation. His incredible strength helped him overcome all the hurdles that came his way. In many scenes, the fantasy film shot in Spain did without dialogue - and used expressive music instead.

"Arnie" had even fewer lines in "The Terminator." Throughout the entire movie, the killing machine from the future spoke a total of only 70 words. However, his short sentence "I'll be back" became one of the most famous quotes in film history. The low-budget production with director James Cameron ("Titanic") quickly achieved cult status and became a milestone in the history of action films.

Schwarzenegger didn't limit himself to action. He shifted genres in 1988 to star in the hit comedy "Twins" opposite Danny DeVito (left). The film was a box office success and the bodybuilder from Austria became one of Hollywood's highest-paid stars in the late 1980s.

James Cameron's "T2" was the first Hollywood production to cost more than $100 million - and it grossed five times the amount of its production budget. This time, the Terminator is programmed to save humanity. He manages to do that - until the next challenge from the future strikes. The most memorable line from the film was: "Hasta la vista, baby."

After so much success with both action films and comedies, what could come next? An action-comedy, of course. "True Lies" was Schwarzenegger's third collaboration with director James Cameron. Here, he plays a counter-terrorism special agent who keeps his job secret from his wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) - at least as long as he can. Critics and fans alike enjoyed the comedy.

Critics and fans weren't quite as impressed with "Arnie's" performance as the villain Mr. Freeze in "Batman and Robin" in 1997 (pictured with Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy). He was nominated for a Golden Raspberry, but didn't win the award for the worst performance. Nevertheless, the film by Tim Burton bombed and Hollywood distanced itself from Batman for a while.

Following a few more flops, Schwarzenegger became the Terminator once again, bringing his heavy Austrian accent to the now cult role. Schwarzenegger claims that he kept up his accent on purpose in order to please his fans. After "T3," he retired from the film world for a while to serve as the governor of California for two terms from 2003 to 2011.

Three Terminator films weren't quite enough, so a fourth was made in 2015. However, the character had changed a bit over the years and stopped taking himself so seriously. Here, T-800 played by Schwarzenegger at age 67, is even allowed to have a few gray hairs - but still manages to rescue heroine Sarah Connor and the rest of humanity from imminent downfall.