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- Died
- Birth nameJosef Pollak
- Joseph Delmont was born on May 8, 1873 in Loiwein, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a director and writer, known for Theophrastus Paracelsus (1916), Die Töchter des Eichmeisters (1916) and Titanenkampf (1916). He died on March 12, 1935 in Piest'any, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic].
- For many of his movies he also wrote the screenplay.
- He joined the film business in 1903 and first realised numerous short movies of only few minutes each for Vitagraph.
- The director and screen writer Joseph Delmont was born as Josef Pollak in Loiwein.
- His last movies as a director came in the 20s.
- From 1910 he realised longer movies for the cinema, often belonging to the genres adventure and action. At this point in time he began to use the pseudonym Joseph Delmont.
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