Alain Cuny
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 12, 1908
- Died
- May 16, 1994 (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
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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Filmography
Emmanuelle in Ontario
Movie · as Mario (archival footage)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dear Antonioni
Movie · as Self
La famiglia Ricordi
TV · 4 eps
The Return of Casanova
Movie · as Marquis
Sweet War, Farewell
Movie · as Vecchio Crimen
The Annunciation of Marie
Movie · as Anne Vercors
Film sur Georges Perec
Movie · as Self
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
Movie · as Merlin
Camille Claudel
Movie · as Louis-Prosper Claudel
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
Movie · as Lecteur des textes d'Artaud
Umi e, See You
Movie · as Don Macine
Histoire(s) du cinéma
TV · as Self · 8 eps
La coscienza di Zeno
TV · as Alfio Cosini sr. · 2 eps
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Movie · as El Viudo Xius
The Distant Land
Movie · as Aigner
Lucky Ravi
Movie · as Plantation Owner
Detective
Movie · as Old Mafioso
Buio nella Valle
Movie · as Luigi
Fellini nel cestino
Movie · as Self
The Basileus Quartet
Movie · as Mario Cantone
Time Masters
Movie · as Xul (voice)
Deuil en 24 heures
TV · as Le colonel Carvin · 4 eps
Colomba
TV · 2 eps
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Movie
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Movie · as Barone Nicola Rotunno
Roberte
Movie · as La voix du pur esprit
Le Journal
TV · as Wilchaint · 6 eps
The Song of Roland
Movie · as Turpin/der Mönch
The Recourse to the Method
Movie · as El Académico
Illustrious Corpses
Movie · as Judge Rasto
I prosseneti
Movie · as Il conte Davide
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Movie
Irene, Irene
Movie · as Guido
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Movie · as Self
Emmanuelle
Movie · as Mario
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Movie · as Sitting Bull
Antigone
Movie · as Le Coryphée
Le Roman de Renart
TV · as Ysengrin (voice) · 15 eps
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Movie · as Balthazar Lamarck-Caulaincourt
La rosa rossa
Movie · as Count Paolo Balzeri
La divine comédie
Movie · as Virgile
The Master and Margarita
Movie · as Profesor Woland & Satana
The Audience
Movie · as teologa Belga
La Légende du siècle
Movie · as Self
Midi trente
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Big Black Sow
Movie · as Il Padre di Enrico
Samedi soir
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Many Wars Ago
Movie · as Gen. Leone
Ciao, Federico!
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
The Milky Way
Movie · as Man with cape
Safari 5000
Movie
Satyricon
Movie · as Lica
La forêt noire
Movie · as Hans Richter
Mission of Fear
Movie · as Jean de Brébeuf
Banana Peel
Movie · as Hervé Bontemps
Corruption
Movie · as Leonardo Mattioli
Cross of the Living
Movie · as Baron Von Eggerth
Scano Boa
Movie · as Cavarzan
La Dolce Vita
Movie · as Steiner
The Lovers
Movie · as Henri Tournier
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie · as Claude Frollo
Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Lady Without Camelias
Movie · as Lodi
Les Crimes de l'amour
Movie · as Mr. de Larçay (segment 'Mina de Vanghel')
Mina de Vanghel
Movie · as Mr. de Larçay
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Movie · as Bueno
The Solitary Conquerors
Movie · as Pascal Giroud
The Forbidden Christ
Movie · as Antonio
Solita de Cordoue
Movie · as Pierre Desluc
The Phantom Baron
Movie · as Hervé
The Devil's Envoys
Movie · as Gilles, a Minstrel
Stormy Waters
Movie · as Un matelot du « Mirva » (uncredited)
Madame Sans-Gêne
Movie · as Roustan
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
Movie · as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)