Documentary filmmaker George Butler, best known for his 1977 film Pumping Iron that raised Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood prominence, died of pneumonia Oct.
21 at home in New Hampshire. He was 78 and his death was confirmed by his son, Desmond Butler, a Washington Post reporter.Butler directed more than 10 films during his four-decade career.
He co-directed Pumping Iron with Robert Fiore.The son of a British Army officer, he spent his childhood in Somalia and Jamaica.His final project, Tiger Tiger, is scheduled for next year.
The film follows a big cat conservationist into the wilds of India and Bangladesh.Butler had covered bodybuilding as a journalist in the 1970s, collaborating on a book on the subject before
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