Tomàs Mallol was born in 1923 in Sant Pere Pescador.
He moved to Barcelona where he studied technical, mechanical and electrical engineering.
When he was only seven or eight years old, his passion for the cinema became evident. At ten years old, with wood, slats, and tin cans and with the help of Sidro from Cal Ferrer, he built his first working projector.
He has been an actor, photographer, advertising agent, producer and director. He is the author of thirty-one shorts. He has created the Film Section at the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya and is a keen collector of everything related to the history of cinema. Currently, his collection forms part of one of the most complete museum collections in Europe dealing with this theme: the Museum of Cinema in Girona.
He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and has earned numerous distinctions, such as the Creu de Sant Jordi.
LiberPress Cinema Award 2008
He was given the award for an exemplary life dedicated to research into and the recovery of the early years of the cinema; for his humanitarian and democratic values and for having supported, with his donation, the creation in Girona of a Museum of Cinema that is the pride of the city and our country.