Clark Gable (1901–1960) was an American actor and producer who appeared in over 70 feature films and several short films. Gable first began acting in stage productions, before his film debut in 1924. After many minor roles, Gable landed a leading role in 1931, subsequently becoming one of the most dominant leading men in Hollywood. He often acted alongside re-occurring leading ladies: six films with Jean Harlow, seven with Myrna Loy, and eight with Joan Crawford, among many others.

Gable's first role opposite Joan Crawford was in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931), the first of eight films in which they appeared together. He was billed sixth. That same year, he also appeared in the gangster film The Secret Six, his first film with Harlow. In 1932, he acted alongside future wife Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own. In his next role in Dancing Lady (1933), Gable appeared alongside Ted Healy and His Stooges and Fred Astaire, who was making his acting debut. Gable's role in the Frank Capra-directed It Happened One Night (1934) garnered him the Academy Award for Best Actor.

For his performance in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Gable was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He then appeared in San Francisco, which was the highest-grossing film of 1936. In 1937, he starred in Saratoga; his co-star Jean Harlow died during production. Gable then appeared in Too Hot to Handle (1938), the last of seven films with Myrna Loy. He then played Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939), acting alongside Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland. The film was massively successful, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, and remains the highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. The following year, Gable starred with leading lady Hedy Lamarr in the King Vidor-directed Comrade X. Also released that year, Strange Cargo would be Gable's last film with Crawford. His final film before joining the United States Army Air Forces was Somewhere I'll Find You (1942). During the war, he narrated the propaganda film Wings Up (1942), and filmed Combat America (1945).

Gable's first film after returning from combat was the Victor Fleming-directed Adventure (1945). His next role was alongside leading ladies Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr in The Hucksters (1947). Gable next collaborated with Gardner and Grace Kelly in the John Ford-directed Mogambo (1953), a remake of Gable's earlier film Red Dust (1932). In 1958, Gable appeared in Run Silent, Run Deep, which also featured Burt Lancaster and Don Rickles. That same year, he starred opposite Doris Day and Mamie Van Doren in Teacher's Pet, which garnered him a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Gable acted alongside Sophia Loren in It Started in Naples (1960). Gable's final film appearance was in the John Huston-directed western The Misfits (1961), released post-humously. It was also Marilyn Monroe's last acting role.

Film

Table displaying films that actor Clark Gable appeared in

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1924	White Man	Lady Andrea's Brother	Film debut, considered a lost film
1924	Forbidden Paradise	Extra
1924	The Iron Horse	Extra
1925	The Merry Widow	Extra
1925	The Plastic Age	Athlete
1931	The Painted Desert	Rance Brett	Supporting role
1931	The Easiest Way	Nick Feliki
1931	Dance, Fools, Dance	Jake Luva
1931	The Finger Points	Louis J. Blanco
1931	The Secret Six	Carl Luckner	Supporting role
1931	Laughing Sinners	Carl Loomis
1931	A Free Soul	Ace Wilfong
1931	Night Nurse	Nick
1931	Sporting Blood	Warren "Rid" Riddell
1931	Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)	Rodney Spencer
1931	Possessed	Mark Whitney
1932	Hell Divers	C.P.O. Steve Nelson
1932	Polly of the Circus	Reverend John Hartley
1932	Red Dust	Dennis Carson
1932	Strange Interlude	Dr. Ned Darrell
1932	No Man of Her Own	Jerry "Babe" Stewart
1933	The White Sister	Giovanni Severi
1933	Hold Your Man	Eddie Hall
1933	Night Flight	Jules Fabian
1933	Dancing Lady	Patch Gallagher
1934	It Happened One Night	Peter Warne
1934	Men in White	Dr. George Ferguson
1934	Manhattan Melodrama	Edward J. "Blackie" Gallagher
1934	Chained	Michael "Mike" Bradley
1934	Forsaking All Others	Jeffrey "Jeff" Williams
1935	After Office Hours	James "Jim" Branch
1935	Call of the Wild	Jack Thornton
1935	China Seas	Captain Alan Gaskell
1935	Mutiny on the Bounty	Fletcher Christian
1936	Wife vs. Secretary	Van Stanhope
1936	San Francisco	Blackie Norton
1936	Cain and Mabel	Larry Cain
1936	Love on the Run	Michael "Mike" Anthony
1937	Parnell	Charles Stewart Parnell
1937	Saratoga	Duke Bradley
1938	Test Pilot	Jim Lane
1938	Too Hot to Handle	Christopher "Chris" Hunter
1939	Idiot's Delight	Harry Van	Gable performs Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz".
1939	Gone with the Wind	Rhett Butler
1940	Strange Cargo	André Verne
1940	Boom Town	Big John McMasters
1940	Comrade X	McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson
1941	They Met in Bombay	Gerald Meldrick
1941	Honky Tonk	"Candy" Johnson
1942	Somewhere I'll Find You	Jonathan "Jonny" Davis
1945	Adventure	Harry Patterson
1947	The Hucksters	Victor Albee Norman
1948	Homecoming	Col. Ulysses Delby "Lee" Johnson
1948	Command Decision	Brig. Gen. K. C. "Casey" Dennis
1949	Any Number Can Play	Charley Enley Kyng
1950	Key to the City	Steve Fisk
1950	To Please a Lady	Mike Brannan
1951	Across the Wide Missouri	Flint Mitchell
1952	Lone Star	Devereaux Burke
1953	Never Let Me Go	Philip Sutherland
1953	Mogambo	Victor Marswell
1954	Betrayed	Col. Pieter Deventer
1955	Soldier of Fortune	Hank Lee
1955	The Tall Men	Colonel Ben Allison
1956	The King and Four Queens	Dan Kehoe	Also producer
1957	Band of Angels	Hamish Bond
1958	Run Silent, Run Deep	Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson
1958	Teacher's Pet	James Gannon / James Gallagher
1959	But Not for Me	Russell "Russ" Ward
1960	It Started in Naples	Michael Hamilton
1961	The Misfits	Gaylord "Gay" Langdon	Post-humous release

World War II propaganda films

Table displaying WW2 propaganda films that actor Clark Gable appeared in

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1942	Show Business at War	Himself
1942	Wings Up	Narrator
1945	Combat America	Narrator	Also produced

Short films

Table displaying short films that actor Clark Gable appeared in

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1931	The Christmas Party	Himself
1935	Starlit Days at the Lido	Himself
1936	The Candid Camera Story	Himself
1937	Hollywood Party	Himself
1938	Hollywood Goes to Town	Himself
1939	Hollywood Hobbies	Himself
1940	Northward, Ho!	Himself	Archival footage, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Northwest Passage (1940)
1941	You Can't Fool a Camera	Himself
1950	Screen Actors	Himself