Roger Callard

Roger Callard is a bodybuilder and actor from Chesaning, Michigan, who began building his physique at age five. After attending Michigan State University, he entered bodybuilding competitions and took the middleweight title at the 1977 Mr. America contest held by the International Federation of Bodybuilders. While training with Arnold Schwarzenegger at Gold's Gym, he appeared in a pair of bodybuilding films, Mr. Universe and Pumping Iron (1977). He then left professional bodybuilding and began acting, first with guest roles on television and a part in the feature Sextette with Timothy Dalton and Tony Curtis. In the 1980s Callard often teamed with Schwarzenegger, doing stunt work on The Phantom Commando and Total Recall and taking acting roles in Twins and Red Heat. In the 1989 Weird Al Yankovic comedy UHF he parodied Schwarzenegger's Conan, and he later appeared in Walter Hill's Western Geronimo before working mainly in television productions.