What We Learned This Week: George Butler, 'Pumping Iron' Director, Dies At 78
He made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star.
As we noted recently, filmmaker George Butler, who explored the subculture of bodybuilding in his 1977 documentary Pumping Iron, died on Oct. 21 at his home in Holderness, N.H., at age 78. Butler wisely featured the then little known but charismatic Schwarzenegger at …