Frank Borzage
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.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
Film • 2008
jako Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jeanne Eagels
Film • 1957
jako Self (uncredited)
Hollywood Preview
Serial • 1955
jako Self
Oscary
Serial • 1953
This Is Your Life
Serial • 1952
jako Self
The Atom
Film • 1918
The Curse of Iku
Film • 1918
jako Allan Carroll / Allan Carroll III
Fear Not
Film • 1917
jako Franklin Shirley
Wee Lady Betty
Film • 1917
jako Roger O'Reilly
A Mormon Maid
Film • 1917
jako Tom Rigdon
A School for Husbands
Film • 1917
jako Hugh Aslam
Immediate Lee
Film • 1916
jako Immediate Lee
Land O' Lizards
Film • 1916
jako The Stranger
Matchin' Jim
Film • 1916
jako Matchin' Jim
Nietolerancja
Film • 1916
jako Extra (uncredited)
The Forgotten Prayer
Film • 1916
jako Dan Page
Nell Dale's Men Folks
Film • 1916
jako Zeb Dale
The Courtin' of Calliope Clew
Film • 1916
jako Calliope Clew
That Gal of Burke's
Film • 1916
jako Charles Percival
Nugget Jim's Pardner
Film • 1916
jako Hal
The Demon of Fear
Film • 1916
jako Thomas Marsh
The Pilgrim
Film • 1916
jako The Pilgrim
Jack
Film • 1916
jako Jack
Unlucky Luke
Film • 1916
jako Luke Drummond
Realization
Film • 1916
A Flickering Light
Film • 1916
jako Jim
Two Bits
Film • 1916
jako James Hardeman
The Code of Honor
Film • 1916
jako Lt. Bob Chase
The Cactus Blossom
Film • 1915
jako Dave Foster
The Pitch o' Chance
Film • 1915
jako Rocky Scott
The Clean-Up
Film • 1915
jako George Prescott
Aloha Oe
Film • 1915
jako Dr. John Hawley
Knight of the Trail
Film • 1915
jako Bill Carey
The Hammer
Film • 1915
jako Donald Barstow
The Secret of Lost River
Film • 1915
jako Tom Hornby - Prospector
The Tavern Keeper's Son
Film • 1915
jako Juan Capella
The Cup of Life
Film • 1915
jako Dick Ralston
Molly of the Mountains
Film • 1915
jako John Harlow
In the Switch Tower
Film • 1915
jako Joel Wharton
The Mill by the Zuyder Zee
Film • 1915
jako Dirk Brandt
The Girl Who Might Have Been
Film • 1915
jako George Fowler
In the Land of the Otter
Film • 1915
jako Joe Eagle
The Panther
Film • 1914
jako David Brandt
A Crook's Sweetheart
Film • 1914
jako The 'Dip'
The Desperado
Film • 1914
The Typhoon
Film • 1914
jako Renard Bernisky
Parson Larkin's Wife
Film • 1914
jako Parson James Larkin
The Wrath of the Gods
Film • 1914
jako Tom Wilson
Love's Western Flight
Film • 1914
Samson
Film • 1914
jako Bearded Philistine Extra (uncredited)
A Flash in the Dark
Film • 1914
The Wheel of Life
Film • 1914
In the Sage Brush Country
Film • 1914
A Hopi Legend
Film • 1913
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Film • 1913
Retribution
Film • 1913
The Days of '49
Film • 1913
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Loaded Dice
Film • 1913
Silent Heroes
Film • 1913
In the Toils
Film • 1913
The Gratitude of Wanda
Film • 1913
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Film • 1913
Granddad
Film • 1913
jako Mildred's Father
The Crimson Stain
Film • 1913
The Drummer of the 8th
Film • 1913
jako Jack Durand
When Lee Surrenders
Film • 1912
On Secret Service
Film • 1912