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Delmer Daves. Highest Rated: 100% Jubal (1956) Lowest Rated: 60% Dames (1934) Birthday: Jul 24, 1904. Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA. Accomplished visual stylist who often wrote his ...
Delmer Daves (1904–1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his films, there has been little serious examination of Daves’s work. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has called Daves the most forgotten of American ...
Delmer Daves’ 1958 Western Cowboy opens in a Chicago hotel where Frank Harris (Jack Lemmon) is a clerk who has fallen in love with the daughter of a Mexican cattle baron, Vidal (Donald Randolph). Vidal orders Harris to stay away from the girl (Maria, played by Anna Kashfi), and returns with her to Mexico.
3:10 to Yuma: Directed by Delmer Daves. With Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana. Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him.
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Delmer Daves. Writer: An Affair to Remember. Although Delmer Daves obtained a law degree at Stanford University, he never had the opportunity to use it; while still in college, he obtained a job as a prop boy on The Covered Wagon (1923) and after graduation was hired by several film companies as a technical advisor on films with a college background. Soon afterward he entered films as an actor ...
Added: Jul 31, 2000. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 11351. Source citation. Motion Picture Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor. He was the producer on 8 films including: Bird of Paradise and Spencer's Mountain. Actor in 13 films. Director of 30 films including: Hollywood Canteen, Demetrius and the Gladiators, A Summer Place and Spencer's Mountain.
Delmer Daves was an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Born in San Francisco, Delmer Daves first pursued a career as a lawyer. While attending Stanford University he became interested in the burgeoning film industry, first working as a prop boy on the 1923 western The Covered Wagon and serving as a technical advisor on a number of ...
