# Did Arnold Schwarzenegger have a cameo in Death Race 2000?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 4, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302 "2009-11-04T18:10:24Z")
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/1 "2009-11-04T18:10:24Z")
In the scene where the drivers and navigators are getting a massage, there are also lots of boobies and booties and beefcake standing around (as scenery, apparently, as few (none?) had lines).
Is that a young Arnold Schwarzenegger making a cameo? He has no lines and kind of just stands there looking huge.
This is a serious question.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/2 "2009-11-04T18:28:04Z")
[Not listed here, even as uncredited.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/fullcredits#cast)
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/3 "2009-11-04T18:31:17Z")
Thanks, but I already checked IMDB, Wikipedia, etc.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/4 "2009-11-04T19:06:01Z")
Hmmm. I have the movie at home. If I can find it, I’ll take a look.
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### Author:  [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/5 "2009-11-04T20:13:04Z")
You can watch it here: [noparse][http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5038753379369579653#[/noparse]](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5038753379369579653#%5B/noparse%5D). Beware, titties!
There’s only one guy in the massage scene that even remotely resembles the governor, and he’s nowhere near as pumped as Arnold was in his prime.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/6 "2009-11-05T12:43:41Z")
I’ve de-parsed the link, **The Hamster King** on account of you saying there are titties. The whole thing is over an hour, so I didn’t really want to watch the whole thing to see how awkward the boobs would be for workplace, and I’m just taking your statement to mean it’s not workplace-safe.
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/7 "2009-11-05T14:47:07Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#):
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> The whole thing is over an hour, so I didn’t really want to watch the whole thing to see how awkward the boobs would be for workplace.
Awkward? In the scene in question we have maybe-Arnold wearing a towel, lots of gratuitous female boobs and butts, and David Carradine dressed like the Gimp from Pulp Fiction. What’s awkward about that?
;)😃
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/8 "2009-11-05T15:22:22Z")
At what minute mark into the movie, pray?
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/9 "2009-11-05T17:09:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> At what minute mark into the movie, pray?
About 28:00 or 28:15-ish
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/10 "2009-11-05T17:17:43Z")
And by the way the quality of the version linked to above is not great, it may be impossible to definitively say whether or not that’s Arnold. But the one I think is him is the one massaging (sort of) the blonde that David “The Gimp” Carradine hand-feeds.
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### Author:  [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/11 "2009-11-05T18:24:42Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#):
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> I’ve de-parsed the link, **The Hamster King** on account of you saying there are titties.
It wasn’'t a direct link to NSFW content, BTW. Once you get to the page you have to do more clicking to play the movie and the titties are quite far in. But they are definitely on display in the scene in question.
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### Author:  [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/12 "2009-11-05T22:34:52Z")
I’ve watch the scene a number of times now and once I actually looked at the guy in question. Those boobies are indeed a distraction. And I have to say, I’m not sure. I tend to think not. I watched **Hercules in New York** and that would have been roughly the same time as this if I remember correctly, which I probably don’t and while the body type is somewhat similar (this guy’s proportions seemed a bit different, kind of bulkier), also Arnold seemed taller. Yes, this guy was barefoot and in **HiNY** Arnold had sandals, but still… I’m going to have to find a copy of **Pumping Iron** and check the two body types out.
Can watching Arnold all oiled down (up?) over and over turn me gay?
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### Author:  [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/13 "2009-11-05T22:36:58Z")
> [@TV\_time](#):
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> Can watching Arnold all oiled down (up?) over and over turn me gay?
I don’t it’s a cause, but an indicator. 😉
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-schwarzenegger-have-a-cameo-in-death-race-2000/516302/14 "2009-11-06T02:55:43Z")
[This is what he looked in in 1975](http://www.fugly.com/videos/7216/arnold-1975-mr-olympia.html) the same year as the movie. The massaging boby builder has chiseled jawline like Arnold, but he appears far smaller than Arnold, even unpumped.