
Age: 56
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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).

Gerard Butler

Josué Becker - John Burch in Tarantula (1955)
for Josué Becker - John Burch in Tarantula (1955) in King Kong: Terror of the jungle
Suggested by jakubduda

In the jungle, a creature of its own form moves around. Its legs are very strong and its venom is extremely poisonous. Not only the predators inhabiting the jungle, but also humans become its prey. A unit led by the experienced Markus Cole and Major Michael Roberts is dropped into enemy territory, where it is supposed to free several American soldiers from partisan captivity in the middle of the jungle. After a successful operation, however, the American soldiers, instead of their longed-for vacation by the sea, have to fight a much more mysterious and dangerous enemy. The jungle turns into a trap from which there is no escape, and the American heroes learn for the first time in their lives what fear is when they face a giant tarantula. The central scientist responsible for this creature is actually a philanthropist trying to prevent a future catastrophe with overpopulation. However, its artificial and heavily irradiated nutrition causes another big problem instead of solving it. Specifically, a thirty-meter arachnid that enjoys anything that comes under its jaws. Not only this commando, but also a stubborn village doctor and a well-read lab technician, joins the fight against the oversized eight-legged vermin. When the going gets tough, the old friend King Kong appears and helps in the fight with the Tarantula.