Alain Cuny
Acting
Born: July 12, 1908 · Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Died: May 16, 1994 (aged 85)
Highest Rated
Biography
Alain Cuny (12 July 1908 – 16 May 1994) was a French actor. He was born René Xavier Marie in Saint-Malo, Brittany, and studied medicine for a while before entering the film industry as a costume and set designer. Cuny started acting in the 1930s. Among his most notable films are Les Visiteurs du soir (1942), by Marcel Carné; Les Amants (The Lovers 1958); La dolce vita (1960) and Satyricon (1969), the later two directed by Federico Fellini. During his life, he befriended women such as Hafida Elalama, and many other models and actresses Later in his career he had a role in the softcore porn film Emmanuelle (1974). Also in 1974 he played Sitting Bull in the absurdist western Don't Touch the White Woman!. One of his last roles was in Camille Claudel (1988) as Louis-Prosper Claudel, father of the film's heroine. Cuny worked in both France and Italy, and died in 1994 in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Cuny, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (55)
La Dolce Vita
Steiner
Emmanuelle
Mario
Detective
Old Mafioso
Satyricon
Lica
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Claude Frollo
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
El Viudo Xius
Time Masters
Xul (voice)
Many Wars Ago
Gen. Leone
The Milky Way
Man with cape
The Audience
teologa Belga
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Sitting Bull
Stormy Waters
Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
The Return of Casanova
Marquis
Illustrious Corpses
Judge Rasto
The Devil's Envoys
Gilles, a Minstrel
The Lady Without Camelias
Lodi
The Lovers
Henri Tournier
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Barone Nicola Rotunno
Camille Claudel
Louis-Prosper Claudel
The Song of Roland
Turpin/der Mönch
Scano Boa
Cavarzan
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Banana Peel
Hervé Bontemps
Antigone
Le Coryphée
The Master and Margarita
Profesor Woland & Satana
Mission of Fear
Jean de Brébeuf
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
Cross of the Living
Baron Von Eggerth
I prosseneti
Il conte Davide
Corruption
Leonardo Mattioli
The Distant Land
Aigner
La rosa rossa
Count Paolo Balzeri
Umi e, See You
Don Macine
Safari 5000
1969
The Basileus Quartet
Mario Cantone
Emmanuelle in Ontario
Mario (archival footage)
The Forbidden Christ
Antonio
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Bueno
The Big Black Sow
Il Padre di Enrico
The Annunciation of Marie
Anne Vercors
The Phantom Baron
Hervé
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1975
La forêt noire
Hans Richter
Les Crimes de l'amour
Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
Sweet War, Farewell
Vecchio Crimen
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Merlin
Roberte
La voix du pur esprit
Buio nella Valle
Luigi
Madame Sans-Gêne
Roustan
La divine comédie
Virgile
Mina de Vanghel
Mr. de Larçay
The Solitary Conquerors
Pascal Giroud
Solita de Cordoue
Pierre Desluc
Irene, Irene
Guido
TV Shows (5)
Self / Appearances (10)
Midi trente
Self · 1 eps
Cinépanorama
Self · 1 eps
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Self · 8 eps
Film sur Georges Perec
Self
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dear Antonioni
Self
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Self
La Légende du siècle
Self
Ciao, Federico!
Self (uncredited)
