Clark Gable Filmography
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
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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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
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1942 | Show Business at War | Himself | ||
1942 | Wings Up | Narrator | ||
1945 | Combat America | Narrator | Also produced |
Short films
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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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 |
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External links
- Clark Gable filmography at IMDb
- Clark Gable filmography at the TCM Movie Database
- Clark Gable Archived 2019-12-25 at the Wayback Machine at the Rotten Tomatoes