Marcel Pagnol
Novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France (1895-1974) · France · On the map · Writers · Died at 79
Marcel Paul Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française.
Marcel Pagnol is read about 860 times a day, in 53 languages.
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Fernandel Marcel directed The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940)
Raimu Marcel directed The Baker's Wife (1940)
Henri Vilbert Marcel directed Topaze and Manon des sources
Édouard Delmont Marcel directed The Baker's Wife and César
Fernand Charpin Marcel directed The Baker's Wife and César
Charles Blavette Also in Angele, Jofroi and Cigalon
Henri Poupon Also in Angele, Jofroi and Cigalon
Robert Vattier Also in César, Heartbeat and The Baker's Wife
Rellys Also in Angele, Merlusse and César
Pierre Fresnay Marcel produced Marius (1931)
Alida Rouffe Also in Cigalon, César and Heartbeat
Jean Giono Also in Angele, Jofroi and Harvest
Pauline Carton Marcel directed La prière aux étoiles (1941)
Raymond Pellegrin Marcel directed Manon des sources (1952)
Marguerite Moreno Marcel directed Harvest (1937)
Fernand Sardou Also in Manon of the Spring and Ugolin
Jean Servais Marcel directed Angèle (1934)
Jean Panisse Also in Manon of the Spring and Ugolin
Tino Rossi Marcel directed La Belle Meunière (1948)
Jean Debucourt Marcel directed Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier (1933)
Sylvia Bataille Marcel directed Topaze (1936)
Roger Richebé Directed L'Agonie des aigles (1933)
Mireille Perrey Marcel wrote Madame Husson's Rose (1950)
Jean Cocteau Preceded Marcel as President of the Jury at the Cannes Festival
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Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for his mastery of multiple literary genres - memoir, novel, theatre and film.
