Gerard Butler

Gerard Butler

Date of Birth: 13 Nov 1969

Country: UK

Biography: Gerard James Butler is a Scottish actor, who has appeared on film, stage, and television. A trained lawyer, Butler turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), which he followed with steady work on television, most notably in the American miniseries Attila (2001). He garnered critical acclaim for his breakthrough work as the lead in Joel Schumacher's 2004 film adaptation of the musical The Phantom...(Wikipedia)

Total Credits at Criticker: 57 (Actor)

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    The Phantom of the Opera
    Begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House while tutoring a chorus girl. He finally drives the lead soprano crazy so she and her friend leave. The girl is able to sing lead one night but the soprano doesn't want her show stolen so she comes back. The ghost demands they keep giving his protégé lead roles. Meanwhile, His pupil falls in love with the Vicomte de Chagny, but the Phantom is in love with Christine, his student... (imdb)
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    The Cherry Orchard
    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 after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
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    Dear Frankie
    A heartwarming and often humorous tale of nine year old Frankie and his mom Lizzie. (Miramax)
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    The Miracle Match
    From the creators of Rudy and Hoosiers, based on a true story, The Game of Their Lives follows the US National Soccer Team, which shows that with passion and commitment, anything is possible -- even the greatest upset in the history of the World Cup. (IFC Films)
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    Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Demonstrating her physical prowess and revealing her courage as never before, Lara Croft proves that she will stop at nothing in her search for an infamous site know as "The Cradle of Life" -- especially when it means she could save the world from the most unspeakable evil ever known. (Paramount)
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    Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
    Queen Victoria (Dench) was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown (Connolly) was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together, the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
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    Reign of Fire
    An exciting tale of adventure and survival that fuses a medieval past with a post-apocalyptic future. (Buena Vista Pictures Entertainment)
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    Timeline
    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 France long enough to be rescued. (imdb)
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    Tomorrow Never Dies
    James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
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    Dracula 2000
    Dracula, freed at last from a century in confinement, finds himself in a 21st century of chaos and temptation. (Dimension Films)
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    Beowulf & Grendel
    Beowulf & Grendel is a medieval adventure, part legendary fable, part horror-story. Based on the seminal 9th century Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf, it tells the blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against a great and murderous troll, Grendel, who has laid seige to the kingdom of Hrothgar, the much respected king of the Danes. (Equinoxe Films)
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    Fast Food
    This kinetically charged indie is highlighted by an early screen appearance of sexy, young Gerard Butler. Fast Food is an offbeat story of a simple man on a collision course with his past. (Amazon.com)
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    Shadow Company
    Thousands of private soldiers operate in Iraq alone... and many more around the world. These individuals, known as private security contractors, are changing the face of modern warfare everyday while their world has remained mystery to those at home... (imdb)
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    300
    A ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy, drawing a line in the sand for democracy.
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    Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal\
    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 females playing male characters and vice-versa. (imdb)
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    Attila
    Attila (2001) - TV Mini-Series
    During the waning days of Roman Empire, the barbarian Huns are making their way torward Europe. A warrior named Attila violently assumes Hun leadership and unites the warring clans under his banner... (imdb)
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    Jewel of the Sahara
    A bad camel joke put on celluloid... (IMDB Comments)
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    Shattered
    Neil and Abby Warner have the perfect life and a perfect marriage. With their beautiful young daughter, Sophie, they are living the American dream... until today. When Sophie is suddenly kidnapped, they have no choice but to comply with the abductors demands... (imdb)
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    P.S. I Love You
    Holly Kennedy (Hillary Swank) is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life-- a passionate, funny, and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Gerard Butler). So when Gerry's life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So it's a good thing he planned ahead... (imdb)
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    Nim\
    Anything can happen on Nim's Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover - the world's greatest adventurer... (imdb)
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    One More Kiss
    A Scottish woman living in New York is devastated to be diagnosed with a brain tumour, so seizes the opportunity to head for her home country and look up an old flame with whom she shares her feelings on having only months to live. (Guardian Unlimited)
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    Tale of the Mummy
    Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a prince was buried and his tomb eternally curses so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the curses seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book - and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthursty TALOS. (imdb)
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    RocknRolla
    In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, naturally attracting the attention of some of the city's scrappiest tough guys (Butler, Elba) its more established underworld players (Wilkinson), and others -- all of whom are looking to get rich quick.
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    Tales of the Black Freighter
    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. (imdb)
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    Please!
    Please! (1999) - Short Film
    Peter is a novelist who is going out of his mind because his wife and daughter have left him.
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    Gamer
    Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler) from a game called "Slayers" looks to regain his independence while taking down the game's mastermind (Hall).
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    The Ugly Truth
    A romantically challenged morning show producer (Heigl) is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent (Butler) to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.
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    Law Abiding Citizen
    An everyday guy decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets his family's killers free. His target: The district attorney who orchestrated the deal. (imdb)
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    The Bounty Hunter
    Milo (Gerard Butler) is a bounty hunter whose latest gig is a doozy, as he finds out too late that the bail-skipper he must chase down is his own ex-wife, Nicole (Jennifer Aniston), and she has no intention of coming in without a fight. Complicating matters, Nicloe's wannabe-boyfriend joins the chase in this high-octane comedy from director Andy Tennant.
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    How to Train Your Dragon
    A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
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    Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon
    Hiccup and the gang join Gobber on a quest to find a legendary boneclad Dragon. (imdb)
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    Coriolanus
    A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
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    Shooters
    An ex-convict with a drug problem, who lacks the skills to be anything other than a flim-flam man, has gotten his friend Gilly into a tight spot the minute he's out of jail, by putting Gilly's money into gun-buying proposition. Soon the pair must tangle with a variety of nefarious types in order to get their lives straightened out. (allmovieguide.com)
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    Machine Gun Preacher
    The story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers. (imdb)
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    Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
    As the village of Berk prepares for its winter holiday, the resident dragons all inexplicably fly away. (imdb)
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    Chasing Mavericks
    Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks. (imdb)
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    Playing for Keeps
    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. (imdb)
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    Olympus Has Fallen
    Disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack; using his inside knowledge, Banning works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers. (imdb)
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    How to Train Your Dragon 2
    When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace. (imdb)
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    Gods of Egypt
    Set, the merciless god of darkness, has taken over the throne of Egypt and plunged the once peaceful and prosperous empire into chaos and conflict. Few dare to rebel against him. A young thief, whose love was taken captive by the god, seeks to dethrone and defeat Set with the aid of the powerful god Horus. (imdb)
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    Tomorrow
    Climate is changing. Instead of showing all the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.
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    Uzumasa Limelight
    The film centers an aged movie extra who specializes to be killed in samurai movies without ever being lit by the limelight. Using Charlie Chaplin's film Limelight as an underlying theme, the admirable story of Seiichi Kamiyama dealing with a new generation and fading craftsmanship is told with melancholy and soul.
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    London Has Fallen
    In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders. (imdb)
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    A Family Man
    A headhunter whose life revolves around closing deals in a a survival-of-the-fittest boiler room, battles his top rival for control of their job placement company -- his dream of owning the company clashing with the needs of his family. (imdb)
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    Geostorm
    When catastrophic climate change endangers Earth's very survival, world governments unite and create the Dutch Boy Program: a world wide net of satellites, surrounding the planet, that are armed with geoengineering technologies designed to stave off the natural disasters. After successfully protecting the planet for two years, something is starting to go wrong. Two estranged brothers are tasked with solving the program's malfunction before a world wide Geostorm can engulf the planet. (imdb)
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    Den of Thieves
    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 outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank. (imdb)
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    Hunter Killer
    An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general. (imdb)
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    Keepers
    A small relief boat approaches the Isle, a tiny isolated island no bigger than a football pitch, 20 miles off a rugged coast. Its aim is to routinely replace the three lighthouse keepers, after 6 weeks alone manning the light. It nears the dock and none of the men greet them. Experienced keepers Thomas, James and Donald have vanished. (imdb)
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    The Jury
    The Jury (2002) - TV Mini-Series
    Twelve men and women are called for jury service in the retrial of a man accused of a triple murder after the High Court overturns the original verdict. (imdb)
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    How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
    As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless' discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup's reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind. (imdb)
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    Angel Has Fallen
    Secret Service Agent Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.
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    Greenland
    A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster. (imdb)
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    Copshop
    On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station-but when the hitman turns up at the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs.
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    Last Seen Alive
    "Chase" stars Gerard Butler as a man whose soon-to-be ex-wife mysteriously vanishes at a gas station. The film delves into the town's criminal underbelly while running from the authorities in a race against time to find her.
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    Plane
    A pilot finds himself caught in a war zone after he's forced to land his commercial aircraft during a terrible storm. (imdb)
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    Kandahar
    A CIA operative and his translator flee from special forces in Afghanistan after exposing a covert mission. (imdb)
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    Last Seen Alive
    Will's soon-to-be ex-wife mysteriously vanishes at a gas station. He delves into the town's criminal underbelly while running from the authorities in a race against time to find her. (imdb)
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