ACTOR

Clark Gable

1901 - 1960

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William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. Often referred to as the "King of Hollywood", 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.Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic comedy, It Happened One Night (1934). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clark Gable has received more than 15,391,687 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Clark Gable is the 93rd most popular actor (down from 62nd in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from United States (down from 128th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Actor.

Clark Gable is most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

Memorability Metrics

  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 89

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Clark Gables by language

Over the past year Clark Gable has had the most page views in the with 1,935,255 views, followed by German (171,695), and Spanish (162,917). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Zazaki (278.69%), Cornish (274.70%), and Korean (110.05%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Clark Gable ranks 93 out of 13,578. Before him are Samuel L. Jackson, Jane Birkin, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Rowan Atkinson, and Helen Mirren. After him are Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jane Fonda, Sigourney Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Redford, and Gregory Peck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Clark Gable ranks 14. Before him are Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Jacques Lacan, Sukarno, Fulgencio Batista, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Linus Pauling. After him are Rudolf Höss, Alberto Giacometti, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Magda Goebbels, Paul of Greece, and Ernest Lawrence. Among people deceased in 1960, Clark Gable ranks 4. Before him are Albert Camus, Boris Pasternak, and Max von Laue. After him are Erich Raeder, Paula Hitler, Albert Kesselring, Wilhelm Pieck, Melanie Klein, Walther Funk, Amanullah Khan, and Fausto Coppi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clark Gable ranks 178 out of 20,380. Before him are Sitting Bull (1831), Tom Cruise (1962), John Travolta (1954), Linus Pauling (1901), James Watson (1928), and Ray Bradbury (1920). After him are Robert K. Merton (1910), Geronimo (1829), Gene Cernan (1934), Tim Cook (1960), Edwin McMillan (1907), and Jane Fonda (1937).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Clark Gable ranks 43. Before him are Sharon Tate (1943), Paul Newman (1925), Judy Garland (1922), Samuel L. Jackson (1948), Tom Cruise (1962), and John Travolta (1954). After him are Jane Fonda (1937), Sigourney Weaver (1949), Robert Redford (1936), Gregory Peck (1916), Mel Gibson (1956), and Jon Voight (1938).

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Television and Movie Roles

Gone with the Wind
Rhett Butler
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Dec 15o 19398 / 10
It Happened One Night
Peter Warne
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
Feb 22o 19347.9 / 10
The Misfits
Gay Langland
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
Feb 1o 19616.958 / 10