Clark Gable
Born: 1901-02-01 in Cadiz, Ohio, USA
Died: 1960-11-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable the seventh-greatest male star of all-time. His 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.
Filmography
2025
- Gene Kelly: An American in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2023
- 1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year
- The Love Story of Jean Harlow and William Powell as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Her Name Was Grace Kelly as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Arthur Miller: Writer as Self (archive footage)
2015
- Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn as Self (archive footage)
- Discovering Jean Harlow as archive footage
2014
- Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Marilyn Monroe: In The Movies
- Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Marilyn at the Movies as Self (archive footage)
2009
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
- Hollywood sul Tevere
2008
- Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood as Various Roles (archive footage)
- Marilyn, dernières séances as Self(archive footage)
2007
- The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk as Self (archive footage)
- Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire as Himself (archive footage)
2006
- 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel as Self (archive footage)
- Judy Garland: By Myself as Self (archive footage)
- Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland as Himself (archive footage)
- Restoring a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind" (archive footage)
2003
- Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Making 'The Misfits' as Self (archive footage)
- Living Famously as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- Frank Capra Jr. Remembers: 'It Happened One Night' as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Rogues Gallery as Self (archive footage)
- Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults as Self (archiveFootage)
1996
- Joan Crawford: Always the Star as Self (archive footage)
1995
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self (archive footage)
- Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell as Self (archive footage)
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
- La Classe américaine as The Actor (archive footage)
1992
- Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
- Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To as (archive footage)
1989
- I Don't Even Like Apple Pie... as Self (archive footage)
- Two Tragic Blondes - Marilyn Monroe And Jean Harlow as Self (archive footage)
1988
- John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self (archive footage)
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
- Remembering Marilyn as Self (archive footage)
- All-Time Movie Greats as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Grace Kelly: The American Princess as Self (archive footage)
- Eve and Marilyn as Self (archive photo)
1986
- Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend as archive footage
- The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn as Self (archive footage)
- Marilyn Monroe as archive footage
1985
- That's Dancing! as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1982
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- Showbiz Ballyhoo as Self (archive footage)
1979
- Arthur Miller on Home Ground as Self (archive footage)
1978
- 20/20 as Self (archive footage)
- Western von gestern as Rance Brett (archive footage)
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- Hooray for Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- Gable: The King Remembered as Self (archive footage)
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1969
- The Happy Ending as Self - Actor in 'Susan Lenox' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968
- Dear Mr. Gable as Self (archive footage)
1965
- Uncertain Verification as (archive footage)
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)
1961
- The Misfits as Gay Langland
- Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Actor 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1960
- It Started in Naples as Michael Hamilton
1959
- But Not for Me as Russell 'Russ' Ward
1958
- Run Silent, Run Deep as Cmdr. Richardson
- Teacher's Pet as James Gannon
1957
- Band of Angels as Hamish Bond
- The James Dean Story as Self
1956
- The King and Four Queens as Dan Kehoe
1955
- MGM Parade as Self
- The Tall Men as Col. Ben Allison
- Soldier of Fortune as Hank Lee
1954
- Betrayed as Col. Pieter Deventer
- A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Mogambo as Victor Marswell
- Never Let Me Go as Philip Sutherland
1952
- Lone Star as Devereaux Burke
1951
- Across the Wide Missouri as Flint Mitchell
- Callaway Went Thataway as Clark Gable (uncredited)
1950
- Key to the City as Steve Fisk
- To Please a Lady as Mike Brannan
- Screen Actors as Self (uncredited)
1949
- Any Number Can Play as Charley Enley Kyng
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Command Decision as Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis
- Homecoming as Col. Ulysses Delby 'Lee' Johnson
1947
- The Hucksters as Victor Albee Norman
1945
- Adventure as Harry Patterson
1943
- Show-Business at War as Self
- Wings Up as Narrator / Host
- Combat America as Self - Narrator
1942
- Somewhere I'll Find You as Jonathon 'Jonny' Davis
1941
- They Met in Bombay as Gerald Meldrick
- Honky Tonk as "Candy" Johnson
- You Can't Fool a Camera as Himself
1940
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- Strange Cargo as André Verne
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
- Boom Town as Big John McMasters
- Comrade X as McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson
- Trifles of Importance as Self (archive footage)
- Northward, Ho! as Himself
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Rhett Butler
- Idiot's Delight as Harry Van
- British Pathé Newsreels: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
- Hollywood Hobbies as Self (uncredited)
1938
- Too Hot to Handle as Chris Hunter
- Test Pilot as Jim Lane
- Another Romance of Celluloid as Self (uncredited)
1937
- Parnell as Charles Stewart Parnell
- Hollywood Party as Himself
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self
- Saratoga as Duke Bradley
1936
- San Francisco as Blackie Norton
- Wife vs. Secretary as Van 'V.S.' Stanhope
- Love on the Run as Michael Anthony
- Cain and Mabel as Larry Cain
- Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel as Self
1935
- Mutiny on the Bounty as Lieutenant Fletcher Christian
- Call of the Wild as Jack Thornton
- China Seas as Cpt Alan Gaskell
- Hollywood Hobbies as Himself
- Starlit Days at the Lido as Self
- After Office Hours as Jim Branch
1934
- It Happened One Night as Peter Warne
- Manhattan Melodrama as Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-10 as Self
- Forsaking All Others as Jeffrey Williams
- Chained as Michael 'Mike' Bradley
- Men in White as Dr. George Ferguson
1933
- Dancing Lady as Patch Gallagher
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 as Self (Archival)
- Hold Your Man as Eddie Hall
- Night Flight as Jules
- The White Sister as Giovanni Severi
1932
- No Man of Her Own as Babe Stewart
- Red Dust as Dennis Carson
- Polly of the Circus as John Hartley
- Hell Divers as Steve Nelson
- Strange Interlude as Dr. Ned Darrell
1931
- Susan Lenox as Rodney Spencer
- Possessed as Mark Whitney
- Night Nurse as Nick
- The Secret Six as Carl Luckner
- A Free Soul as Ace Wilfong
- Laughing Sinners as Carl Loomis
- Dance, Fools, Dance as Jake Luva
- The Painted Desert as Rance Brett
- The Christmas Party as Himself
- The Easiest Way as Nickolas (Nick) Feliki
- The Finger Points as Louis J. Blanco
- Sporting Blood as Warren 'Rid' Riddell
1930
- Du Barry, Woman of Passion as Extra (voice)
1926
- One Minute to Play as Extra
- The Johnstown Flood as Townsman Standing at Bar in Saloon (uncredited)
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Roman Guard (uncredited)
- The Merry Widow
- The Plastic Age as Athlete (uncredited)
- North Star as Archie West
1924
- Forbidden Paradise as Soldier in Czarina's Guard (uncredited)
- White Man as Lady Andrea's Brother
1923
- Fighting Blood as Bit Part