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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 Schwarzenegger, a bodybuilder then relatively unknown in the United States.
“You have wasted our time and misspent our money,” a book editor said of “Pumping Iron,” a 1974 nonfiction book that Mr. Butler and Charles Gaines collaborated on and then followed with their 1977 movie of the same name.
Instead, the movie helped elevate and popularize what had been a comparatively niche pursuit in the United States and turned Schwarzenegger into a celebrity.
Mr. Butler, a longtime documentary filmmaker whose subjects included explorer Ernest Shackleton, the ivory-billed woodpecker, and his longtime friend John Kerry, died Oct. 21 in his Holderness, N.H., home. He was 78.
Mr. Butler, outside his farm in Holderness, N.H. (Fred J. Field/2003)THE BOSTON GLOBE/FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
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“You have wasted our time and misspent our money,” a book editor said of “Pumping Iron,” a 1974 nonfiction book that Mr. Butler and Charles Gaines collaborated on and then followed with their 1977 movie of the same name.
Instead, the movie helped elevate and popularize what had been a comparatively niche pursuit in the United States and turned Schwarzenegger into a celebrity.
Mr. Butler, a longtime documentary filmmaker whose subjects included explorer Ernest Shackleton, the ivory-billed woodpecker, and his longtime friend John Kerry, died Oct. 21 in his Holderness, N.H., home. He was 78.
Mr. Butler, outside his farm in Holderness, N.H. (Fred J. Field/2003)THE BOSTON GLOBE/FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
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