Maurice Krafft was born on March 25, 1946 in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France as Maurice Paul Krafft. He was a cinematographer, known for Volcano: Nature's Inferno (1997), Deadly Peaks, Killer Volcanoes (1997) and The Living Planet (1984). He was married to Katia Krafft. He died on June 3, 1991 in Mount Unzen, Kyushu, Japan.