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Birthdate: February 1, 1901
Death date: November 16, 1960
Clark Gable
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
No Reviews
2
1930s
4.0000
45
1940s
2.5126
14
1950s
2.2350
14
1960s
2.1357
2
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.9592
2.9592
Clark Gable Movie Rankings
1
3.8877On the eve of the American Civil War, Scarlett O'Hara meets Rhett Butler. Amongst a war torn Atlanta, Scarlett must save her family's burning plantation and accept the possibility of never seeing Rhett again. ...more about Gone with the Wind
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $8.99
(17 sellers)
2
3.6852Aboard the HMS Bounty a crew and its captain set sail for Tahiti, but when the crew gets fed up with the callous treatment of Capt. William Bligh (Charles Laughton), first mate Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) leads them to mutiny. ...more about Mutiny on the Bounty
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $6.55
(14 sellers)
3
3.1202Socialite Ellie Andrews has just been kidnapped by her father, who opposes her marriage. When she escapes, to return to her husband, she meets a journalist expecting to get a great story. Unsure of the outside world Ellie must rely on his unwanted help. ...more about It Happened One Night
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $12.84
(15 sellers)
4
3.1106
Orphans Edward "Blackie" Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take different paths in life. Blackie thrives on gambling and grows up to be a hard-nosed racketeer. Bookworm Wade becomes a D.A. vying for the Governorship. ...more about Manhattan Melodrama
- Not Available on DVD
5
3.0980
Dynamic Alan Gaskell captains a ship bound from Hong Kong to Singapore. Gaskell tries to turn over a new leaf from his hard-drinking lifestyle after becoming attached to a refined high class English lady, Sybil Barclay. ...more about China Seas
DVD from $4.81
(14 sellers)
6
2.9575
McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsey comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties. ...more about Boom Town
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
7
2.7573
The film opens with Mike Hamilton (Gable) arriving in Naples to settle the affairs of his recently deceased brother, who left Philadelphia 10 years earlier for a beer and never came back. ...more about It Started in Naples
DVD from $5.97
(9 sellers)
8
2.7273
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. ...more about Mogambo
DVD from $4.60
(15 sellers)
9
2.7258
Roslyn divorces Ray in Reno and then meets widower Guido. He likes her but introduces her to cowboy Gay, and those two fall in love. When she learns that Gay, Guido and Perce are going to turn wild horses ("misfits") into dog food, she protests. ...more about Misfits
DVD from $2.26
(11 sellers)
10
2.6985
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to solve the murder of one of her socialite acquaintences. ...more about After Office Hours
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.6871
In the company of reporter Michael Anthony, American heiress Sally Parker flees her planned wedding to Prince Igor; Sally is unaware of Mike's detestable occupation. The two steal an airplane that is part of a spy plot and discover secret plans. ...more about Love on the Run
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.6726
Mary Blake arrives at Blackie Norton's Paradise gambling hall and beer garden looking for work as a singer. Blackie embarrasses her by asking to see her legs, but does hire her. She faints from hunger. ...more about San Francisco
DVD from $12.41
(13 sellers)
13
2.6255
Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson's Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to evade the police by a stay upcountry. ...more about Red Dust
DVD from $25.55
(11 sellers)
14
2.6209
Bootlegger/cafe owner Ralph Bellamy recruits crude working man Wallace Beery to join his gang which is masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Lewis Stone. ...more about Secret Six
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.6163
Cafe entertainer Ivy Stevens falls for sleazy salesman Howard Palmer and jumps from a bridge when he dumps her. Saved by Salvation Army officer Carl, Ivy reforms and joins the Army. When she runs into Palmer she falls for him all over again. ...more about Laughing Sinners
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.6140
Linda Stanhope isn't jealous of beautiful Whitey Wilson, secretary to her magazine publisher husband Van ... until his mother plants the seed of doubt. ...more about Wife vs. Secretary
DVD from $11.89
(13 sellers)
17
2.5752
The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. ...more about Parnell
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.5615
Carol Clayton is the daughter of a horse breeder at Saratoga. Though engaged to wealthy Hartley Madison, and disgusted by bookie Duke Bradley, her father owes Bradley a lot of money and Bradley takes a shine to her. ...more about Saratoga
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.5524
Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie, a saloon girl, in his plans but she turns him in to the authorities. ...more about Strange Cargo
- Not Available on DVD
20
2.5433
The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak - and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Gordon Shaw was a flyer who was shot down and killed during WWI. ...more about Strange Interlude
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.5341
Two brothers, both war correspondents, vie for the affection of the same girl at the beginning of World War II, and later find her doing orphan work in China. ...more about Somewhere I'll Find You
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.5296
Gambler Rid Riddell wins a racehorse, Tommy Boy, on a bet. Rid consistently wins with the horse in both honestly and dishonestly run races. But before long, Tommy Boy wins a race he wasn't supposed to, and the mob is after Rid. ...more about Sporting Blood
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.5204
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important that attending a cocktail party. ...more about Men in White
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.5113
Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on the Chinese-Japanese war, he meets pilot Alma Harding. At first she doesn't trust him, but by a trick he manages to get her hired as his assistant. ...more about Too Hot to Handle
- Not Available on DVD
25
2.4930
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. ...more about Call of the Wild
DVD from $31.99
(10 sellers)
26
2.4748
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. ...more about Painted Desert
DVD from $3.80
(6 sellers)
27
2.4369
James Gannon, the hardboiled city editor of a newspaper, believes that the only way to learn the business is by way of the School of Hard Knocks, and has a very low regard for college-taught journalism, so he's not pleased when his managing editor orders ...more about Teacher's Pet
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical
DVD from $3.90
(12 sellers)
28
2.4277
In an attempt to carry on in his great Rhett Butler tradition, Gone With The Wind star Clark Gable once again flexes his muscular charms in another Civil War-era movie about the torrid romance between a plantation owner and a half-caste beauty. ...more about Band of Angels
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
29
2.4200
When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. ...more about Polly of the Circus
- Not Available on DVD
30
2.4154
McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson, American reporter in Moscow, smuggles out uncensored news under the alias "Comrade X," but hotel valet Vanya discovers his secret. ...more about Comrade X
- Not Available on DVD
31
2.4017
The best-laid plans of jewel thief Gable and lady crook Russell fall apart when the thief unintentionally becomes a hero while posing as a British officer. ...more about They Met in Bombay
- Not Available on DVD
32
2.3774
General Dennis of the US Force in England in World War II finds that he must order his planes deeper and deeper into Germany to prevent the production of military jet planes that will turn the tide of battle to the Germans. ...more about Command Decision
- Not Available on DVD
33
2.3058
The managers of heavyweight champion Larry Cain and Broadway musical star Mabel O'Dare scheme up a romance to give the celebrities more glamour. But the two don't hit it off, having started on the wrong foot. ...more about Cain and Mabel
- Not Available on DVD
34
2.3013
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. ...more about Easiest Way
- Not Available on DVD
35
2.2997
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe. ...more about Test Pilot
- Not Available on DVD
36
2.1978
After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie goes to work as a cub reporter. Her brother Rodney is the wheel man in a gangland massacre. Bert, a reporter on Bonnie's paper, is murdered while investigating. ...more about Dance
- Not Available on DVD
37
2.1734
A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men. ...more about Chained
- Not Available on DVD
39
2.1552
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, but something much more sinister is going on. ...more about Night Nurse
- Not Available on DVD
40
2.1460
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. ...more about Possessed
- Not Available on DVD
41
2.1415
Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he is hiding out. The two get married after Lombard wins a coin flip and they move back to the city. ...more about No Man of Her Own
- Not Available on DVD
42
2.0912
Susan, an orphan, lives the life of Cinderella with rustic relatives. She escapes one stormy night when the fiance her relatives chose tries to force his attentions. ...more about Susan Lenox
- Not Available on DVD
43
2.0547
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. ...more about Dancing Lady
DVD from $6.49
(13 sellers)
44
1.8538
Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son. ...more about Any Number Can Play
- Not Available on DVD
45
1.8068
Smooth cowboy Dan Kehoe arrives at a ranch run by an old widow and her four daughters-in-law. He's been tipped off that the proceeds of a gold robbery are hidden on the ranch and only one of the women knows where. ...more about King and Four Queens
- Not Available on DVD
46
1.7533
Stephen Ashe, an upper class alcoholic defense attourney, successfully defends local mobster Ace Wilfong in a murder case. ...more about Free Soul
- Not Available on DVD
49
1.7168
'Jackie Cooper' (qv)'s mother agrees to host a Christmas party for his football team. Things soon get out of hand, and the number of children gets too large for his house. He pleads with 'Norma Shearer' (qv) to ask 'Louis B. ...more about Christmas Party
- Not Available on DVD
50
1.6835
Two brothers, Ben and Clint, join a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. While heading for Texas they save Nella from the Indians, and she decides to ride with them. ...more about Tall Men
DVD from $22.26
(11 sellers)
51
1.6789
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. ...more about Key to the City
- Not Available on DVD
52
1.5981
When gambler Candy Johnson comes to the small-town Yellow Creek he has set his mind on the narrow path to live an honest life. He falls in love with young Elizabeth Cotton and with the money he won at gambling he opens up a saloon. ...more about Honky Tonk
- Not Available on DVD
53
1.5981
Victor Norman is just out of the Service and is looking for a job in advertizing. By playing hard to get, he figures that he can get a good job and a large salary. ...more about Hucksters
- Not Available on DVD
55
1.4963
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. ...more about Across the Wide Missouri
- Not Available on DVD
56
1.4049
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. ...more about Run Silent Run Deep
DVD from $5.29
(13 sellers)
57
Carla Van Oven becomes an allied spy in Holland during WW2, although she is suspected of having cooperated with and taken help from the Nazis. ...more about Betrayed
- Not Available on DVD
58
Russ Ward, after 30 years of producing Broadway plays, is ready to quit. His secretary, Ellie Brown, on being given notice, tells him she loves him. Russ proceeds to turn this into a hit play starring Ellie and romance her in a May-December affair. ...more about But Not for Me
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
- Not Available on DVD
59
A documentary recounting the experiences of the 351st Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces, based in England during the Second World War . The group's air and ground crews are followed through a number of bombing missions over Hitler's Germany. ...more about Combat America
DVD from $3.42
(8 sellers)
60
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital. ...more about Finger Points
- Not Available on DVD
61
Dyl leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dyl, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her. ...more about Forsaking All Others
- Not Available on DVD
63
Two out-of-towners take an automobile tour of Hollywood to see the private lives of some celebrities. ...more about Hollywood Hobbies
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
65
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. ...more about Homecoming
- Not Available on DVD
67
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story by Borden Chase about cattle baron Devereaux Burke (Gable), who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson (scene-stealing Barrymore) to dissuade Sam Houston (Moroni Olsen) from establishing Texas as a ...more about Lone Star
- Not Available on DVD
68
Philip Sutherland (Clark Gable) is an American news writer stationed in Moscow since the war; while there he falls for a Russian ballet dancer, Marva Lamarkins (Gene Tierney), who, he finds out, learned English because she fell in love with him. ...more about Never Let Me Go
- Not Available on DVD
74
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a hard-as-nails newspaper/radio columnist who will ruin the career of anyone she deems worthy of it. ...more about To Please a Lady
- Not Available on DVD
77
This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are times when all four of the animal's feet are off the ground. ...more about You Can't Fool a Camera
- Not Available on DVD
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