Delmer Lawrence Daves (1904-77) started out as a prop boy, dabbled in acting and screenwriting, and became a director singled out by Martin Scorsese as neglected and as a forerunner of his own approach to depicting indigenous Americans in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
In his mid-twenties Daves co-wrote So This Is College, and also appeared onscreen as one of the USC footballers. Sticking with the college background, he then played Beef in Good News.
