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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Academy Awards
Best Actor
Known For
Gone with the Wind
(1939)
Rhett Butler
Night Nurse
(1931)
Nick
Red Dust
(1932)
Dennis Carson
It Happened One Night
(1934)
Peter Warne
The Misfits
(1961)
Gay Langland
Mutiny on the Bounty
(1935)
Lieutenant Fletcher Christian
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
(2022)
Self (archive footage)
Run Silent, Run Deep
(1958)
Cmdr, Richardson
That's Entertainment!
(1974)
(archive footage)
Boom Town
(1940)
Big John McMasters
San Francisco
(1936)
Blackie Norton
Test Pilot
(1938)
Jim Lane
Band of Angels
(1957)
Hamish Bond
The Hucksters
(1947)
Victor Albee Norman
Chained
(1934)
Michael 'Mike' Bradley
Command Decision
(1948)
Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis
Full Filmography
Acting
Forbidden Paradise
(1924)
Soldier in Czarina's Guard (uncredited)
White Man
(1924)
Lady Andrea's Brother
North Star
(1925)
Archie West
The Plastic Age
(1925)
Athlete (uncredited)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
(1925)
Roman Guard (uncredited)
The Johnstown Flood
(1926)
Townsman Standing at Bar in Saloon (uncredited)
The Merry Widow
(1926)
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
(1930)
Extra (voice)
Possessed
(1931)
Mark Whitney
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
(1931)
Rodney Spencer
The Secret Six
(1931)
Carl Luckner
A Free Soul
(1931)
Ace Wilfong
Dance, Fools, Dance
(1931)
Jake Luva
Sporting Blood
(1931)
Warren 'Rid' Riddell
The Christmas Party
(1931)
Himself
The Easiest Way
(1931)
Nick Feliki
Night Nurse
(1931)
Nick
Laughing Sinners
(1931)
Carl Loomis
The Finger Points
(1931)
Louis J. Blanco
The Painted Desert
(1931)
Rance Brett
No Man of Her Own
(1932)
Jerry 'Babe' Stewart
Strange Interlude
(1932)
Dr. Ned Darrell
Polly of the Circus
(1932)
John Hartley
Red Dust
(1932)
Dennis Carson
Hell Divers
(1932)
Steve Nelson
Dancing Lady
(1933)
Patch Gallagher
The White Sister
(1933)
Giovanni Severi
Night Flight
(1933)
Jules
Hold Your Man
(1933)
Eddie Hall
Men in White
(1934)
Dr. George Ferguson
Manhattan Melodrama
(1934)
Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher
Forsaking All Others
(1934)
Jeffrey Williams
It Happened One Night
(1934)
Peter Warne
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
(1934)
Chained
(1934)
Michael 'Mike' Bradley
Mutiny on the Bounty
(1935)
Lieutenant Fletcher Christian
Starlit Days at the Lido
(1935)
Self
China Seas
(1935)
Cpt Alan Gaskell
After Office Hours
(1935)
Jim Branch
Call of the Wild
(1935)
Jack Thornton
Hollywood Hobbies
(1935)
Himself
Wife vs. Secretary
(1936)
Van 'V.S.' Stanhope
Cain and Mabel
(1936)
Larry Cain
San Francisco
(1936)
Blackie Norton
Love on the Run
(1936)
Michael Anthony
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
(1936)
Himself
Saratoga
(1937)
Duke Bradley
Hollywood Party
(1937)
Himself
Parnell
(1937)
Charles Stewart Parnell
The Romance of Celluloid
(1937)
Self
Test Pilot
(1938)
Jim Lane
Another Romance of Celluloid
(1938)
Self (uncredited)
Too Hot to Handle
(1938)
Chris Hunter
Hollywood Hobbies
(1939)
Idiot's Delight
(1939)
Harry Van
Gone with the Wind
(1939)
Rhett Butler
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
(1940)
Self (archive footage)
Strange Cargo
(1940)
André Verne
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
(1940)
Self
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
(1940)
Self
Comrade X
(1940)
McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson
Trifles of Importance
(1940)
Self (archive footage)
Boom Town
(1940)
Big John McMasters
Northward, Ho!
(1940)
Himself
They Met in Bombay
(1941)
Gerald Meldrick
Honky Tonk
(1941)
'Candy' Johnson
Somewhere I'll Find You
(1942)
Jonathon 'Jonny' Davis
Show-Business at War
(1943)
Self
Combat America
(1943)
Self - Narrator
Wings Up
(1943)
Narrator / Host
Adventure
(1945)
Harry Patterson
The Hucksters
(1947)
Victor Albee Norman
Homecoming
(1948)
Col. Ulysses Delby 'Lee' Johnson
Command Decision
(1948)
Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis
Any Number Can Play
(1949)
Charley Enley Kyng
To Please a Lady
(1950)
Mike Brannan
Key to the City
(1950)
Steve Fisk
Screen Actors
(1950)
Self (uncredited)
Callaway Went Thataway
(1951)
Clark Gable (uncredited)
Across the Wide Missouri
(1951)
Flint Mitchell
Lone Star
(1952)
Devereaux Burke
Never Let Me Go
(1953)
Philip Sutherland
Mogambo
(1953)
Victor Marswell
Betrayed
(1954)
Col. Pieter Deventer
A Star Is Born World Premiere
(1954)
Self
Soldier of Fortune
(1955)
Hank Lee
The Tall Men
(1955)
Col. Ben Allison
The King and Four Queens
(1956)
Dan Kehoe
Band of Angels
(1957)
Hamish Bond
The James Dean Story
(1957)
Self
Run Silent, Run Deep
(1958)
Cmdr, Richardson
Teacher's Pet
(1958)
James Gannon
But Not for Me
(1959)
Russell 'Russ' Ward
It Started in Naples
(1960)
Michael Hamilton
The Misfits
(1961)
Gay Langland
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
(1961)
Actor 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
(1964)
Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)
Uncertain Verification
(1965)
(archive footage)
The Love Goddesses
(1965)
(archive footage)
Dear Mr. Gable
(1968)
(archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
(1972)
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
(1974)
(archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(1975)
Self (archive footage)
Gable: The King Remembered
(1975)
Himself (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(1976)
(archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
(1982)
(archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(1984)
(archive footage)
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
(1986)
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
(1986)
Self (from The Misfits [1961]) (archive footage)
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
(1987)
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
(1988)
Self (archive footage)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
(1989)
Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
(1990)
(archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
(1991)
Self (archive footage)
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
(1993)
Self (archive footage)
La Classe américaine
(1993)
The Actor (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(1994)
(archive footage)
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
(1996)
Self (archive footage)
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers: 'It Happened One Night'
(1999)
Self (archive footage)
Making 'The Misfits'
(2002)
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
(2003)
Self (archive footage)
Judy Garland: By Myself
(2004)
Self (archive footage)
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
(2004)
Himself (archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
(2004)
Self (archive footage)
Jane Russell - Der Star aus dem Heu
(2006)
Self (archive footage)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
(2006)
Self (archive footage)
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
(2007)
Himself (archive footage)
Girl 27
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
(2008)
Various Roles (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
(2009)
Self (archive footage)
Smash His Camera
(2010)
Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
(2014)
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Miller: Writer
(2017)
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
(2019)
Self (archive footage)
Her Name Was Grace Kelly
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
(2021)
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
(2022)
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
(2022)
Self (archive footage)