Frank Borzage

1894-04-23 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Biografia

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.

Películas

	Murnau, Borzage and Fox	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	2008-12-09
	Jeanne Eagels	Self (uncredited)	1957-08-02
	The Atom		1918-09-15
	Wee Lady Betty	Roger O'Reilly	1917-08-17
	A Mormon Maid	Tom Rigdon	1917-04-21
	Fear Not	Franklin Shirley	1917-11-26
	A School for Husbands	Hugh Aslam	1917-04-05
	Realization		1916-04-22
	Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	Extra (uncredited)	1916-09-04
	The Pilgrim	The Pilgrim	1916-06-09
	Nugget Jim's Pardner	Hal	1916-07-14
	Land O' Lizards	The Stranger	1916-09-18
	Immediate Lee	Immediate Lee	1916-11-13
	A Flickering Light	Jim	1916-04-14
	The Courtin' of Calliope Clew	Calliope Clew	1916-08-11
	Molly of the Mountains	John Harlow	1915-04-07
	The Pitch o' Chance	Rocky Scott	1915-12-24
	The Clean-Up	George Prescott	1915-12-20
	The Mill by the Zuyder Zee	Dirk Brandt	1915-03-18
	In the Switch Tower	Joel Wharton	1915-03-24
	The Tavern Keeper's Son	Juan Capella	1915-06-09
	In the Land of the Otter	Joe Eagle	1915-01-14
	The Cup of Life	Dick Ralston	1915-04-26
	Knight of the Trail	Bill Carey	1915-08-19
	The Secret of Lost River	Tom Hornby - Prospector	1915-06-18
	Samson	Bearded Philistine Extra (uncredited)	1914-04-30
	Love's Western Flight		1914-06-03
	The Typhoon	Renard Bernisky	1914-10-10
	A Flash in the Dark		1914-02-18
	The Wrath of the Gods	Tom Wilson	1914-06-08
	The Wheel of Life		1914-01-28
	In the Sage Brush Country		1914-01-01
	The Panther	David Brandt	1914-12-10
	Loaded Dice		1913-10-03
	In the Toils		1913-09-06
	The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine		1913-08-24
	A Cracksman Santa Claus		1913-12-19
	Granddad	Mildred's Father	1913-07-23
	The Drummer of the 8th	Jack Durand	1913-05-28
	The Gratitude of Wanda		1913-08-30
	Silent Heroes		1913-09-23
	A Hopi Legend		1913-12-31
	Retribution		1913-12-10
	On Secret Service		1912-11-01