Biography
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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

How to Train Your Dragon 2
2027
as Stoick the Vast
The second live-action adaptation of the animated trilogy. Plot TBA.

How to Train Your Dragon
2025
as Stoick the Vast
On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition wh...

Soaring to Life: The Making of How To Train Your Dragon
2025
as Self
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...

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
2025
as Nicholas "Big Nick" O'Brien
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...

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
2025
Producer
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...

The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland
2024
as St. Nick (voice)
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...

The Bricklayer
2023
Producer
Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite a...

Kandahar
2023
as Tom Harris
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan ...

Kandahar
2023
Producer
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan ...

Plane
2023
as Brodie Torrance
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...

Plane
2023
Producer
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...

Last Seen Alive
2022
as Will Spann
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...

Last Seen Alive
2022
Producer
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...

Copshop
2021
as Bob Viddick
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 ...

Copshop
2021
Producer
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 ...

Greenland
2020
as John Garrity
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...

Greenland
2020
Producer
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...

Love Reaches Everywhere
2020
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...

How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
2019
as Stoick (voice)
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...

Angel Has Fallen
2019
as Mike Banning
After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagu...

Angel Has Fallen
2019
Producer
After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagu...

Them That Follow
2019
Producer
A Pentecostal pastor, Lemuel Childs, and his believers handle venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. Lemuel’s daughter, Mara holds a secret t...

The Vanishing
2019
as James
Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.

The Vanishing
2019
Producer
Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019
as Stoick (voice)
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...

Hunter Killer
2018
as Captain Joe Glass
Captain Glass of the USS Arkansas discovers that a coup d'état is taking place in Russia, so he and his crew join an elite group working on the ground...

Hunter Killer
2018
Producer
Captain Glass of the USS Arkansas discovers that a coup d'état is taking place in Russia, so he and his crew join an elite group working on the ground...

Den of Thieves
2018
as "Big Nick" O'Brien
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...

Den of Thieves
2018
Producer
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...

Geostorm
2017
as Jake Lawson
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellit...

A Family Man
2016
as Dane Jensen
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...

A Family Man
2016
Producer
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...

London Has Fallen
2016
as Mike Banning
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

London Has Fallen
2016
Producer
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

Gods of Egypt
2016
as Set
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

Septembers of Shiraz
2015
Producer
In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstr...

How to Train Your Dragon 2
2014
as Stoick (voice)
Five years have passed since Hiccup and Toothless united the dragons and Vikings of Berk. Now, they spend their time charting unmapped territories. Du...

Discovering Mavericks
2013
as Self
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...

Olympus Has Fallen
2013
as Mike Banning
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former President...

Olympus Has Fallen
2013
Producer
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former President...

Movie 43
2013
as Leprechaun 1 & 2 (segment "Happy Birthday")
A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest ...

Playing for Keeps
2012
as George
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.

Playing for Keeps
2012
Producer
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.

Chasing Mavericks
2012
as Frosty Hesson
Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

Chasing Mavericks
2012
Executive Producer
Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
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...

Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
2011
as Stoick the Vast (voice)
Hiccup and Toothless go on an exciting adventure and discover an island of new dragons.

Machine Gun Preacher
2011
as Sam Childers
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...

Machine Gun Preacher
2011
Executive Producer
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...

Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
2011
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...

Coriolanus
2011
as Tullus Aufidius
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...

Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
2010
as Stoick (voice)
Hiccup and friends accompany their mentor, Gobber, on a quest to kill the legendary Boneknapper Dragon.

How to Train Your Dragon
2010
as Stoick (voice)
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...

The Bounty Hunter
2010
as Milo Boyd
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...

Law Abiding Citizen
2009
as Clyde Alexander Shelton
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...

Law Abiding Citizen
2009
Producer
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...

Gamer
2009
as Kable
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...

The Ugly Truth
2009
as Mike Chadway
A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove hi...

Tales of the Black Freighter
2009
as The Mariner (voice)
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.

RocknRolla
2008
as One-Two
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...

Nim's Island
2008
as Jack Rusoe / Alex Rover
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.

P.S. I Love You
2007
as Gerry
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

Guilty Hearts
2007
as Peter
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their ...

Butterfly on a Wheel
2007
as Neil Randall
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

Wrath of Gods
2007
as Self
When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgard in 2004, they expecte...

300
2007
as King Leonidas
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against t...

Beowulf & Grendel
2005
as Beowulf
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...

Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
2005
as Prefect Cassius Chaerea
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...

The Game of Their Lives
2005
as Frank Borghi
Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 US soccer team who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Br...

The Phantom of the Opera
2004
as The Phantom
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

Dear Frankie
2004
as The Stranger
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...

Timeline
2003
as Andre Marek
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...

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
as Terry Sheridan
Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb able...

Reign of Fire
2002
as Creedy
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 ...

Shooters
2002
as Jackie Junior
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...

Jewel of the Sahara
2001
as Captain Charles Belamy
Set in a French Foreign Legion Camp circa 1954, the film follows the fantasies of a British captain, desperately missing his home and wife

Please!
2001
as Peter (as Gerry Butler)
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...

Attila
2001
as Atila the Hun
A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.

Dracula 2000
2000
as Dracula
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...

Harrison's Flowers
2000
as Chris Kumac
1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, ...

One More Kiss
1999
as Sam
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...

The Cherry Orchard
1999
as Yasha
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...

Fast Food
1998
as Jacko
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...

Tale of the Mummy
1998
as Burke
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...

Little White Lies
1998
as Peter
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...

Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as HMS Devonshire Leading Seaman
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...

Mrs Brown
1997
as Archie Brown
When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown. But their relationship also brings scandal ...
Hair of the Dog
N/A
as Mr. P
An executive caught up in a blackmail plot discovers he's just a pawn in a larger, darker scheme.
Just Watch Me
N/A
as Riley Wolfe
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...

In the Hand of Dante
N/A
When the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy emerges in the clutches of a black-market smuggling ring in New York City's dangerous underbelly, th...
Empire State
N/A
as Rhett Westermark
When the Empire State Building comes under attack by a military contractor hellbent on revenge, Navy SEAL turned NY firefighter Rhett and NYPD Tactica...

All-Star Weekend
N/A
as Russian Gymnast Fan
Two buddies form a rivalry over their favorite American basketball player.
Remote Control
N/A
as Michael Rafter
The movie follows Michael Rafter, a former war correspondent turned corporate security consultant, whose life is overturned when he receives a mysteri...
Night Has Fallen
N/A
as Mike Banning
The fourth entry in the "... Has Fallen" series, following the adventures of former Army Ranger and Secret Service Agent Mike Banning.

Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
N/A
as King Kula (voice)
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...

Greenland: Migration
N/A
as John Garrity
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...

Den of Thieves 3
N/A
as Nicholas 'Big Nick' O'Brien
The third installment in the Den of Thieves franchise. Plot TBA.

Greenland: Migration
N/A
Producer
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...

Law Abiding Citizen Sequel
N/A
Producer
Just Watch Me
N/A
Producer
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...

A Darker Shade of Magic
N/A
Producer
Set in four parallel worlds, with four parallel Londons ruled by different magical powers and monarchies. There’s Grey London, where the people have b...
Remote Control
N/A
Producer
The movie follows Michael Rafter, a former war correspondent turned corporate security consultant, whose life is overturned when he receives a mysteri...
Night Has Fallen
N/A
Producer
The fourth entry in the "... Has Fallen" series, following the adventures of former Army Ranger and Secret Service Agent Mike Banning.

Den of Thieves 3
N/A
Producer
The third installment in the Den of Thieves franchise. Plot TBA.
Street Smart
N/A
Executive Producer
A look into the lives of a lively group of unhoused young adults in the iconic beach town, who come together with humor and a bit of Robin Hood-style ...