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 ...

'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 ...

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Joakim Ropi, administrative specialist, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, warms up for the bench-press section during the 500- and 1,000-pound club on Nov.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Butler, filmmaker known for the bodybuilding documentary “Pumping Iron” about the 1975 Mr. Olympia competition between ...

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 ...