William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio and died on November 16, 1960. He was an Academy Award-winning American film actor.

He launched his film career in 1931 when he became a hit in The Painted Desert and made 11 further films that year.

Clark Gable was a popular leading man in the movies for nearly thirty years. His big ears and cocky grin helped define his screen persona as a rascal, most famously in It Happened One Night (1934).

His stature as a romantic hero was cemented as Rhett Butler, opposite Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind (1939).

After his third wife, Carole Lombard, died in a plane crash (1942), he joined the air force and flew bombing missions. On returning to Hollywood, he never quite regained his former glory but he remained popular with older fans.

His final film was The Misfits (1961). Marilyn Monroe was his last on-screen partner.

Gable died in Los Angeles, California in November 1960, the result of a fourth heart attack.

Filmography

• The Misfits (1961)
• It Started in Naples (1960)
• But Not for Me (1959)
• Teacher's Pet (1958)
• Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
• Band of Angels (1957)
• The King and Four Queens (1956)
• The Tall Men (1955)
• Soldier of Fortune (1955)
• Betrayed (1954)
• Mogambo (1953)
• Never Let Me Go (1953)
• Lone Star (1952)
• Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
• To Please a Lady (1950)
• Key to the City (1950)
• Any Number Can Play (1949)
• Command Decision (1948)
• Homecoming (1948)
• The Hucksters (1947)
• Adventure (1945)
• Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
• Honky Tonk (1941)
• They Met in Bombay (1941)
• Comrade X (1940)
• Boom Town (1940)
• Strange Cargo (1940)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• Idiot's Delight (1939)
• Too Hot to Handle (1938)
• Test Pilot (1938)
• Saratoga (1937)
• Parnell (1937)
• Love on the Run (1936)
• Cain and Mabel (1936)
• San Francisco (1936)
• Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
• The Call of the Wild (1935)
• China Seas (1935)
• After Office Hours (1935)
• Forsaking All Others (1934)
• Chained (1934)
• Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
• Men in White (1934)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• Dancing Lady (1933)
• Night Flight (1933)
• Hold Your Man (1933)
• The White Sister (1933)
• Strange Interlude (1932)
• No Man of Her Own (1932)
• Red Dust (1932)
• Polly of the Circus (1932)
• Hell Divers (1931)
• Possessed (1931)
• Susan Lenox (1931)
• Sporting Blood (1931)
• Night Nurse (1931)
• A Free Soul (1931)
• Laughing Sinners (1931)
• The Secret Six (1931)
• The Finger Points (1931)
• The Front Page (1931)
• Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
• The Easiest Way (1931)
• The Painted Desert (1931)
• Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
• One Minute to Play (1926)
• The Johnstown Flood (1926)
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
• North Star (1925)
• The Plastic Age (1925)
• The Merry Widow (1925)
• What Price Gloria? (1925)
• The Merry Kiddo (1925)
• Declassée (1925)
• The Pacemakers (1925)
• Forbidden Paradise (1924)
• White Man (1924)

Awards

• Oscar Best Actor "It Happened One Night" 1934