Clark Gable

Actor Feb 1 (died age 59) Cadiz, Ohio, USA 1923–2025 (102 year career)

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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 performa…

Known For

Film

Gone with the Wind

Rhett Butler

Film

It Happened One Night

Peter Warne

Film

Mutiny on the Bounty

Lieutenant Fletcher Christian

Film

The Misfits

Gay Langland

Film

La Classe américaine

The Actor (archive footage)

Film

Run Silent, Run Deep

Cmdr. Richardson

Film

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Roman Guard (uncredited)

Film

Mogambo

Victor Marswell

Filmography

Acting (155)

Movies (149)

Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood

2025

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

The Love Story of Jean Harlow and William Powell

2023

as Self (archive footage)

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes

2022

6.3

Rat Pack

2022

as Self (archive footage)

9.0

Her Name Was Grace Kelly

2021

as Self (archive footage)

6.6

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir

2021

7.0

Arthur Miller: Writer

2017

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

Discovering Jean Harlow

2015

as archive footage

10.0

Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo

2014

as Self (archive footage)

3.0

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

2012

as Self (archive footage)

7.2

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Hollywood sul Tevere

2009

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

2008

as Various Roles (archive footage)

6.1

Marilyn, dernières séances

2008

as Self(archive footage)

7.0

Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire

2007

as Himself (archive footage)

6.3

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

2007

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

2006

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Judy Garland: By Myself

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland

2004

as Himself (archive footage)

7.2

Complicated Women

2003

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Making 'The Misfits'

2002

as Self (archive footage)

Frank Capra Jr. Remembers: 'It Happened One Night'

1999

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults

1997

as Self (archiveFootage)

7.0

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

1996

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

That's Entertainment! III

1994

as (archive footage)

7.0

La Classe américaine

1993

as The Actor (archive footage)

7.6

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

1991

as Self (archive footage)

5.7

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990

as (archive footage)

9.0

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

1988

as Self (archive footage)

5.9

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

1987

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1986

as archive footage

7.5

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

That's Dancing!

1985

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

Showbiz Ballyhoo

as Self (archive footage)

Arthur Miller on Home Ground

1979

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

as (archive footage)

6.9

Hooray for Hollywood

1976

as Self (archive footage)

Gable: The King Remembered

1975

as Himself (archive footage)

6.0

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975

as Self (archive footage)

6.1

That's Entertainment!

1974

as (archive footage)

7.4

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Dear Mr. Gable

1968

as (archive footage)

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe

1966

6.7

Uncertain Verification

1965

as (archive footage)

6.6

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964

as Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)

6.3

The Misfits

1961

as Gay Langland

7.0

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

1961

as Actor 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited)

It Started in Naples

as Michael Hamilton

But Not for Me

as Russell 'Russ' Ward

Run Silent, Run Deep

as Cmdr. Richardson

Teacher's Pet

as James Gannon

Band of Angels

as Hamish Bond

The James Dean Story

as Self

The King and Four Queens

as Dan Kehoe

The Tall Men

as Col. Ben Allison

Soldier of Fortune

as Hank Lee

Betrayed

as Col. Pieter Deventer

5.6

A Star Is Born World Premiere

as Self

Mogambo

as Victor Marswell

Never Let Me Go

as Philip Sutherland

Lone Star

as Devereaux Burke

Across the Wide Missouri

1951

as Flint Mitchell

5.9

Callaway Went Thataway

1951

as Clark Gable (uncredited)

Screen Actors

as Self (uncredited)

Key to the City

as Steve Fisk

To Please a Lady

as Mike Brannan

Any Number Can Play

as Charley Enley Kyng

6.9

Command Decision

1948

as Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis

6.4

Homecoming

1948

as Col. Ulysses Delby 'Lee' Johnson

7.0

The Hucksters

1947

as Victor Albee Norman

Adventure

as Harry Patterson

Show-Business at War

as Self

Combat America

as Self - Narrator

Wings Up

as Narrator / Host

Somewhere I'll Find You

1942

as Jonathon 'Jonny' Davis

Honky Tonk

as "Candy" Johnson

They Met in Bombay

as Gerald Meldrick

You Can't Fool a Camera

1941

as Himself

5.7

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

1940

as Self

5.5

Comrade X

1940

as McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson

6.0

Boom Town

1940

as Big John McMasters

6.9

Trifles of Importance

1940

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Strange Cargo

1940

as André Verne

7.0

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

as Self

Northward, Ho!

as Himself

Gone with the Wind

as Rhett Butler

Idiot's Delight

as Harry Van

Hollywood Hobbies

as Self (uncredited)

Test Pilot

as Jim Lane

Another Romance of Celluloid

as Self (uncredited)

Too Hot to Handle

as Chris Hunter

Parnell

as Charles Stewart Parnell

Saratoga

as Duke Bradley

Hollywood Party

as Himself

The Romance of Celluloid

1937

as Self

7.0

Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel

as Himself

San Francisco

as Blackie Norton

Love on the Run

as Michael Anthony

Wife vs. Secretary

as Van 'V.S.' Stanhope

Cain and Mabel

as Larry Cain

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

It Happened One Night

1934

as Peter Warne

7.8

Manhattan Melodrama

1934

as Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher

7.0

Chained

1934

as Michael 'Mike' Bradley

6.8

Forsaking All Others

1934

as Jeffrey Williams

5.9

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

1934

6.0

Men in White

1934

as Dr. George Ferguson

Hold Your Man

as Eddie Hall

The White Sister

as Giovanni Severi

Night Flight

as Jules

Dancing Lady

as Patch Gallagher

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10

1933

as Self

Hell Divers

as Steve Nelson

Red Dust

as Dennis Carson

No Man of Her Own

as Babe Stewart

Polly of the Circus

as John Hartley

Strange Interlude

as Dr. Ned Darrell

Sporting Blood

as Warren 'Rid' Riddell

Laughing Sinners

as Carl Loomis

Possessed

as Mark Whitney

A Free Soul

as Ace Wilfong

Dance, Fools, Dance

as Jake Luva

The Secret Six

as Carl Luckner

Night Nurse

as Nick

The Christmas Party

as Himself

The Finger Points

as Louis J. Blanco

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)

as Rodney Spencer

The Painted Desert

as Rance Brett

The Easiest Way

as Nickolas (Nick) Feliki

5.1

Du Barry, Woman of Passion

as Extra (voice)

One Minute to Play

as Extra

The Johnstown Flood

as Townsman Standing at Bar in Saloon (uncredited)

The Merry Widow

North Star

as Archie West

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

1925

as Roman Guard (uncredited)

7.3

The Plastic Age

1925

as Athlete (uncredited)

6.0

Forbidden Paradise

1924

as Soldier in Czarina's Guard (uncredited)

5.2

White Man

1924

as Lady Andrea's Brother

6.0

Fighting Blood

1923

as Bit Part

Television (6)

Living Famously

2002

as Self (archive footage)

Rogues Gallery

1997

as Self (archive footage)

Western von gestern

1978

as Rance Brett (archive footage)

7.7

MGM Parade

1955

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self