Marcel Pagnol

novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France (1895-1974)

Marcel Paul Pagnolwas a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Academie francaise.

Family Info

Siblings

Paul Pagnol

Germaine Pagnol

Rene Pagnol

Spouses

Jacqueline Pagnol

Josette Day

Orane Demazis

Simonne Collin

Children

Jean-Pierre Burgart

Jacques Pagnol

Francine Pagnol

Frederic Pagnol

Estelle Pagnol

About the Marcel Pagnol

Marcel Paul Pagnolwas a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Academie francaise. Pagnol is 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.