Ranking The 30 Best Actors of All-Time

17. Clark Gable

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The definition of American masculinity, Clark Gable was officially proclaimed the “King of Hollywood” during his Golden Age heyday. Initially considered too rough to play the romantic lead, Gable’s forceful persona earned him scores of fans in films like A Free Soul, Red Dust, and San Francisco. He won an Oscar for his role in Frank Capra’s film It Happened One Night, made women swoon in Mutiny on the Bounty, and charmed as roguish Rhett Butler in the epic Gone with the Wind. His delivery of the latter film’s classic line — “Frankly, my dear I don’t give a damn” — was soon among the most quoted in the history of cinema.