George Butler, the British documentarian greatest recognized for Pumping Iron, his 1977 body-building characteristic starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, has died. He was 78.
Butler died on Oct. 21 of pneumonia at his dwelling in Holderness, N.H., his son Desmond Butler — an investigative reporter for The Washington Publish — confirmed to the outlet.
The filmmaker was born in 1942 in Chester, England, and began his profession as a stills photographer. He was educated on the College of North Carolina.
Along with Robert Fiore, Butler co-directed and produced Pumping Iron, which noticed Schwarzenegger face off towards Lou Ferrigno in a contest for the title of Mr. Olympia.
Butler’s later documentaries included Going Upriver, a movie about Senator John Kerry’s naval tour of obligation in Vietnam, and The Endurance, a re-telling of Ernest Shackelton’s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-16 that earned Butler a BAFTA nomination in 2001. The movie was narrated by Liam Neeson.
All through Butler’s profession, his documentaries had been acknowledged at festivals in Aspen, Florida, Hawaii, Portland, Seattle. He was nominated twice for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance; first in 1990 for Within the Blood and second in 2001 for The Endurance.
His remaining credit score was Tiger Tiger in 2015, which adopted large cat conservationist Dr. Alan Rabinowitz as he traveled to a mangrove forest on the India-Bangladesh border.
Survivors embrace longtime companion Caroline Alexander, a producer and author with whom Butler collaborated on The Lord God Fowl and different initiatives; sons Desmond and Tyssen, a brother and 6 grandchildren.
