Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S.
Other names
The King of Hollywood
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1924–1960
Political party
Republican
Spouses
Josephine Dillon
(m. 1924; div. 1930)
Maria Langham
(m. 1931; div. 1939)
Carole Lombard
(m. 1939; died 1942)
Sylvia Ashley
(m. 1949; div. 1952)
Kay Williams
(m. 1955)
Children
2, including Judy Lewis
Relatives
Clark James Gable (grandson)
Awards
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Military career
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Army Air Forces United States Air Force
Years of service
1942–1947[1]
Rank
Major
Unit
351st Bomb Group 18th AAF Base Unit
Battles/wars
World War II
European Theater
Awards
Distinguished Flying Cross Air Medal American Campaign Medal European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal
Signature
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. Often referred to as the "King of Hollywood",[2] he had roles in more than 60 films in a variety of genres during a career that lasted 37 years, three decades of which was as a leading man. He was named the seventh greatest male movie star of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute.[3]
Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic comedy, It Happened One Night (1934). He was further Oscar-nominated for his roles as Fletcher Christian in the drama Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Rhett Butler in the historical romance drama Gone with the Wind (1939). He received Golden Globe Award nominations for his comedic roles in Teacher's Pet (1958), and But Not for Me (1959). He also starred in Call of the Wild (1935), Key to the City (1950), and Mogambo (1953). His final on-screen role was as an aging cowboy in The Misfits (1961).
Gable was one of the most consistent box-office performers in the history of Hollywood, appearing on Quigley Publishing's annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll sixteen times. He appeared opposite many of the most popular actresses of their time. He frequently acted alongside Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer and Ava Gardner. Gable died of a heart attack in 1960 at the age of 59.
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William ClarkGable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. Often referred to as the "King of Hollywood", he had roles in more...
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and ClarkGable. Lewis was born on November 6, 1935, in Venice, California. She was conceived while her birth parents, Loretta Young and ClarkGable, were...
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culture in the Soviet Union, along with Shiva and yoga. He was called "the ClarkGable of the Indian film industry". In 2022, he was placed in Outlook India's...
was an American stage and film actress and acting teacher. She was ClarkGable's patron, acting coach and first wife. Born in Denver, Colorado, Dillon...
consecutive Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town. He teamed with ClarkGable, the studio's most prominent leading man for three major box office successes...
Technicolor adventure/romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring ClarkGable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly, and featuring Donald Sinden. Shot on location...
estate of ClarkGable in connection with Winkler's death. The suit was dismissed in Los Angeles Superior Court. Rath, in her action, claimed Gable promised...
many ways." She next starred in Red Dust, her second film with ClarkGable. Harlow and Gable worked well together and co-starred in a total of six films...
marriage of screen stars ClarkGable and Carole Lombard. The original music score was composed by Michel Legrand. Film stars ClarkGable and Carole Lombard...
Mitchell and in the 1939 film adaptation of the same name. It is one of ClarkGable's most recognizable and significant roles. Rhett's personality is that...
Baron Stanley of Alderley (married 18 January 1944 – 1948; divorced). ClarkGable, American actor (married 20 December 1949 – 21 April 1952; divorced)...
before it was finally approved. The next year Young starred opposite ClarkGable and Jack Oakie in the 1935 film adaptation of Jack London's action adventure...
children (including Bunker Spreckels). Williams was married to actor ClarkGable from 1955 until his death in 1960. The couple had one child, a son, who...
name "Clark Kent" was created by taking the first names of actors ClarkGable and Kent Taylor. "Clark" was also inspired by explorer William Clark especially...
under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (ClarkGable). The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the August 1933 short story...
fourteenth in Scotland. Clark is also an occasional given name, as in the case of ClarkGable. According to the 1990 United States Census, Clark was the twenty-first...
heir to the Spreckels Sugar fortune. Spreckels became the stepson of ClarkGable when his mother married the actor. Spreckels met surf photographer Art...
refer to: Douglas Fairbanks's nickname ClarkGable's nickname The King of Hollywood: The Story of ClarkGable, a 1962 book by Charles Samuels "King of...
first and four in the second. The production is notable for featuring ClarkGable in his Broadway debut. Zita Johann as A Young Woman Millicent Green as...
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Major
Distinguished Flying Cross
Air Medal
American Campaign Medal
European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal