Biography: life and films
Clark Gable was an American actor whose birth name was William Clark Gable. He was born in Cadiz, Ohio, USA on 1st February 1901 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 16th November 1960, aged 59.His best films as an actor include Victor Fleming's Red Dust (1932), Frank Capra's comedy It Happened One Night (1934), W.S. Van Dyke's Manhattan Melodrama (1934), Frank Lloyd's Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Lloyd Bacon's Cain and Mabel (1936).
Clark Gable appeared in 90 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Clarence Brown (8 films), Jack Conway (6), Victor Fleming (5), Wesley Ruggles (4), W.S. Van Dyke (4), Robert Z. Leonard (4), William A. Wellman (3), Sam Wood (3), Raoul Walsh (3), Mervyn LeRoy (2), Harry Beaumont (2) and George W. Hill (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (53 films), romance (39), comedy-romance (16), comedy (15), comedy-drama (11), Documentary (9), Western (8), War (7), Thriller (4), crime-thriller (2) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for Clark Gable over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Fighting Blood (1923) [a]
Forbidden Paradise (1924) [a]
White Man (1924) [a]
Declassée (1925) [a]
North Star (1925) [a]
The Plastic Age (1925) [a]
One Minute to Play (1926) [a]
The Johnstown Flood (1926) [a]
Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930) [a]
A Free Soul (1931) [a]
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) [a]
Hell Divers (1931) [a]
Laughing Sinners (1931) [a]
Night Nurse (1931) [a]
Possessed (1931) [a]
Sporting Blood (1931) [a]
Susan Lenox (1931) [a]
The Easiest Way (1931) [a]
The Finger Points (1931) [a]
The Front Page (1931) [a]
The Painted Desert (1931) [a]
The Secret Six (1931) [a]
No Man of Her Own (1932) [a]
Polly of the Circus (1932) [a]
Red Dust (1932) [a]
Strange Interlude (1932) [a]
Dancing Lady (1933) [a]
Hold Your Man (1933) [a]
Night Flight (1933) [a]
The White Sister (1933) [a]
Chained (1934) [a]
Forsaking All Others (1934) [a]
It Happened One Night (1934) [a]
Manhattan Melodrama (1934) [a]
Men in White (1934) [a]
After Office Hours (1935) [a]
China Seas (1935) [a]
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) [a]
The Call of the Wild (1935) [a]
Cain and Mabel (1936) [a]
Love on the Run (1936) [a]
San Francisco (1936) [a]
Wife vs. Secretary (1936) [a]
Parnell (1937) [a]
Saratoga (1937) [a]
Test Pilot (1938) [a]
Too Hot to Handle (1938) [a]
Idiot's Delight (1939) [a]
Boom Town (1940) [a]
Comrade X (1940) [a]
Strange Cargo (1940) [a]
Honky Tonk (1941) [a]
They Met in Bombay (1941) [a]
Somewhere I'll Find You (1942) [a]
Adventure (1945) [a]
The Hucksters (1947) [a]
Command Decision (1948) [a]
Homecoming (1948) [a]
Any Number Can Play (1949) [a]
Key to the City (1950) [a]
To Please a Lady (1950) [a]
Across the Wide Missouri (1951) [a]
Lone Star (1952) [a]
Mogambo (1953) [a]
Never Let Me Go (1953) [a]
Betrayed (1954) [a]
Soldier of Fortune (1955) [a]
The Tall Men (1955) [a]
The King and Four Queens (1956) [a]
Band of Angels (1957) [a]
The James Dean Story (1957) [a]
Run Silent Run Deep (1958) [a]
Teacher's Pet (1958) [a]
But Not for Me (1959) [a]
It Started in Naples (1960) [a]
The Misfits (1961) [a]
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) [a]
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964) [a]
Inside Daisy Clover (1965) [a]
The Love Goddesses (1965) [a]
The Happy Ending (1969) [a]
Hooray for Hollywood (1975) [a]
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) [a]
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987) [a]
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