Clark Gable (I) (1901–1960)

Actor | Producer | Soundtrack

William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to Adeline (Hershelman) and ...

Born: February 1, 1901
Died: November 16, 1960 (age 59)

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Filmography

Known For

It Happened One Night Peter Warne (1934)
Gone with the Wind Rhett Butler - Visitor from Charleston (1939)
Mutiny on the Bounty Fletcher Christian (1935)
Known For

Red Dust Dennis Carson (1932)
Actor

The Misfits Gay Langland (1961)
It Started in Naples Michael Hamilton (1960)
But Not for Me Russell 'Russ' Ward (1959)
Run Silent Run Deep Cmdr. 'Rich' Richardson (1958)
Teacher's Pet James Gannon (1958)
Band of Angels Hamish Bond (1957)
The King and Four Queens Dan Kehoe (1956)
The Tall Men Col. Ben Allison (1955)
Soldier of Fortune Hank Lee (1955)
Betrayed Col. Pieter Deventer (1954)
Mogambo Victor Marswell (1953)
Never Let Me Go Philip Sutherland (1953)
Lone Star Devereaux Burke (1952)
Callaway Went Thataway Clark Gable (1951)
Across the Wide Missouri Flint Mitchell (1951)
To Please a Lady Mike Brannan (1950)
Key to the City Steve Fisk (1950)
Any Number Can Play Charley Enley Kyng (1949)
Command Decision Brig. Gen. K.C. 'Casey' Dennis (1948)
Homecoming Col. Ulysses Delby 'Lee' Johnson (Dr. Johnson) (1948)
The Hucksters Victor Albee Norman (1947)
Adventure Harry Patterson (1945)
Somewhere I'll Find You Jonathon 'Jonny' Davis (1942)
Honky Tonk 'Candy' Johnson (1941)
They Met in Bombay Gerald Meldrick (1941)
Comrade X McKinley B. Thompson (1940)
Boom Town Big John McMasters (1940)
Strange Cargo Verne (1940)
Gone with the Wind Rhett Butler - Visitor from Charleston (1939)
Idiot's Delight Harry (1939)
Too Hot to Handle Chris Hunter (1938)
Test Pilot Jim Lane (1938)
Saratoga Duke Bradley (1937)
Parnell Parnell (1937)
Love on the Run Michael Anthony (1936)
Cain and Mabel Larry Cain (1936)
San Francisco Blackie Norton (1936)
Wife vs. Secretary Van Stanhope (1936)
Mutiny on the Bounty Fletcher Christian (1935)
China Seas Alan Gaskell (1935)
Call of the Wild Jack Thornton (1935)
After Office Hours James 'Jim' Branch (1935)
Forsaking All Others Jeff Williams (1934)
Chained Michael 'Mike' Bradley (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama Blackie Gallagher (1934)
Men in White Dr. George Ferguson (1934)
It Happened One Night Peter Warne (1934)
Dancing Lady Patch Gallagher (1933)
Night Flight Jules Fabian (1933)
Hold Your Man Eddie (1933)
The White Sister Giovanni Severi (1933)
No Man of Her Own Jerry 'Babe' Stewart (1932)
Red Dust Dennis Carson (1932)
Strange Interlude Ned Darrell (1932)
Polly of the Circus Rev. John Hartley (1932)
The Christmas Party Clark Gable (1931)
Possessed Mark Whitney (1931)
Hell Divers Steve Nelson (1931)
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) Rodney Spencer (1931)
Sporting Blood Warren 'Rid' Riddell (1931)
Night Nurse Nick (1931)
A Free Soul Ace Wilfong (1931)
Laughing Sinners Carl Loomis (1931)
The Secret 6 Carl Luckner (1931)
The Finger Points Louis J. Blanco (1931)
The Easiest Way Nickolas (Nick) Feliki (1931)
Dance, Fools, Dance Jake Luva (1931)
The Painted Desert Rance Brett (1931)
Du Barry, Woman of Passion Extra (1930)
One Minute to Play Extra (1926)
The Johnstown Flood Townsman Standing at Bar in Saloon (1926)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Roman Guard (1925)
North Star Archie West (1925)
The Plastic Age Athlete (1925)
The Merry Widow Ballroom Dancer (1925)
What Price Gloria? Minor Role (1925)
The Merry Kiddo Minor Role (1925)
Déclassé Extra (1925)
The Pacemakers Minor Role (1925)
Forbidden Paradise Soldier in Czarina's guard (1924)
White Man Lady Andrea's Brother (1924)
Actor

Fighting Blood Undetermined Secondary Role (1923)
Soundtrack

Doris Day Today (1975)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
The Hucksters (1947)
Adventure (1945)
Comrade X (1940)
Boom Town (1940)
Idiot's Delight (1939)
Test Pilot (1938)
Saratoga (1937)
Love on the Run (1936)
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Soundtrack

It Happened One Night (1934)
Producer

Combat America (1943)
Archive footage

Autopsy: The Last Hours of (2022)
Le doc Stupéfiant (2022)
Sale el Sol (2022)
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe (2022)
The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland (2021)
Grace Kelly: The Hollywood Years (2021)
Canaan Land (2020)
Grace of Monaco: Hollywood Princess (2020)
L'Histoire nous le dira (2019)
The Jewels of the Salton Sea (2019)
John Wayne: America at All Costs (2019)
The Movies (2019)
The Oscars Library: A Tribute to the Academy Awards (2019)
Sunset Over Mulholland Drive (2019)
Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner (2018)
America in Color (2018)
Kissing (2018)
WatchMojo (2018)
Making Montgomery Clift (2018)
Mysteries at the Museum (2018)
Today (2017)
Arthur Miller: Writer (2017)
Great British Royal Ships (2017)
Les couples mythiques du cinéma (2017)
Digits (2016)
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016)
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015)
Le Fossoyeur de Films (2015)
Welcome to the Basement (2015)
One Rogue Reporter (2014)
The First Motion Picture Unit: When Hollywood Went to War (2014)
And the Oscar Goes to... (2014)
Mansome (2012)
Nazi Titanic (2012)
Stars of the Silver Screen (2011)
Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011)
Länder - Menschen - Abenteuer (2011)
20 to 1 (2010)
Smash His Camera (2010)
Der Klang Hollywoods - Max Steiner & seine Erben (2009)
Hollywood on the Tiber (2009)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond (2009)
John le Carré (2008)
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence (2008)
Catalogue of Ships (2008)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
Gable and Crawford (2008)
The Fallen Vampire (2007)
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007)
Today Tonight (2007)
Girl 27 (2007)
City Confidential (2007)
Reader, I Married Him (2006)
Jane Russell - Der Star aus dem Heu (2006)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage (2006)
War Stories with Oliver North (2005-2006)
Corazón de... (2005-2006)
50 y más (2005)
Garbo (2005)
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005)
Biography (1995-2004)
Robert Capa: The Man Who Believed His Own Legend (2004)
Unsere Besten (2004)
American Masters (2004)
Somebody's Daughter, Somebody's Son (2004)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard (2003)
Seabiscuit: Racing Through History (2003)
The People's Hollywood (2003)
Road Trip with Huell Howser (2003)
The True Story of Seabiscuit (2003)
Complicated Women (2003)
Elle s'appelait Grace Kelly (2002)
Great Performances (2002)
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001)
Hollywood Couples (2000)
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000)
Film Breaks (1999)
The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999)
ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999)
The Rat Pack (1999)
The Lady with the Torch (1999)
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998)
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997)
Judy Garland's Hollywood (1997)
Great Romances of the 20th Century (1997)
Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' (1997)
Hollywood Commandos (1997)
We Remember Marilyn (1996)
Sprockets (1991-1995)
Legends of Entertainment Video (1995)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
100 Years at the Movies (1994)
News 44 (1994)
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
La Classe américaine (1993)
Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter (1992)
MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992)
Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991)
The Geraldo Rivera Show (1991)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990)
Murphy Brown (1989)
All-Time Movie Greats (1988)
Hollywood Sex Symbols (1988)
The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones (1988)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
Entertaining the Troops (1988)
Suncoast Motion Picture Company - We Can Take You There Commercial (1986)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986)
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)
America Censored (1985)
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
The Moviemakers (1984)
Moviestar Cartoons (1983)
Showbiz Goes to War (1982)
Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982)
Hooray for Hollywood (1982)
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982)
Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980)
Arthur Miller on Home Ground (1979)
Hollywood on Parade (1978)
That's Hollywood (1978)
Hollywood Greats (1977)
America at the Movies (1976)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
Gable: The King Remembered (1975)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
Just One More Time (1974)
The Great Radio Comedians (1972)
The Dick Cavett Show (1971-1972)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969)
The Happy Ending (1969)
Dear Mr. Gable (1968)
Hollywood My Home Town (1965)
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase (1965)
The Love Goddesses (1965)
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (1965)
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Hollywood and the Stars (1963-1964)
The Judy Garland Show (1964)
Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1954-1963)
Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963)
The James Dean Story (1957)
Film Time (1955)
MGM Parade (1955)
When the Talkies Were Young (1955)
Screen Snapshots: Memories in Uniform (1954)
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951)
Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)
Some of the Best (1944)
The Miracle of Sound (1940)
Trifles of Importance (1940)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
Northward, Ho! (1940)
Archive footage

Land of Liberty (1939)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933)

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Awards

Did You Know

Trivia

He disliked his most famous film Gone with the Wind (1939), which he regarded as "a woman's picture.".

I don't believe I'm king of anything, but I know why they like to think I am. I'm not much of an actor, but I'm not bad unless it's one of those things outside my comprehension. I work hard. I'm no Adonis, and I'm as American as the telephone poles ...