# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-butler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:52:11.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-butler"
name: "George Butler"
slug: "george-butler"
description: "George Tyssen Butler was a British-American filmmaker and photographer, and a pioneer of the theatrical documentary. Some of his most popular films include Pumping Iron (1977), which introduced a wider audience to Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Endurance films, retelling Sir Ernest Shackleton's saga of Antarctic survival, and Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004), about his friend John Kerry's leadership in the peace movement."
tagline: "BritishAmerican filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GeorgeButler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1943-10-12"
deathDate: "2021-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.54
  momentum:             0.1976935749588138
  historical:           6.155617333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1000159/"
    handle:    "nm1000159"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butler_(filmmaker)"
    title: "George Butler (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "جورج باتلر (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "جورج باتلر (منتج افلام من المملكه المتحده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butler_(Regisseur)"
    title: "George Butler (Regisseur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butler_(filmmaker)"
    title: "George Butler (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butler"
    title: "George Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101452"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42081"
    title: "George Butler"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump