Delmer Daves

Delmer Daves was born on Jul 24, 1904 in USA. Delmer Daves's big-screen debut came with The Mating Call directed by James Cruze in 1928, strarring Undetermined Role (uncredited). Delmer Daves is known for The Hanging Tree directed by Delmer Daves, Gary Cooper stars as Dr. Joseph 'Doc' Frail and Maria Schell as Elizabeth Mahler. Delmer Daves has got 3 awards and 8 nominations so far. The most recent award Delmer Daves achieved is Western Heritage Awards. The upcoming new movie Delmer Daves plays is Love Affair which will be released on Oct 21, 1994.

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 La caravane vers l'Ouest (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, and after appearing in several pictures he began collaborating on screenplays and original stories. He wrote scripts for many of Hollywood's best films of the 1930s and 1940s, including La forêt pétrifiée (1936), Elle et lui (1939) and Ô toi ma charmante (1942). Turning director with the classic Destination Tokyo (1943), Daves often wrote and produced his own pictures. Of the many films he made, the westerns he did were especially close to his heart--as a youth he had spent much time living on reservations with Hopi and Navajo Indians.