Borzage was innate inside Salt Lake City, Utah. For his 1927 film, Seventh Heaven he became a foremost individual ever to win the Academy Award for Directing. His more films include: Street Angel (1928), A Farewell to Arms (1932) and Strange Cargo (1940), among many others.

Fallowing 1948 his output became sporadic. His endure film act was sequences on Edgar G. Ulmer's L'Atlantide (aka Journey Beneath The Desert) (1962), for which he went uncredited.

Frank Borzage died around 1962, & was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Frank Borzage has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6300 Hollywood Blvd.