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name: "Delmer Daves"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/delmer-daves"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "24 July 1904"
died: "17 August 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T00:02:23.013964+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Delmer Daves

Writer. Born 24 July 1904 in San Francisco, California, USA. Died 17 August 1977.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 24 July 1904, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Died:** 17 August 1977
- **Active:** 1934–1939
- **Also known as:** Delmer Lawrence Daves, Del Daves
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmer_Daves, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95119, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0202681/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76981

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Love Affair*](https://film.one/film/love-affair.md) (85)

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## Biography

Delmer Daves (also credited as Delmer Lawrence Daves) was an American screenwriter, director and producer. Born in San Francisco, he studied law at Stanford University before entering the film industry as a prop boy on *The Covered Wagon* (1923) and later working as a technical adviser and actor in uncredited roles.

Daves began writing screenplays in the late 1920s and received early credits including the story and screenplay for *Flirtation Walk* (1934). He went on to write *The Petrified Forest* (1936), *Love Affair* (1939) and *You Were Never Lovelier* (1942). From 1943 he directed films, often also writing or producing them, and became known especially for Westerns such as *Broken Arrow* (1950), *Jubal* (1956), *The Last Wagon* (1956), *3:10 to Yuma* (1957) and *The Hanging Tree* (1959). Later studio-based work included *A Summer Place* (1959) and *Spencer’s Mountain* (1963).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Love Affair* (1939), Fi1m 85, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/love-affair.md)
- *Flirtation Walk* (1934), Fi1m 57, Screenplay, Original Story — [page](https://film.one/film/flirtation-walk.md)

## Complete filmography (61)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Love Affair* (1994), Original Film Writer
- *The Battle of the Villa Fiorita* (1965), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Youngblood Hawke* (1964), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *Spencer's Mountain* (1963), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Rome Adventure* (1962), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *Susan Slade* (1961), Producer, Director, Screenplay
- *Parrish* (1961), Director, Writer, Producer
- *A Summer Place* (1959), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Hanging Tree* (1959), Director
- *The Badlanders* (1958), Director
- *Kings Go Forth* (1958), Director
- *Cowboy* (1958), Director
- *3:10 to Yuma* (1957), Director
- *An Affair to Remember* (1957), Screenplay
- *The Last Wagon* (1956), Director, Screenplay
- *Jubal* (1956), Director, Screenplay
- *White Feather* (1955), Screenplay
- *Drum Beat* (1954), Producer, Story, Screenplay, Director
- *Demetrius and the Gladiators* (1954), Director
- *Never Let Me Go* (1953), Director
- *Treasure of the Golden Condor* (1953), Director, Screenplay
- *Return of the Texan* (1952), Director
- *Bird of Paradise* (1951), Screenplay, Director, Producer
- *Broken Arrow* (1950), Director
- *Task Force* (1949), Director, Writer
- *A Kiss in the Dark* (1949), Director
- *To the Victor* (1948), Director
- *Dark Passage* (1947), Screenplay, Director
- *The Red House* (1947), Director, Screenplay
- *Pride of the Marines* (1945), Director
- *Hollywood Canteen* (1944), Screenplay, Director
- *The Very Thought of You* (1944), Screenplay, Director
- *Destination Tokyo* (1943), Director, Screenplay
- *Stage Door Canteen* (1943), Screenplay
- *You Were Never Lovelier* (1942), Screenplay
- *The Night of January 16th* (1941), Screenplay
- *Unexpected Uncle* (1941), Screenplay
- *Young America Flies* (1940), Screenplay
- *Safari* (1940), Screenplay
- *The Farmer's Daughter* (1940), Story
- *$1,000 a Touchdown* (1939), Screenplay, Story
- *Love Affair* (1939), Screenplay — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/love-affair.md)
- *Professor Beware* (1938), Writer
- *She Married an Artist* (1937), Screenplay
- *The Singing Marine* (1937), Screenplay
- *The Go-Getter* (1937), Screenplay
- *The Petrified Forest* (1936), Screenplay
- *Shipmates Forever* (1935), Story, Screenplay
- *Page Miss Glory* (1935), Screenplay
- *Stranded* (1935), Screenplay
- *Flirtation Walk* (1934), Original Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/flirtation-walk.md)
- *Dames* (1934), Screenplay, Story
- *No More Women* (1934), Story, Screenplay
- *Divorce In The Family* (1932), as Mr. Humphries · Screenplay
- *Shipmates* (1931), Adaptation, Dialogue
- *Good News* (1930), as Beef
- *The Bishop Murder Case* (1929), as Raymond Sperling
- *So This Is College* (1929), Screenplay
- *A Man's Man* (1929), as Delmar Daves (uncredited)
- *The Duke Steps Out* (1929), as Bossy Edwards
- *The Mating Call* (1928), as Undetermined Role

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