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Gerard Butler
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gerard Butler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gerard Butler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
GMTV
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Jay Leno Show
DreamWorks Dragons
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
300: Rise of an Empire
Movie 43
Tomorrow Never Dies
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
The Authority
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Reign of Fire
Timeline
Gods of Egypt
How to Train Your Dragon 2
How to Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon 2
P.S. I Love You
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
ARK: The Animated Series
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
Coriolanus
How to Train Your Dragon
Law Abiding Citizen
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
Copshop
Attila
Greenland
Night Has Fallen
London Has Fallen
Geostorm
Plane
The Bounty Hunter
The Phantom of the Opera
RocknRolla
Olympus Has Fallen
Greenland 2: Migration
Kandahar
Attila
Hunter Killer
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Gamer
300
Beowulf & Grendel
Last Seen Alive
Angel Has Fallen
Tales of the Black Freighter
Den of Thieves
Production Credits
Law Abiding Citizen
Greenland
Paris Has Fallen
Kandahar
Den of Thieves
Greenland 2: Migration
Hunter Killer
Last Seen Alive
Copshop
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
ARK: The Animated Series
Plane
Olympus Has Fallen
The Bricklayer
Angel Has Fallen
Night Has Fallen
London Has Fallen
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