FrameThrower · Actors · Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler
8 films · 821 frames · top-billed in 7 · 2004–2025
Born 13 November 1969 · Paisley, Scotland, UK
Gerard James Butler 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).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 821 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gerard takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 44% low key — the look of the work Gerard takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
How to Train Your Dragon
2025 · Stoick
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
2025 · Nicholas 'Big Nick' O'Brien
Den of Thieves
2018 · 'Big Nick' O'Brien
How to Train Your Dragon 2
2014 · Stoick (voice)
Law Abiding Citizen
2009 · Clyde Alexander Shelton
300
2007 · King Leonidas
The Phantom of the Opera
2004 · The Phantom
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019 · Stoick (voice)
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 821 frames from Gerard Butler's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.