Biography
Delmer Daves was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Self - Writer and Director (archive footage)
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.

Love Affair
1994
Original Film Writer
Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship ...

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965
Director, Writer, Producer
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.

Youngblood Hawke
1964
Director, Screenplay, Producer
An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.

Spencer's Mountain
1963
Writer, Director, Producer
Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the t...

Rome Adventure
1962
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job ...

Susan Slade
1961
Producer, Director, Screenplay
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.

Parrish
1961
Writer, Director, Producer
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's riva...

A Summer Place
1959
Director, Writer, Producer
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequence...

The Hanging Tree
1959
Director
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a ma...

The Badlanders
1958
Director
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people i...

Kings Go Forth
1958
Director
When Harris applies for the position of a radioman in Loggins' army unit, he is hired immediately. While on a mission together in France, they both fa...

Cowboy
1958
Director
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Ree...

3:10 to Yuma
1957
Director
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's ga...

An Affair to Remember
1957
Screenplay
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

The Last Wagon
1956
Director, Screenplay
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who ha...

Jubal
1956
Director, Screenplay
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly make...

White Feather
1955
Screenplay
The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surv...

Drum Beat
1954
Producer, Director, Story
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy ...

Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954
Director
The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-kee...

Never Let Me Go
1953
Director
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.

Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953
Director, Screenplay
A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.

Return of the Texan
1952
Director
A young widower named Sam Crockett returns from Kansas City to his small hometown in rural Texas, bringing with him his feisty grandfather and two you...

Bird of Paradise
1951
Screenplay, Director, Producer
Andre Laurence accompanies his college roommate, Tenga, back to Tenga's Polynesian island home. There, Andre becomes attracted to the native life and ...

Broken Arrow
1950
Director
Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the American settlers and Apaches in the late 1870s Arizona. He learns that the Indians ...

Task Force
1949
Writer, Director
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the ...

A Kiss in the Dark
1949
Director
Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye.

To the Victor
1948
Director
An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.

Dark Passage
1947
Screenplay, Director
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

The Red House
1947
Director, Screenplay
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in ...

Pride of the Marines
1945
Director
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wif...

Hollywood Canteen
1944
Screenplay, Director
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club...

The Very Thought of You
1944
Screenplay, Director
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.

Destination Tokyo
1943
Director, Screenplay
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in adv...

Stage Door Canteen
1943
Screenplay
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreati...

You Were Never Lovelier
1942
Screenplay
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

The Night of January 16th
1941
Screenplay
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interes...

Unexpected Uncle
1941
Screenplay
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
Young America Flies
1940
Screenplay
World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.

Safari
1940
Screenplay
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned ad...

The Farmer's Daughter
1940
Story
Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Claric...

$1,000 a Touchdown
1939
Screenplay, Story
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.

Love Affair
1939
Screenplay
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed ...

Professor Beware
1938
Writer
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the po...

She Married an Artist
1937
Screenplay
Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which p...

The Singing Marine
1937
Screenplay
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an a...

The Go-Getter
1937
Screenplay
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

The Petrified Forest
1936
Screenplay
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and th...

Shipmates Forever
1935
Story, Screenplay
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no ...

Page Miss Glory
1935
Screenplay
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

Stranded
1935
Screenplay
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

Flirtation Walk
1934
Original Story, Screenplay
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years ...

Dames
1934
Screenplay, Story
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

No More Women
1934
Screenplay, Story
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at ...

Divorce In The Family
1932
as Mr. Humphries
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lo...

Divorce In The Family
1932
Screenplay
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lo...

Shipmates
1931
Adaptation, Dialogue
A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly rank.

Good News
1930
as Beef
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.

The Bishop Murder Case
1929
as Raymond Sperling
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where h...

So This Is College
1929
Screenplay
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.

A Man's Man
1929
as Delmar Daves (uncredited)
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.

The Duke Steps Out
1929
as Bossy Edwards
Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his ha...

The Mating Call
1928
as Undetermined Role
A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership...