Marcel Pagnol

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1895-02-28 (79 years old)

Deathday

1974-04-18

Place of Birth

Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Marcel Pagnol

Biography

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 gre...

Acting

1968

2023

Les Rois de la comédie

as Self (archive footage)

2019

Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1986

1990

1990

1937

Harvest

as Director

1938

The Baker's Wife

as Director

1936

César

as Director

1934

Angele

as Director

1953

1938

The Baker's Wife

as Screenplay

1934

Jofroi

as Director

1948

1938

Heartbeat

as Director

1951

Topaze

as Scenario Writer

1951

Topaze

as Director

1968

1934

Tartarin of Tarascon

as Scenario Writer

1935

Cigalon

as Director

1935

Merlusse

as Director

1965

Al-modeer Al-Fanni

as Original Concept

1967

Pekař a kočka

as Theatre Play

1945

Naïs

as Writer

1938

1949

Flirtation in Spring

as Theatre Play

1953

Carnival

as Screenplay

1953

Carnival

as Producer

1934

Yacout

as Story

1977

César

as Writer

1977

Marius

as Writer

1977

Fanny

as Writer

1934

1935

Merlusse

as Writer

1931

1933

Topaze

as Writer

1934

Der schwarze Walfisch

as Theatre Play

1953

Ugolin

as Writer

1953

Ugolin

as Dialogue

1953

1953

Ugolin

as Director

1953

1953

Ugolin

as Producer

2008

Fanny

as Writer

1938

The Baker's Wife

as Producer

1931

Marius

as Screenplay

1931

Marius

as Theatre Play

1931

Marius

as Producer

2025

1932

Fanny

as Producer

1951

Topaze

as Writer

1936

Topaze

as Theatre Play

1936

Topaze

as Director

2011

2007

1933

Topaze

as Theatre Play

1933

L'Agonie des aigles

as Screenplay

1933

1975

1949

Chansons de Marseille

as Co-Producer

1950

L'île de lumière

as Co-Producer

1935

Marseille

as Producer

1935

Toni

as Producer

1935

Cigalon

as Writer

1953

1950

The Prize

as Writer

1961

Mr. Topaze

as Theatre Play

1937

Harvest

as Producer

1934

Angele

as Writer

1933

Direct au coeur

as Theatre Play

1933

Direct au coeur

as Screenplay

1999

1934

Jofroi

as Screenplay

1938

Heartbeat

as Writer

2013

Marius

as Theatre Play

2013

Fanny

as Theatre Play

1961

Fanny

as Theatre Play

1936

César

as Screenplay

1932

Fanny

as Theatre Play

1932

Fanny

as Screenplay

1958

Fanny

as Book

1941

La Prière aux étoiles

as Scenario Writer

1950

The Ways of Love

as Director

1963

Topaze

as Theatre Play

1936

César

as Producer

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