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Acting
Birthday:
February 1, 1901
Place of Birth:
Cadiz, Ohio, USA
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Clark Gable
Biography
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time.
Gable's most famous role was Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh. His performance earned him his third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor; he won for It Happened One Night (1934) and was also nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). Later performances were in Run Silent, Run Deep, a submarine war film, and his final film, The Misfits (1961), which paired Gable with Marilyn Monroe, also in her last screen appearance.
During his long film career, Gable appeared opposite some of the most popular actresses of the time. Joan Crawford, who was his favorite actress to work with, was partnered with Gable in eight films, Myrna Loy was with him seven times, and he was paired with Jean Harlow in six productions. He also starred with Lana Turner in four features, and with Norma Shearer in three. Gable was often named the top male star in the mid-30s, and was second only to the top box-office draw of all, Shirley Temple.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Rat Pack | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Normandie ne partira pas ce soir | |
| 2021 | Her Name Was Grace Kelly | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Arthur Miller: Writer | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Smash His Camera | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Various Roles (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Girl 27 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire | Himself (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Jane Russell - Der Star aus dem Heu | Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland | Himself (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Judy Garland: By Myself | Self (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Making 'The Misfits' | Self (archive footage) |
| 1999 | Frank Capra Jr. Remembers: 'It Happened One Night' | Self (archive footage) |
| 1997 | Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults | Self (archiveFootage) |
| 1996 | Joan Crawford: Always the Star | Self (archive footage) |
| 1994 | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | The Actor (archive footage) |
| 1993 | Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell | Self (archive footage) |
| 1991 | Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To | (archive footage) |
| 1988 | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) |
| 1987 | Grace Kelly: The American Princess | Self (archive footage) |
| 1986 | Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self (from The Misfits [1961]) (archive footage) |
| 1986 | The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) |
| 1982 | Showbiz Goes to War | (archive footage) |
| 1976 | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) |
| 1976 | Hooray for Hollywood | Self (archive footage) |
| 1975 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) |
| 1975 | Gable: The King Remembered | Himself (archive footage) |
| 1974 | That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) |
| 1972 | Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage) |
| 1968 | Dear Mr. Gable | (archive footage) |
| 1965 | Uncertain Verification | (archive footage) |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) |
| 1961 | The Misfits | Gay Langland |
| 1961 | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Actor 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1960 | It Started in Naples | Michael Hamilton |
| 1959 | But Not for Me | Russell 'Russ' Ward |
| 1958 | Teacher's Pet | James Gannon |
| 1958 | Run Silent, Run Deep | Cmdr, Richardson |
| 1957 | Band of Angels | Hamish Bond |
| 1957 | The James Dean Story | Self |
| 1956 | The King and Four Queens | Dan Kehoe |
| 1955 | The Tall Men | Col. Ben Allison |
| 1955 | Soldier of Fortune | Hank Lee |
| 1954 | Betrayed | Col. Pieter Deventer |
| 1954 | A Star Is Born World Premiere | Self |
| 1953 | Mogambo | Victor Marswell |
| 1953 | Never Let Me Go | Philip Sutherland |
| 1952 | Lone Star | Devereaux Burke |
| 1951 | Across the Wide Missouri | Flint Mitchell |
| 1951 | Callaway Went Thataway | Clark Gable (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Screen Actors | Self (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Key to the City | Steve Fisk |
| 1950 | To Please a Lady | Mike Brannan |
| 1949 | Any Number Can Play | Charley Enley Kyng |
| 1948 | Command Decision | Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis |
| 1948 | Homecoming | Col. Ulysses Delby 'Lee' Johnson |
| 1947 | The Hucksters | Victor Albee Norman |
| 1945 | Adventure | Harry Patterson |
| 1943 | Combat America | Self - Narrator |
| 1943 | Show-Business at War | Self |
| 1943 | Wings Up | Narrator / Host |
| 1942 | Somewhere I'll Find You | Jonathon 'Jonny' Davis |
| 1941 | Honky Tonk | 'Candy' Johnson |
| 1941 | They Met in Bombay | Gerald Meldrick |
| 1941 | You Can't Fool a Camera | Himself |
| 1940 | Comrade X | McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson |
| 1940 | Trifles of Importance | Self (archive footage) |
| 1940 | Strange Cargo | André Verne |
| 1940 | Boom Town | Big John McMasters |
| 1940 | Northward, Ho! | Himself |
| 1940 | A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self |
| 1940 | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self (archive footage) |
| 1940 | Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind | Rhett Butler |
| 1939 | Idiot's Delight | Harry Van |
| 1939 | Hollywood Hobbies | Self (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Too Hot to Handle | Chris Hunter |
| 1938 | Test Pilot | Jim Lane |
| 1938 | Another Romance of Celluloid | Self (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Saratoga | Duke Bradley |
| 1937 | Hollywood Party | Himself |
| 1937 | Parnell | Charles Stewart Parnell |
| 1937 | The Romance of Celluloid | Self |
| 1936 | Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel | Himself |
| 1936 | Love on the Run | Michael Anthony |
| 1936 | San Francisco | Blackie Norton |
| 1936 | Wife vs. Secretary | Van 'V.S.' Stanhope |
| 1936 | Cain and Mabel | Larry Cain |
| 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | Lieutenant Fletcher Christian |
| 1935 | China Seas | Cpt Alan Gaskell |
| 1935 | After Office Hours | Jim Branch |
| 1935 | Call of the Wild | Jack Thornton |
| 1935 | Starlit Days at the Lido | Self |
| 1935 | Hollywood Hobbies | Himself |
| 1934 | It Happened One Night | Peter Warne |
| 1934 | Manhattan Melodrama | Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher |
| 1934 | Chained | Michael 'Mike' Bradley |
| 1934 | Men in White | Dr. George Ferguson |
| 1934 | Forsaking All Others | Jeffrey Williams |
| 1934 | Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 | |
| 1933 | Dancing Lady | Patch Gallagher |
| 1933 | Hold Your Man | Eddie Hall |
| 1933 | Night Flight | Jules |
| 1933 | The White Sister | Giovanni Severi |
| 1932 | No Man of Her Own | Babe Stewart |
| 1932 | Red Dust | Dennis Carson |
| 1932 | Strange Interlude | Dr. Ned Darrell |
| 1932 | Hell Divers | Steve Nelson |
| 1932 | Polly of the Circus | John Hartley |
| 1931 | The Secret Six | Carl Luckner |
| 1931 | Night Nurse | Nick |
| 1931 | A Free Soul | Ace Wilfong |
| 1931 | Possessed | Mark Whitney |
| 1931 | Laughing Sinners | Carl Loomis |
| 1931 | Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) | Rodney Spencer |
| 1931 | Dance, Fools, Dance | Jake Luva |
| 1931 | The Easiest Way | Nickolas (Nick) Feliki |
| 1931 | Sporting Blood | Warren 'Rid' Riddell |
| 1931 | The Finger Points | Louis J. Blanco |
| 1931 | The Painted Desert | Rance Brett |
| 1931 | The Christmas Party | Himself |
| 1930 | Du Barry, Woman of Passion | Extra (voice) |
| 1926 | The Johnstown Flood | Townsman Standing at Bar in Saloon (uncredited) |
| 1926 | The Merry Widow | |
| 1926 | One Minute to Play | Extra |
| 1925 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Roman Guard (uncredited) |
| 1925 | The Plastic Age | Athlete (uncredited) |
| 1925 | North Star | Archie West |
| 1924 | Forbidden Paradise | Soldier in Czarina's Guard (uncredited) |
| 1924 | White Man | Lady Andrea's Brother |
| 1923 | Fighting Blood | Bit Part |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Living Famously | Self (archive footage) |
| 1978 | Western von gestern | Rance Brett (archive footage) |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |