Maurice Krafft

Personal Info

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Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-03-25 (45 years old)

Deathday

1991-06-03

Place of Birth

Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France

Maurice Krafft

Biography

Maurice Krafft was born on March 26, 1946 in the city of Mulhouse, located in the Alsace region. Maurice Krafft discovered his interest in volcanoes at the age of 7, during a family trip to Naples and the island of Stromboli. He joined the Geological Society of France at the age of 15. He then studied geology at the University of Franche-Comté and then at the University of Strasbourg. During a study trip to Etna in 1966, he met Haroun Tazieff who integrated him into his team, but the two men with strong characters separated. In 1968 he created the Vulcain Team with Roland Haas, then the Cernay Volcanology Center. In 1966, he met Katia at the...

Acting

2022

Fire of Love

as Self (archival footage)

1997

Volcano: Nature's Inferno

as Self (archive footage)

2016

Into the Inferno

as Self - Volcanologist (archive footage)

Production

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