Gaston Rébuffat was born on May 7, 1921 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a director and writer, known for Third Man on the Mountain (1959), À la conquête de la montagne (1951) and Entre terre et ciel (1961). He died on May 31, 1985 in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.