1901-02-01 Cadiz, Ohio, USA
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable the seventh-greatest male star of all-time. His most famous role was Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh. His performance earned him his third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor; he won for It Happened One Night (1934) and was also nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). Later performances were in Run Silent, Run Deep, a submarine war film, and his final film, The Misfits (1961), which paired Gable with Marilyn Monroe, also in her last screen appearance. During his long film career, Gable appeared opposite some of the most popular actresses of the time. Joan Crawford, who was his favorite actress to work with, was partnered with Gable in eight films, Myrna Loy was with him seven times, and he was paired with Jean Harlow in six productions. He also starred with Lana Turner in four features, and with Norma Shearer in three. Gable was often named the top male star in the mid-30s, and was second only to the top box-office draw of all, Shirley Temple.
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Gene Kelly mène la danse | Self (archive footage) | 2025-01-02 |
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The Love Story of Jean Harlow and William Powell | Self (archive footage) | 2023-02-20 |
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Rat Pack | Self (archive footage) | 2022-01-11 |
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Normandie ne partira pas ce soir | 2021-09-01 | |
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Elle s'appelait Grace Kelly | Self (archive footage) | 2021-03-20 |
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Arthur Miller: Writer | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-08 |
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Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo | Self (archive footage) | 2014-06-11 |
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Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe | Self (archive footage) | 2012-05-15 |
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | Self (archive footage) | 2009-07-02 |
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Various Roles (archive footage) | 2008-03-03 |
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Le vampire déchu | Himself (archive footage) | 2007-10-24 |
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The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk | Self (archive footage) | 2007-09-02 |
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42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage | Self (archive footage) | 2006-03-21 |
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Judy Garland: By Myself | Self (archive footage) | 2004-02-25 |
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Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland | Himself (archive footage) | 2004-11-09 |
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self (archive footage) | 2004-02-03 |
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Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
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Making 'The Misfits' | Self (archive footage) | 2002-10-02 |
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Frank Capra Jr. Remembers: 'It Happened One Night' | Self (archive footage) | 1999-12-27 |
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Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults | Self (archiveFootage) | 1997-11-18 |
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star | Self (archive footage) | 1996-09-30 |
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That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
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La Classe américaine | The Actor (archive footage) | 1993-12-31 |
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) | 1991-07-15 |
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To | (archive footage) | 1990-06-04 |
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 |
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-24 |
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Grace Kelly: The American Princess | Self (archive footage) | 1987-06-08 |
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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self (archive footage) | 1986-03-09 |
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That's Dancing! | Self (archive footage) | 1985-01-18 |
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Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 |
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Showbiz Ballyhoo | Self (archive footage) | 1982-05-05 |
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Showbiz Goes to War | (archive footage) | 1982-12-31 |
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That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
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Hooray for Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 1976-01-01 |
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
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Gable: The King Remembered | Himself (archive footage) | 1975-02-26 |
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That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) | 1974-06-21 |
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage) | 1972-01-10 |
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Dear Mr. Gable | (archive footage) | 1968-03-05 |
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The Legend of Marilyn Monroe | 1966-11-30 | |
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The Love Goddesses | (Archive Footage) | 1965-03-03 |
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La verifica incerta | (archive footage) | 1965-04-30 |
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The Big Parade of Comedy | Eddie in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 |
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Actor 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 |
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The Misfits | Gay Langland | 1961-02-01 |
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It Started in Naples | Michael Hamilton | 1960-08-06 |
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But Not for Me | Russell 'Russ' Ward | 1959-08-19 |
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Teacher's Pet | James Gannon | 1958-04-01 |
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Run Silent, Run Deep | Cmdr. Richardson | 1958-03-27 |
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The James Dean Story | Self | 1957-08-13 |
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Band of Angels | Hamish Bond | 1957-08-03 |
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The King and Four Queens | Dan Kehoe | 1956-12-21 |
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The Tall Men | Col. Ben Allison | 1955-09-22 |
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Soldier of Fortune | Hank Lee | 1955-05-24 |
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Betrayed | Col. Pieter Deventer | 1954-09-07 |
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A Star Is Born World Premiere | Self | 1954-09-28 |
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Never Let Me Go | Philip Sutherland | 1953-03-18 |
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Mogambo | Victor Marswell | 1953-09-23 |
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Lone Star | Devereaux Burke | 1952-10-24 |
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Across the Wide Missouri | Flint Mitchell | 1951-10-12 |
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Callaway Went Thataway | Clark Gable (uncredited) | 1951-11-15 |
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To Please a Lady | Mike Brannan | 1950-10-13 |
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Screen Actors | Self (uncredited) | 1950-05-13 |
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Key to the City | Steve Fisk | 1950-02-02 |
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Any Number Can Play | Charley Enley Kyng | 1949-07-15 |
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Command Decision | Brigadier General K.C. 'Casey' Dennis | 1948-12-23 |
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Homecoming | Col. Ulysses Delby 'Lee' Johnson | 1948-04-29 |
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The Hucksters | Victor Albee Norman | 1947-07-17 |
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Adventure | Harry Patterson | 1945-12-28 |
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Combat America | Self - Narrator | 1943-01-01 |
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Wings Up | Narrator / Host | 1943-05-27 |
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Show-Business at War | Self | 1943-05-21 |
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Somewhere I'll Find You | Jonathon 'Jonny' Davis | 1942-08-27 |
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Honky Tonk | "Candy" Johnson | 1941-10-01 |
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They Met in Bombay | Gerald Meldrick | 1941-06-27 |
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You Can't Fool a Camera | Himself | 1941-05-23 |
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Trifles of Importance | Self (archive footage) | 1940-07-13 |
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Northward, Ho! | Himself | 1940-02-10 |
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Strange Cargo | André Verne | 1940-03-01 |
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Boom Town | Big John McMasters | 1940-08-30 |
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940-10-24 |
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940-05-29 |
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Comrade X | McKinley B. 'Mac' Thompson | 1940-12-13 |
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self (archive footage) | 1940-07-31 |
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Gone with the Wind | Rhett Butler | 1939-12-15 |
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Hollywood Hobbies | Self (uncredited) | 1939-05-03 |
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Idiot's Delight | Harry Van | 1939-01-27 |
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Another Romance of Celluloid | Self (uncredited) | 1938-02-05 |
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Too Hot to Handle | Chris Hunter | 1938-09-16 |
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Test Pilot | Jim Lane | 1938-04-16 |
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The Romance of Celluloid | Self | 1937-08-27 |
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Hollywood Party | Himself | 1937-04-03 |
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Parnell | Charles Stewart Parnell | 1937-06-04 |
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Saratoga | Duke Bradley | 1937-07-23 |
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Wife vs. Secretary | Van 'V.S.' Stanhope | 1936-02-28 |
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San Francisco | Blackie Norton | 1936-06-26 |
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Love on the Run | Michael Anthony | 1936-11-20 |
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Cain and Mabel | Larry Cain | 1936-09-26 |
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Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel | Himself | 1936-01-01 |
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Starlit Days at the Lido | Self | 1935-09-28 |
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Hollywood Hobbies | Himself | 1935-07-05 |
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Call of the Wild | Jack Thornton | 1935-08-09 |
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After Office Hours | Jim Branch | 1935-02-22 |
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Mutiny on the Bounty | Lieutenant Fletcher Christian | 1935-11-22 |
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China Seas | Cpt Alan Gaskell | 1935-08-09 |
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It Happened One Night | Peter Warne | 1934-02-22 |
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Men in White | Dr. George Ferguson | 1934-04-06 |
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Forsaking All Others | Jeffrey Williams | 1934-12-23 |
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Manhattan Melodrama | Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher | 1934-05-04 |
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 | 1934-03-02 | |
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Chained | Michael 'Mike' Bradley | 1934-08-31 |
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The White Sister | Giovanni Severi | 1933-03-17 |
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Hold Your Man | Eddie Hall | 1933-06-30 |
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Dancing Lady | Patch Gallagher | 1933-11-24 |
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Night Flight | Jules | 1933-10-06 |
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No Man of Her Own | Babe Stewart | 1932-12-30 |
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Polly of the Circus | John Hartley | 1932-02-27 |
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Strange Interlude | Dr. Ned Darrell | 1932-12-30 |
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Hell Divers | Steve Nelson | 1932-01-16 |
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Red Dust | Dennis Carson | 1932-10-22 |
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The Secret Six | Carl Luckner | 1931-04-18 |
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The Christmas Party | Himself | 1931-12-17 |
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Laughing Sinners | Carl Loomis | 1931-05-30 |
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Possessed | Mark Whitney | 1931-11-21 |
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Night Nurse | Nick | 1931-07-16 |
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A Free Soul | Ace Wilfong | 1931-06-02 |
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) | Rodney Spencer | 1931-10-10 |
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Dance, Fools, Dance | Jake Luva | 1931-02-07 |
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Sporting Blood | Warren 'Rid' Riddell | 1931-08-08 |
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The Finger Points | Louis J. Blanco | 1931-04-11 |
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The Painted Desert | Rance Brett | 1931-01-18 |
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The Easiest Way | Nickolas (Nick) Feliki | 1931-02-07 |
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion | Extra (voice) | 1930-10-10 |
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The Johnstown Flood | Townsman Standing at Bar in Saloon (uncredited) | 1926-02-28 |
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The Merry Widow | 1926-09-27 | |
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One Minute to Play | Extra | 1926-09-12 |
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North Star | Archie West | 1925-12-27 |
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The Plastic Age | Athlete (uncredited) | 1925-12-15 |
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Roman Guard (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
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Forbidden Paradise | Soldier in Czarina's Guard (uncredited) | 1924-01-02 |
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White Man | Lady Andrea's Brother | 1924-11-01 |
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Fighting Blood | Bit Part | 1923-04-01 |