Alain Cuny
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.
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Known for
Midi trente
Self
Le Roman de Renart
Ysengrin (voice)
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Self
Le Journal
Wilchaint
Emmanuelle
Mario
La Dolce Vita
Steiner
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Claude Frollo
Satyricon
Lica
Deuil en 24 heures
Le colonel Carvin
The Milky Way
Man with cape
Camille Claudel
Louis-Prosper Claudel
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
El Viudo Xius
Time Masters
Xul (voice)
Detective
Old Mafioso
Illustrious Corpses
Judge Rasto
The Lady Without Camelias
Lodi
The Devil's Envoys
Gilles, a Minstrel
The Master and Margarita
Profesor Woland & Satana
The Lovers
Henri Tournier
Safari 5000
La famiglia Ricordi
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Sitting Bull
Irene, Irene
Guido
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Barone Nicola Rotunno
Stormy Waters
Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
The Audience
teologa Belga
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Many Wars Ago
Gen. Leone
Madame Sans-Gêne
Roustan
To the Sea, See You
Don Macine
Dear Antonioni
Self
Corruption
Leonardo Mattioli
Cross of the Living
baron von Eggerth
I prosseneti
Il conte Davide
Banana Peel
Hervé Bontemps
The Return of Casanova
Marquis
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
Roberte
La voix du pur esprit
Solita de Cordoue
Pierre Desluc
The Forbidden Christ
Antonio
The Phantom Baron
Hervé
Antigone
Le Coryphée
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Ciao, Federico!
Self (uncredited)
Fellini nel cestino
Self
The Basileus Quartet
Mario Cantone
The Distant Land
Aigner
The Song of Roland
Turpin/der Mönch
The Solitary Conquerors
Pascal Giroud
Film sur Georges Perec
Self
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Bueno
Lucky Ravi
Plantation Owner
Mission of Fear
Jean de Brébeuf
La forêt noire
Hans Richter
Les Crimes de l'amour
Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
The Big Black Sow
Il Padre di Enrico
The Annunciation of Marie
Anne Vercors
Scano Boa
Cavarzan
Zeno's Conscience
Alfio Cosini sr.
Sweet War, Farewell
Vecchio Crimen
Buio nella Valle
Luigi
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Self
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Self
La divine comédie
Virgile
Cinépanorama
Self
Mina de Vanghel
Mr. de Larçay
La Légende du siècle
Self
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Merlin
La rosa rossa
Count Paolo Balzeri
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
Samedi soir
Self