Pierre Daix was born on May 24, 1922 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France. He is known for The Missing Piece: Mona Lisa, Her Thief, the True Story (2012), Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2002) and L'instinct de résistance (2011). He was married to Françoise and Anne Villelaur. He died on November 2, 2014 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.