Clark Gable (1901-1960)
86.2 TOPICAL actor score · #55 of 1,977 actors
Clark Gable (1901-1960) has a TOPICAL actor score of 86.2 - one of the 100 best actors of all time by TOPICAL's score. Their strongest parts are career standing and prime. They've won 1 acting honour from 1 nomination, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. Their best ten-year run was 1931-1940. Best films: Gone with the Wind (1939), It Happened One Night (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours81
Prime95
Their movies89
Credits86
Career standing98
- Acting honours1 win, 1 nomination - incl. Academy Award for Best Actor
- Prime1931-1940
- Credits90 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 12 scored films (11 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 106 languages
“In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gable as the seventh-greatest male screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 10/10
Clark Gable's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | 2 |
| 101 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | 1 |
| 594 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | 2 |
| 1,940 | The Misfits | 1961 | 1 |
| 2,019 | San Francisco | 1936 | 1 |
| 2,192 | Mogambo | 1953 | 1 |
| 2,402 | A Free Soul | 1931 | 4 |
| 2,697 | Test Pilot | 1938 | 1 |
| 2,960 | Red Dust | 1932 | 1 |
| 3,448 | Teacher's Pet | 1958 | 1 |
| 3,762 | Boom Town | 1940 | 1 |
| 5,650 | It Started in Naples | 1960 | 1 |