TOP 10 MOVIES

“Den of Thieves” (2018): Butler is perfectly brawny as a troubled Los Angeles police detective on a collision course with a vicious robbery team.

“Olympus Has Fallen” (2013): A nicely rugged Butler plays a former Secret Service man who literally battles his way back to honor when terrorists invade the White House.

“Chasing Mavericks” (2012): The part of a famously radical surfer is a fine fit for Butler in this factinspired drama.

“Machine Gun Preacher” (2011): Butler is quite effective in the true story of an unlikely savior of indentured youngsters in the Sudan.

“How to Train Your Dragon” (2010): Milking his Scottish roots, Butler is distinctive as the voice of Stoick the Vast in this animated fantasy.

“Law Abiding Citizen” (2009): A not entirely unsympathetic Butler is excellent as a grieving man determined to even the score with those who let the killers of his wife and child go free.

“RocknRolla” (2008):A wonderfully gritty Butler plays one of the thieves involved in dealings and doublecrossings in London’s underworld.

“P.S. I Love You” (2007):

In a role that set him up for romantic comedies, Butler is hugely engaging – mainly in flashbacks – as a deceased man mourned by his wife (Hilary Swank).

“300” (2006): Much of the film’s imagery is computer-generated, but there’s no mistaking Butler’s very real physicality as King Leonidas in the often brutal saga of the Spartans’ uprising.

“The Phantom of the Opera” (2004): It’s no small feat to play the title character in one of the most popular musicals of all time, and Butler

pulls it off impressively.