Biography
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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema.

Journey Beneath the Desert
1961
Co-Director
A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.

The Big Fisherman
1959
Director
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.

China Doll
1958
Director, Producer
American pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner" of a Chinese housekeeper, Shu-Jen. The unlikely ...

Jeanne Eagels
1957
as Self (uncredited)
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.

The Day I Met Caruso
1956
Director
A ten-year-old girl meets famed opera singer Enrico Caruso on a train between Boston and New York. She admonishes him for his extravagant lifestyle, b...

A Ticket for Thaddeus
1956
Director
A Polish refugee and new citizen gets involved in a slight car accident, but he doesn't fully understand American life, and believes he will be sent t...

Day is Done
1955
Director
During the 1951 rout of the American army in Korea, a battle-hardened sergeant tries to reinvigorate his men with a bugle picked up by the side of the...

Moonrise
1948
Director
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persist...

That's My Man
1947
Director, Producer
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight...

Magnificent Doll
1946
Director
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Ma...

I've Always Loved You
1946
Director, Producer
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.

The Spanish Main
1945
Director, Producer
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartag...

Till We Meet Again
1944
Director
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in ...

His Butler's Sister
1943
Director
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.

Stage Door Canteen
1943
Director, Producer
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreati...

Seven Sweethearts
1942
Director, Producer
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven dau...

The Vanishing Virginian
1942
Director
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.

Smilin' Through
1941
Director, Producer
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kath...

Billy the Kid
1941
Co-Director
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Ke...

Flight Command
1940
Director
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression ...

The Mortal Storm
1940
Director, Producer
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided ...

Strange Cargo
1940
Director, Producer
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

I Take This Woman
1940
Co-Director
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic i...

Disputed Passage
1939
Director
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs int...

The Shining Hour
1938
Director, Producer
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Three Comrades
1938
Director
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their ...

Mannequin
1938
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left beh...

Big City
1937
Director
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob contr...

History Is Made at Night
1937
Director
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep he...

Green Light
1937
Director, Producer
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research ...

Hearts Divided
1936
Director, Producer
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.

Desire
1936
Director, Producer
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France....

Shipmates Forever
1935
Director
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no ...

Stranded
1935
Director, Producer
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

Living on Velvet
1935
Director, Producer
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of ...

Flirtation Walk
1934
Director, Producer
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years ...

Little Man, What Now?
1934
Director
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire...

No Greater Glory
1934
Director, Producer
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

Man's Castle
1933
Director, Producer
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

Secrets
1933
Director
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortu...

A Farewell to Arms
1932
Director, Producer
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Event...

Young America
1932
Director
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arth...

After Tomorrow
1932
Director
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get marr...

Bad Girl
1931
Director
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage...

Young as You Feel
1931
Director
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclinatio...

Doctors' Wives
1931
Director
The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin w...

Liliom
1930
Director
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tri...

Song o' My Heart
1930
Director, Producer
Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman he’s always loved. Mary’s aunt convi...

The River
1929
Director
Passion carried an innocent boy and a worldly woman beyond the barriers of conscience.

They Had to See Paris
1929
Director
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "cu...

Lucky Star
1929
Director
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where...

Street Angel
1928
Director
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

7th Heaven
1927
Director
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall i...

Marriage License?
1926
Director
When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his mother, reject her because of her outsider status. Lad...

Early to Wed
1926
Director
Tommy and Daphne Carter, a young married couple, following the advice of a pretentious friend, decide to impress their friends by appearing to be pros...

The Dixie Merchant
1926
Director
Goodnatured J. P. Fippany loses his home and takes to the road on a chicken-wagon with his wife and daughter. The wagon is wrecked in an automobile co...

The First Year
1926
Director
One of the films that Borzage shot under contract for Fox before he began his run of box-office hits. This is a comedy built up around the disastrous ...

Wages for Wives
1925
Director
Nell Bailey, taking a lesson from the married lives of her sister, Luella Logan, and her mother, agrees to marry Danny Kester provided that he will sp...

Lazybones
1925
Director, Producer
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, ...

The Circle
1925
Director
Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must d...

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1925
Director
Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn baby in Harlem. Struggling to make ends meet, he for...

The Lady
1925
Director
A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has le...

Secrets
1924
Director
An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her ...

The Age of Desire
1923
Director, Producer
Janet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but doesn't tell him about her previous marriage or her son, Ra...

Children of Dust
1923
Director
Young Terwilliger, an orphan boy in New York City, "adopts" Old Archer, the caretaker of Gramercy Park, after the man is arrested for beating Terwilig...

The Nth Commandment
1923
Director, Producer
A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardsh...

The Pride of Palomar
1922
Director
A soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his ancestral ...

The Valley of Silent Men
1922
Director
The hunter becomes the hunted, an officer of the Royal Mounted, fleeing, fighting for his life. Guided to a secret valley in the frozen North by a ho...

The Good Provider
1922
Director
A prosperous small-town peddler accedes to his family's wish to move from their secure existence to the uncertainty of New York City. It proves fruitl...

Billy Jim
1922
Director
Billy Jim is a rich cowboy who tries to seduce a young girl whose father exploits a mine.

Back Pay
1922
Director
This 1922 Frank Borzage film is a masterwork waiting to be rediscovered. Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she h...

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
1921
Director
Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders ar...

The Duke of Chimney Butte
1921
Director
Lambert, a young man out to make his fortune, is out west trying to sell a gadget that can peel potatoes, open cans, pull out nails and perform other ...

Humoresque
1920
Director
Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a...

Prudence on Broadway
1919
Director
Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the dev...

Whom the Gods Would Destroy
1919
Director
After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce him to study at a German university. While there,...

Toton
1919
Director
In the Latin Quarter of Paris, American artist David Lane (Norman Kerry) marries his model Yvonne (Olive Thomas), but just prior to the birth of their...

The Atom
1918
Jennie is a slavey in a theatrical boarding house. To her the actors are all wonderful, but Montague Booth is the chief. In an accident Booth is disfi...

The Atom
1918
Director
Jennie is a slavey in a theatrical boarding house. To her the actors are all wonderful, but Montague Booth is the chief. In an accident Booth is disfi...

The Ghost Flower
1918
Director
Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "protector" is stabbed to death by Giulia's hot-head...

Society for Sale
1918
Director
Successful model, Phyllis Clyne, convinces a down-and-out nobleman, Billy, to pass her off in society as titled gentry. They fall in love and when it ...

The Gun Woman
1918
Director
A saloon owner loans her lover the money to buy a house, which he has led her to believe they will live in after they're married. Instead, he takes th...

Until They Get Me
1917
Director
In an effort to reach his wife's deathbed, Kirby is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He is arrested by Selwyn, a member of the North West Mounted...

Fear Not
1917
as Franklin Shirley
Brothers James and Allen Mornington are both addicted to cocaine and both believe that their addiction is caused by a hereditary failing. James rises ...

Flying Colors
1917
Director
Brent Brewster, formerly a Yale athlete known for his pole vaulting prowess, is unsuccessful in business. When his wealthy relatives send him out to f...
Wee Lady Betty
1917
as Roger O'Reilly
Wee Lady Betty rules the O'Reilly castle with a stern hand and a big heart until she learns that Roger, the O'Reilly heir, is coming to take possessio...

A Mormon Maid
1917
as Tom Rigdon
This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack ...

A School for Husbands
1917
as Hugh Aslam
Sensible Betty Manners is the wife of the frivolous John Manners. John fritters away his time playing the horses rather than paying attention to his j...

Immediate Lee
1916
as Immediate Lee
Immediate Lee, employed on the ranch owned by one Masters, is discharged by the manager through the influence of one of his men, who is in the brand b...

Immediate Lee
1916
Director
Immediate Lee, employed on the ranch owned by one Masters, is discharged by the manager through the influence of one of his men, who is in the brand b...

Land O' Lizards
1916
as The Stranger
Eastern capitalists hire a stranger to head out to Arizona to investigate property near the Bar C Ranch, which contains gold. The Bar C is run by Buck...

Land O' Lizards
1916
Director
Eastern capitalists hire a stranger to head out to Arizona to investigate property near the Bar C Ranch, which contains gold. The Bar C is run by Buck...

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
as Extra (uncredited)
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Enchantment
1916
Writer

The Courtin' of Calliope Clew
1916
as Calliope Clew
Dr. Charles Matthews, professor of philosophy in a small New England college, is dismissed, and though heartbroken he and his daughter, Prudence, star...

The Courtin' of Calliope Clew
1916
Director
Dr. Charles Matthews, professor of philosophy in a small New England college, is dismissed, and though heartbroken he and his daughter, Prudence, star...

Nugget Jim's Pardner
1916
as Hal
Nugget Jim's pardner (Borzage), is an easy-come-easy-go character, an heirling who has worn through the last of pater's patience, eaten through his al...

Nugget Jim's Pardner
1916
Director, Writer
Nugget Jim's pardner (Borzage), is an easy-come-easy-go character, an heirling who has worn through the last of pater's patience, eaten through his al...
The Quicksands of Deceit
1916
Director

The Pilgrim
1916
as The Pilgrim
A drifter enters town to establish himself. Working as a cowhand, he meets the boss's daughter, who's eager to absorb some local color.

The Pilgrim
1916
Director
A drifter enters town to establish himself. Working as a cowhand, he meets the boss's daughter, who's eager to absorb some local color.
Realization
1916

A Flickering Light
1916
as Jim
Jim, a cowboy, comes to town with the boys of the Lazy B, and stops at the Last Chance Saloon. One of the girls of the dancehall is Madge. Hardy, owne...

A Flickering Light
1916
Director
Jim, a cowboy, comes to town with the boys of the Lazy B, and stops at the Last Chance Saloon. One of the girls of the dancehall is Madge. Hardy, owne...

The Silken Spider
1916
Director
Brian Leonard is a millionaire whose sole occupation is the amassing of wealth. He is cold, hard, and the element of love has been almost extinguished...

Life's Harmony
1916
Director
Josiah Pringle, a benevolent old musician, who ekes out his livelihood by giving music lessons, after playing the organ for twenty years in the church...

The Pitch o' Chance
1915
as Rocky Scott
One of the earliest surviving short films by Franke Borzage. A simple western about a man who enjoys boozing, gambling and women.

The Pitch o' Chance
1915
Director
One of the earliest surviving short films by Franke Borzage. A simple western about a man who enjoys boozing, gambling and women.
The Clean-Up
1915
as George Prescott

Knight of the Trail
1915
as Bill Carey
Jim and Molly are set to get married when Molly finds out about her fiancé's criminal past. Bill Carey weasels his way into Molly's heart in the inter...
The Secret of Lost River
1915
as Tom Hornby - Prospector
Pierre Vignol, an artist wintering in Arizona, is bitten by a snake. He is taken by his friend, Tom Hornby, to Padre Francisco, who prescribes for the...
The Tavern Keeper's Son
1915
as Juan Capella
Juan Capella, the son of a poor Spanish tavern keeper, and his wife, learning of the discovery of gold on the American River near Sacramento, runs awa...
The Cup of Life
1915
as Dick Ralston
Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Ruth is satisfied with her "regular fellow," a mechan...

In the Switch Tower
1915
as Joel Wharton
IN THE SWITCH TOWER stars Walter Edwards (who also directed) as Bill Wharton, a middle-aged alcoholic who was once a leading engineer with a railroad....

In the Land of the Otter
1915
as Joe Eagle
Ben Anderson, factor of the trading station, impatient with his daughter Anne's coquetries, calls all the trappers to him and promises to wed her to t...
The Panther
1914
as David Brandt
Andrew McLeod, the Factor, is called "The Panther" by the Indians, owing to his cruelty. He wishes to marry Julie, the daughter of Francois Ledru, a F...

The Typhoon
1914
as Renard Bernisky
Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl, who subsequently rejects her American fiancé, Ri...

The Wrath of the Gods
1914
as Tom Wilson
An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman's daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her.
Love's Western Flight
1914
For five years Dorothy had put up with her husband although all his refinement, delicacy and love had long since been drowned in drink. Dorothy had re...

Samson
1914
as Bearded Philistine Extra (uncredited)
Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's obj...
A Flash in the Dark
1914
Randall is a rich mine owner whose business affairs cause him to neglect his somewhat frivolous wife. There is a mutual friend whom Randall carelessly...
The Wheel of Life
1914
The husband and his wife live alone in the mountains, where he is working out a claim. A stranger from a distant mine is injured in the vicinity. The ...

In the Sage Brush Country
1914
In what scenarist C. Gardner Sullivan misleadingly called “The Romantic Adventures of a Woman of the ’50s,” this story has Hart play Jim Brandon, who ...
A Hopi Legend
1913
An old arrowmaker's daughter, while at the stream, meets a brave from another tribe. They become enamored of each other in the sudden positive way of ...
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913
The cracksman is discouraged and cynical. It is Christmas Eve. He takes his revolver and starts out in quest of gain. Dot gets home, tired out and dis...
Retribution
1913
Dorothy and her father have staked all their hopes on their mine. While they are awaiting the arrival of Mr. Reid, who is to report on the value of th...
Loaded Dice
1913
Loaded Dice is a 1913 short film.

Silent Heroes
1913
Tom Chatterton is called a coward because he will not enlist in the Home Guard during the Civil War -- his mother is dying and he does not wish to lea...
In the Toils
1913
The Gratitude of Wanda
1913
An indian girl brings military relief to the besieged cabin because of her gratitude to the white man who befriended her.
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1913
Reed and Rosson are owners of the Yellow Aster mine. They have taken out enough gold to make the final payment, which is due. Both brothers love the s...

Granddad
1913
as Mildred's Father
Mildred is staying with her grandfather, Civil War veteran Jabez Burr, when she receives a letter from her father. Her father has re-married, and will...

The Drummer of the 8th
1913
as Jack Durand
When the Civil War begins, young Billy runs away from home to enlist in the Northern Army as a drummer; he's wounded in battle and taken prisoner. He ...

On Secret Service
1912
Fred Martin is a Southern spy. A northern dispatch bearer is captured, the signature to his messages is forged, and Martin is sent on the dangerous mi...