Director

Borden Chase

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 39

TMDB ID: 30294

IMDb ID: nm0153698

Known for: Writing

Born: January 11, 1900

Died: March 9, 1970

Age: 70

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1935 - 1972

Years active: 38

Average TMDB rating: 6.53

Wikidata: Q893400

Frequent jobs

Screenplay (21)Writer (8)Story (6)Novel (1)Original Film Writer (1)Original Story (1)Short Story (1)

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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.

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