Nationality: American
Birthdate: 07/24/1904
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Death Date: 08/17/1977
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.
1923
First film as prop boy, "The Covered Wagon"
1943
Film directing debut, "Destination Tokyo"
