George Butler, an adventurous filmmaker who deftly explored the subculture of bodybuilding in “Pumping Iron,” a documentary with the then little-known Arnold Schwarzenegger as its charismatic center, ...

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 ...

George Butler, a documentary filmmaker who introduced audiences to a charismatic bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Pumping Iron,” and who later examined subjects as varied as explorer Ernest ...

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 ...