death_date death_place birth_place nationality notableworks birth_date image article_title name occupation
18 april 1974 paris , france aubagne , france french '' manon des sources '' '' la gloire de mon père marius '' '' le château de ma mère '' '' '' jean de florette '' '' 28 february 1895 marcel pagnol 1931.jpg marcel pagnol
 marcel pagnol author playwright film director
marcel pagnol

marcel pagnol -lrb- ; 28 february 1895 -- 18 april 1974 -rrb- was a french novelist , playwright , and filmmaker .
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 .
