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Clark Gable
Clark Gable, born William Clark Gable on February 1, 1901, in Cadiz, Ohio, United States, was an American film actor often referred to as the "King of Hollywood", starring in more than 60 films in various genres during his 37-year career. Becoming a leading man from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, the American Film Institute named Gable the seventh greatest male movie star of classic American cinema. His most recognized role was that of Rhett Butler in the historic romance drama Gone with the Wind (1939), for which he received an Oscar nomination. This role came about after earning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic comedy, It Happened One Night (1934). He was also known for costarring with several of the most popular actresses of their time, such as Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, and Jean Harlow. Gable passed away from a heart attack at the age of 59 on November 16, 1960, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
In his early life, born and raised in Cadiz, Ohio, Gable was named William after his father but was almost always called Clark. His father was a Protestant, and his mother was a Catholic. Gable was six months old when he was baptized at a Roman Catholic church, and he and his father were active in the Methodist church, from where he was named 'the kid'. Notably, at age 13, he became the only boy in the all-male Hopedale town band, demonstrating his mechanical inclination and passion for literature. After being inspired by seeing the play The Bird of Paradise, Gable pursued an acting career, getting his training from Portland-based acting coach, Josephine Dillon.
He was married five times, and his most prominent relationship and third marriage were with actress Carole Lombard. Gable became the father of his only biological child, John Clark Gable, four months after his death.
Biography, Career & Filmography
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Given Name: William Clark Gable
Born: Cadiz, Ohio, United States
Citizenship: American
Birthday: February 1, 1901
Occupations: Film Actor
Years Active: 1924-1960
Children: 2
Spouses: Josephine Dillon, Maria Langham, Carole Lombard, Sylvia Ashley, Kay Williams
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Awards and Nominations Received by Clark Gable
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Movies Featuring Clark Gable
Run Silent Run Deep
The Misfits
Mutiny on the Bounty
It Happened One Night
Red Dust
That's Entertainment, Part II
No Man of Her Own
The Bloody Hundredth
And the Oscar Goes To…
Making ‘The Misfits’
Complicated Women
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Judy Garland: By Myself
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Going Hollywood: The ’30s
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Showbiz Goes to War
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Rat Pack
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Her Name Was Grace Kelly
Strange Cargo
Gable: The King Remembered
Polly of the Circus
After Office Hours
The Easiest Way
Across the Wide Missouri
Manhattan Melodrama
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Laughing Sinners
The Merry Widow
A Star Is Born World Premiere
The Big Parade of Comedy
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
The Finger Points
They Met in Bombay
Men in White
Soldier of Fortune
Night Nurse
Lone Star
The Christmas Party
Comrade X
Uncertain Verification
Possessed
Northward, Ho!
Hollywood Hobbies
The Secret Six
Any Number Can Play
Callaway Went Thataway
Hollywood Party
Love on the Run
Show-Business at War
Test Pilot
Command Decision
It Started in Naples
Key to the City
The Plastic Age
The Painted Desert
Starlit Days at the Lido
The King and Four Queens
Another Romance of Celluloid
The Johnstown Flood
Sporting Blood
Dancing Lady
The Tall Men
San Francisco
Cain and Mabel
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year
Boom Town
The Hucksters
Band of Angels
Too Hot to Handle
The White Sister
Chained
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Film Stars Help Greece
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Homecoming
Forsaking All Others
Honky Tonk
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
To Please a Lady
Betrayed
Never Let Me Go
Wife vs. Secretary
You Can’t Fool a Camera
Adventure
Hell Divers
Mogambo
Hollywood Hobbies
Combat America
A Free Soul
The James Dean Story
But Not for Me
Somewhere I’ll Find You
La Classe américaine
Idiot’s Delight
Hold Your Man
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
Parnell
Saratoga
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
The Romance of Celluloid
Screen Actors
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
China Seas
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
Forbidden Paradise
Career Timeline
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2007
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
Himself (archive footage)
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
Self (archive footage)
2004
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
Himself (archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Self (archive footage)
Judy Garland: By Myself
Self (archive footage)
1993
La Classe américaine
The Actor (archive footage)
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
Self (archive footage)
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Self (archive footage)
1986
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Self (from The Misfits [1961]) (archive footage)
1961
The Misfits
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Actor 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1948
Command Decision
Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis
Homecoming
Col. Ulysses Delby 'Lee' Johnson
1941
They Met in Bombay
Gerald Meldrick
Film Stars Help Greece
Self
Honky Tonk
"Candy" Johnson
You Can’t Fool a Camera
Himself
1940
Strange Cargo
André Verne
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
Comrade X
McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson
Northward, Ho!
Himself
Boom Town
Big John McMasters
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self (archive footage)
1938
Test Pilot
Jim Lane
Another Romance of Celluloid
Self (uncredited)
Too Hot to Handle
Chris Hunter
1937
Hollywood Party
Himself
Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
Saratoga
Duke Bradley
The Romance of Celluloid
Self
1936
Love on the Run
Michael Anthony
San Francisco
Blackie Norton
Cain and Mabel
Larry Cain
Wife vs. Secretary
Van 'V.S.' Stanhope
1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
After Office Hours
Jim Branch
Starlit Days at the Lido
Self
Hollywood Hobbies
Himself
China Seas
Cpt Alan Gaskell
1934
It Happened One Night
Manhattan Melodrama
Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher
Men in White
Dr. George Ferguson
Chained
Michael 'Mike' Bradley
Forsaking All Others
Jeffrey Williams
1931
The Easiest Way
Nickolas (Nick) Feliki
Laughing Sinners
Carl Loomis
The Finger Points
Louis J. Blanco
Night Nurse
Nick
The Christmas Party
Himself
Possessed
Mark Whitney
The Secret Six
Carl Luckner
The Painted Desert
Rance Brett
Sporting Blood
Warren 'Rid' Riddell
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Rodney Spencer
Hell Divers
Steve Nelson
A Free Soul
Ace Wilfong
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