Personal Info

Known For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

January 11, 1900

Died

March 9, 1970 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

IMDb Profile

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.