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Delmer Lawrence Daves (July 24, 1904 – August 17, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He worked in many genres , including film noir and warfare , but he is best known for his Western movies , especially Broken Arrow (1950), The Last Wagon (1956), 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and The Hanging Tree (1959).
Delmer Daves was a versatile and prolific Hollywood filmmaker who wrote and directed classics such as Destination Tokyo, Jubal, and 3:10 to Yuma. He also acted in several films and TV shows, and died one day after Elvis Presley in 1977.
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Apr 22, 2024 · Delmer Daves was an American writer and director of motion pictures who worked in a number of genres but was best known for his westerns, which include Broken Arrow (1950), The Last Wagon (1956), and 3:10 to Yuma (1957).
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Daves earned a law degree at Stanford University but decided to pursue a career in Hollywood. He was a crew member on several films before turning to acting in 1928. Although typically uncredited, he appeared in more than 10 movies, including The Duke Steps Out (1929) and Good News (1930).
- July 24, 1904
- August 17, 1977
Jun 25, 2015 · The penultimate Western of Delmer Daves was a film version of part of Frank Harris’s unreliable memoirs, Cowboy. It starred the excellent Glenn Ford again and also (very good casting) New Englander Jack Lemmon as Harris.
The Last Wagon: Directed by Delmer Daves. With Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner, Tommy Rettig. Wagon train survivors of an Apache attack entrust the sheriff's prisoner, scout Comanche Todd, with their lives despite his wanted-for-murder status.
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,"...
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