Directing
Frank Borzage
EN, IT, XX cinema · 154 credits
Born
23 April 1894
Died
19 June 1962 (aged 68)
Birthplace
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Also known as Mr. Borzage · Фрэнк Борзеги
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 starring Vera Gordon. Borzage's trademark was intense identification with the feelings of young lovers in the face of adversity, with love in his films triumphing over such trials as World War I (7th Heaven and A Farewell to Arms), disability (Lucky Star), the Depression (Man's Castle), a thinly disguised version of the Titanic disaster in History Is Made at Night, and the rise of Nazism, a theme which Borzage had virtually to himself among Hollywood filmmakers from Little Man, What Now? (1933) to Three Comrades (1938) and The Mortal Storm (1940). His work took a spiritual turn in such films as Green Light (1937), Strange Cargo (1940) and The Big Fisherman (1959). Of his later work only the film noir Moonrise (1948) has enjoyed much critical acclaim. After 1948, Borzage's output was sporadic. In 1955 and 1957, he was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. Frank Borzage died of cancer in 1962, aged 68.
Known for
Filmography
The Pride and the Man
The Pride and the Man
Director, Writer
Dollars of Dross
Dollars of Dross
Director, Writer
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Journey Beneath the Desert
Co-Director
The Big Fisherman
Director
China Doll
Director, Producer
Jeanne Eagels
as Self (uncredited)
Moonrise
Director
That's My Man
Director, Producer
I've Always Loved You
Director, Producer
Magnificent Doll
Director
The Spanish Main
Director, Producer
Till We Meet Again
Director
His Butler's Sister
Director
Stage Door Canteen
Director, Producer
Seven Sweethearts
Director, Producer
Smilin' Through
Director, Producer
Billy the Kid
Co-Director
The Mortal Storm
Director, Producer
I Take This Woman
Co-Director
Strange Cargo
Director, Producer
Flight Command
Director
Disputed Passage
Director
Mannequin
Director, Producer, Screenplay
The Shining Hour
Director, Producer
Three Comrades
Director
Big City
Director
Green Light
Director, Producer
Desire
Director, Producer
Hearts Divided
Director, Producer
Stranded
Director, Producer
Shipmates Forever
Director
Living on Velvet
Producer, Director
Flirtation Walk
Director, Producer
No Greater Glory
Director, Producer
Secrets
Director
Man's Castle
Director, Producer
A Farewell to Arms
Director, Producer
After Tomorrow
Director
Young America
Director
Bad Girl
Director
Doctors' Wives
Director
Young as You Feel
Director
Liliom
Director
Song o' My Heart
Director, Producer
Lucky Star
Director
The River
Director
Street Angel
Director
7th Heaven
Director
The First Year
Director
The Dixie Merchant
Director
Marriage License?
Director
Early to Wed
Director
Lazybones
Director, Producer
The Circle
Director
The Lady
Director
Wages for Wives
Director
Secrets
Director
The Nth Commandment
Director, Producer
The Age of Desire
Director, Producer
Children of Dust
Director
Back Pay
Director
The Pride of Palomar
Director
Billy Jim
Director
The Good Provider
Director
Humoresque
Director
Toton
Director
The Atom
Actor, Director
The Curse of Iku
as Allan Carroll / Allan Carroll III, Director
The Gun Woman
Director
A Mormon Maid
as Tom Rigdon
Fear Not
as Franklin Shirley
Wee Lady Betty
as Roger O'Reilly
A School for Husbands
as Hugh Aslam
Until They Get Me
Director
Flying Colors
Director
Nugget Jim's Pardner
as Hal, Director, Writer
The Pilgrim
as The Pilgrim, Director
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Extra (uncredited)
Land O' Lizards
as The Stranger, Director
A Flickering Light
as Jim, Director
The Courtin' of Calliope Clew
as Calliope Clew, Director
Immediate Lee
as Immediate Lee, Director
Two Bits
as James Hardeman, Director
Unlucky Luke
1916
Unlucky Luke
as Luke Drummond, Director, Writer
The Code of Honor
1916
The Code of Honor
as Lt. Bob Chase, Director
Jack
1916
Jack
as Jack, Director
The Demon of Fear
as Thomas Marsh, Director, Writer
That Gal of Burke's
1916
That Gal of Burke's
as Charles Percival, Director
Nell Dale's Men Folks
1916
Nell Dale's Men Folks
as Zeb Dale, Director, Writer
The Forgotten Prayer
1916
The Forgotten Prayer
as Dan Page, Director
Matchin' Jim
1916
Matchin' Jim
as Matchin' Jim, Director, Writer
Life's Harmony
Director
In the Land of the Otter
as Joe Eagle
The Cup of Life
1915
The Cup of Life
as Dick Ralston
The Secret of Lost River
1915
The Secret of Lost River
as Tom Hornby - Prospector
The Pitch o' Chance
as Rocky Scott, Director
Knight of the Trail
as Bill Carey
In the Switch Tower
as Joel Wharton
The Clean-Up
1915
The Clean-Up
as George Prescott
The Mill by the Zuyder Zee
as Dirk Brandt
The Hammer
1915
The Hammer
as Donald Barstow
The Girl Who Might Have Been
as George Fowler
The Cactus Blossom
1915
The Cactus Blossom
as Dave Foster
Aloha Oe
as Dr. John Hawley
The Panther
1914
The Panther
as David Brandt
The Wrath of the Gods
as Tom Wilson
Samson
as Bearded Philistine Extra (uncredited)
The Typhoon
as Renard Bernisky
Parson Larkin's Wife
1914
Parson Larkin's Wife
as Parson James Larkin
The Drummer of the 8th
as Jack Durand
Granddad
as Mildred's Father
