Clark Gable

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1901 age 0

   Born

2. 1925 age 24

   CreditBen-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

3. 1931 age 30

   CreditA Free Soul

4. 1934 age 33

   CreditIt Happened One Night

5. 1935 age 34

   CreditMutiny on the Bounty

6. 1939 age 38

   CreditGone with the Wind

7. 1953 age 52

   CreditMogambo

8. 1960 age 59

   Died

9. 1961 age 59

   CreditThe Misfits

• WCWallis Clark3 titles
• ITIrving Thalberg3 titles
• LHLeslie Howard2 titles
• WBWard Bond2 titles
• TTTom Tyler2 titles
• IBIrving Bacon2 titles
• EWE. Alyn Warren2 titles
• ECEddy Chandler2 titles
• DSDavid O. Selznick2 titles
• LBLionel Barrymore2 titles

• Spouse

  • CLCarole Lombard

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great — and they know I know it.

  Clark Gable, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You know, this "King" stuff is pure bullshit. I eat and sleep and go to the bathroom just like anyone else. There's no special light that shines inside me and makes me a star. I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time and I had a lot of smart guys helping me—that's all.

  Clark Gable, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My father could never get it through his head that acting was honorable work for a man. Even when I was making $7,500 a week, he stubbornly kept saying, "What kind of a job is that for a fellow six feet tall, weighs 195 pounds?"

  Clark Gable, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I used to go over to Howard's house on Sunday mornings for breakfast and it was unusual when he didn't get at least three phone calls while we ate, asking him to keep catastrophes of the night before out of the papers. One star would be picked up drunk in the street, another would have been caught in a raid on a marijuana party, another would have wrapped his car around a tree with someone else's wife in the seat alongside him. The next day I would always look in the papers to see if anything sneaked through. Nothing ever did. That Howard, he sure is a genius.

  Clark Gable, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I worked like a son of a bitch to learn a few tricks and I fight like a steer to avoid getting stuck with parts I can't play.

  Clark Gable, CC BY-SA 4.0