Karl Urban
Also Known As: Καρλ Ούρμπαν, 칼 어반, Karl-Heinz Urban, 卡尔·厄本, カール・アーバン, 卡爾·厄本, کارل اربن, کارل اوربان
Biography: Karl-Heinz Urban (born 7 June 1972) is a New Zealand actor. His career began with appearances in New Zealand films and TV series such as Xena: Warrior Princess. His first Hollywood role was in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship. Since then, he has starred in many high-profile movies, including as Éomer in the second and third installments of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Vaako in the second and third installments of Riddick film series, Leonard McCoy in the Star Trek reboot film series, Kirill in The Bourne Supremacy (2004), John "Reaper" Grimm in Doom (2005), Judge Dredd in Dredd (2012), Gavin Magary in Pete's Dragon (2016), and Skurge in Marvel Studios' Thor: Ragnarok (2017). In 2013, he starred in the sci-fi series Almost Human. Since 2019, he has starred as Billy Butcher in Amazon's superhero streaming television series The Boys.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wellington, New Zealand
Birthday: June 07, 1972
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Gender: Male
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Overview: Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor. Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-18
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Overview: As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-17
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Pathfinder
Overview: A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-11
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The Bourne Supremacy
Overview: A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-23
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The Chronicles of Riddick
Overview: After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-11
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Out of the Blue
Overview: Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside town, in the form of a lone gunman with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle. As he stalked his victims the terrified and confused residents were trapped for 24 hours while a handful of under-resourced and under-armed local policemen risked their lives trying to find him and save the survivors. Based on true events.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-12
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The Price of Milk
Overview: Lucinda lives a fairytale life with dairy farmer Rob, and his 117 cows. But after a freak car accident she decides to test Rob's love for her by trying to make him angry. He passes her tests until a quilt goes missing from their bed and the price of getting it back is high.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-13
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Doom
Overview: A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-20
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And Soon the Darkness
Overview: When two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst fears are realized.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-25
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Ghost Ship
Overview: After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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Star Trek
Overview: The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-06
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The Irrefutable Truth About Demons
Overview: In the place between what you know, and what you fear, demons rule. All hope is stripped away as demonic forces overcome you. Dr. Harry Ballard has just unearthed the essence of evil. He’s a marked man, a living sacrifice, thrown to the depths of the demon world. At his side is a beautiful young woman – an ex-cult member who’s experienced their immeasurable power.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-01
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Priest
Overview: In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-05
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RED
Overview: After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe, crazy Marvin and wily Victoria to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. Only their expert training will allow them to survive a near-impossible mission -- breaking into CIA headquarters.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-13
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Dredd
Overview: In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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I, Object
Overview: 10-year-old Tom, grieving the loss of his father and unable to relate to the people in his life, takes refuge in the everyday objects around him. Pop can lids, suitcases and untold numbers of everyday objects reveal their true faces and speak to him, helping him on his healing journey.
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Original Language: en
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Butcher: A Short Film
Overview: A short film in the world of Amazon Prime's "The Boys" which reveals what happened during Billy Butcher's missing couple of weeks following the events of the show's first season.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-10
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Star Trek Into Darkness
Overview: When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-05
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Mortal Kombat II
Overview: A sequel to the 2021 film 'Mortal Kombat'.
Genres: Action Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-10-22
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The Loft
Overview: For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead body of an unknown woman turns up. Realizing that her killer must be one of their group, the men are gripped by paranoia as each one suspects another. Friendships are tested, loyalties are questioned, and marriages crumble while fear and suspicion run rampant.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-14
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Reclaiming the Blade
Overview: The Medieval and Renaissance blade, a profound and beautiful object handcrafted by master artisans of old. An object of great complexity, yet one with a singular use in mind- it is designed to kill. The truth of the sword has been shrouded in antiquity, and the Renaissance martial arts that brought it to being are long forgotten. The ancient practitioners lent us all they knew through their manuscripts. As gunslingers of the Renaissance they were western heroes with swords, and they lived and died by them. Yet today their history remains cloaked under a shadow of legend.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-15
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Riddick
Overview: Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-02
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Walking with Dinosaurs
Overview: In a time when dinosaurs rule the Earth, the smallest dinosaur of the herd, a playful Pachyrhinosaurus named Patchi, embarks on the biggest adventure of his life. As he tries to find his place in a spectacular world filled with fun-loving friends and a few dangerous foes, Patchi will discover the courage he needs to become the leader of the herd and a hero for the ages.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-18
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The Sea Beast
Overview: When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters — and make history to boot.
Genres: Animation Adventure Action Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-24
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Chunuk Bair
Overview: The tragedy of Gallipoli is exposed
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-25
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Via Satellite
Overview: As a family gather to watch one of their own swimming in the Olympics, minutes of fame become a hilarious and painful 24 hours when they uncover the secrets of a lifetime.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-15
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Riddick: Blindsided
Overview: This motion comic gaps the bridge between 2004's The Chronicles of Riddick, and 2013's Riddick. A new attempt on Lord Marshal Riddick's life is made on the Necromongers' ship. It's time for Riddick to end the years long meandering through space and go back to his roots.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-26
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Star Trek Beyond
Overview: The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-07
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Pete's Dragon
Overview: For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-10
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Black Water Transit
Overview: In this action thriller set in post-Katrina New Orleans, business owner Jack Vermillion (Laurence Fishburne) is struggling to run a legitimate shipping company while bad guy Ernest Pike (Karl Urban) is struggling to get his family's illegal gun collection out of the country. When their paths collide, Jack realizes that exposing Pike might get him just the sway he needs to persuade law enforcement officials to treat his imprisoned son kindly.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-13
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The Bluff
Overview: Set in the 19th-century Caribbean, a former female pirate must protect her family when the mysterious sins of her past catch up to her.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
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Thor: Ragnarok
Overview: Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-02
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50 Years of Star Trek
Overview: Over the last fifty years, America has been fascinated by Star Trek since it first aired in September of 1966. This 2-hour documentary celebrates the 50th anniversary through interviews with cast and crew members from every television series and the original films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-14
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Building Star Trek
Overview: When "Star Trek" first aired in 1966, it expanded the viewers' imaginations about what was possible in their lifetimes. Today, many of the space-age technologies displayed on the show, like space shuttles, cell phones, and desktop computers, have already gone from science fiction to science fact. Other innovations, like warp drive, teleportation, and medical tricorders are actively in development. Join us as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of "Star Trek" - a show that continues to inform, enrich, and inspire.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-04
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Mr. Butcher
Overview: A promotional short film, Mr. Butcher, was released to Twitter on August 2, 2019, with Karl Urban reprising his role as Billy Butcher. The film follows Butcher as he visits an elementary school as a guest speaker, in order to teach children to fear and be wary of Supes, in particular Homelander and The Seven, and of what can be done to combat them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Heaven
Overview: A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling, finds work remodeling a friend's strip club, the Paradise. There he meets a transsexual stripper who is bothered by accurate, but extremely violent visions of future events. The increasingly violent visions start including the architect, who doesn't believe in the prophesy. One who does however is a psychiatrist who is seeing both the stripper and the architect and is sleeping with the ex-wife. He uses the prophecies for his own financial gain. Finally the scenes from the vision move into reality amidst many plot turns.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-29
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Hangman
Overview: A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game, Hangman.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-22
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Acts of Vengeance
Overview: A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-27
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Bent
Overview: On his latest private investigation, a shamed former cop connects a murder case to a government conspiracy involving rogue agents from a top spy agency.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-09
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Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD
Overview: A long overdue documentary that tells the story of 2000AD, the unsung cult hero of the comics industry. This film will celebrate and pay respect to the comic and explore its importance and influence on contemporary pop culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-19
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For the Love of Spock
Overview: The life of Star Trek's Mr. Spock — as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Mr. Spock for almost fifty years —written and directed by his son, Adam.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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DC Showcase: Sgt. Rock
Overview: Just after recovering from losing his entire unit in battle, Sgt. Rock leads a special army of commandos against a Nazi secret research base.
Genres: Action War Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-20
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Overview: The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-18
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Amazon High
Overview: A high school teenager wakes up in a time of Amazons and Gods.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Making of the Return of the King
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Peter Jackson), this documentary uses raw footage to reveal the inside story on how the greatest adventure film franchise was born.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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The Making of The Two Towers
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Peter Jackson), this documentary uses raw footage to reveal the inside story on how the greatest adventure film franchise was born.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-01
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Batman: Death in the Family
Overview: Tragedy strikes the Batman's life again when Robin Jason Todd tracks down his birth mother only to run afoul of the Joker. An adaptation of the 1988 comic book storyline of the same name.
Genres: Animation Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-13
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The Boys
Overview: In a world where superheroes are corrupt corporate-backed celebrities, a group of vigilantes known as The Boys fights to expose their dark secrets and bring them down. Led by Billy Butcher, they target The Seven, a powerful superhero team controlled by the ruthless Homelander.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-26
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