Alain Cuny
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-07-12
Day of Death
1994-05-16 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Alain Cuny
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2003)
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1998)
(1995)
Dear Antonioni
as Self
(1992)
The Return of Casanova
as Marquis
(1991)
The Annunciation of Marie
as Anne Vercors
(1991)
Sweet War, Farewell
as Vecchio Crimen
(1990)
Film sur Georges Perec
as Self
(1990)
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
as Merlin
(1988)
Camille Claudel
as Louis-Prosper Claudel
(1988)
To the Sea, See You
as Don Macine
(1988)
Zeno's Conscience
as Alfio Cosini sr.
(1988)
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
(1987)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as El Viudo Xius
(1987)
Lucky Ravi
as Plantation Owner
(1987)
The Distant Land
as Aigner
(1985)
Detective
as Old Mafioso
(1984)
Buio nella Valle
as Luigi
(1983)
Fellini nel cestino
as Self
(1983)
The Basileus Quartet
as Mario Cantone
(1982)
Time Masters
as Xul (voice)
(1979)
Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Barone Nicola Rotunno
(1979)
Roberte
as La voix du pur esprit
(1978)
The Song of Roland
as Turpin/der Mönch
(1976)
Illustrious Corpses
as Judge Rasto
(1976)
I prosseneti
as Il conte Davide
(1975)
E il Casanova di Fellini?
as Self
(1975)
Irene, Irene
as Guido
(1975)
(1974)
Emmanuelle
as Mario
(1974)
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Sitting Bull
(1974)
Antigone
as Le Coryphée
(1973)
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
(1973)
La rosa rossa
as Count Paolo Balzeri
(1973)
La divine comédie
as Virgile
(1972)
The Master and Margarita
as Profesor Woland & Satana
(1972)
The Audience
as teologa Belga
(1972)
La Légende du siècle
as Self
(1971)
The Big Black Sow
as Il Padre di Enrico
(1970)
Many Wars Ago...
as Gen. Leone
(1970)
Ciao, Federico!
as Self (uncredited)
(1969)
Fellini Satyricon
as Lica
(1969)
The Milky Way
as Man with cape
(1969)
(1968)
La forêt noire
as Hans Richter
(1965)
Mission of Fear
as Jean de Brébeuf
(1963)
Corruption
as Leonardo Mattioli
(1963)
Banana Peel
as Hervé Bontemps
(1962)
Cross of the Living
as baron von Eggerth
(1961)
Scano Boa
as Cavarzan
(1960)
La Dolce Vita
as Steiner
(1958)
The Lovers
as Henri Tournier
(1956)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Claude Frollo
(1953)
The Lady Without Camelias
as Lodi
(1953)
Mina de Vanghel
as Mr. de Larçay
(1953)
Les Crimes de l'amour
as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
(1952)
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
as Bueno
(1952)
The Solitary Conquerors
as Pascal Giroud
(1951)
The Forbidden Christ
as Antonio
(1946)
Solita de Cordoue
as Pierre Desluc
(1943)
The Phantom Baron
as Hervé
(1942)
The Devil's Envoys
as Gilles, a Minstrel
(1941)
Stormy Waters
as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
(1941)
Madame Sans-Gêne
as Roustan
(1940)
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Crew
(1991)
The Annunciation of Marie
Director, Screenplay
(1953)
The Vanquished
Second Assistant Director