Frank Borzage
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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.
Fotos
Filme (154)
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Journey Beneath the Desert
1961 · Co-Director
The Big Fisherman
1959 · Director
China Doll
1958 · Director, Producer
Jeanne Eagels
1957 · Self (uncredited)
The Day I Met Caruso
1956 · Director
A Ticket for Thaddeus
1956 · Director
Moonrise
1948 · Director
That's My Man
1947 · Director, Producer
Magnificent Doll
1946 · Director
I've Always Loved You
1946 · Director, Producer
The Spanish Main
1945 · Director, Producer
Till We Meet Again
1944 · Director
His Butler's Sister
1943 · Director
Stage Door Canteen
1943 · Director, Producer
Seven Sweethearts
1942 · Director, Producer
The Vanishing Virginian
1942 · Director
Smilin' Through
1941 · Director, Producer
Billy the Kid
1941 · Co-Director
Flight Command
1940 · Director
The Mortal Storm
1940 · Director, Producer
Strange Cargo
1940 · Director, Producer
I Take This Woman
1940 · Co-Director
Disputed Passage
1939 · Director
The Shining Hour
1938 · Director, Producer
Three Comrades
1938 · Director
Mannequin
1938 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Big City
1937 · Director
History Is Made at Night
1937 · Director
Green Light
1937 · Director, Producer
Hearts Divided
1936 · Director, Producer
Desire
1936 · Director, Producer
Shipmates Forever
1935 · Director
Stranded
1935 · Director, Producer
Living on Velvet
1935 · Director, Producer
Flirtation Walk
1934 · Director, Producer
Little Man, What Now?
1934 · Director
No Greater Glory
1934 · Director, Producer
Man's Castle
1933 · Director, Producer
Secrets
1933 · Director
A Farewell to Arms
1932 · Director, Producer
Young America
1932 · Director
After Tomorrow
1932 · Director
Bad Girl
1931 · Director
Young as You Feel
1931 · Director
Doctors' Wives
1931 · Director
Liliom
1930 · Director
Song o' My Heart
1930 · Director, Producer
The River
1929 · Director
They Had to See Paris
1929 · Director
Lucky Star
1929 · Director
Street Angel
1928 · Director
7th Heaven
1927 · Director
Marriage License?
1926 · Director
Early to Wed
1926 · Director
The Dixie Merchant
1926 · Director
The First Year
1926 · Director
Wages for Wives
1925 · Director
Lazybones
1925 · Director, Producer
The Circle
1925 · Director
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1925 · Director
The Lady
1925 · Director
Secrets
1924 · Director
The Age of Desire
1923 · Director, Producer
Children of Dust
1923 · Director
The Nth Commandment
1923 · Director, Producer
The Pride of Palomar
1922 · Director
The Valley of Silent Men
1922 · Director
The Good Provider
1922 · Director
Billy Jim
1922 · Director
Back Pay
1922 · Director
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
1921 · Director
The Duke of Chimney Butte
1921 · Director
Humoresque
1920 · Director
Prudence on Broadway
1919 · Director
Whom the Gods Would Destroy
1919 · Director
Toton
1919 · Director
The Atom
1918 · Director
The Ghost Flower
1918 · Director
Who Is to Blame?
1918 · Director
An Honest Man
1918 · Director
Society for Sale
1918 · Director
Innocent's Progress
1918 · Director
The Shoes That Danced
1918 · Director
The Curse of Iku
1918 · Allan Carroll / Allan Carroll III, Director
The Gun Woman
1918 · Director
Until They Get Me
1917 · Director
Fear Not
1917 · Franklin Shirley
Flying Colors
1917 · Director
Wee Lady Betty
1917 · Roger O'Reilly
A Mormon Maid
1917 · Tom Rigdon
A School for Husbands
1917 · Hugh Aslam
Immediate Lee
1916 · Immediate Lee, Director
Land O' Lizards
1916 · The Stranger, Director
Matchin' Jim
1916 · Matchin' Jim, Director, Writer
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · Extra (uncredited)
The Forgotten Prayer
1916 · Dan Page, Director
Nell Dale's Men Folks
1916 · Zeb Dale, Director, Writer
Enchantment
1916 · Writer
The Courtin' of Calliope Clew
1916 · Calliope Clew, Director
That Gal of Burke's
1916 · Charles Percival, Director
Nugget Jim's Pardner
1916 · Hal, Director, Writer
The Quicksands of Deceit
1916 · Director
The Demon of Fear
1916 · Thomas Marsh, Director, Writer
The Pilgrim
1916 · The Pilgrim, Director
Jack
1916 · Jack, Director
Unlucky Luke
1916 · Luke Drummond, Director, Writer
Realization
1916
A Flickering Light
1916 · Jim, Director
Two Bits
1916 · James Hardeman, Director
The Code of Honor
1916 · Lt. Bob Chase, Director
The Silken Spider
1916 · Director
Life's Harmony
1916 · Director
The Cactus Blossom
1915 · Dave Foster
The Pitch o' Chance
1915 · Rocky Scott, Director
The Clean-Up
1915 · George Prescott
Aloha Oe
1915 · Dr. John Hawley
Knight of the Trail
1915 · Bill Carey
The Hammer
1915 · Donald Barstow
The Secret of Lost River
1915 · Tom Hornby - Prospector
The Tavern Keeper's Son
1915 · Juan Capella
The Cup of Life
1915 · Dick Ralston
Molly of the Mountains
1915 · John Harlow
In the Switch Tower
1915 · Joel Wharton
The Mill by the Zuyder Zee
1915 · Dirk Brandt
The Girl Who Might Have Been
1915 · George Fowler
In the Land of the Otter
1915 · Joe Eagle
The Panther
1914 · David Brandt
A Crook's Sweetheart
1914 · The 'Dip'
The Desperado
1914
The Typhoon
1914 · Renard Bernisky
Parson Larkin's Wife
1914 · Parson James Larkin
The Wrath of the Gods
1914 · Tom Wilson
Love's Western Flight
1914
Samson
1914 · Bearded Philistine Extra (uncredited)
A Flash in the Dark
1914
The Wheel of Life
1914
In the Sage Brush Country
1914
A Hopi Legend
1913
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913
Retribution
1913
The Days of '49
1913 · Ben
Loaded Dice
1913
Silent Heroes
1913
In the Toils
1913
The Gratitude of Wanda
1913
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1913
Granddad
1913 · Mildred's Father
The Crimson Stain
1913
The Drummer of the 8th
1913 · Jack Durand
When Lee Surrenders
1912
On Secret Service
1912
The Pride and the Man
· Director, Writer
Dollars of Dross
· Director, Writer
