Gerard Butler Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Gerard Butler filmography covers 54 movie titles and 3 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Gerard Butler movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Mrs Brown (1997) as Archie Brown
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) as HMS Devonshire Leading Seaman
• Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy (1998) as Burke
• Dracula 2000 (2000) as Dracula
• Harrison's Flowers (2000) as Chris Kumac
• Attila (2001) as Atila the Hun
• Reign of Fire (2002) as Creedy
• Shooters (2002) as Jackie Junior
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003) as Terry Sheridan
• Timeline (2003) as Andre Marek
• Dear Frankie (2004) as The Stranger
• The Phantom of the Opera (2004) as The Phantom
• Beowulf & Grendel (2005) as Beowulf
• The Game of Their Lives (2005) as Frank Borghi
• Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (2005) as Prefect Cassius Chaerea
• 300 (2007) as King Leonidas
• Butterfly on a Wheel (2007) as Neil Randall
• P.S. I Love You (2007) as Gerry
• Nim's Island (2008) as Jack Rusoe / Alex Rover
• RocknRolla (2008) as One-Two
• Gamer (2009) as Kable
• Law Abiding Citizen (2009) as Clyde Alexander Shelton
• Tales of the Black Freighter (2009) as The Mariner (voice)
• The Ugly Truth (2009) as Mike Chadway
• How to Train Your Dragon (2010) as Stoick (voice)
• Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon (2010) as Stoick (voice)
• The Bounty Hunter (2010) as Milo Boyd
• Coriolanus (2011) as Tullus Aufidius
• Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury (2011) as Stoick the Vast (voice)
• Machine Gun Preacher (2011) as Sam Childers
• Chasing Mavericks (2012) as Frosty Hesson
• Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) as (archive footage)
• Playing for Keeps (2012) as George
• Movie 43 (2013) as Leprechaun 1 & 2 (segment "Happy Birthday")
• Olympus Has Fallen (2013) as Mike Banning
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) as Stoick (voice)
• A Family Man (2016) as Dane Jensen
• Gods of Egypt (2016) as Set
• London Has Fallen (2016) as Mike Banning
• Geostorm (2017) as Jake Lawson
• Den of Thieves (2018) as 'Big Nick' O'Brien
• Hunter Killer (2018) as Captain Joe Glass
• Angel Has Fallen (2019) as Mike Banning
• How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019) as Stoick (voice)
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) as Stoick (voice)
• The Vanishing (2019) as James
• Greenland (2020) as John Garrity
• Copshop (2021) as Bob Viddick
• Last Seen Alive (2022) as Will Spann
• Kandahar (2023) as Tom Harris
• Plane (2023) as Brodie Torrance
• Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (2025) as Nicholas 'Big Nick' O'Brien
• How to Train Your Dragon (2025) as Stoick
• Greenland 2: Migration (2026) as John Garrity

Gerard Butler television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Gerard Butler; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• ARK: The Animated Series as Gaius Marcellus Nerva (voice)
• Attila as Attila the Hun
• Jeopardy! as Self - Clue Presenter

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Gerard Butler's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.