The documentary filmmaker was best known for helping introduce Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood. By Abbey White, Trilby Beresford George Butler, the British documentarian best known for Pumping Iron ...

George Tyssen Butler, a documentary filmmaker best known for co-directing the 1977 feature “Pumping Iron,” died on Oct. 21 of pneumonia at his home in New Hampshire. He was 78 years old. Butler’s ...

George Tyssen Butler, a documentary filmmaker best known for co-directing the 1977 feature “Pumping Iron,” died on Oct. 21 of pneumonia at his home in New Hampshire. He was 78 years old. Butler’s ...

In his photographs for the book “Pumping Iron” and his documentary of the same name, Mr. Butler helped set Arnold Schwarzenegger on the road to stardom. By Richard Sandomir George Butler, an ...

Documentary filmmaker George Butler, whose 1977 film “Pumping Iron” ignited a fitness revolution and propelled Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood stardom and ultimately to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Forty-four years ago, bodybuilding wasn’t much more than just a marginal underground subculture—an ...

George Tyssen Butler, a documentary filmmaker best known for co-directing the 1977 feature “Pumping Iron,” died on Oct. 21 of pneumonia at his home in New Hampshire. He was 78 years old. Butler’s ...