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 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.
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Battle of the Villa Fiorita |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1965 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Youngblood Hawke |
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1964 |
80% | 67% | Spencer's Mountain |
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1963 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Rome Adventure |
Director, Producer |
- | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 53% | Susan Slade |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1961 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Parrish |
Director, Producer |
- | 1961 |
86% | 73% | The Hanging Tree | Director | - | 1959 |
83% | 70% | A Summer Place |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 35% | The Badlanders | Director | - | 1958 |
75% | 55% | Cowboy | Director | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Kings Go Forth | Director | - | 1958 |
67% | 87% | An Affair to Remember | Screenwriter | - | 1957 |
94% | 79% | 3:10 to Yuma | Director | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 70% | The Last Wagon |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1956 |
100% | 77% | Jubal | Director | - | 1956 |
75% | 65% | Demetrius and the Gladiators | Director | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | 7% | Drum Beat | Director | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Treasure of the Golden Condor |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Never Let Me Go | Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Return of the Texan | Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bird of Paradise |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1951 |
91% | 71% | Broken Arrow | Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | 57% | A Kiss in the Dark | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 60% | Task Force | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To the Victor | Director | - | 1948 |
90% | 82% | Dark Passage |
Director, Writer |
- | 1947 |
83% | 67% | The Red House | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 76% | Pride of the Marines | Director | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Hollywood Canteen | Director | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | 78% | The Very Thought of You | Director | - | 1944 |
67% | 65% | Destination Tokyo |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1943 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Stage Door Canteen | Screenwriter | - | 1943 |
100% | 75% | You Were Never Lovelier | Writer | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Safari | Screenwriter | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Farmer's Daughter | Writer | - | 1940 |
92% | 70% | Love Affair | Screenwriter | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | $1,000 a Touchdown | Screenwriter | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Professor Beware | Screenwriter | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Singing Marine | Screenwriter | - | 1937 |
100% | 80% | The Petrified Forest | Writer | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Shipmates Forever | Screenwriter | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Stranded | Screenwriter | - | 1935 |
100% | 25% | Flirtation Walk | Writer | - | 1934 |
60% | 64% | Dames |
Writer, Screenwriter |
- | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 18% | The Bishop Murder Case | Raymond Sperling (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good News | Beef (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | So This Is College |
USC Player (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Duke Steps Out | Bossy Edwards (Character) | - | 1929 |