What is Clark Gable?
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox person | image = Clark Gable - publicity.JPG | caption = Gable in a publicity portrait in 1940 |birth_name = William Clark Gable |birth_date = {{birth date|1901|02|01}} |birth_place = [[Cadiz, Ohio]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1960|11|16|1901|02|01}} |death_place = [[West Hollywood, California]] |other_names = The King of Hollywood |restingplace = [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale]], [[California]] |occupation = Actor |years_active = 1923–1960 | spouse = {{Plainlist| * {{marriage|[[Josephine Dillon]]|1924|1930|end=div}} * {{marriage|Maria Langham|1931|1939|end=div}} * {{marriage|[[Carole Lombard]]|1939|1942|end=d.}} * {{marriage|[[Sylvia Ashley]]|1949|1952|end=div}} * {{marriage|[[Kay Williams]]|1955}} }} | children = 2, including [[Judy Lewis]] | relatives = [[Clark James Gable]] (grandson) |signature = Clark Gable signature.svg }} '''William Clark Gable''' (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American actor. He was best known for playing [[Rhett Butler]] in the 1939 movie version of ''[[Gone with the Wind (movie)|Gone with the Wind]]''. == Life == Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, [[Ohio]].<ref>{{cite book| last = Spicer| first = Chrystopher J.| title = Clark Gable: Biography, Filmography, Bibliography| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=csMDnRXe4vMC&pg=PA4| year = 2002| publisher = McFarland| isbn = 978-0-7864-1124-5| page = 4 }}</ref> He was married five times. He had two children. The last movie that Gable starred in was ''[[The Misfits (movie)|The Misfits]]'', in 1961. This movie also starred [[Marilyn Monroe]] and was written by [[Arthur Miller]]. Gable died shortly afterwards in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], after having had a fourth [[coronary thrombosis]]. == Awards == Gable was nominated for an [[Academy Award]] for playing [[Fletcher Christian]] in the 1935 movie version of ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty]]''. A year before in 1934, he starr