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Clark Gable

Clark Gable

Actor · Died November 16, 1960, aged 59 · Cadiz, Ohio, USA

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable the seventh-greatest male star of all-time. His 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). Later performances were in Run Silent, Run Deep, a submarine war film, and his final film, The Misfits (1961), which paired Gable with Marilyn Monroe, also in her last screen appearance. During his long film career, Gable appeared opposite some of the most popular actresses of the time. Joan Crawford, who was his favorite actress to work with, was partnered with Gable in eight films, Myrna Loy was with him seven times, and he was paired with Jean Harlow in six productions. He also starred with Lana Turner in four features, and with Norma Shearer in three. Gable was often named the top male star in the mid-30s, and was second only to the top box-office draw of all, Shirley Temple.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
February 1, 1901
Died
November 16, 1960 (aged 59)
From
Cadiz, Ohio, USA
Works as
Actor
Titles
72 on MovieCove · 107 credits in all
TMDB popularity, last 37 days to Oct 26Up 30% in 30 days

What are Clark Gable's films like?

Across their 72 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Morality.

What they feel like to watch

their average across 72 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

A split, not a type: Light 32 · Serious 26 · Dark 14

Grounded 50 · Stylized 21 · Heightened 1

Gentle 19 · Charged 47 · Intense 6

Steady 43 · Shifting 23 · Whiplash 6

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 40 · Some laughs 23 · Funny 9

Slow burn 30 · Even-paced 40 · Relentless 2

Casual 49 · Engaged 23 · Full focus 0

Easy watch 35 · Affecting 26 · Heavy 11

Resolved 63 · Open-ended 8 · Ambiguous 1

Roles they play

52 analyzed roles

Usually the Hero: 31 of 52 analyzed roles.

Hero
31 of 52
Shadow
7 of 52
Shapeshifter
4 of 52
Herald
3 of 52
Ally
3 of 52
Mentor
2 of 52
Trickster
2 of 52
Show the 52 roles

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
33
Romantic
39
Melancholic
23
Warm
20
Contemplative
16
Other
50

How their films end · 2 with a twist

  • Happy35
  • Bittersweet25
  • Tragic3
  • Ambiguous7
  • Cyclical2

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Clark Gable's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 12 of their 72 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (6).

Subscription and free streaming for Clark Gable's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

107 credits, 72 with a MovieCove page; 72 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • 1939: Secrets of Hollywood's Golden Year (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Show 1 episode · Actor

  • Normandie ne partira pas ce soir (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Actor

  • Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace(2019)

    as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind

    Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
  • Making Montgomery Clift(2018)

    as Gay Langland

    Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
  • Discovering Jean Harlow (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    as archive footage

  • Marilyn Monroe: In The Movies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Actor

  • Love, Marilyn(2012)

    as Gay Langland

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
  • Hollywood sul Tevere (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Actor

  • Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
  • Restoring a Legend: Gone with the Wind (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

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

  • Hollywood Hall Of Fame - Marilyn Monroe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)

    Actor

  • That's Entertainment! III(1994)

    as (archive footage) (uncredited)

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
  • La classe américaine(1993)

    as The Actor (archive footage)

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
  • Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    as (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to(1990)

    as (archive footage)

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
  • Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend(1986)

    as archive footage

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
  • Marilyn Monroe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1986)

    as archive footage

  • Going Hollywood: The '30s(1984)

    as (archive footage)

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
  • Showbiz Goes to War(1982)

    as (archive footage)

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
  • Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
  • Western von gestern (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)

    Show 1 episode · as Rance Brett (archive footage)

  • That's Entertainment, Part II(1976)

    as (archive footage)

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
  • That's Entertainment!(1974)

    as (archive footage) (uncredited)

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
  • Dear Mr. Gable (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1968)

    as (archive footage)

  • The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1966)

    Actor

  • Uncertain Verification (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1965)

    as (archive footage)

  • The Big Parade of Comedy(1964)

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

    Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
  • Hollywood: The Selznick Years(1969)

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

    Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
  • The Misfits(1961)

    as Gay Langland

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
  • It Started in Naples(1960)

    as Michael Hamilton

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
  • But Not for Me(1959)

    as Russell 'Russ' Ward

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
  • Teacher's Pet(1958)

    as James Gannon

    Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
  • Run Silent Run Deep(1958)

    as Cmdr. Richardson

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
  • Band of Angels(1957)

    as Hamish Bond

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
  • The King and Four Queens(1956)

    as Dan Kehoe

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
  • The Tall Men(1955)

    as Col. Ben Allison

    Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
  • Soldier of Fortune(1955)

    as Hank Lee

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
  • Betrayed(1954)

    as Col. Pieter Deventer

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
  • Mogambo(1953)

    as Victor Marswell

    Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
  • Never Let Me Go(1953)

    as Philip Sutherland

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
  • Lone Star(1952)

    as Devereaux Burke

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
  • Callaway Went Thataway (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1951)

    as Clark Gable (uncredited)

  • Across the Wide Missouri(1951)

    as Flint Mitchell

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
  • To Please a Lady(1950)

    as Mike Brannan

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
  • Key to the City(1950)

    as Steve Fisk

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
  • Any Number Can Play(1949)

    as Charley Enley Kyng

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
  • Command Decision(1948)

    as Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis

    Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
  • Homecoming(1948)

    as Col. Ulysses Delby 'Lee' Johnson

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
  • The Hucksters(1947)

    as Victor Albee Norman

    Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
  • Adventure(1945)

    as Harry Patterson

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
  • Wings Up (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1943)

    as Narrator / Host

  • Somewhere I'll Find You(1942)

    as Jonathon 'Jonny' Davis

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
  • Honky Tonk(1941)

    as "Candy" Johnson

    Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
  • They Met in Bombay(1941)

    as Gerald Meldrick

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
  • Comrade X (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1940)

    as McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson

  • Boom Town(1940)

    as Big John McMasters

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
  • Strange Cargo(1940)

    as André Verne

    Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
  • Gone with the Wind(1939)

    as Rhett Butler

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
  • Idiot's Delight(1939)

    as Harry Van

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
  • Too Hot to Handle(1938)

    as Chris Hunter

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
  • Test Pilot(1938)

    as Jim Lane

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
  • Saratoga(1937)

    as Duke Bradley

    Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
  • Parnell(1937)

    as Charles Stewart Parnell

    Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
  • Love on the Run(1936)

    as Michael Anthony

    Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
  • Cain and Mabel(1936)

    as Larry Cain

    Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
  • San Francisco(1936)

    as Blackie Norton

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
  • Wife vs. Secretary(1936)

    as Van 'V.S.' Stanhope

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
  • Mutiny on the Bounty(1935)

    as Lieutenant Fletcher Christian

    Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
  • Call of the Wild(1935)

    as Jack Thornton

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
  • China Seas(1935)

    as Cpt Alan Gaskell

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
  • After Office Hours (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1935)

    as Jim Branch

  • Forsaking All Others(1934)

    as Jeffrey Williams

    Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
  • Chained (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1934)

    as Michael 'Mike' Bradley

  • Manhattan Melodrama(1934)

    as Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher

    Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
  • Men in White (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1934)

    as Dr. George Ferguson

  • Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1934)

    Actor

  • It Happened One Night(1934)

    as Peter Warne

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
  • Dancing Lady(1933)

    as Patch Gallagher

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
  • Night Flight (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1933)

    as Jules

  • Hold Your Man(1933)

    as Eddie Hall

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
  • The White Sister (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1933)

    as Giovanni Severi

  • No Man of Her Own(1932)

    as Babe Stewart

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
  • Strange Interlude(1932)

    as Dr. Ned Darrell

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
  • Red Dust(1932)

    as Dennis Carson

    Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
  • Polly of the Circus(1932)

    as John Hartley

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
  • Hell Divers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1932)

    as Steve Nelson

  • Possessed(1931)

    as Mark Whitney

    Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
  • Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)(1931)

    as Rodney Spencer

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
  • Sporting Blood (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1931)

    as Warren 'Rid' Riddell

  • Night Nurse(1931)

    as Nick

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
  • A Free Soul(1931)

    as Ace Wilfong

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
  • Laughing Sinners(1931)

    as Carl Loomis

    Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films
  • The Secret 6(1931)

    as Carl Luckner

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
  • The Finger Points (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1931)

    as Louis J. Blanco

  • Dance, Fools, Dance(1931)

    as Jake Luva

    Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films
  • The Easiest Way (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1931)

    as Nickolas (Nick) Feliki

  • The Painted Desert(1931)

    as Rance Brett

    Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films
  • Du Barry, Woman of Passion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1930)

    as Extra (voice)

  • One Minute to Play (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1926)

    as Extra

  • The Johnstown Flood (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1926)

    as Townsman Standing at Bar in Saloon (uncredited)

  • North Star (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1925)

    as Archie West

  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ(1925)

    as Roman Guard (uncredited)

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
  • The Plastic Age (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1925)

    as Athlete (uncredited)

  • The Merry Widow (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1925)

    Actor

  • White Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1924)

    as Lady Andrea's Brother

  • Forbidden Paradise (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1924)

    as Soldier in Czarina's Guard (uncredited)

  • Fighting Blood (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1923)

    as Bit Part

Career shape

Star power in the 99th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 104 titles from 1923 to 2023; peak year 1960.

Film career

MilestoneBreakout
19232023

Peak 1960 · fewer prominent film roles lately. Top draw in 23 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting104 of 104: 104 only acting, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score68th

By decade

1920s9 · acting1930s41 · acting1940s12 · acting1950s15 · acting1960s7 · acting1970s4 · acting1980s4 · acting1990s5 · acting2000s3 · acting2010s2 · acting2020s2 · acting

Billing

usually 1st · top billed in 66% of 32 roles
2535405560

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.

How do Clark Gable's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 70th percentile, the median of all 72; across their 72 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 68th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

68thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 72

Approval · how many liked their films

66thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 72

Reach · how many have seen their films

53rdpercentile
Typical film, the median of 72

Midcredits score across 72 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up29
  • 50th to 74th28
  • 25th to 49th12
  • Below 25th3

Shape of the crowd

45 of their 72 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved8
  • Divisive1
  • Crowd Pleaser45
  • Broadly Agreed6
  • Mixed12

Reviewers score the acting 72/100 in their films, across 59 reviewed titles; fans 80, detractors 47. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Clark Gable's work okay for kids?

Across up to 6 MovieCove titles with content scores, 1 of the 5 categories sits near the median of all films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore4 titlesmedian 48 · moderateMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity6 titles19–27 · median 22 · mildnear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity4 titlesmedian 18 · mildMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs4 titlesmedian 39 · moderateMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense4 titlesmedian 56 · moderateMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Clark Gable work with?

People who share at least 2 of Clark Gable's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Harold Rosson shares the most, 11.

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Writers

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers