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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:09/12/2008
Jeanne Eagels
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:02/08/1957
The Atom
Character:
Release Date:15/09/1918
The Curse of Iku
Character:Allan Carroll / Allan Carroll III
Release Date:01/03/1918
Fear Not
Character:Franklin Shirley
Release Date:26/11/1917
Wee Lady Betty
Character:Roger O'Reilly
Release Date:17/08/1917
A Mormon Maid
Character:Tom Rigdon
Release Date:21/04/1917
A School for Husbands
Character:Hugh Aslam
Release Date:05/04/1917
Immediate Lee
Character:Immediate Lee
Release Date:13/11/1916
Land O' Lizards
Character:The Stranger
Release Date:18/09/1916
Matchin' Jim
Character:Matchin' Jim
Release Date:08/09/1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character:Extra (uncredited)
Release Date:04/09/1916
The Forgotten Prayer
Character:Dan Page
Release Date:31/08/1916
Nell Dale's Men Folks
Character:Zeb Dale
Release Date:25/08/1916
The Courtin' of Calliope Clew
Character:Calliope Clew
Release Date:11/08/1916
That Gal of Burke's
Character:Charles Percival
Release Date:28/07/1916
Nugget Jim's Pardner
Character:Hal
Release Date:14/07/1916
The Demon of Fear
Character:Thomas Marsh
Release Date:30/06/1916
The Pilgrim
Character:The Pilgrim
Release Date:09/06/1916
Jack
Character:Jack
Release Date:26/05/1916
Unlucky Luke
Character:Luke Drummond
Release Date:28/04/1916
Realization
Character:
Release Date:22/04/1916
A Flickering Light
Character:Jim
Release Date:14/04/1916
Two Bits
Character:James Hardeman
Release Date:07/04/1916
The Code of Honor
Character:Lt. Bob Chase
Release Date:21/03/1916
The Cactus Blossom
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Release Date:31/12/1915
The Pitch o' Chance
Character:Rocky Scott
Release Date:24/12/1915
The Clean-Up
Character:George Prescott
Release Date:20/12/1915
Aloha Oe
Character:Dr. John Hawley
Release Date:10/11/1915
Knight of the Trail
Character:Bill Carey
Release Date:19/08/1915
The Hammer
Character:Donald Barstow
Release Date:09/07/1915
The Secret of Lost River
Character:Tom Hornby - Prospector
Release Date:18/06/1915
The Tavern Keeper's Son
Character:Juan Capella
Release Date:09/06/1915
The Cup of Life
Character:Dick Ralston
Release Date:26/04/1915
Molly of the Mountains
Character:John Harlow
Release Date:07/04/1915
In the Switch Tower
Character:Joel Wharton
Release Date:24/03/1915
The Mill by the Zuyder Zee
Character:Dirk Brandt
Release Date:18/03/1915
The Girl Who Might Have Been
Character:George Fowler
Release Date:12/03/1915
In the Land of the Otter
Character:Joe Eagle
Release Date:14/01/1915
The Panther
Character:David Brandt
Release Date:10/12/1914
A Crook's Sweetheart
Character:The 'Dip'
Release Date:27/11/1914
The Desperado
Character:
Release Date:04/11/1914
The Typhoon
Character:Renard Bernisky
Release Date:10/10/1914
Parson Larkin's Wife
Character:Parson James Larkin
Release Date:23/09/1914
The Wrath of the Gods
Character:Tom Wilson
Release Date:08/06/1914
Love's Western Flight
Character:
Release Date:03/06/1914
Samson
Character:Bearded Philistine Extra (uncredited)
Release Date:30/04/1914
A Flash in the Dark
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Release Date:18/02/1914
The Wheel of Life
Character:
Release Date:28/01/1914
In the Sage Brush Country
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1914
A Hopi Legend
Character:
Release Date:31/12/1913
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Character:
Release Date:19/12/1913
Retribution
Character:
Release Date:10/12/1913
The Days of '49
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Release Date:21/11/1913
Loaded Dice
Character:
Release Date:03/10/1913
Silent Heroes
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Release Date:23/09/1913
In the Toils
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Release Date:06/09/1913
The Gratitude of Wanda
Character:
Release Date:30/08/1913
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Character:
Release Date:24/08/1913
Granddad
Character:Mildred's Father
Release Date:23/07/1913
The Crimson Stain
Character:
Release Date:04/07/1913
The Drummer of the 8th
Character:Jack Durand
Release Date:28/05/1913
When Lee Surrenders
Character:
Release Date:08/11/1912
On Secret Service
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Release Date:01/11/1912
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