Gerard Butler
Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with minor roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera.
Butler gained wider recognition for portraying King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300 (2007). In 2010, he began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed a Secret Service agent in the action thriller Has Fallen film series, played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler had further action film roles in Geostorm (2017), Den of Thieves (2018), Greenland (2020), and Plane (2023).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.9009 |
| Birthday | 1969-11-13 |
| Place of Birth | Paisley, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As | Gerard James Butler, |
2007
300
7.209/15073
A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.
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300
2010
How to Train Your Dragon
7.866/14702
As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his wa...
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How to Train Your Dragon
2000
Dracula 2000
5.245/771
When a team of techno-savvy thieves break into a high-security vault, they don't discover priceless works of art... they find a crypt unopened for 100...
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Dracula 2000
2003
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
5.761/4620
Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb able...
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2008
Nim's Island
5.933/1215
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
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Nim's Island
2009
The Ugly Truth
6.51/3838
A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove hi...
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The Ugly Truth
2005
Beowulf & Grendel
5.6/266
The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hroth...
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Beowulf & Grendel
2009
Law Abiding Citizen
7.397/5840
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer...
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Law Abiding Citizen
2007
P.S. I Love You
7.174/3539
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
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P.S. I Love You
2002
Reign of Fire
6.214/2538
In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to...
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Reign of Fire
2004
Dear Frankie
7.1/225
Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish to...
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Dear Frankie
2003
Timeline
5.73/1211
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century F...
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Timeline
2007
Butterfly on a Wheel
6.426/580
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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Butterfly on a Wheel
2010
The Bounty Hunter
5.851/3119
Milo Boyd, a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, thinks he's seeing an upswing in fortune when he gets a call to bring in his bail-jumping ex-wife, a repo...
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The Bounty Hunter
2004
The Phantom of the Opera
7.269/1827
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
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The Phantom of the Opera
2008
RocknRolla
6.953/3412
When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their shar...
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RocknRolla
2005
The Game of Their Lives
5.9/70
During the 1950 World Cup, the hastily assembled U.S. soccer team enters as heavy underdogs when matched up against the highest-ranked team in competi...
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The Game of Their Lives
2009
Tales of the Black Freighter
6.639/226
A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost.
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Tales of the Black Freighter
2011
Machine Gun Preacher
6.719/1164
The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnappe...
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Machine Gun Preacher
1998
Fast Food
3.667/3
A reformed young man with a steady job, Benny, returns to the city of his youth to find the girl he's been in love with since childhood and that's hom...
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Fast Food
1998
Little White Lies
4/4
The tragic, unexpected death of David in a car-crash causes the cozy, safe life of gardener Beth to be thrown into complete chaos. In the aftermath, a...
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Little White Lies
Hair of the Dog
0/0
An executive caught up in a blackmail plot discovers he's just a pawn in a larger, darker scheme.
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Hair of the Dog
1997
Mrs Brown
6.77/191
When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown. But their relationship also brings scandal...
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Mrs Brown
2010
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
7.082/294
Hiccup and friends accompany their mentor, Gobber, on a quest to kill the legendary Boneknapper Dragon.
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Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
2009
Gamer
5.699/2709
Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-sc...
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Gamer
2007
Guilty Hearts
5.8/16
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their...
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Guilty Hearts
2012
Chasing Mavericks
7.002/605
Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.
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Chasing Mavericks
2014
How to Train Your Dragon 2
7.685/10662
Five years after uniting the dragons and Vikings of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless soar beyond their homeland, charting the vast unknown. During one of th...
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How to Train Your Dragon 2
1999
One More Kiss
5.455/11
When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Sco...
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One More Kiss
Just Watch Me
0/0
Riley Wolfe, a master thief and expert in disguise who targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent, teams up with a master forger named Monique and a team of e...
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Just Watch Me
2011
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
7.3/442
Hiccup and Toothless go on an exciting adventure and discover an island of new dragons.
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Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
2007
Wrath of Gods
5/4
When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgard in 2004, they expecte...
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Wrath of Gods
2012
Playing for Keeps
5.647/737
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
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Playing for Keeps
2011
Coriolanus
5.837/515
Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious...
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Coriolanus
2013
Movie 43
4.659/2572
A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest...
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Movie 43
2002
Shooters
5.5/24
Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to h...
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Shooters
2013
Olympus Has Fallen
6.417/7200
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former President...
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Olympus Has Fallen
2022
Last Seen Alive
6.38/1109
After Will Spann's wife suddenly vanishes at a gas station, his desperate search to find her leads him down a dark path that forces him to run from au...
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Last Seen Alive
2016
Gods of Egypt
5.696/4442
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
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Gods of Egypt
2001
Please!
5.917/6
Peter is a novelist who is going out of his mind because his wife and daughter have left him. He's bought a Smith & Wesson and put one bullet in i...
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Please!
2026
In the Hand of Dante
5.442/60
A Vatican priest discovers Dante's original Divine Comedy manuscript. When asked to authenticate it, writer Nick Tosches steals it, while a parallel s...
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In the Hand of Dante
2016
London Has Fallen
6.227/5206
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
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London Has Fallen
2017
Geostorm
6.128/5319
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellit...
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Geostorm
2005
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
5.804/28
This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and fema...
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Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
2025
How to Train Your Dragon
7.933/3106
On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition wh...
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How to Train Your Dragon
1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
6.389/3546
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mas...
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Tomorrow Never Dies
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.489/91
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2016
A Family Man
6.685/553
Dane Jensen is a driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When his boss pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equa...
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A Family Man
Empire City
0/0
When a hostage crisis erupts inside New York's landmark Clybourn Building, former Navy SEAL turned firefighter Rhett, his squad, and his NYPD wife Dan...
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Empire City
2018
Hunter Killer
6.911/2475
Untested American submarine commander, Capt. Joe Glass of the USS Arkansas, is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress in the Arctic Ocean. He soon lea...
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Hunter Killer
2024
The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland
6.125/12
It’s St Nick’s turn for an adventure down the rabbit hole. There he meets the Mad Hatter, recast as a high-fashion, reindeer-loving tea party host; th...
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The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland
2000
Harrison's Flowers
6.512/86
1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead,...
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Harrison's Flowers
2019
Angel Has Fallen
6.6/3967
After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagu...
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Angel Has Fallen
2019
The Vanishing
5.787/802
Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.
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The Vanishing
2018
Den of Thieves
6.874/3502
A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the...
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Den of Thieves
2001
Jewel of the Sahara
7.75/4
Set in a French Foreign Legion Camp circa 1954, the film follows the fantasies of a British captain, desperately missing his home and wife
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Jewel of the Sahara
All-Star Weekend
0/0
Two buddies form a rivalry over their favorite American basketball player.
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All-Star Weekend
1999
The Cherry Orchard
5/8
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate aft...
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The Cherry Orchard
2020
Greenland
7.123/5520
John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Am...
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Greenland
2019
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
7.751/7280
As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When da...
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2025
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
6.602/852
Big Nick is back on the hunt in Europe and closing in on Donnie, who is embroiled in the treacherous and unpredictable world of diamond thieves and th...
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Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
2019
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
8.032/1138
It's been ten years since the dragons moved to the Hidden World, and even though Toothless doesn't live in New Berk anymore, Hiccup continues the holi...
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How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
2023
Plane
6.901/2738
After a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone, a fearless pilot finds himself between the agendas of multiple mi...
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Plane
Remote Control
0/0
The movie follows Michael Rafter, a former war correspondent turned corporate security consultant, whose life is overturned when he receives a mysteri...
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Remote Control
2013
Discovering Mavericks
3/2
Winner of the Newport Beach Film Festival 2013 Audience Award, Discovering Mavericks is an epic film that reveals the true story of this famous and de...
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Discovering Mavericks
2023
Kandahar
6.782/1309
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan...
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Kandahar
2021
Copshop
6.282/953
On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man turns...
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Copshop
Night Has Fallen
0/0
The fourth entry in the "... Has Fallen" series, following the adventures of former Army Ranger and Secret Service Agent Mike Banning.
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Night Has Fallen
1998
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
4.7/121
Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evi...
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Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
0/0
Naya, the Golden Dolphin Princess, is sent on an urgent mission by her father, the King, to eight corners of the Earth that are rich and fluid with do...
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Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
2026
Greenland 2: Migration
6.398/1528
Having found the safety of the Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke decimated the Earth, the Garrity family must now risk everything to embark on a...
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Greenland 2: Migration
2001
Attila
7.3/61
A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.
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Attila
2020
Love Reaches Everywhere
0/0
Actor Gerard Butler embarks on a life-changing journey to see how his mother's favorite non-profit organization transforms the lives of children in so...
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Love Reaches Everywhere
Den of Thieves 3
0/0
The third installment in the Den of Thieves franchise. Plot TBA.
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Den of Thieves 3
2011
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
0/0
Enjoy some of the bet sketches from SNL's 35th season including Will Forte as MacGruber, Kenan Thompson's Deandre Cole in What Up With That?, Fred Arm...
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
2025
Soaring to Life: The Making of How to Train Your Dragon
7/4
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the live-action film "How to Train Your Dragon," following writer and director Dean DeBlois' journey of reim...
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Soaring to Life: The Making of How to Train Your Dragon
2027
How to Train Your Dragon 2
0/0
The second live-action adaptation of the animated trilogy. Plot TBA.
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How to Train Your Dragon 2
2026
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
5.7/10
With any and all things crypto being pushed by celebrities, influencers, and politicians alike, actor-turned-author and director Ben McKenzie decides...
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Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
The Nest
0/0
A sniper receives an anonymous threat over the radio and must race against a ticking clock in order to save his family and 70,000 fans at the biggest...
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