
Known for
Directing
Born
February 28, 1895
Birthplace
Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Died
April 18, 1974 (aged 79)
Marcel Paul Pagnol (28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionable than it once was, Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every medium—memoir, novel, drama and film.
Pagnol was born on 28 February 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône department, in southern France near Marseille, the eldest son of schoolteacher Joseph PagnolA and seamstress Augustine Lansot. Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul a...
2026
Author, Dialogue
2025
Novel
2023
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Novel
2019
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Theatre Play
2013
Theatre Play
2011
2011
Author
2008
Writer
2007
Novel
2007
Novel
2001
2000
1999
Screenplay
1990
Novel
1990
Novel
1986
Novel
1986
Novel
1978
1977
Writer
1977
Writer
1977
Writer
1975
Story, Novel
1970