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. 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.
- Occupation
- playwright, screenwriter, film director, film producer
- Position held
- President of the Jury at the Cannes Festival, president, Member of the Académie française, assistant professor
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- February 28, 1895
