Arnold Schwarzenegger 38 Years Old (1985)
In Red Sonja, Arnold teams with a pre-Flavor Flav Brigitte Nielsen and plays Kalidor, a guy who looks suspiciously similar to Conan. It is not a good movie. In Commando, Arnold plays a retired Delta Force Colonel named John Matrix, who must rescue his daughter, played by Alyssa Milano. It is an amazing movie, and arguably has more great one-liners than any other movie ever made.
Arnold Schwarzenegger 39 Years Old (1986)
TV journalist and niece of President John F. Kennedy, Maria Shriver, make an honest man out of Arnold. Well … honest-ish, anyway.
Arnold Schwarzenegger 40 Years Old (1987)
In The Running Man, Arnold kills a bunch of people, among them a fellow future governor — Jesse Ventura as Captain Freedom — and Richard Dawson, the dude who always pawed women on Family Feud. In Predator, Arnold kills … well, the Predator. Oh, he also kills several Central Americans.
Arnold Schwarzenegger 43 Years Old (1990)
President George H.W. Bush appoints Arnold chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Not that a bodybuilding actor would care about politics.