Chris Marker

Birthday: July 29th, 1921 Date of Death: July 29th, 2012 Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France

Chris Marker (born 29 July 1921) was a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker.

His best known films are La jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), a documentary on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.