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Acting

Clark Gable

Career: Active from 1924 to 2004, with a break from 1969 to 2003, busiest in 1931 with 10 main titles.

Leading roles: 63
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Gone with the Wind
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 65 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Clark Gable Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.4, average 5.4
Uncanny
0.9, average 2.5
Scare
1.1, average 2.6
Fantasy
0.3, average 1.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 12
Historical Drama 6
Social Commentary 6
Character-Driven 6
Classic Adventure 5
Star-Studded Cast 5
Character Study 5
Classic Romantic Comedy 4
Tragic Romance 4
Nostalgic 4
Redemption Story 4
Love Triangle 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

96

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year

TV show

2010s

1 title

Discovering Jean Harlow

as archive footage

2000s

2 titles · average score 67

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

67

as Various Roles (archive footage)

Restoring a Legend: Gone with the Wind

as Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind" (archive footage)

1990s

4 titles · average score 81

That's Entertainment! III

88

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

La Classe américaine

76

as The Actor (archive footage)

Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

79

as (archive footage)

1980s

4 titles · average score 74

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

74

as archive footage

Marilyn Monroe

as archive footage

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

1970s

3 titles · average score 77

Western von gestern

TV show · as Rance Brett (archive footage)

That's Entertainment, Part II

70

as (archive footage)

That's Entertainment!

84

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1960s

6 titles · average score 56

Dear Mr. Gable

as (archive footage)

Uncertain Verification

as (archive footage)

The Big Parade of Comedy

65

as Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage)

The Misfits

74

as Gay Langland

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Actor 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited)

It Started in Naples

30

as Michael Hamilton

1950s

15 titles · average score 61

But Not for Me

65

as Russell 'Russ' Ward

Run Silent, Run Deep

78

as Cmdr. Richardson

Teacher's Pet

79

as James Gannon

Band of Angels

62

as Hamish Bond

The King and Four Queens

51

as Dan Kehoe

The Tall Men

72

as Col. Ben Allison

Soldier of Fortune

57

as Hank Lee

Betrayed

58

as Col. Pieter Deventer

Mogambo

60

as Victor Marswell

Lone Star

58

as Devereaux Burke

Across the Wide Missouri

52

as Flint Mitchell

Key to the City

63

as Steve Fisk

1940s

12 titles · average score 62

Any Number Can Play

40

as Charley Enley Kyng

Command Decision

72

as Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis

Homecoming

76

as Col. Ulysses Delby 'Lee' Johnson

The Hucksters

62

as Victor Albee Norman

Adventure

64

as Harry Patterson

Wings Up

as Narrator / Host

Somewhere I'll Find You

61

as Jonathon 'Jonny' Davis

Honky Tonk

48

as "Candy" Johnson

They Met in Bombay

66

as Gerald Meldrick

Boom Town

68

as Big John McMasters

Strange Cargo

66

as André Verne

Comrade X

61

as McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson

1930s

40 titles · average score 63

Gone with the Wind

87

as Rhett Butler

Too Hot to Handle

60

as Chris Hunter

Parnell

48

as Charles Stewart Parnell

Wife vs. Secretary

69

as Van 'V.S.' Stanhope

San Francisco

80

as Blackie Norton

Mutiny on the Bounty

83

as Lieutenant Fletcher Christian

Call of the Wild

63

as Jack Thornton

It Happened One Night

87

as Peter Warne

Forsaking All Others

58

as Jeffrey Williams

Manhattan Melodrama

75

as Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher

Susan Lenox

61

as Rodney Spencer

Possessed

69

as Mark Whitney

1920s

8 titles · average score 68

The Johnstown Flood

69

as Townsman Standing at Bar in Saloon (uncredited)

One Minute to Play

as Extra

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

87

as Roman Guard (uncredited)

North Star

as Archie West

The Plastic Age

60

as Athlete (uncredited)

White Man

as Lady Andrea's Brother

Forbidden Paradise

58

as Soldier in Czarina's Guard (uncredited)

as Bit Part