Frank Borzage
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.
A Mormon Maid
(Tom Rigdon)
In the Sage Brush Country
Loaded Dice
The Panther
(David Brandt)
In the Land of the Otter
(Joe Eagle)
The Cup of Life
(Dick Ralston)
The Tavern Keeper's Son
(Juan Capella)
The Secret of Lost River
(Tom Hornby - Prospector)
The Wheel of Life
A Flash in the Dark
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
The Gratitude of Wanda
Retribution
A Cracksman Santa Claus
A Hopi Legend
Love's Western Flight
The Wrath of the Gods
(Tom Wilson)
Nugget Jim's Pardner
(Hal)
Silent Heroes
The Drummer of the 8th
(Jack Durand)
Granddad
(Mildred's Father)
Samson
(Bearded Philistine Extra (uncredited))
The Pilgrim
(The Pilgrim)
The Pitch o' Chance
(Rocky Scott)
The Typhoon
(Renard Bernisky)
Knight of the Trail
(Bill Carey)
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
(Himself (archival footage) (uncredited))
On Secret Service
In the Switch Tower
(Joel Wharton)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
(Extra (uncredited))
Jeanne Eagels
(Self (uncredited))
Fear Not
(Franklin Shirley)
Land O' Lizards
(The Stranger)
Wee Lady Betty
(Roger O'Reilly)
Hollywood Preview
(Self)
This Is Your Life
(Self)
The Oscars
The Mortal Storm
(Director)
The Mortal Storm
(Producer)
A Ticket for Thaddeus
(Director)
I Take This Woman
(Co-Director)
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
(Director)
A Farewell to Arms
(Director)
History Is Made at Night
(Director)
Mannequin
(Director)
Moonrise
(Director)
Street Angel
(Director)
Lazybones
(Director)
His Butler's Sister
(Director)
Stage Door Canteen
(Director)
Big City
(Director)
Strange Cargo
(Director)
7th Heaven
(Director)
Flirtation Walk
(Director)
Bad Girl
(Director)
Desire
(Director)
Flight Command
(Director)
Seven Sweethearts
(Director)
The Vanishing Virginian
(Director)
The Spanish Main
(Director)
The Circle
(Director)
Secrets
(Director)
Lucky Star
(Director)
After Tomorrow
(Director)
The Shining Hour
(Director)
Man's Castle
(Director)
Three Comrades
(Director)
Smilin' Through
(Director)
The River
(Director)
No Greater Glory
(Director)
Green Light
(Director)
Till We Meet Again
(Director)
Disputed Passage
(Director)
I've Always Loved You
(Director)
Liliom
(Director)
Toton
(Director)
Prudence on Broadway
(Director)
Little Man, What Now?
(Director)
China Doll
(Director)
Doctors' Wives
(Director)
Stranded
(Director)
Song o' My Heart
(Director)
Secrets
(Director)
Nugget Jim's Pardner
(Director)
Hearts Divided
(Director)
Humoresque
(Director)
The Lady
(Director)
The Big Fisherman
(Director)
Shipmates Forever
(Director)
Young America
(Director)
Living on Velvet
(Producer)
Living on Velvet
(Director)
Magnificent Doll
(Director)
The Pilgrim
(Director)
The Pitch o' Chance
(Director)
They Had to See Paris
(Director)
Until They Get Me
(Director)
That's My Man
(Director)
That's My Man
(Producer)
Desire
(Producer)
The First Year
(Director)
Billy the Kid
(Co-Director)
Journey Beneath the Desert
(Co-Director)
Lazybones
(Producer)
The Nth Commandment
(Director)
Back Pay
(Director)
Nugget Jim's Pardner
(Writer)
The Nth Commandment
(Producer)
The Day I Met Caruso
(Director)
Mannequin
(Producer)
Mannequin
(Screenplay)
The Pride of Palomar
(Director)
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
(Director)
Stranded
(Producer)
Flirtation Walk
(Producer)
Life's Harmony
(Director)
I've Always Loved You
(Producer)
Day is Done
(Director)
Society for Sale
(Director)
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
(Director)
Strange Cargo
(Producer)
The Spanish Main
(Producer)
The Gun Woman
(Director)
Song o' My Heart
(Producer)
Smilin' Through
(Producer)
Seven Sweethearts
(Producer)
The Age of Desire
(Director)
Young as You Feel
(Director)
Hearts Divided
(Producer)
The Shining Hour
(Producer)
Green Light
(Producer)
Man's Castle
(Producer)
A Farewell to Arms
(Producer)
No Greater Glory
(Producer)
The Dixie Merchant
(Director)
Stage Door Canteen
(Producer)
Billy Jim
(Director)
China Doll
(Producer)
The Good Provider
(Director)
The Valley of Silent Men
(Director)
The Ghost Flower
(Director)
Marriage License?
(Director)
Land O' Lizards
(Director)