Borden Chase

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1900-01-11 (70 years old)

Deathday

1970-03-09

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Borden Chase

Biography

Born Frank Fowler in Brooklyn , New York, Borden Chase served in the Navy during World War I and put in time as a shipyard worker, carnival high diver, driver for gangster Frankie Yale, and sandhog on the New York's Holland Tunnel before turning to writing. He penned pulp stories and novels, then moved to Hollywood and began writing screenplays, including, among many others, Anthony Mann's Winchester '73 and Bend of the River and Howard Hawk's Red River, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.

Production

1948

Red River

as Screenplay

1944

1957

Night Passage

as Screenplay

1945

1950

Winchester '73

as Screenplay

1948

The Man from Colorado

as Original Story

1956

Backlash

as Screenplay

1955

Man Without a Star

as Screenplay

1958

1952

Bend of the River

as Screenplay

1952

1947

Tycoon

as Screenplay

1945

1950

Montana

as Screenplay

1969

Backtrack!

as Writer

1942

Dr. Broadway

as Novel

1954

His Majesty O'Keefe

as Screenplay

1943

1938

1952

Lone Star

as Screenplay

1951

Iron Man

as Screenplay

1954

1943

Destroyer

as Screenplay

1937

1968

1972

1953

Sea Devils

as Screenplay

1946

1954

Vera Cruz

as Story

1967

Winchester '73

as Original Film Writer

1954

1954

The Far Country

as Screenplay

1935

Under Pressure

as Technical Advisor

1935

Under Pressure

as Screenplay

1948

Red River

as Story

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