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Frank Borzage

Frank Borzage

Director · Born 1894-04-23 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor, known for directing 7th Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), Bad Girl (1931), A Farewell to Arms (1932), Man's Castle (1933), History Is Made at Night (1937), The Mortal Storm (1940) and Moonrise (1948). In 1912 Borzage found employment as an actor in Hollywood; he continued to work as an actor until 1917. His directorial debut came in 1915 with the film The Pitch o' Chance. He was a successful director throughout the 1920s, but reached his peak in the late silent and early sound era. Absorbing visual influences from the German director F.W. Murnau, who was also resident at Fox at this time, Borzage developed his own style of lushly visual romanticism in a hugely successful series of films starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, including 7th Heaven (1927), for which he won the first Academy Award for Best Director, Street Angel (1928) and Lucky Star (1929). He won a second Oscar for 1931's Bad Girl. He directed 14 films between 1917 and 1919 alone. His greatest success in the silent era was with Humoresque, a box office winner st…

Directed

  1. A Farewell to Arms (1932) — Director
  2. 7th Heaven (1927) — Director
  3. The Mortal Storm (1940) — Director
  4. Moonrise (1948) — Director
  5. Street Angel (1928) — Director
  6. Strange Cargo (1940) — Director
  7. History Is Made at Night (1937) — Director
  8. Desire (1936) — Director
  9. Lucky Star (1929) — Director
  10. Bad Girl (1931) — Director
  11. Three Comrades (1938) — Director
  12. Man's Castle (1933) — Director
  13. The Spanish Main (1945) — Director
  14. Mannequin (1938) — Director
  15. The Shining Hour (1938) — Director
  16. Stage Door Canteen (1943) — Director
  17. No Greater Glory (1934) — Director
  18. The River (1929) — Director
  19. Liliom (1930) — Director
  20. Lazybones (1925) — Director
  21. Flirtation Walk (1934) — Director
  22. Little Man, What Now? (1934) — Director
  23. The Circle (1925) — Director
  24. Secrets (1933) — Director
  25. Flight Command (1940) — Director
  26. Humoresque (1920) — Director
  27. Magnificent Doll (1946) — Director
  28. The Big Fisherman (1959) — Director
  29. His Butler's Sister (1943) — Director
  30. Smilin' Through (1941) — Director
  31. Green Light (1937) — Director
  32. They Had to See Paris (1929) — Director
  33. I've Always Loved You (1946) — Director
  34. China Doll (1958) — Director
  35. Living on Velvet (1935) — Director
  36. Big City (1937) — Director
  37. Stranded (1935) — Director
  38. Song o' My Heart (1930) — Director
  39. The Lady (1925) — Director
  40. Young America (1932) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) — Extra (uncredited)
  2. The Oscars (1953)
  3. Jeanne Eagels (1957) — Self (uncredited)
  4. This Is Your Life (1952) — Self
  5. The Wrath of the Gods (1914) — Tom Wilson
  6. Murnau, Borzage and Fox (2008) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  7. A Mormon Maid (1917) — Tom Rigdon
  8. Granddad (1913) — Mildred's Father
  9. The Drummer of the 8th (1913) — Jack Durand
  10. The Pilgrim (1916) — The Pilgrim
  11. Nugget Jim's Pardner (1916) — Hal
  12. The Pitch o' Chance (1915) — Rocky Scott
  13. Knight of the Trail (1915) — Bill Carey
  14. On Secret Service (1912)
  15. Hollywood Preview (1955) — Self
  16. Loaded Dice (1913)
  17. In the Land of the Otter (1915) — Joe Eagle
  18. The Tavern Keeper's Son (1915) — Juan Capella
  19. Silent Heroes (1913)
  20. Samson (1914) — Bearded Philistine Extra (uncredited)
  21. In the Switch Tower (1915) — Joel Wharton
  22. A Flickering Light (1916) — Jim
  23. In the Toils (1913)
  24. The Clean-Up (1915) — George Prescott
  25. Realization (1916)
  26. Two Bits (1916) — James Hardeman
  27. The Hammer (1915) — Donald Barstow
  28. The Girl Who Might Have Been (1915) — George Fowler
  29. A Crook's Sweetheart (1914) — The 'Dip'
  30. The Desperado (1914)
  31. The Crimson Stain (1913)
  32. When Lee Surrenders (1912)
  33. The Cactus Blossom (1915) — Dave Foster
  34. Unlucky Luke (1916) — Luke Drummond
  35. Jack (1916) — Jack
  36. In the Sage Brush Country (1914)
  37. The Panther (1914) — David Brandt
  38. The Cup of Life (1915) — Dick Ralston
  39. The Secret of Lost River (1915) — Tom Hornby - Prospector
  40. The Wheel of Life (1914)