Delmer Daves

Accomplished visual stylist who often wrote his own imaginative, and genre-defying, screenplays; his films are always technically proficient but sometimes lack substance. As a teenager Daves lived for a time with native American Indians, an experience which informed his 1950 film "Broken Arrow", one of the first sympathetic treatments of American Indians to reach the screen.

• Born:
  July 24, 1904 in San Francisco, California, USA
• Died:
  August 17, 1977.
• Job Titles:
  Director, Actor, Producer, Screenwriter, Prop boy, Technical advisor

Education

• Stanford University, Stanford, California, law

Milestones

• 1923 First film as prop boy, The Covered Wagon
• 1943 Film directing debut, Destination Tokyo