Birthday
1901/02/01
Day of death
1960/11/16 (59 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Cadiz, Ohio, USA
Also know as
William Clark Gable, The King of Hollywood
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...Read more
(1939) Gone with the Wind
as Rhett Butler
(1988) John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage)
(1934) It Happened One Night
as Peter Warne
(2017) Arthur Miller: Writer
as Self (archive footage)
(1961) The Misfits
as Gay Langland
(1943) Combat America
as Self - Narrator
(1948) Command Decision
as Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis
(1936) Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
as Himself
(1953) Mogambo
as Victor Marswell
(1940) Comrade X
as McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson
(1938) Too Hot to Handle
as Chris Hunter
(1935) Mutiny on the Bounty
as Lieutenant Fletcher Christian
(1951) Across the Wide Missouri
as Flint Mitchell
(1931) The Secret Six
as Carl Luckner
(1934) Manhattan Melodrama
as Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher
(1932) No Man of Her Own
as Jerry 'Babe' Stewart
(2006) Jane Russell - Der Star aus dem Heu
as Self (archive footage)
(1955) The Tall Men
as Col. Ben Allison
(1957) Band of Angels
as Hamish Bond
(1956) The King and Four Queens
as Dan Kehoe
(1958) Teacher's Pet
as James Gannon
(1938) Test Pilot
as Jim Lane
(1933) Dancing Lady
as Patch Gallagher
(1939) Idiot's Delight
as Harry Van
(1936) Love on the Run
as Michael Anthony
(1936) San Francisco
as Blackie Norton
(1952) Lone Star
as Devereaux Burke
(1932) Red Dust
as Dennis Carson
(1960) It Started in Naples
as Michael Hamilton
(2021) Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
as ---
(1945) Adventure
as Harry Patterson
(1955) Soldier of Fortune
as Hank Lee
(1993) La Classe américaine
as The Actor (archive footage)
(1937) Saratoga
as Duke Bradley
(1936) Wife vs. Secretary
as Van 'V.S.' Stanhope
(1953) Never Let Me Go
as Philip Sutherland
(1942) Somewhere I'll Find You
as Jonathon 'Jonny' Davis
(1925) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Roman Guard (uncredited)
(1940) Trifles of Importance
as Self (archive footage)
(1958) Run Silent, Run Deep
as Cmdr, Richardson
(1934) Chained
as Michael 'Mike' Bradley
(2015) Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
(1950) Screen Actors
as Self (uncredited)
(1925) The Plastic Age
as Athlete (uncredited)
(1961) Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Actor 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1926) The Johnstown Flood
as Townsman Standing at Bar in Saloon (uncredited)
(1938) Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
(1951) Callaway Went Thataway
as Clark Gable (uncredited)
(1924) Forbidden Paradise
as Soldier in Czarina's Guard (uncredited)
(1939) Hollywood Hobbies
as Self (uncredited)
(1926) The Merry Widow
as ---
(1935) China Seas
as Cpt Alan Gaskell
(1940) Strange Cargo
as André Verne
(1982) Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
(1935) After Office Hours
as Jim Branch
(1931) A Free Soul
as Ace Wilfong
(1931) Night Nurse
as Nick
(1931) Possessed
as Mark Whitney
(1933) Hold Your Man
as Eddie Hall
(1954) Betrayed
as Col. Pieter Deventer
(1940) Boom Town
as Big John McMasters
(2010) Smash His Camera
as Self (archive footage)
(1933) Night Flight
as Jules
(1941) Honky Tonk
as 'Candy' Johnson
(1941) They Met in Bombay
as Gerald Meldrick
(1931) Laughing Sinners
as Carl Loomis
(1948) Homecoming
as Col. Ulysses Delby 'Lee' Johnson
(1947) The Hucksters
as Victor Albee Norman
(1949) Any Number Can Play
as Charley Enley Kyng
(1959) But Not for Me
as Russell 'Russ' Ward
(1934) Men in White
as Dr. George Ferguson
(1972) Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(1934) Forsaking All Others
as Jeffrey Williams
(1950) Key to the City
as Steve Fisk
(1965) Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
(1931) Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
as Rodney Spencer
(1932) Strange Interlude
as Dr. Ned Darrell
(1931) Dance, Fools, Dance
as Jake Luva
(1931) The Easiest Way
as Nickolas (Nick) Feliki
(1935) Call of the Wild
as Jack Thornton
(1999) Frank Capra Jr. Remembers: 'It Happened One Night'
as Self (archive footage)
(1933) The White Sister
as Giovanni Severi
(1950) To Please a Lady
as Mike Brannan
(1936) Cain and Mabel
as Larry Cain
Film Stars Help Greece
as Self
(1932) Hell Divers
as Steve Nelson
(1932) Polly of the Circus
as John Hartley
(2007) Girl 27
as Self (archive footage)
(1986) Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (from The Misfits [1961]) (archive footage)
(1957) The James Dean Story
as Self
(1937) Hollywood Party
as Himself
(1931) Sporting Blood
as Warren 'Rid' Riddell
(1937) Parnell
as Charles Stewart Parnell
(1931) The Finger Points
as Louis J. Blanco
(2004) Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as Self (archive footage)
(2006) 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
as Self (archive footage)
(1984) Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1931) The Painted Desert
as Rance Brett
(1925) North Star
as Archie West
(1931) The Christmas Party
as Himself
(2022) Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
(2007) The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
as Self (archive footage)
(2007) Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
as Himself (archive footage)
(1974) That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage)
(1987) Grace Kelly: The American Princess
as Self (archive footage)
(1996) Joan Crawford: Always the Star
as Self (archive footage)
(1940) Northward, Ho!
as Himself
(1976) That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
(1964) The Big Parade of Comedy
as Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)
(1940) A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
(1997) Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
as Self (archiveFootage)
(1994) That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
(1993) Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
as Self (archive footage)
(2004) Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
as Himself (archive footage)
(1937) The Romance of Celluloid
as Self
(1991) Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
(1930) Du Barry, Woman of Passion
as Extra (voice)
(1924) White Man
as Lady Andrea's Brother
(1954) A Star Is Born World Premiere
as Self
(1943) Show-Business at War
as Self
(1940) Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self (archive footage)
(2004) Judy Garland: By Myself
as Self (archive footage)
(1975) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1940) Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
(2003) Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
(1986) The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)
(1990) Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
(1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1935) Starlit Days at the Lido
as Self
(2008) Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)
(1934) Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
as ---
(1943) Wings Up
as Narrator / Host
(2009) 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
(2002) Making 'The Misfits'
as Self (archive footage)
(2019) Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
as Self (archive footage)
(2014) And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(1935) Hollywood Hobbies
as Himself
(1968) Dear Mr. Gable
as (archive footage)
(2021) Her Name Was Grace Kelly
as Self (archive footage)
(1975) Gable: The King Remembered
as Himself (archive footage)
(1926) One Minute to Play
as Extra
(2025) Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1941) You Can't Fool a Camera
as Himself
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(2006) National Archives WWII: Air War
as ---
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(2002) Living Famously
as Self (archive footage)
(1978) Western von gestern
as Rance Brett (archive footage)