The documentary filmmaker was best known for helping introduce Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood.
, a re-telling of Ernest Shackelton’s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-16 that earned Butler a BAFTA nomination in 2001. The film was narrated by Liam Neeson.
Throughout Butler’s career, his documentaries were recognized at festivals in Aspen, Florida, Hawaii, Portland, Seattle. He was nominated twice for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance; first in 1990 forin 2015, which followed big cat conservationist Dr. Alan Rabinowitz as he traveled to a mangrove forest at the India-Bangladesh border.
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