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.
Borden Chase Biography / Wiki
| Name | Borden Chase |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Writing |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, NY |
| Date of Birth | 1900-01-11 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 70 |
| Deathday | 1970-03-09 |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Red River | Screenplay | 1948-08-26 | Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an or… |
| The Fighting Seabees | Screenplay | 1944-01-27 | Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Na… |
| The Fighting Seabees | Story | 1944-01-27 | Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Na… |
| Night Passage | Screenplay | 1957-07-24 | Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wand… |
| Flame of Barbary Coast | Screenplay | 1945-05-28 | Duke Fergus falls for Ann ‘Flaxen’ Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell… |
| Winchester ’73 | Screenplay | 1950-07-12 | Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one… |
| The Man from Colorado | Original Story | 1948-08-07 | Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to … |
| Man Without a Star | Screenplay | 1955-03-24 | A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war…. |
| Backlash | Screenplay | 1956-03-14 | Jim Slater’s father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for … |
| Ride a Crooked Trail | Screenplay | 1958-11-23 | After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judg… |
| Bend of the River | Screenplay | 1952-01-23 | Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory…… |
| The World in His Arms | Screenplay | 1952-10-09 | A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first…. |
| Tycoon | Screenplay | 1947-12-27 | Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromis… |
| This Man’s Navy | Story | 1945-01-04 | During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized a… |
| Montana | Screenplay | 1950-01-28 | An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman…. |
| Dr. Broadway | Novel | 1942-05-09 | A New York doctor (Macdonald Carey) saves a chorus girl (Jean Phillips) from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers…. |
| Backtrack! | Writer | 1969-05-26 | Sent to Mexico to buy a bull, a Wyoming cowhand (Doug McClure) teams up with three Texas Rangers to solve a robbery/murder…. |
| His Majesty O’Keefe | Screenplay | 1954-01-16 | Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil – and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. … |
| Destroyer | Screenplay | 1943-08-19 | Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the c… |
| Harrigan’s Kid | Writer | 1943-03-01 | A former jockey (William Gargan) teaches a newcomer (Bobby Readick) the dirty tricks of the track…. |
| The Devil’s Party | Novel | 1938-06-02 | Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion…. |
| Lone Star | Screenplay | 1952-10-24 | Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam … |
| The Great Jewel Robber | Writer | 1950-07-15 | Director Peter Godfrey’s 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as “The Hollywood Raffles”… |
| Winchester ’73 | Screenplay | 1967-03-13 | TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession … |
| Blue, White, and Perfect | Story | 1942-01-06 | In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly … |
| Midnight Taxi | Story | 1937-04-04 | A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters…. |
| A Man Called Gannon | Writer | 1968-03-08 | A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, and end up on opposite sides…. |
| Sea Devils | Screenplay | 1953-05-23 | Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells h… |
| I’ve Always Loved You | Screenplay | 1946-12-02 | 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…. |
| Vera Cruz | Story | 1954-12-25 | After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane mee… |
| Gunfighters of Casa Grande | Screenplay | 1964-04-01 | In this western, a gambler wins a big Mexican ranch and decides to herd all of the cattle upon it into Texas. The crook enlists the aide of a few Mexi… |
| Gunfighters of Casa Grande | Story | 1964-04-01 | In this western, a gambler wins a big Mexican ranch and decides to herd all of the cattle upon it into Texas. The crook enlists the aide of a few Mexi… |
| The Far Country | Story | 1954-02-12 | In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef…and woe betide anyone standing in h… |
| The Far Country | Screenplay | 1954-02-12 | In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef…and woe betide anyone standing in h… |
| Under Pressure | Screenplay | 1935-02-02 | Two members of a crew of “sandhogs”, men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs … |
| Red River | Story | 1948-08-26 | Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an or… |
| Rails Into Laramie | Writer | 1954-04-14 | A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track…. |
| Iron Man | Screenplay | 1951-09-20 | In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke … |
| Writer | General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponso… | ||
| Writer | The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 … | ||
| Writer | Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10… | ||
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Under Pressure | Technical Advisor | 1935-02-02 | Two members of a crew of “sandhogs”, men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs … |
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