Leland Orser
Leland Jones Orser (born August 6, 1960) is an American film and television actor. He's best known for his role as Sam Gilroy in the Taken film trilogy. Additional roles include Mr. Nevins in Amsterdam, Richard Stratton on the series American Giggolo, Peter Sullivan on I am... Read full bio →
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Taken 3
2014
Taken 2
2012
Amsterdam
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in North American history.
The Art of Self-Defense
Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.
Blindspotting
Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning.
The Devil's Candy
A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas, in this creepy haunted-house tale.
The Guest
A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.
The Gambler
Literature professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?
Taken 3
Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.
Faults
Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.
Taken 2
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
Give 'em Hell, Malone
A tough as nails private investigator (Malone) squares off with gangsters and their thugs to protect a valuable secret. Malone goes through hell to protect the information but he dishes some hell as well...
Taken
A former spy relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been forced into the slave trade.
The Good German
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
Twisted
Jessica, whose father was a serial killer, is a female police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lovers start dying around her at a furious pace.
Runaway Jury
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
Daredevil
A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.
Confidence
What Jake Vig doesn't know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting Lionel Dolby with the help of his crew. It becomes clear that Lionel wasn't just any mark, he was an accountant for eccentric crime boss Winston King.
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a fictional enriched film from 2001 about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during the Second World War.
The Bone Collector
Denzel Washington plays a quadriplegic homicide detective. He and his female partner track down a serial killer.
Resurrection
A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembered corpses along with perversely ironic biblical quotes.
Very Bad Things
A prostitute is killed during a bachelor party and the attendees turn on each other as the wedding approaches.
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is Steven Spielberg’s war film based on actual events from World War II. After three of his brothers are killed, soldier James Ryan, must be sent back to his mother in the USA. Yet the mission to get Ryan is more difficult than they thought as Ryan is stationed as a paratrooper behind enemy lines.
Excess Baggage
A rich brat (Alicia Silverstone) fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.
Alien: Resurrection
200 years after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/Alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the Aliens.
Independence Day
The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy. Fighting superior technology, Man's best weapon is the will to survive.
Escape from L.A.
Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.
Back to Back
An ex-cop finds himself caught up in a battle between Japanese mobsters and local gangland thugs and discovers that he was framed for wrong-doings by a corrupt cop.
Se7en
Just before retiring from the force a disillusioned detective, along with his successor, must solve one last case. They are hunting down a psychotic serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins. A masterpiece from director David Fincher that set new standards for the thriller genre.