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FILM DIRECTOR

Frank Borzage

1894 - 1962

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Frank Borzage ( né Borzaga; April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an American film director and actor. He was the first person to win the Academy Award for Best Director for his film 7th Heaven (1927) at the 1st Academy Awards. Born to European immigrant parents in Salt Lake City, Borzage began his career as a teenager performing with traveling theater groups throughout the western United States before finding employment in Hollywood in 1912, where he began directing and acting in short films before transitioning to feature films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Borzage has received more than 294,416 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Frank Borzage is the 309th most popular film director (up from 312th in 2019), the 2,035th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,070th in 2019) and the 90th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Frank Borzage ranks 309 out of 1,581. Before him are Gaspar Noé, King Vidor, Ishirō Honda, Philippe de Broca, Mikio Naruse, and Thomas Vinterberg. After him are Satoshi Kon, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Jack L. Warner, Giuseppe De Santis, John Frankenheimer, and Walter Lantz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Frank Borzage ranks 67. Before him are Walter Warlimont, Hans Langsdorff, Friedrich Ebert Jr., Wilhelm Schepmann, Américo Tomás, and King Vidor. After him are Tivadar Soros, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Georges Guynemer, Georges Gurvitch, E. E. Cummings, and Friedrich Hossbach. Among people deceased in 1962, Frank Borzage ranks 52. Before him are M. Visvesvaraya, Princess Helen of Serbia, Natalia Sedova, Thomas Mitchell, Leonardo De Lorenzo, and Lei Feng. After him are Muhammad VIII al-Amin, Hu Shih, Poul Nielsen, E. E. Cummings, Henri Wallon, and Prince René of Bourbon-Parma.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Borzage ranks 2,035 out of 18,182. Before him are Justin Timberlake (1981), Frank Borman (1928), Julius Erving (1950), Jerry Reed (1937), James Ellroy (1948), and Jef Raskin (1943). After him are Ted Danson (1947), Al Lettieri (1928), Mercedes McCambridge (1916), Joseph Greenberg (1915), Louise Brooks (1906), and John Barrymore (1882).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Frank Borzage ranks 90. Before him are Garry Marshall (1934), Richard Brooks (1912), Henry King (1886), John Landis (1950), Jim Henson (1936), and King Vidor (1894). After him are John Frankenheimer (1930), Walter Lantz (1899), Saul Bass (1920), Jerome Robbins (1918), Ub Iwerks (1901), and Edward Zwick (1952).

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Filmography

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