Marcel Pagnol

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1895-02-28

Deathday 1974-04-18 (79 years old)

Place of Birth Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Also Known As Marcel Pagnol, مارسيل بانيول, 마르셀 파뇰, 마르셀 파놀

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 grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul and René, and younger sister Germaine. In July 1904, the family rented the Bastide Neuve, – a house in the sleepy Provençal village of La Treille – for the summer holidays, the first of many spent in the hilly countryside between Aubagne and Marseille. About the same time, Augustine's health, which had never been robust, began to noticeably decline and on 16 June 1910 she succumbed to a chest infection ("mal de poitrine") and died, aged 36. Joseph remarried in 1912. In 1913, at the age of 18, Marcel passed his baccalaureate in philosophy and started studying literature at the University in Aix-en-Provence. When World War I broke out, he was called up into the infantry at Nice but in January 1915 he was discharged because of his poor constitution ("faiblesse de constitution"). On 2 March 1916, he married Simone Colin in Marseille and in November graduated in English. He became an English teacher, teaching in various local colleges and at a lycée in Marseille. In 1922, he moved to Paris, where he taught English until 1927, when he decided instead to devote his life to playwriting. During this time, he belonged to a group of young writers, in collaboration with one of whom, Paul Nivoix, he wrote the play, Merchants of Glory, which was produced in 1924. This was followed, in 1928, by Topaze, a satire based on ambition. Exiled in Paris, he returned nostalgically to his Provençal roots, taking this as his setting for his play Marius, which later became the first of his works to be adapted into a film in 1931. Separated from Simone Collin since 1926 (though not divorced until 1941), he formed a relationship with the young English dancer Kitty Murphy. Their son Jacques Pagnol was born on 24 September 1930. (Jacques later became his father's assistant and subsequently a cameraman for France 3 Marseille.) In 1929, on a visit to London, Pagnol attended a screening of one of the first talking films and he was so impressed that he decided to devote his efforts to cinema. He contacted Paramount Picture studios and suggested adapting his play Marius for cinema. This was directed by Alexander Korda and released on 10 October 1931. It became one of the first successful French-language talking films. ... Source: Article "Marcel Pagnol" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Writer

2022
2013
Marius

as Theatre Play

2013
Fanny

as Theatre Play

2011
Jules et Marcel

as Author

2008
Fanny

as Writer

2007
2007
1999
La femme du boulanger

as Screenplay

1990
1990
1986
1986
1977
César

as Writer

1977
Marius

as Writer

1977
Fanny

as Writer

1975
1970
Alta comedia

as Writer

1967
Pekař a kočka

as Theatre Play

1965
Al-modeer Al-Fanni

as Original Concept

1963
Topaze

as Writer

1961
Mr. Topaze

as Theatre Play

1961
Fanny

as Theatre Play

1958
Fanny

as Book

1953
Carnival

as Screenplay

1953
Ugolin

as Writer

1953
Ugolin

as Dialogue

1952
1952
1951
Topaze

as Scenario Writer

1951
Topaze

as Writer

1950
The Prize

as Writer

1949
Flirtation in Spring

as Theatre Play

1945
Naïs

as Writer

1941
La Prière aux étoiles

as Scenario Writer

1938
The Baker's Wife

as Screenplay

1938
1938
Heartbeat

as Writer

1936
Topaze

as Theatre Play

1936
César

as Screenplay

1935
Merlusse

as Writer

1935
Cigalon

as Writer

1934
Tartarin of Tarascon

as Scenario Writer

1934
ياقوت

as Story

1934
Der schwarze Walfisch

as Theatre Play

1934
Angele

as Writer

1934
Jofroi

as Screenplay

1933
Topaze

as Writer

1933
Topaze

as Theatre Play

1933
L'Agonie des aigles

as Screenplay

1933
1933
Direct au coeur

as Theatre Play

1933
Direct au coeur

as Screenplay

1932
Fanny

as Theatre Play

1932
Fanny

as Screenplay

1931
1931
Marius

as Screenplay

1931
Marius

as Theatre Play

Director

1968
1954
1953
Ugolin

as Director

1952
1951
Topaze

as Director

1950
The Ways of Love

as Director

1948
1941
1938
The Baker's Wife

as Director

1938
Heartbeat

as Director

1937
Harvest

as Director

1936
César

as Director

1936
Topaze

as Director

1935
Cigalon

as Director

1935
Merlusse

as Director

1934
Angele

as Director

1934
Jofroi

as Director

1933

Producer

1953
Carnival

as Producer

1953
Ugolin

as Producer

1952
1950
L'île de lumière

as Co-Producer

1949
Chansons de Marseille

as Co-Producer

1938
The Baker's Wife

as Producer

1937
Harvest

as Producer

1935
Marseille

as Producer

1935
Toni

as Producer

1934
1932
Fanny

as Producer

1931
Marius

as Producer

Actor

2023
Les rois de la comédie

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol

as Self (archive footage)

1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

as Self (archive footage)

1968
1954

Creator