Born in Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada. After university studies in British Columbia, he came to Hollywood and in 1915 started working in the camera department of Jesse L. Lasky Productions. After WW I service with the Canadian army, he joined Paramount's camera department in 1919. In 1929 he was transferred to Paris, and in 1930 he went to London, where he became a director of photography for the Alexander Korda organization. Specializing in exterior photography, Borradaile was responsible as a second-unit cameraman for the African location footage of SANDERS OF THE RIVER (1935), for the exteriors of THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII (1933) and THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1935), and for the splendid outdoor sequences of such films as ELEPHANT BOY (1936), THE DRUM (1938), THE FOUR FEATHERS (1939), and THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940). He retired from films in 1971. Visit the Internet Movie Database for a detailed listing of Borradaile's many and varied films.  Nominated for Cinematography (Color) 1939: THE FOUR FEATHERS (w. Geroges Périnal) 1 nomination