Delmer Daves

Delmer Daves (1904, San Francisco, California – 1977, La Jolla, California), American director, screenwriter, and actor, began working in film while studying law, assisting John Ford on the 1923 silent classic The Iron Horse. In the 1930s he became better known as a writer, penning the Bette Davis vehicle The Petrified Forest (1936) and Leo McCarey's 1939 romantic comedy Love Affair. He debuted as a director in 1943 with the war drama Destination Tokyo, casting Humphrey Bogart four years later in his writer-director effort Dark Passage. Till today he is revered for writing notable Westerns, including Broken Arrow (1950), one of Hollywood's first pictures to portray America's original inhabitants in a positive light. He shot three Westerns starring Glenn Ford: Jubal, The Cowboy (1958), and 3:10 to Yuma (1957), the latter of which perhaps above all will go down in the history of the genre.

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