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Clark Gable

Actor | * 02/01/1901 († 59, 11/16/1960) | Cadiz, Ohio (United States of America (USA))
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. Often referred to as the "King of Hollywood", he had roles in more than 60 films in a variety of genres during a career that lasted 37 years, three decades of which was as a leading man. He was named the seventh greatest male movie star of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute. Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic comedy, It Happened One Night (1934). He was further Oscar-nominated for his roles as Fletcher Christian in the drama Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Rhett Butler in the historical romance drama Gone with the Wind (1939). He received Golden Globe Award nominations for his comedic roles in Teacher's Pet (1958), and But Not for Me (1959). He also starred in ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Romance / Love

Known for these Movies & Shows

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge. ...

Mutiny on the Bounty

Certification unknown

1935 | 3.7/5 | 2h 12min
Adventure, Drama, History
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The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. ...

Gone with the Wind

G

1939 | 4.0/5 | 3h 53min
Drama, War, Romance / Love
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A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops. ...

It Happened One Night

NR

1934 | 3.9/5 | 1h 45min
Comedy, Romance / Love
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Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police; but when his new surveyor, Gary, arrives along with his refined but sensual wife, Ba ...

Red Dust

NR

1932 | 3.6/5 | 1h 23min
Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Clark Gable

Academy Award for Best Actor Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) Air Medal American Campaign Medal European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal Golden Boot Awards Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame 3x Academy Award for Best Actor
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Movies with Clark Gable as Actor(136)

as Self (archive footage)2022 The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
as Self (archive footage)2021 Her Name Was Grace Kelly
2021 Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
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)2015 Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
as Self (archive footage)2014 And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)2010 Smash His Camera
as Self (archive footage)2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Various Roles (archive footage)2008 Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as Himself (archive footage)2007 Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
as Self (archive footage)2007 Girl 27
as Self (archive footage)2006 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
as Self (archive footage)2004 Judy Garland: By Myself
as Self (archive footage)2004 Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as Himself (archive footage)2004 Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
as Self (archive footage)2003 Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)2002 Making 'The Misfits'
as Self (archive footage)1999 Frank Capra Jr. Remembers: 'It Happened One Night'
as (archive footage)1994 That's Entertainment! III
as The Actor (archive footage)1993 La Classe américaine
as Himself (archive footage)1993 Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
as Self (archive footage)1991 Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as (archive footage)1990 Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as Self (archive footage)1989 John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as (archive footage)1988 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (from The Misfits [1961]) (archive footage)1987 Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (archive footage)1986 The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as (archive footage)1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)1982 Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)1976 That's Entertainment, Part II
as Self (archive footage)1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Himself (archive footage)1975 Gable: The King Remembered
as (archive footage)1974 That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage)1968 Dear Mr. Gable
as Self (archive footage)1965 Hollywood My Home Town
as (archive footage)1965 The Love Goddesses
as (archive footage)1965 Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase
as Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)1964 The Big Parade of Comedy
as himself1963 Hollywood Without Make-Up
as Gay Langland1961 The Misfits
as 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited)1961 Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Michael Hamilton1960 It Started in Naples
as Russell 'Russ' Ward1959 But Not for Me
as James Gannon1958 Teacher's Pet
as Cmdr, Richardson1958 Run Silent, Run Deep
as Hamish Bond1957 Band of Angels
as Dan Kehoe1956 The King and Four Queens
as Col. Ben Allison1955 The Tall Men
as Hank Lee1955 Soldier of Fortune
as himself1954 A Star Is Born World Premiere
as Col. Pieter Deventer1954 Betrayed
as Philip Sutherland1953 Never Let Me Go
as Victor Marswell1953 Mogambo
as Devereaux Burke1952 Lone Star
as Flint Mitchell1951 Across the Wide Missouri
as Clark Gable (uncredited)1951 Callaway Went Thataway
as Mike Brannan1950 To Please a Lady
as Steve Fisk1950 Key to the City
as Self (uncredited)1950 Screen Actors
as Charley Enley Kyng1949 Any Number Can Play
as Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis1948 Command Decision
as Col. Ulysses Delby 'Lee' Johnson1948 Homecoming
as Victor Albee Norman1947 The Hucksters
as Harry Patterson1945 Adventure
as himself1943 Show-Business at War
as Narrator1943 Wings Up
as Self - Narrator1943 Combat America
as Jonathon 'Jonny' Davis1942 Somewhere I'll Find You
as 'Candy' Johnson1941 Honky Tonk
as Gerald Meldrick1941 They Met in Bombay
as himself1940 Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Big John McMasters1940 Boom Town
as himself1940 A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as himself1940 Northward, Ho!
as Self (archive footage)1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson1940 Comrade X
as André Verne1940 Strange Cargo
as Rhett Butler1939 Gone with the Wind
as Himself (uncredited)1939 Hollywood Hobbies
as Harry Van1939 Idiot's Delight
as Chris Hunter1938 Too Hot to Handle
as Self (uncredited)1938 Another Romance of Celluloid
as Jim Lane1938 Test Pilot
as Charles Stewart Parnell1937 Parnell
as himself1937 Hollywood Party
as Duke Bradley1937 Saratoga
as himself1937 The Romance of Celluloid
as Larry Cain1936 Cain and Mabel
1936 Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
as Michael Anthony1936 Love on the Run
as Van 'V.S.' Stanhope1936 Wife vs. Secretary
as Blackie Norton1936 San Francisco
as Jack Thornton1935 Call of the Wild
as himself1935 Hollywood Hobbies
as Alan Gaskell1935 China Seas
as Jim Branch1935 After Office Hours
as Fletcher Christian1935 Mutiny on the Bounty
as himself1935 Starlit Days at the Lido
as Dr. George Ferguson1934 Men in White
1934 Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
as Peter Warne1934 It Happened One Night
as Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher1934 Manhattan Melodrama
as Jeffrey Williams1934 Forsaking All Others
as Michael 'Mike' Bradley1934 Chained
as Giovanni Severi1933 The White Sister
as Jules1933 Night Flight
as Patch Gallagher1933 Dancing Lady
as Eddie Hall1933 Hold Your Man
as Dennis Carson1932 Red Dust
as Steve Nelson1932 Hell Divers
as Dr. Ned Darrell1932 Strange Interlude
as Jerry 'Babe' Stewart1932 No Man of Her Own
as John Hartley1932 Polly of the Circus
as Rance Brett1931 The Painted Desert
as Jake Luva1931 Dance, Fools, Dance
as himself1931 The Christmas Party
as Rodney Spencer1931 Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
as Nick1931 Night Nurse
as Louis J. Blanco1931 The Finger Points
as Ace Wilfong1931 A Free Soul
as Carl Luckner1931 The Secret Six
as Nick Feliki1931 The Easiest Way
as Warren 'Rid' Riddell1931 Sporting Blood
as Carl Loomis1931 Laughing Sinners
as Mark Whitney1931 Possessed
as Extra (voice)1930 Du Barry, Woman of Passion
as Extra (uncredited)1926 One Minute to Play
as Ballroom Dancer1926 The Merry Widow
as Townsman Standing at Bar in Saloon (uncredited)1926 The Johnstown Flood
1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Athlete (uncredited)1925 The Plastic Age
as Archie West1925 North Star
as Extra (uncredited)1925 Déclassé
as Soldier in Czarina's guard (uncredited)1924 Forbidden Paradise
as Lady Andrea's Brother1924 White Man

TV Shows/Series with Clark Gable as Actor(4)

as Self (archive footage)2002 Living Famously
as Rance Brett (archive footage)1978 Western von gestern
as himself1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self (archive footage)1948 The Ed Sullivan Show

Full Name: William Clark Gable
Born: Friday, 02/01 1901 (February) in Cadiz, Ohio (United States of America (USA))
Died: Wednesday, 11/16 1960 (November) in Los Angeles (aged: 59)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Member of: American Legion
Spouses (current/former): Josephine Dillon, Maria Franklin, Carole Lombard, Sylvia Ashley, Kay Williams
Children: Bunker Spreckels, Judy Lewis, John Clark Gable
Father: William H. Gable
Mother: Adeline Herschelman
Student of: Josephine Dillon
Other names for Clark Gable (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"William Clark Gable"
"The King of Hollywood"
"Кларк Гейбл"
Clark Gable frequently works together with these people:
Cedric Gibbons (44x, Crew)
Douglas Shearer (34x, Crew)
Joan Crawford (29x, Actress)
Adrian (28x, Crew)
Myrna Loy (27x, Actress)
Jean Harlow (25x, Actress)
Spencer Tracy (24x, Actor)
Edwin B. Willis (19x, Crew)
Norma Shearer (19x, Actress)
Lionel Barrymore (18x, Actor)
Carole Lombard (17x, Actress)
Jackie Gleason (7x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:3893, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/08/2024