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Clark Gable

American actor (1901–1960)

  • Fame72.1
  • Momentum10.3
  • Wikipedia195.6K
Source-basedRising
Lived 1901–1960, aged 59United States
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  • Wikipedia
    93 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1901–1960
    Aged 59
  • Known for
    Gone with the Wind
    1939
Summary
Updated 2026-08-27

He spent three decades as a leading man, won an Oscar for a screwball comedy, and got the role everyone remembers—Rhett Butler—without taking home the statue for it.

Biography

About

William Clark Gable was born February 1, 1901, and built a 37-year film career that made him one of Hollywood's most reliably bankable stars, landing on the industry's annual top-ten moneymaker list sixteen times. He took the Academy Award for Best Actor in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night in 1934, then earned nominations for Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty and Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, the latter in 1939 becoming the performance that would define him. He worked opposite the era's major actresses—Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Carole Lombard, Marilyn Monroe—an…

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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Clark Gable

Clark Gable
said
My father could never get it through his head that acting was honorable work for a man.
— Speaking with author Bill Davidson (c. October 1960), as cited in Davidson's The Real and the Unreal (1961), p. 104
Clark Gable
saidundated
The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great — and they know I know it.
— As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 3
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Filmography

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TV credits

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Awards

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  • Golden Boot Awards
  • Academy Award for Best Actor
  • Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Air Medal
  • American Campaign Medal
  • European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
  • World War II Victory Medal
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Rising
72.1
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum10.3
Historical31.0
Now attention43.2
Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
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Sources

  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
    High confidence
  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence