I was never an athlete. Or at least I never thought of myself as one. If you were a boy in Queens when I was growing up, only one thing mattered: how good you were at softball. I stunk. I couldn’t hit ...

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 ...

Before Arnold Schwarzenegger was “The Terminator,” before he served as California's governor, and way before he had a secret love child, Arnold was a bodybuilder. America first met Schwarzenegger in ...

"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 Butler, filmmaker known for the bodybuilding documentary “Pumping Iron” about the 1975 Mr. Olympia competition between Arnold Schwarzenegger and future “Incredible Hulk” star Lou Ferrigno, has ...

'Pumping Iron' introduced the world to Mr. Universe himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Curl up and arm yourself with some little-known secrets about this benchmark of a movie. It’s important to note that ...

LOS ANGELES – In 1977, the breakthrough docudrama “Pumping Iron” not only catapulted Arnold Schwarzenegger into the public eye, but it also broke down much of the mystery surrounding the lives of the ...

Publishing and movie executives in New York City and Hollywood were skeptical to the point of being dismissive about George Butler’s first big project — a book and a movie in the 1970s about Arnold ...

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 ...